LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Pigmy Pugilists, from Pompeii [15]
Chalk Drawing by Roman Soldier in Pompeii [15]
Chalk Caricature on a Wall in Pompeii [16]
Battle between Pigmies and Geese [17]
A Pigmy Scene—from Pompeii [18]
Vases with Pigmy Designs [19]
A Grasshopper driving a Chariot [19]
From an Antique Amethyst [19]
Flight of Æneas from Troy [20]
Caricature of the Flight of Æneas [20]
From a Red Jasper [21]
Roman Masks, Comic and Tragic [22]
Roman Comic Actor, masked for Silenus [22]
Roman Wall Caricature of a Christian [25]
Burlesque of Jupiter's Wooing of Princess Alcmena [29]
Greek Caricature of the Oracle of Apollo [30]
An Egyptian Caricature [32]
A Condemned Soul, Egyptian Caricature [33]
Egyptian Servants conveying Home their Masters from a Carouse [33]
Too Late with the Basin [34]
The Hindoo God Krishna on his Travels [37]
Krishna's Attendants assuming the Form of a Bird [37]
Krishna in his Palanquin [38]
Capital in the Autun Cathedral [41]
Capitals in the Strasburg Cathedral, A.D. 1300 [41]
Engraved upon a Stall in Sherborne Minster, England [43]
From a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century [43]
From a Mass-book of the Fourteenth Century [44]
From a French Prayer-book of the Thirteenth Century [45]
From Queen Mary's Prayer-book, A.D. 1553 [46]
Gog and Magog, Guildhall, London [50]
Head of the Great Dragon of Norwich [51]
Souls weighed in the Balance, Autun Cathedral [51]
Struggle for Possession of a Soul between Angel and Devil [52]
Lost Souls cast into Hell [53]
Devils seizing their Prey [54]
The Temptation [55]
French Death-crier [56]
Death and the Cripple [57]
Death and the Old Man [58]
Death and the Peddler [58]
Death and the Knight [58]
Heaven and Earth weighed in the Balance [60]
English Caricature of an Irishman, A.D. 1280 [62]
Caricature of the Jews in England, A.D. 1233 [63]
Luther inspired by Satan [64]
Devil fiddling upon a Pair of Bellows [65]
Oldest Drawing in the British Museum, A.D. 1320 [66]
Bishop's Seal, A.D. 1300 [67]
Pastor and Flock, Sixteenth Century [70]
Confessing to God; and Sale of Indulgences [72]
Christ, the True Light [73]
Papa, Doctor Theologiæ et Magister Fidei [77]
The Pope cast into Hell [77]
"The Beam that is in thine own Eye," A.D. 1540 [78]
Luther Triumphant [79]
The Triumph of Riches [81]
Calvin branded [83]
Calvin at the Burning of Servetus [84]
Calvin, the Pope, and Luther [85]
Titian's Caricature of the Laocoön [89]
The Papal Gorgon [90]
Spayne and Rome defeated [94]
From Title-page to Sermon "Woe to Drunkards" [97]
"Let not the World devide those whom Christ hath joined" [99]
"England's Wolfe with Eagle's Clawes," 1647 [102]
Charles II. and the Scotch Presbyterians, 1651 [103]
Cris-cross Rhymes on Love's Crosses, 1640 [105]
Shrove-tide in Arms against Lent [107]
Lent tilting at Shrove-tide [108]
The Queen of James II. and Father Petre [109]
Caricature of Corpulent General Galas [115]
A Quaker Meeting, 1710 [116]
Archbishop of Paris [118]
Archbishop of Rheims [118]
Caricature of Louis XIV., by Thackeray [119]
"Shares! Shares! Shares!" Caricature of John Law [120]
Island of Madhead [122]
Speculative Map of Louisiana [126]
John Law, Wind Monopolist [129]
The Sleeping Congregation [134]
Hogarth's Drawing in Three Strokes [137]
Hogarth's Invitation Card [137]
Time Smoking a Picture [138]
Dedication of a Proposed History of the Arts [140]
Walpole paring the Nails of the British Lion [142]
Dutch Neutrality, 1745 [142]
British Idolatry of the Opera-singer Mingotti [143]
The Motion (for the Removal of Walpole) [144]
Antiquaries puzzled [146]
Caricature designed by Benjamin Franklin [147]
Lord Bute [152]
Princess of Wales—Bute—George III [152]
The Wire-master (Bute) and his Puppets [153]
The Gouty Colossus, William Pitt [156]
The Mask (Coalition) [157]
Heads of Fox and North [158]
Assembly of the Notables at Paris [161]
Mirabeau [162]
The Dagger Scene in the House of Commons [164]
The Zenith of French Glory [165]
The Estates [166]
The New Calvary [166]
President of Revolutionary Committee amusing himself with his Art [168]
Rare Animals [169]
Aristocrat and Democrat [170]
"You frank! Have confidence in you!" [171]
Matrimony—A Man loaded with Mischief [173]
Settling the Odd Trick [174]
"Who was that gentleman that just went out?" [176]
"Now, understand me. To-morrow morning he will ask you to dinner" [177]
"Madame, your Cousin Betty wishes to know if you can receive her" [179]
A Scene of Conjugal Life [180]
A Splendid Spread [181]
American Lady walking in the Snow [183]
"My dear Baron, I am in the most pressing need of five hundred franc" [184]
"Sir, be good enough to come round in front and speak to me" [185]
"Where are the diamonds exhibited?" [185]
Evening Scene in the Parlor of an American Boarding-house [186]
"He's coming! Take off your hat!" [188]
The Scholastic Hen and her Chickens [189]
Chinese Caricature of an English Foraging Party [191]
A Deaf Mandarin [196]
After Dinner. A Chinese Caricature [197]
The Rat Rice Merchants. A Japanese Caricature [206]
Talleyrand—the Man with Six Heads [209]
A Great Man's Last Leap [210]
Talleyrand [211]
A Promenade in the Palais Royal [213]
Family of the Extinguishers [214]
The Jesuits at Court [215]
Charles Philipon [218]
Robert Macaire fishing for Share-holders [221]
A Husband's Dilemma [223]
Housekeeping [224]
A Poultice for Two [226]
Parisian "Shoo, Fly!" [227]
Three! [228]
Two Attitudes [230]
The Den of Lions at the Opera [231]
The Vulture [233]
Partant pour la Syrie [234]
Gavarni [236]
Honoré Daumier [237]
Evolution of the Piano [243]
A Corporal interviewed by the Major [244]
A Bold Comparison [245]
Strict Discipline in the Field [246]
Ahead of Time [247]
A Journeyman's Leave-taking [248]
After Sedan [250]
To the Bull-fight [251]
A Delegation of Birds of Prey [252]
"Child, you will take cold" [253]
Inconvenience of the New Collar [254]
Sufferings endured by a Prisoner of War [255]
King Bomba's Ultimatum to Sicily [259]
He has begun the Service with Mass, and completed it with Bombs [260]
The Burial of Liberty [261]
Bomba at Supper [262]
"Such is the Love of Kings" [263]
Mr. Punch [264]
Return of the Pope to Rome [265]
James Gillray [267]
Tiddy-Doll, the Great French Gingerbread Baker [268]
The Threatened Invasion of England [269]
The Bibliomaniac [270]
Hope—A Phrenological Illustration [271]
Term Time [273]
Box in a New York Theatre in 1830 [276]
Seymour's Conception of Mr. Winkle [278]
Probable Suggestion of the Fat Boy [280]
A Wedding Breakfast [281]
The Boy who chalked up "No Popery!" [284]
John Leech [285]
Preparatory School for Young Ladies [286]
The Quarrel.—England and France [287]
Obstructives [290]
Jeddo and Belfast; or, a Puzzle for Japan [291]
"At the Church-gate" [292]
An Early Quibble [294]
John Tenniel [295]
Soliloquy of a Rationalistic Chicken [298]
"I'll follow thee!" [299]
Join or Die [304]
Boston Massacre Coffins [306]
A Militia Drill in Massachusetts in 1832 [308]
Fight in Congress between Lyon and Griswold [312]
The Gerry-mander [316]
Thomas Nast [318]
Wholesale and Retail [319]
The Brains of the Tammany Ring [320]
"What are the wild waves saying?" [321]
Shin-plaster Caricature of General Jackson's War on the United States Bank [322]
City People in a Country Church [323]
"Why don't you take it?" [324]
Popular Caricature of the Secession War [325]
Virginia pausing [326]
Tweedledee and Sweedledum [328]
"Who Stole the People's Money?" [329]
"On to Richmond!" [330]
Christmas-time.—Won at a Turkey Raffle [331]
"He cometh not, she said" [332]

Pigmy Pugilists—from Pompeii.

CARICATURE AND COMIC ART.

CHAPTER I.
AMONG THE ROMANS.

Much as the ancients differed from ourselves in other particulars, they certainly laughed at one another just as we do, for precisely the same reasons, and employed every art, device, and implement of ridicule which is known to us.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CARICATURE AND COMIC ART.

CHAPTER I.AMONG THE ROMANS.

CHAPTER I.
AMONG THE ROMANS.