Chapter 1

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M.P.'s IN SESSION.

From MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY.

BY HARRY FURNISS.

FAMILIAR FACES.

MR. PUNCH (_CARTOONIST IN CHIEF_). "OH, I KNOW ALL YOU OLD MODELS, I WANT SOME NEW 'CHARACTER'!" _Frontispiece._

M.P.'s IN SESSION

FROM MR. PUNCH'S PARLIAMENTARY PORTRAIT GALLERY

My own Work Harry Furniss

LONDON: BRADBURY AGNEW, & CO., 8, 9, 10, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. 1889.

PRINTED BY "MR. PUNCH" AT

THE PRINTING OFFICES OF BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., WHITEFRIARS, E.C.

M.P.'s IN SESSION. _from Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery._

THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.

(_Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by "The Other Fellows." The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists._)

THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.

(_Splendid Collection of Parliamentary Portraits, mostly done by "The Other Fellows." The Speaking Likenesses speak for themselves and for the Artists._)

HENRY CHAPLIN.

"A ready wit and a fluent tongue are valuable auxiliaries. But force of character, consciousness of power, masculine ability in grappling with complicated questions, and that species of eloquence, the effect of which arises rather from earnestness, straightforwardness, and elevation of sentiment, than from sparkling or elaborate rhetoric, give a man a position in the House of Commons which leaves him little in need of such other gifts as we have mentioned."--_Standard, Dec. 30._

THE ROYAL WESTMINSTER ACADEMY.