The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-08 00:00:00

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NEW WORK lw G. A. i BICKETT & JOHN usZCH.
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COMIC HISTO-lit of ENGLAND.
BY GILBERT ABBOTT i BECKEIT.
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clf THE rwii.
•• The public is delillr Retied to the eruMte author of thin new!
Pictorial History of Fag and. Haring formerly translated Blackstone
into a style that may be read without a mien, he has in the rimming
number of his History done the name good emit* for the atilt drier
diesertathms with which Archaeological jour nary, and the Archmok*i.
cal Societies are laborkaudy stuffed."—Dally News.
"That indefatigable wit and humanist, Gilbert kßeckett, hae
commenced • new labour of drollery. Haring transmogrified that
grave and learned personage, Bleekelese, Into the merriest Ind wag
on earth, he now. take flame, Wand, &win, Tacit., and the•ther
very venerable high Meets of Cho la heed, end by the forte ettemait
genius converts them into the pietembett punsters, tad inset gro-
tesque miens in creation. He is ably mined in kis work tirg the Ina-
gin Live who gives • 63112 and embelint• to the dry ids lets
of a Broken. brain. • The Hilted hi Cone is • glerieus
conroption. The Blandon@ Kamm An& en the of his
steamer. and there surveys the twined, tenth eldsging the
Sandwich Flats In the wet audit .tame.
d• ger motors
every justice, they wv re, affardas M o.d. I Delimateed Ile inter-
preter Leech, as fine • art of wages ea acne dined off their enemies
without either sedt or mustard. Thin History of England will, doubt-
lea, be a much greater favourite with • Young England' than the
fablee which go by that name, composed by 'fume, Goldsmith, and the
reet.”—Morning Post.
"We predict for this work 'lent unexampled populerity. In it
'Mimic truth and wit of fine potent and easy flow are blended without
apparent effort. Instruction and amtmement walk arm-in-arm,
Laughing, moralising, teaching—the pleasantrot of modern periptte-
tiro. Al the author sava, 'There le not the mailed intention to
sacrifice fidelity to fun, the design being to show that the utile et dal
are not inseparable. Mr. a Beckett... far as the first part of his
eharming history goes, has fulfilled kin design, and proved that 'there
is an end to the once favourite fallacy that food for the mind requires
the uniuriting flavour of phyvic.' The hook is copiously and cleverly
Illustrated by John leech Should the surombrie monthly parts
roust the first, the author will have permanently fixed his place in the
first rank of our wittiest writer.."—Bed's Life in London.
" There were not wanting many grave perootts who considered •
• Comic lihekstone• • species of sacrilege ; what then shall be mid of
a • Comic History of England 1' We are almost inclined ourselves to
shake our heads at the incorrigible jester, but, not being able to make
up a aerials fare, he han the Laugh of us, and escapes castigation.
The first part of the work is now before on—thirty-two pages of fun,
graphic end literary, Leech being the artbd who participates in the
For, eddy dividing the applause."—Weekly Chronicle.
Thin is one of the happion efforts of Mr. k Beekett's pen. It Is a
moot amusing serial and promises to bemuse a general favourite. It
is effectively illuetratedlry Leech."—Obierror.
"A capital idea. Mr. a Beckett ham at last found • rowans large
enough for hie broad bold caricature., and he appears to revel in the
freedoin it permits him. And John Leech's admirable backing of his
friend is worthy of the Otter's merit,. The history does not let you
off with a smile. but forces you into a roar worthy of the British
Lion, who is moot uncereatoniouoly stirred up by author and artist.
We are glad to enliven our pages with some extracts."—Court
Journal.
" A jocular narrative of the grave events of Englieh history, In
which facts are cared for as welt no fun, and dates are not disregarded
for drolleries. Mr. Leech's burlesque ilhottrallons are In the spirit of
this facetious history, het more outrageously absurd; and both text
and cuts ore laughable."—• Spectator.
" No. Xis as comic as were the two previa. number.. It is one of
the happlest of Mr. 3 Beekdt's happy eMniorts, and when completed le
sure to a popular volonse."--Oteerver.
" We are not sure that the exhibition of a eerie. of historical
dents, in the grotreque style, may not do much to strip puny royal
and irritative infamies a that robe of rolernnity In whist.
have dressed them, thereby misleading and imposing upon public
sentiment."—Nonconfarmist.
"If Mr. 31•FarLane make. tie think it Is the province of Mr.
Beckett to make no laugh over the Inotory of England, there are
ridiculous points enough in all historic" for on whimsical a genius to
extrart langhter from, and Mr. a Beckett makes the more of them in
dike instance. But there ha purpose under his joke.; he always
make. hie reader, laugh In the right place."—Atlas.
" Merrily does Mr. 3 Beckett in the present number rattle through
the Ilhnory of F.ngland from the day. of Melted to those of William
the Conqueror ; but albeit, merrily, not the lees truthfully. The
illustrative wood-outs WV laughter-moving exceedingly."—gun.
"If Mr. It Beckett and his graphic coadjutor proceed.. they have
began, the 'Comic History of England' will be es permanently valuable
an it is irresistibly humorous.' --Lloyd'e Weekly Newspaper.
" If laughter is good for health, we only know that i Beckett's His.
tory of England premiums In a style tomoke it. English the healthiest
people on the face of !he earth."—Hood's Magazine.
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