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+John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
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+by William Makepeace Thackeray
+
+
+
+
+* Reprinted from the Quarterly Review, No. 191, Dec. 1854, by
+permission of Mr. John Murray.
+
+
+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?
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
+by William Makepeace Thackeray
+
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