New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
c.pICATiTRE IN ENGLAND.

porr~, AL cApICATURE IN ENGLAND.
AHrsToK, oFPARLlAMEST,HaFRi, , hbr DASs. iu-
s, ,r,S tnr orsinN PM tscai sasnca ns tie
fsc,sH"is T" Los, IN & skou. svo Up. xviii ioS'
Is,uion: Castio h Winhus. -.
a. t;r.co's hook does not give quitc wp"' '".
.,,le mage rroniseS IL Is not 90 mncn n''v., ~
..,,,amentary e.ectioneering as stn'y Oh poi''."
c,Y,e.,nre in England. from the rc'a" oi ''o ~
arts down 10 the generation just oeio'o Jul
soe. throw a light uron election morals ano NAV
a. Int this effect is only incidental to It's man
~nose A history of elections, to he worthy Vi
a.. nams shoull either be much more serious imam
.,;s mr. ,nuch more entertaining. Mr. Urego II uo'
n ,o,itical stugent nor lively writer, anu he mas
meddlei very little with the great STORE vi po'
f.h,d memoirs aud correspondence wh'cn CONAN
-, .,r;o,s particuIars about his ostensi"le sub
tact Corruption and parliamentary so'ern"en.
In ENGLAND seem 10 have been estaohshe "ir'o.'
touetber There no primitive age oi pun.
virtue: and even s.nsitveness to the reP"'a'o" VI
hon..,v at the pol,s is refinement developed pr'n-
cipally within the presens century !" ""' NV
mill bribery and borough mopgering became
-, ;,,ol.rah,e that the conscience of the Eng
l;.h ,rope shook itself and got up; and reform IN
the me,hods of voting. " hich has gone on In eausi
.,. Nth tho ex teusion of the franchise among th7
middle classes is - phenomenon oil our own u"'.
In the United States, where the franchise "as "o
a concession from an upper TO lower ci"s' '"' ."
or cnal popular right. the story OF its exercise ""
heen very different. Corrupt and vioieht ERECTION
rnsthods have bren spssmodc and geheralV 'oc"i
aisouiers not Characteristic OF any Pa'''o'
reriod: and popular opinion. whicn Is so'"o''"i0'
sow 20 act bat never long debased has beeu strong
enougb TO correct them. Tie South IS eooo way
b,bind the civilization Of the rest OF the county
10, unon the whole il may be safely said that the
te,,Iencv toward bettering election methods has
ham well marked for the past quarter OF oentuiS'
most Of the caricatures by which Mr. GREGG Illus
frates the political contests OF ola tlrh'S "'o do
crude aud vulgar as the bribery when Iorihs Tue"
freonent theme Their humor Is that OF the country
,ir f ths nrsctieal Joker of poor tumbling panta-
Soon. Of the circus clown on chldrens afternoon,
of ,,oss alIusions coarse attitudes lampoons broad
enough for the meanest Understandings an" "S'
any part of the intention should be Missed ieRe""s
are added of exa.perating proixity and duluess'
4, is hard to realize the intellectual sIusSSn"es'
of a generation which could enjoy these depressing
pictnres in winch humor seldom rose above the gro
,e.one and wit was absolutely wanting. Hoearth,
Rovl.ndson and Gillray placed the art OF Garcia
tnrc ON a new level for they were men of force, AMI
one of them was man of genius Besides inc
vigor of their satire. they added drollery TO the
political ampoon. something which 1t cannot oe
said 10 have possessed beforehand Hoeartb gave
tremendous power to his pencil By depicting char
acter in the faces aud attitudes aud action OF ms
subiects But Hogarth Is great individual hgure
rather than the representative of new school; anu
alth, oueh caricature improved in quality undsr his
most famous 1t still copied the Old exa-
rerated types and appealed to primitive taste. IL
is in tie work of Cruikshank aud of John Doyle
best known now as the father Of his son RIchard.
that we first notice the more refined and magma
tive spirit of modern humor. which has since
reached 40 delightful and complete an expression IN
the illustrated pages OF Punch Putting out OF the
account some of the most celebrated works OF
Hogarth and only some of the most celebrated
CruiksnsnK - the earliest political carlcaturlst
whom the pres age really enjoy. This Is not
because the subjects of the other oldtlme artists
are antiq mated; they are not more completely Tor
gotten than many of the occurrences treated IN
the perennial cartoons of Richard Doyle and John
TennieI; but II 10 because the mo Tern intellectual
habit has Developed INTO something of which our
graudf asheIs had scarcely concept on.
Mr.. ergo stops short of the Punch period. his
lr STATIONS of tie old-tme carcatures are numer-
ous. but very few of them are copied on scale
,arg, ANN gh to show their quality, and most OF
those in wnion there is n crowd OF 5gures are hope
ie.siv obscure For this want OF clearness an I'm
perfect process of reproduction is much to blame
a.. oil