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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Burlesques, by H. M. Bateman
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license
+
+
+Title: Burlesques
+
+Author: H. M. Bateman
+
+Release Date: May 3, 2012 [EBook #39604]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BURLESQUES ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Chris Curnow, Mark Young and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
+file was produced from images generously made available
+by The Internet Archive)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ BURLESQUES
+
+[Illustration MR. GEORGE GRAVES IN "PRINCESS CAPRICE"]
+
+
+
+
+ BURLESQUES
+
+ BY
+
+ H. M. BATEMAN
+
+ WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY A. E. JOHNSON
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ LONDON
+
+ DUCKWORTH & CO.
+
+ 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
+
+[Illustration _First Published 1916_]
+
+
+ PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD.
+ PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTORY NOTE
+
+Mr. H. M. Bateman possesses in remarkable degree that
+rare gift, a real power of comic draughtsmanship. He is
+capable not only of comic vision, but of comic expression.
+His "line" is an instinctive expression of the comic: it reveals an
+innate feeling for the essentially humorous. To put it briefly, if
+somewhat vaguely, he "draws funnily." He is the terse and witty
+pictorial _raconteur_--a shrewd observer who can sum up a character,
+or conjure up a scene, with a few strokes of such penetrating insight
+that they carry instant conviction.
+
+Humour of the kind which the drawings in this volume embody
+is so spontaneous, and the expression of it so direct and incisive,
+that there is perhaps a tendency to overlook the intensity of the effort
+which produces the seemingly effortless result. Mr. Bateman's
+method is sometimes described as caricature, but that is to miss its
+true significance, though the term may seem, upon the surface,
+appropriate enough. Caricature is the art of inducing humour, by
+dint of satirical exaggeration, in a subject not necessarily humorous
+of itself. Mr. Bateman's more difficult function is to reveal humour,
+not to impose it.
+
+There is no trace of the self-conscious humorist in these drawings.
+Facetiousness is a quality conspicuously and gratefully absent. The
+artist's only concern is to pluck the very heart out of his subject, and
+that his mind has a trend towards the humorous aspect of life is merely
+accidental. For it is the humour of life, not merely of men, that
+attracts him, and even when he deals with seemingly quite trivial
+subjects, there is nothing petty or trite about his comic treatment of
+them.
+
+He generalises. His observations are of types, not of individuals,
+of situations rather than of scenes. He draws for us people whom
+we all know but none of us have actually seen, for when he portrays
+a type his sketch embodies all the salient characteristics that go to
+make that type. If he draws a plumber, for example, he shows us
+the Compleat Plumber--more like a plumber than any plumber ever
+was. And as with character, so with action--whatever Mr. Bateman
+elects to make his puppets do, they do it with an intensity and vigour
+beyond all practical possibility, but not (and this is the artist's secret)
+beyond the bounds of imagination and belief. When a man is seen
+running in a Bateman drawing he does not merely run--he _runs_; if
+he slumbers, one can veritably hear him snore! The intensity of the
+artist's imaginative effort visualises for us that which cannot humanly
+be, but would be if it could.
+
+Pictorial exponents of the comic art are few, for of so-called
+"humorous drawings" not many are inspired by the true comic spirit.
+It is a fortunate opportunity, therefore, which the present volume
+provides of preserving in collected form so much that bears the
+evident stamp of the real thing.
+
+A. E. J.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ LIST OF DRAWINGS
+
+
+ PAGE
+
+ THEY CALL IT "FAME" 1
+
+ MAESTROS: THE IMPRESSIVE 3
+
+ MAESTROS: THE UNEMOTIONAL 5
+
+ MAESTROS: THE SENTIMENTAL 7
+
+ THE WINTER VEST 9
+
+ THE MAN WHO WON A MOTOR-CAR 11
+
+ THE ACCOMPANIST WHO DID HER BEST 13
+
+ THE POTTER-ABOUT-THE-HALL-ALL-DAY
+ PERSON 15
+
+ THE GRUMBLE-AT-THE-FOOD-AND-EVERYTHING-ELSE
+ PERSON 17
+
+ "I REMEMBER IN 1870----" 19
+
+ THE TEMPER 21
+
+ GENUINE ANTIQUES 23
+
+ SIGHTS UP IN TOWN 25
+
+ SIGHTS DOWN IN THE COUNTRY 27
+
+ LITTLE TICH 29
+
+ THE BLUE 31
+
+ PREPARATIONS FOR A GREAT OFFENSIVE 32, 33
+
+ GARÇON! 35
+
+ MAN AND WIFE 37
+
+ SPEECHMAKERS: THE FAITHFUL OLD
+ DOG 39
+
+ SPEECHMAKERS: THE WORM 41
+
+ TWINS 43
+
+ PLATONIC 45
+
+ ALL THIS FOR 3D., 6D., AND 1/- 47
+
+ THE MISSED PUTT 49
+
+ THE MAN WHO ONLY WANTED TWO
+ HALFPENNIES FOR A PENNY 51
+
+ PSYCHIC: GLOOM 53
+
+ LOST--A PEKINESE DOG 55
+
+ DANCERS AND DANCES: SPANISH 57
+
+ DANCERS AND DANCES: AMERICAN 59
+
+ DANCERS AND DANCES: ORIENTAL 61
+
+ THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 63
+
+ MERELY A MATTER OF SECONDS 65
+
+ A HEART TO HEART TALK 67
+
+ HOW I WON THE MARATHON 69
+
+ 99° IN THE SHADE 71
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_The drawings contained in this book originally appeared, with some
+exceptions, in "The Sketch," "London Opinion," "The Graphic," "The
+Bystander," "Printer's Pie" and "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic
+News." The author is indebted to the proprietors of these journals for
+permission to issue them in this volume._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THEY CALL IT "FAME"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration MAESTROS
+I. The Impressive: Rachmaninoff's "Prelude"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration MAESTROS
+II. The Unemotional: Bach's "Italian Fugue"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration MAESTROS
+III. The Sentimental: A Chopin Nocturne]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration STUDIES OF A RESPECTABLE MIDDLE-AGED GENTLEMAN WEARING A NEW
+WINTER VEST FOR THE FIRST TIME]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE MAN WHO WON A MOTOR-CAR]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE ACCOMPANIST WHO DID HER BEST]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration HOTEL HOGS
+The potter-about-the-hall-all-day-and-watch-the-new-arrivals person]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration HOTEL HOGS
+The grumble-at-the-food-and-everything-else person]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration "I REMEMBER IN 1870----"
+London clubmen in war-time parading for practice in writing to the papers]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE TEMPER]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE GOBLETS\]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration GENUINE ANTIQUES]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration SIGHTS UP IN TOWN]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration SIGHTS DOWN IN THE COUNTRY]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration LITTLE TICH]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE BLUE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration PREPARATIONS FOR--]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration --A GREAT OFFENSIVE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration "GARÇON!"]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration MAN AND WIFE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration SPEECHES AND THEIR MAKERS
+The Faithful Old Dog]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration SPEECHES AND THEIR MAKERS
+The Worm]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration TWINS]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration PLATONIC]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration ALL THIS FOR 3D.\, 6D.\, AND 1/-]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE MISSED PUTT]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE MAN WHO ONLY WANTED TWO HALFPENNIES FOR A PENNY]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration PSYCHIC]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration LOST--A PEKINESE DOG]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration DANCERS AND DANCES
+Spanish]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration DANCERS AND DANCES
+American]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration DANCERS AND DANCES
+Oriental]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration THE PUBLIC LIBRARY]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration MERELY A MATTER OF SECONDS]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration A HEART-TO-HEART TALK]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration HOW I WON THE MARATHON]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration 99° IN THE SHADE]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Transcriber's Notes
+
+ Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.
+
+ Italic text is denoted by _underscore_ and bold text
+ by =equal signs=.
+
+ The following numerous errors were left as is:
+ endquote missing punctuation
+ No punctuation at para end
+
+
+
+
+
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