n him by Bernard Blackmantle.

[51] Further particulars of them will be found in the "Memoirs of the
Duchess d'Abrantes" (Madame Junot). The fashions of the years which
immediately preceded the Revolution appear to have been almost as
funny. I have somewhere seen a French semi-caricature depicting
fashionables of the Palais Royal in 1786, and the people who had
their heads cut off in '93 were almost as queer as the dandies of the
Directory and the Consulate.

[52] The treadmill was the invention of Mr. (afterwards Sir William)
Cubitt, of Ipswich. It was erected at Brixton gaol in 1817, and was
afterwards gradually introduced into other prisons.

[53] The Marquis of Londonderry.

[54] What became of Seurat we do not know, but we lately came across
the following: "the Siamese twins married; the _living skeleton_ was
crossed in love, but afterwards consoled himself with a corpulent
widow." The authority is George Augustus Sala in "Twice Round the
Clock." We strongly suspect that the wit extracted the information
out of his own "inner consciousness."

[55] We purposely omit the title.

[56] Presumably post "bag."

CHAPTER VI.

_ROBERT CRUIKSHANK_ (_Continued_).

_"LIFE IN LONDON" AND OTHER BOOK WORK._

In perusing various articles on George Cruikshank in which reference is
made to the "Life in London," we have been struck with the almost utter
absence of Robert Cruikshank's name; further than this, it seems to have
been the almost universal impression that it was his association with
George on this memorable book which secured such reputation as Robert
himself enjoyed. So far, however, was this from being the case, that not
only was Robert, in 1821, a caricaturist and satirist of acknowledged
reputation, but he was believed at this very time by the general public
to be the cleverer artist of the two. Robert, indeed, has been treated
with curious injustice in relation to this famous book, which owes its
very existence (as we shall presently see) to him alone. While according
to George (as in effect they do) the whole merit of the performance,
many of the writers of the articles referred to acknowledge that they
find it impossible to assign to him his share of the illustrations; and
that difficulty will be largely increased to any one who has studied
Robert Cruikshank's caricature work. The fact is that few of these
famous plates will bear com