New-York tribune., 1906-04-29

their rank and station. though they be the first
ladies in the land" should certainly be nut in
the pillory. Several women OF high position
were actually fined for their performances at
faro, and Gillray seized upon the episode to put>
lish print showing what. according to the
Chief Justice. the punishment ought to have
BEEN In this Lady Bucking ghamshire, an in
veterate gambler is being fogged at the carts
tail. while Lady Archer and Mrs. Concannon are
fastened into the pillory OF all the caricaturists
whose work is enshrined in this big book Gill
ray was probably the most merciless. George
Pastor" writes Of him as of an executioner whose
favorite mode of punishment was the torture
NO satirist,' she says has ever attacked with
such concentrated malgnity combined with
such skill in touching the raw. persons in pri-
vate life who had done him wrong-with
whom. in all probability. he had never ex-
changed word Gilray. silent and saturnine
as he seemed to his fellows. possessed a curious
FACILITY for working himself up into cold
fury Of personal resentment against some OBJ
scure offender who quite unworthy of pow
der and shot" The town watched eagerly for
his drawings. and the Iounger approaching the
shop at which they were daily displayed had
often to go out into the roadway TO avoid the
! crowds blocking the pavement in front OF the
windows
| Musical and dramatic affairs sport popular
delusions. all suggested audacious satiricaI
prints. The brilliant and impudent prima DONNA
Regina Minsotti. is represented in a print OF
100 with a group of social dignitaries kneei- s
ing before her while she iouts them thus:
Ra Ru Pa Rot ye
IL you worship me nOtti
You shall all so to pottL
| An even sharper carcature represents Ham
\ del with the face of a pig. surrounded by guam
titles of luxurious articles of food and playing
an organ while seated on a beer barrel GOupy
was the artist, and the origin of his design is
thus described in the memoirs of Letitia Haw-
kins:
prosperous than they had been ne invited GOupy u
dine with him. The meal was plain and frugal as
ne h;t warned his guest Il must be. adding that h
would would give him as hearty welcome as when lie
Goupy returned q cordial repIv and they dineI
Soon after dinner Handel left the room and his
of other employ. stroIled the adjoining room
| and. walking up to a window which looked dag
onaily on that of a small third room he saw his
host sitting at a table coyeIet with such delcacit'
Goupy was so enrased that he quilted the house
abruptly and published the engraving in which
Handel appears as a hog in the midst of daintes-
OF the caricatures levelled at literary folk
which included in this volume an especially
delightful by Ceilings portrays Jimmy Bos-
we'll in his glory as the boastful Laird of Auch-
| nileck. Boswell. We are given TO understand.
was never happier than when he being thus
satirized. AS for sporting caricatures. most OF
| these came into being after 1I40 Men of in
| tellect and breeding. the author records dis
| liked the cOarser forms of sport and "consid-
cred that fencing, riding according TO the rules
of the manege) and dancing were the only kind
OF exercise worthy the attention of a gentle
man." AprOpos of dancing two of the most
popular prints of the century were those by
John COllet, Grown Gentlemen Taught 70
Dance" and Grown Ladies Taught to Dance
The first of these we reproduce Both of them
it is said. were introduced in the shape of
taDleauS INTO a contemporary pantomine.''
This is fascinating volume and it's compiler
is 10 be heartily congratulated on the results of
her industry. 1t is only the collector of excep-
tional patience and resources who could hope
to gather for himself such treasures of old Eng
hsh Caricature- George PASTOR has given into
the hands of the less fortunate reader tram
scripts of the most notable items in the spIenA
did collection of the British Museum and her
chapters of social history almost as charac-
teristic and enlightening the pictures.
"IF ONLY I WE'RE THE SKY"
BY sTURGE MOORE
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