Identifier: punchv50lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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y placed in the dock. FIGURE AND PACE. Of the following maxim (which we find in a review in the Star) wecordially approve:— A man who aspires to be an artist of the highest class ought to understand thattrue art has no business with the hideous. But just you wait until the Academy opens, and the Portraits ofGentlemen and Ladies are revealed. Ho amount of hideousnesswill deter an artist from depicting a Guy, if the Guy, or his admiringfriends, can pay a high figure for the high art. We shall illustratethis fact, when we shall have gone through the Exhibition. Smirkingand scowling parties, look out, if you have been making Art hideous. The Sceptics Paradise.—Chateau DIf. fed O E fi s > B 5 t» t> ? • 5 H © td d B S K) CO W CO ■Ei f6* co H . td O fed ^ pa t-i fed H - CO CO ,_, H O pd w t=i M ■ f> g H 1—1 i—i85 w K; f° fcg t> S* Sz! 5M W 1-3 P^ t=j W w 2 CO N CO H 1-4 HH P3 CO bd fd d H S 13 oos i-d t» P^feg !ZS fe • a CO H O s N IT) PJ 1=1 g I—1 CQ bg c o
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d QO w w fO Uo o W w I—I 58 oo Oi April 7, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 147 j \ I READING AND RUNNING. Off, the comfort and luxury of .travelling in these times of daily,hourly improvements ! Specially night-travelling. What equals therepose of the steady, equal-going Express on any narrow gauge?How you can throw yourself back, and lounge as if you were in yourold arm-chair at home, where your grandfathers sat, as the song says.How speedily the dull, night is whisked away, while one can read awhileby the bright light, invariably provided by the company for every car-riage, or write notes, or draw, or sleep, just as the fancy may take you.Permit me to give an idea of the almost inappreciable comfort of ajourney to Liverpool (for instance), orHolyhead; that is, a five, six, or sevenhours journey. Night is coming on,and you have provided yourself withvarious papers, which you will now (youhave said to yourself cunningly) have anexcellent opportunity of reading. Youwant to mak

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