English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

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Kenny Meadows.--"Portraits of the English."--A Thoroughly Useful Man.--Some Works Illustrated by Meadows.--His Merits Unequal.--His Contempt for Nature.--An Early Illustrator of _Punch_.--His Illustrated Shakespeare.--Some Excellent Work of Meadows.--His Death.--Robert William Buss.--Recommended to Illustrate "Pickwick" on Seymour's Death.--Etchings Suppressed.--The "Buss Plates" not his at all.--His Paintings.--Lectures on Caricature and Graphic Satire.--Comic Publications which preceded or ran side by side with _Punch_.--Alfred William Forrester (Alfred Crowquill).--"A General Utility Man."--Crowquill a Caricaturist.--His Talent and Cleverness.--Some of His Paintings.--Charles H. Bennett.--"Shadows."--"Shadow and Substance."--"Origin of Species."--Taken on the _Punch_ Staff.--Early Death.--Theatrical Performances for the Benefit of his Family.--Kate Terry.--Thackeray as a Comic Artist.--Satire on Charles Lever.--Unfitted to Illustrate his own Novels, and why.--His Genius Displayed in Literature not in Art.--Illustrations to "Vanity Fair" Considered.--Anthony Trollope on this Subject. _pp._ 355-380.