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Title: Social Pictorial Satire

Author: George du Maurier

Release Date: July 7, 2004 [EBook #12834]

Language: English

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SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE

[Frontispiece: Mr. and Mrs. Candle.

From the original drawing by JOHN LEECH. In the possession of JOHN
KENDRICK BANGS. Esq. The lower portion has never before been
reproduced.]

SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE.

_By_ GEORGE DU MAURIER,

_Author of "Trilby" "The Martian" &c._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

MDCCCXCVIII

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_Mr. and Mrs. Caudle_

_John Leech_

_"In the Bay of Biscay O"_

_A Specimen of Pluck_

_One of Mr. Briggs's Adventures in the Highlands_

_Thank Goodness! Fly-fishing has begun!_

_"The jolly little Street Arabs"_

_Doing a little Business_

_A Tolerably Broad Hint_

_Charles Keene_

_The Snowstorm, Jan. 2, 1867_

_Waiting for the Landlord!_

_A Stroke of Business_

_"None o' your Larks"_

_An Affront to the Service_

_"Not up to his Business"_

_George du Maurier_

_Feline Amenities_

_The New Society Craze_

_A Pictorial Puzzle_

_Refinements of Modern Speech_

_"Reading without Tears"_

_The Height of Impropriety_

_Things one would wish to have expressed differently_

SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE

It is my purpose to speak of the craft to which I have devoted the
best years of my life, the craft of portraying, by means of little
pen-and-ink strokes, lines, and scratches, a small portion of the
world in which we live; such social and domestic incidents as lend
themselves to humorous or satirical treatment; the illustrated
criticism of life, of the life of our time and country, in its lighter
aspects.

The fact that I have spent so many years in the practice of this craft
does not of itself, I am well aware, entitle me to lay down the law
about it; the mere exercise of an art so patent to all, so easily
understanded of the people, does not give one any s