Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy Title: Review of reviews and world's work Year: 1890 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: ,finding it impossible to combine his official and artisticduties, resigned his position in the Civil Service and de-voted himself entirely to his art. Mr. Thomson has drawnfor other periodicals besides i^ioi, among others Punch,the Grajjhic—to which he was one of the original con-tributors—the Sunday Magazine and Good Wo7-ds, andhas also exhibited paintings in the Royal Academy andelsewhere. The ideas of the Fun cartoons are often very clever,but the dravsdngs are as often very stiff and unnatural.One might almost imagine that Mr. Thomson neverdraws from the live model, but from a very angular andstiff lay figure. Back in the seventies his cartoons hadnot this sad peculiaiity, so that it may even yet be thromioff. At his best, Mr. Thomson has all the qualificationsfor a good political cartoonist; he is never tiresome, andhis personages are at once recognizable. It happens thatwe use nothing verj conspicuous of Mr. Thomsons thismonth, although the small drawing on page 544 is very

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