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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, by 
+William Makepeace Thackeray
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+Title: John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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+Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
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+Release Date: May 21, 2006 [EBook #2646]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN LEECH'S PICTURES ***
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+Produced by Donald Lainson
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+JOHN LEECH'S PICTURES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER
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+
+By William Makepeace Thackeray
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+* Reprinted from the Quarterly Review, No. 191, Dec. 1854, by permission
+of Mr. John Murray.
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+
+We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable,
+old-fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as
+children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was
+Boydell's Shakspeare, black and ghastly gallery of murky Opies, glum
+Northcotes, straddling Fuselis! there were Lear, Oberon, Hamlet, with
+starting muscles, rolling eyeballs, and long pointing quivering fingers;
+there was little Prince Arthur (Northcote) crying, in white satin, and
+bidding good Hubert not put out his eyes; there was Hubert crying; there
+was little Rutland being run through the poor little body by bloody
+Clifford; there was Cardinal Beaufort (Reynolds) gnashing his teeth, and
+grinning and howling demoniacally on his death-bed (a picture frightful
+to the present day); there was Lady Hamilton (Romney) waving a torch,
+and dancing before a black background,--a melancholy museum indeed.
+Smirke's delightful "Seven Ages" only fitfully relieved its general
+gloom. We did not like to inspect it unless the elders were present, and
+plenty of lights and company were in the room.
+
+Cheerful relatives used to treat us to Miss Linwood's. Let the children
+of the present generation thank their stars THAT tragedy is put out
+of their way. Miss Linwood's was worsted-work. Your grandmother or
+grandaunts took you there and said the pictures were admirable. You saw
+"the Woodman" in worsted, with his axe and dog, trampling through the
+snow; the snow bitter cold to look at, the woodman's pipe wonderful: a
+gloomy piece, that made you shudder. There were large dingy pictures
+of woollen martyrs, and scowling warriors with limbs strongly knitted;
+there was especially, at the end of a black passage, a den of lions,
+that would frighten any boy not born in Africa, or Exeter 'Change, and
+accustomed to them.
+
+Another exhibition used to be West's Gallery, where the pleasing figures
+of Lazarus in his grave-clothes, and Death on the pale horse, used to
+impress us children. The tombs of Westminster Abbey, the vaults at St.
+Paul's, the men in armor at the Tower, frowning ferociously out of
+their helmets, and wielding their dreadful swords; that superhuman Queen
+Elizabeth at the end of the room, a livid sovereign with glass eyes, a
+ruff, and a dirty satin petticoat, riding a horse covered with steel:
+who does not remember these sights in London in the consulship of
+Plancus? and the wax-work in Fleet Street, not like that of Madame
+Tussaud's, whose chamber of death is gay and brilliant; but a nice old
+gloomy wax-work, full of murderers; and as a chief attraction, the Dead
+Baby and the Princess Charlotte lying in state?
+
+Our story-books had no pictures in them for the most part. Frank (dear
+old Frank!) had none; nor the "Parent's Assistant;" nor the "Evenings
+at Home;" nor our copy of the "Ami des Enfans:" there were a few just at
+the end of the Spelling-Book; besides the allegory at the beginning, of
+Education leading up Youth to the temple of Industry, where Dr. Dilworth
+and Professor Walkinghame stood with crowns of laurel. There were, we
+say, just a few pictures at the end of the Spelling-Book, little oval
+gray woodcuts of Bewick's, mostly of the Wolf and the Lamb, the Dog and
+the Shadow, and Brown, Jones, and Robinson with long ringlets and
+little tights; but for pictures, so to speak, what had we? The rough old
+wood-blocks in the old harlequin-backed fairy-books had served hundreds
+of years; before OUR Plancus, in the time of Priscus Plancus--in Queen
+Anne's time, who knows? We were flogged at school; we were fifty boys in
+our boarding-house, and had to wash in a leaden trough, under a cistern,
+with lumps of fat yellow soap floating about in the ice and water.
+Are OUR sons ever flogged? Have they not dressing-rooms, hair-oil,
+hip-baths, and Baden towels? And what picture-books the young villains
+have! What have these children done that they should be so much happier
+than we were?
+
+We had the "Arabian Nights" and Walter Scott, to be sure. Smirke's
+illustrations to the former are very fine. We did not know how good
+they were then; but we doubt whether we did not prefer the little old
+"Miniature Library Nights" with frontispieces by Uwins; for THESE books
+the pictures don't count. Every boy of imagination does his own pictures
+to Scott and the "Arabian Nights" best.
+
+Of funny pictures there were none especially intended for us children.
+There was Rowlandson's "Doctor Syntax": Doctor Syntax in a fuzz-wig, on
+a horse with legs like sausages, riding races, making love, frolicking
+with rosy exuberant damsels. Those pictures were very funny, and that
+aquatinting and the gay-colored plates very pleasant to witness; but if
+we could not read the poem in those days, could we digest it in this?
+Nevertheless, apart from the text which we could not master, we remember
+Doctor Syntax pleasantly, like those cheerful painted hieroglyphics in
+the Nineveh Court at Sydenham. What matter for the arrow-head, illegible
+stuff? give us the placid grinning kings, twanging their jolly bows over
+their rident horses, wounding those good-humored enemies, who tumble
+gayly off the towers, or drown, smiling, in the dimpling waters, amidst
+the anerithmon gelasma of the fish.
+
+After Doctor Syntax, the apparition of Corinthian Tom, Jerry Hawthorn,
+and the facetious Bob Logic must be recorded--a wondrous history indeed
+theirs was! When the future student of our manners comes to look over
+the pictures and the writing of these queer volumes, what will he think
+of our society, customs, and language in the consulship of Plancus?
+"Corinthian," it appears, was the phrase applied to men of fashion
+and ton in Plancus's time: they were the brilliant predecessors of the
+"swell" of the present period--brilliant, but somewhat barbarous, it
+must be confessed. The Corinthians were in the habit of drinking a great
+deal too much in Tom Cribb's parlor: they used to go and see "life" in
+the gin-shops; of nights, walking home (as well as they could), they
+used to knock down "Charleys," poor harmless old watchmen with lanterns,
+guardians of the streets of Rome, Planco Consule. They perpetrated a
+vast deal of boxing; they put on the "mufflers" in Jackson's rooms;
+they "sported their prads" in the Ring in the Park; they attended
+cock-fights, and were enlightened patrons of dogs and destroyers of
+rats. Besides these sports, the delassemens of gentlemen mixing with the
+people, our patricians, of course, occasionally enjoyed the society of
+their own class. What a wonderful picture that used to be of Corinthian
+Tom dancing with Corinthian Kate at Almack's! What a prodigious dress
+Kate wore! With what graceful ABANDON the pair flung their arms about
+as they swept through the mazy quadrille, with all the noblemen standing
+round in their stars and uniforms! You may still, doubtless, see the
+pictures at the British Museum, or find the volumes in the corner of
+some old country-house library. You are led to suppose that the English
+aristocracy of 1820 DID dance and caper in that way, and box and drink
+at Tom Cribb's, and knock down watchmen; and the children of to-day,
+turning to their elders, may say "Grandmamma, did you wear such a dress
+as that, when you danced at Almack's? There was very little of it,
+grandmamma. Did grandpapa kill many watchmen when he was a young man,
+and frequent thieves' gin-shops, cock-fights, and the ring, before you
+married him? Did he use to talk the extraordinary slang and jargon which
+is printed in this book? He is very much changed. He seems a gentlemanly
+old boy enough now."
+
+In the above-named consulate, when WE had grandfathers alive, there
+would be in the old gentleman's library in the country two or three old
+mottled portfolios, or great swollen scrap-books of blue paper, full of
+the comic prints of grandpapa's time, ere Plancus ever had the fasces
+borne before him. These prints were signed Gilray, Bunbury, Rowlandson,
+Woodward, and some actually George Cruikshank--for George is a veteran
+now, and he took the etching needle in hand as a child. He caricatured
+"Boney," borrowing not a little from Gilray in his first puerile
+efforts. He drew Louis XVIII. trying on Boney's boots. Before the
+century was actually in its teens we believe that George Cruikshank was
+amusing the public.
+
+In those great colored prints in our grandfathers' portfolios in
+the library, and in some other apartments of the house, where the
+caricatures used to be pasted in those days, we found things quite
+beyond our comprehension. Boney was represented as a fierce dwarf, with
+goggle eyes, a huge laced hat and tricolored plume, a crooked sabre,
+reeking with blood: a little demon revelling in lust, murder, massacre.
+John Bull was shown kicking him a good deal: indeed he was prodigiously
+kicked all through that series of pictures; by Sidney Smith and
+our brave allies the gallant Turks; by the excellent and patriotic
+Spaniards; by the amiable and indignant Russians,--all nations had boots
+at the service of poor Master Boney. How Pitt used to defy him! How
+good old George, King of Brobdingnag, laughed at Gulliver-Boney, sailing
+about in his tank to make sport for their Majesties! This little fiend,
+this beggar's brat, cowardly, murderous, and atheistic as he was (we
+remember, in those old portfolios, pictures representing Boney and his
+family in rags, gnawing raw bones in a Corsican hut; Boney murdering the
+sick at Jaffa; Boney with a hookah and a large turban, having adopted
+the Turkish religion, &c.)--this Corsican monster, nevertheless, had
+some devoted friends in England, according to the Gilray chronicle,--a
+set of villains who loved atheism, tyranny, plunder, and wickedness in
+general, like their French friend. In the pictures these men were all
+represented as dwarfs, like their ally. The miscreants got into power
+at one time, and, if we remember right, were called the Broad-backed
+Administration. One with shaggy eyebrows and a bristly beard, the
+hirsute ringleader of the rascals, was, it appears, called Charles
+James Fox; another miscreant, with a blotched countenance, was a certain
+Sheridan; other imps were hight Erskine, Norfolk (Jockey of), Moira,
+Henry Petty. As in our childish, innocence we used to look at these
+demons, now sprawling and tipsy in their cups; now scaling heaven, from
+which the angelic Pitt hurled them down; now cursing the light (their
+atrocious ringleader Fox was represented with hairy cloven feet, and a
+tail and horns); now kissing Boney's boot, but inevitably discomfited by
+Pitt and the other good angels: we hated these vicious wretches, as good
+children should; we were on the side of Virtue and Pitt and Grandpapa.
+But if our sisters wanted to look at the portfolios, the good old
+grandfather used to hesitate. There were some prints among them very odd
+indeed; some that girls could not understand; some that boys, indeed,
+had best not see. We swiftly turn over those prohibited pages. How many
+of them there were in the wild, coarse, reckless, ribald, generous book
+of old English humor!
+
+How savage the satire was--how fierce the assault--what garbage hurled
+at opponents--what foul blows were hit--what language of Billingsgate
+flung! Fancy a party in a country-house now looking over Woodward's
+facetiae or some of the Gilray comicalities, or the slatternly
+Saturnalia of Rowlandson! Whilst we live we must laugh, and have folks
+to make us laugh. We cannot afford to lose Satyr with his pipe and
+dances and gambols. But we have washed, combed, clothed, and taught the
+rogue good manners: or rather, let us say, he has learned them himself;
+for he is of nature soft and kindly, and he has put aside his mad
+pranks and tipsy habits; and, frolicsome always, has become gentle and
+harmless, smitten into shame by he pure presence of our women and the
+sweet confiding smiles of our children. Among the veterans, the old
+pictorial satirists, we have mentioned the famous name of one humorous
+designer who is still alive and at work. Did we not see, by his own
+hand, his own portrait of his own famous face, and whiskers, in the
+Illustrated London News the other day? There was a print in that paper
+of an assemblage of Teetotalers in "Sadler's Wells Theatre," and we
+straightway recognized the old Roman hand--the old Roman's of the time
+of Plancus--George Cruikshank's. There were the old bonnets and droll
+faces and shoes, and short trousers, and figures of 1820 sure enough.
+And there was George (who has taken to the water-doctrine, as all the
+world knows) handing some teetotal cresses over a plank to the table
+where the pledge was being administered. How often has George drawn that
+picture of Cruikshank! Where haven't we seen it? How fine it was,
+facing the effigy of Mr. Ainsworth in Ainsworth's Magazine when George
+illustrated that periodical! How grand and severe he stands in that
+design in G. C.'s "Omnibus," where he represents himself tonged like
+St. Dunstan, and tweaking a wretch of a publisher by the nose! The
+collectors of George's etchings--oh the charming etchings!--oh the
+dear old "German Popular Tales!"--the capital "Points of Humor"--the
+delightful "Phrenology" and "Scrap-books," of the good time, OUR
+time--Plancus's in fact!--the collectors of the Georgian etchings, we
+say, have at least a hundred pictures of the artist. Why, we remember
+him in his favorite Hessian boots in "Tom and Jerry" itself; and in
+woodcuts as far back as the Queen's trial. He has rather deserted satire
+and comedy of late years, having turned his attention to the serious,
+and warlike, and sublime. Having confessed our age and prejudices, we
+prefer the comic and fanciful to the historic, romantic, and at present
+didactic George. May respect, and length of days, and comfortable
+repose attend the brave, honest, kindly, pure-minded artist, humorist,
+moralist! It was he first who brought English pictorial humor and
+children acquainted. Our young people and their fathers and mothers owe
+him many a pleasant hour and harmless laugh. Is there no way in which
+the country could acknowledge the long services and brave career of such
+a friend and benefactor?
+
+Since George's time humor has been converted. Comus and his wicked
+satyrs and leering fauns have disappeared, and fled into the lowest
+haunts; and Comus's lady (if she had a taste for humor, which may be
+doubted) might take up our funny picture-books without the slightest
+precautionary squeamishness. What can be purer than the charming fancies
+of Richard Doyle? In all Mr. Punch's huge galleries can't we walk as
+safely as through Miss Pinkerton's schoolrooms? And as we look at Mr.
+Punch's pictures, at the Illustrated News pictures, at all the pictures
+in the book-shop windows at this Christmas season, as oldsters, we feel
+a certain pang of envy against the youngsters--they are too well off.
+Why hadn't WE picture-books? Why were we flogged so? A plague on the
+lictors and their rods in the time of Plancus!
+
+And now, after this rambling preface, we are arrived at the subject in
+hand--Mr. John Leech and his "Pictures of Life and Character," in
+the collection of Mr. Punch. This book is better than plum-cake at
+Christmas. It is an enduring plum-cake, which you may eat and which you
+may slice and deliver to your friends; and to which, having cut it,
+you may come again and welcome, from year's end to year's end. In the
+frontispiece you see Mr. Punch examining the pictures in his gallery--a
+portly, well-dressed, middle-aged, respectable gentleman, in a white
+neck-cloth, and a polite evening costume--smiling in a very bland and
+agreeable manner upon one of his pleasant drawings, taken out of one of
+his handsome portfolios. Mr. Punch has very good reason to smile at the
+work and be satisfied with the artist. Mr. Leech, his chief contributor,
+and some kindred humorists, with pencil and pen have served Mr. Punch
+admirably. Time was, if we remember Mr. P.'s history rightly, that he
+did not wear silk stockings nor well-made clothes (the little dorsal
+irregularity in his figure is almost an ornament now, so excellent a
+tailor has he). He was of humble beginnings. It is said he kept a ragged
+little booth, which he put up at corners of streets; associated
+with beadles, policemen, his own ugly wife (whom he treated most
+scandalously), and persons in a low station of life; earning a
+precarious livelihood by the cracking of wild jokes, the singing of
+ribald songs, and halfpence extorted from passers-by. He is the Satyric
+genius we spoke of anon: he cracks his jokes still, for satire
+must live; but he is combed, washed, neatly clothed, and perfectly
+presentable. He goes into the very best company; he keeps a stud at
+Melton; he has a moor in Scotland; he rides in the Park; has his stall
+at the Opera; is constantly dining out at clubs and in private society;
+and goes every night in the season to balls and parties, where you
+see the most beautiful women possible. He is welcomed amongst his new
+friends the great; though, like the good old English gentleman of the
+song, he does not forget the small. He pats the heads of street boys and
+girls; relishes the jokes of Jack the costermonger and Bob the dustman;
+good-naturedly spies out Molly the cook flirting with policeman X, or
+Mary the nursemaid as she listens to the fascinating guardsman. He used
+rather to laugh at guardsmen, "plungers," and other military men;
+and was until latter days very contemptuous in his behavior towards
+Frenchmen. He has a natural antipathy to pomp, and swagger, and fierce
+demeanor. But now that the guardsmen are gone to war, and the dandies
+of "The Rag"--dandies no more--are battling like heroes at Balaklava and
+Inkermann* by the side of their heroic allies, Mr. Punch's laughter is
+changed to hearty respect and enthusiasm. It is not against courage
+and honor he wars: but this great moralist--must it be owned?--has some
+popular British prejudices, and these led him in peace time to laugh
+at soldiers and Frenchmen. If those hulking footmen who accompanied the
+carriages to the opening of Parliament the other day, would form a plush
+brigade, wear only gunpowder in their hair, and strike with their great
+canes on the enemy, Mr. Punch would leave off laughing at Jeames, who
+meanwhile remains among us, to all outward appearance regardless of
+satire, and calmly consuming his five meals per diem. Against lawyers,
+beadles, bishops and clergy, and authorities, Mr. Punch is still rather
+bitter. At the time of the Papal aggression he was prodigiously angry;
+and one of the chief misfortunes which happened to him at that period
+was that, through the violent opinions which he expressed regarding the
+Roman Catholic hierarchy, he lost the invaluable services, the graceful
+pencil, the harmless wit, the charming fancy of Mr. Doyle. Another
+member of Mr. Punch's cabinet, the biographer of Jeames, the author
+of the "Snob Papers," resigned his functions on account of Mr. Punch's
+assaults upon the present Emperor of the French nation, whose anger
+Jeames thought it was unpatriotic to arouse. Mr. Punch parted with these
+contributors: he filled their places with others as good. The boys at
+the railroad stations cried Punch just as cheerily, and sold just as
+many numbers, after these events as before.
+
+     * This was written in 1854.
+
+There is no blinking the fact that in Mr. Punch's cabinet John Leech is
+the right-hand man. Fancy a number of Punch without Leech's pictures!
+What would you give for it? The learned gentlemen who write the work
+must feel that, without him, it were as well left alone. Look at the
+rivals whom the popularity of Punch has brought into the field; the
+direct imitators of Mr. Leech's manner--the artists with a manner of
+their own--how inferior their pencils are to his in humor, in depicting
+the public manners, in arresting, amusing the nation. The truth, the
+strength, the free vigor, the kind humor, the John Bull pluck and spirit
+of that hand are approached by no competitor. With what dexterity he
+draws a horse, a woman, a child! He feels them all, so to speak, like
+a man. What plump young beauties those are with which Mr. Punch's chief
+contributor supplies the old gentleman's pictorial harem! What famous
+thews and sinews Mr. Punch's horses have, and how Briggs, on the back
+of them, scampers across country! You see youth, strength, enjoyment,
+manliness in those drawings, and in none more so, to our thinking, than
+in the hundred pictures of children which this artist loves to design.
+Like a brave, hearty, good-natured Briton, he becomes quite soft and
+tender with the little creatures, pats gently their little golden heads,
+and watches with unfailing pleasure their ways, their sports, their
+jokes, laughter, caresses. Enfans terribles come home from Eton; young
+Miss practising her first flirtation; poor little ragged Polly making
+dirt-pies in the gutter, or staggering under the weight of Jacky, her
+nursechild, who is as big as herself--all these little ones, patrician
+and plebeian, meet with kindness from this kind heart, and are watched
+with curious nicety by this amiable observer.
+
+We remember, in one of those ancient Gilray portfolios, a print which
+used to cause a sort of terror in us youthful spectators, and in
+which the Prince of Wales (his Royal Highness was a Foxite then) was
+represented as sitting alone in a magnificent hall after a voluptuous
+meal, and using a great steel fork in the guise of a toothpick. Fancy
+the first young gentleman living employing such a weapon in such a
+way! The most elegant Prince of Europe engaged with a two-pronged iron
+fork--the heir of Britannia with a BIDENT! The man of genius who drew
+that picture saw little of the society which he satirized and amused.
+Gilray watched public characters as they walked by the shop in St.
+James's Street, or passed through the lobby of the House of Commons.
+His studio was a garret, or little better; his place of amusement a
+tavern-parlor, where his club held its nightly sittings over their pipes
+and sanded floor. You could not have society represented by men to whom
+it was not familiar. When Gavarni came to England a few years since--one
+of the wittiest of men, one of the most brilliant and dexterous of
+draughtsmen--he published a book of "Les Anglais," and his Anglais
+were all Frenchmen. The eye, so keen and so long practised to observe
+Parisian life, could not perceive English character. A social painter
+must be of the world which he depicts, and native to the manners which
+he portrays.
+
+Now, any one who looks over Mr. Leech's portfolio must see that the
+social pictures which he gives us are authentic. What comfortable little
+drawing-rooms and dining-rooms, what snug libraries we enter; what fine
+young-gentlemanly wags they are, those beautiful little dandies who wake
+up gouty old grandpapa to ring the bell; who decline aunt's pudding and
+custards, saying that they will reserve themselves for an anchovy
+toast with the claret; who talk together in ball-room doors, where Fred
+whispers Charley--pointing to a dear little partner seven years old--"My
+dear Charley, she has very much gone off; you should have seen that girl
+last season!" Look well at everything appertaining to the economy of
+the famous Mr. Briggs: how snug, quiet, appropriate all the appointments
+are! What a comfortable, neat, clean, middle-class house Briggs's is (in
+the Bayswater suburb of London, we should guess from the sketches of the
+surrounding scenery)! What a good stable he has, with a loose box for
+those celebrated hunters which he rides! How pleasant, clean, and
+warm his breakfast-table looks! What a trim little maid brings in
+the top-boots which horrify Mrs. B! What a snug dressing-room he has,
+complete in all its appointments, and in which he appears trying on the
+delightful hunting-cap which Mrs. Briggs flings into the fire! How
+cosy all the Briggs party seem in their dining-room: Briggs reading
+a Treatise on Dog-breaking by a lamp; Mamma and Grannie with their
+respective needleworks; the children clustering round a great book of
+prints--a great book of prints such as this before us, which, at this
+season, must make thousands of children happy by as many firesides!
+The inner life of all these people is represented: Leech draws them as
+naturally as Teniers depicts Dutch boors, or Morland pigs and stables.
+It is your house and mine: we are looking at everybody's family circle.
+Our boys coming from school give themselves such airs, the young
+scapegraces! our girls, going to parties, are so tricked out by fond
+mammas--a social history of London in the middle of the nineteenth
+century. As such, future students--lucky they to have a book so
+pleasant--will regard these pages: even the mutations of fashion they
+may follow here if they be so inclined. Mr. Leech has as fine an eye for
+tailory and millinery as for horse-flesh. How they change those cloaks
+and bonnets. How we have to pay milliners' bills from year to year!
+Where are those prodigious chatelaines of 1850 which no lady could be
+without? Where those charming waistcoats, those "stunning" waistcoats,
+which our young girls used to wear a few brief seasons back, and which
+cause 'Gus, in the sweet little sketch of "La Mode," to ask Ellen for
+her tailor's address. 'Gus is a young warrior by this time, very likely
+facing the enemy at Inkerman; and pretty Ellen, and that love of a
+sister of hers, are married and happy, let us hope, superintending one
+of those delightful nursery scenes which our artist depicts with such
+tender humor. Fortunate artist, indeed! You see he must have been bred
+at a good public school; that he has ridden many a good horse in his
+day; paid, no doubt, out of his own purse for the originals of some of
+those lovely caps and bonnets; and watched paternally the ways, smiles,
+frolics, and slumbers of his favorite little people.
+
+As you look at the drawings, secrets come out of them,--private jokes,
+as it were, imparted to you by the author for your special delectation.
+How remarkably, for instance, has Mr. Leech observed the hair-dressers
+of the present age! Look at "Mr. Tongs," whom that hideous old bald
+woman, who ties on her bonnet at the glass, informs that "she has used
+the whole bottle of Balm of California, but her hair comes off yet."
+You can see the bear's-grease not only on Tongs's head but on his hands,
+which he is clapping clammily together. Remark him who is telling his
+client "there is cholera in the hair;" and that lucky rogue whom
+the young lady bids to cut off "a long thick piece"--for somebody,
+doubtless. All these men are different, and delightfully natural and
+absurd. Why should hair-dressing be an absurd profession?
+
+The amateur will remark what an excellent part hands play in Mr. Leech's
+pieces: his admirable actors use them with perfect naturalness. Look at
+Betty, putting the urn down; at cook, laying her hands on the kitchen
+table, whilst her policeman grumbles at the cold meat. They are cook's
+and housemaid's hands without mistake, and not without a certain beauty
+too. The bald old lady, who is tying her bonnet at Tongs's, has hands
+which you see are trembling. Watch the fingers of the two old harridans
+who are talking scandal: for what long years past they have pointed out
+holes in their neighbors' dresses and mud on their flounces. "Here's a
+go! I've lost my diamond ring." As the dustman utters this pathetic
+cry, and looks at his hand, you burst out laughing. These are among the
+little points of humor. One could indicate hundreds of such as one turns
+over the pleasant pages.
+
+There is a little snob or gent, whom we all of us know, who wears little
+tufts on his little chin, outrageous pins and pantaloons, smokes cigars
+on tobacconists' counters, sucks his cane in the streets, struts
+about with Mrs. Snob and the baby (Mrs. S. an immense woman, whom Snob
+nevertheless bullies), who is a favorite abomination of Leech, and
+pursued by that savage humorist into a thousand of his haunts. There he
+is, choosing waistcoats at the tailor's--such waistcoats! Yonder he
+is giving a shilling to the sweeper who calls him "Capting;" now he is
+offering a paletot to a huge giant who is going out in the rain. They
+don't know their own pictures, very likely; if they did, they would have
+a meeting, and thirty or forty of them would be deputed to thrash Mr.
+Leech. One feels a pity for the poor little bucks. In a minute or two,
+when we close this discourse and walk the streets, we shall see a dozen
+such.
+
+Ere we shut the desk up, just one word to point out to the
+unwary specially to note the backgrounds of landscapes in Leech's
+drawings--homely drawings of moor and wood, and seashore and London
+street--the scenes of his little dramas. They are as excellently true
+to nature as the actors themselves; our respect for the genius and humor
+which invented both increases as we look and look again at the designs.
+May we have more of them; more pleasant Christmas volumes, over which we
+and our children can laugh together. Can we have too much of truth, and
+fun, and beauty, and kindness?
+
+
+
+
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