Chapter VII

Caricatures of George Cruikshank.--"No Plan, no Ambition."--The
Assertion Disproved.--Why George's Caricatures possess so remarkable
an Interest.--"The Scourge."--Lord Sidmouth's Bill to amend the
Toleration Act.--Opposition to the Measure by the
Nonconformists.--George's Satire upon them.--Satire upon the Medical
Profession.--"The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor."--"Fashion."--"The
Loyalists' Magazine."--An Early Satire.--"Meditations amongst the
Tombs."--Other Satires of 1813.--"Little Boney gone to
Pot."--Alexander of Russia and the Duchess of Oldenburg.--The Princess
Caroline.--Joanna Southcott.--The Obnoxious Corn Laws of
1815.--Satires thereon.--Escape of Napoleon.--Outlawed by the
Powers.--Excitement caused by this Event.--George's Satires
thereon.--Napoleon endeavours to Establish Friendly Relations.--Silent
Hostility of Europe.--He Sets out for the Army.--George's Satire
thereon.--Surrender of Bonaparte.--The _Bellerophon_ off the English
Coast.--Other Satires of 1815.--The Regent's Repugnance to
Retrenchment and Reform.--Marriage of the Princess Charlotte.--Satire
on the Purchase of the "Elgin Marbles."--Other Satires of 1816.--John
Bull's Bankruptcy Proceedings.--Remanded for Extravagance.--His
"Schedule."--Seditious Troubles of 1817.--A Satire on the Princess
Caroline.--Death of the Princess Charlotte.--Other Satires of 1817--of
1818.--The "Bank Restriction Note."--Satires of 1819.--Queen Caroline
and other Caricatures of 1820 and 1821.--Death and Funeral of the
Queen.--The Populace force the Procession to go through the City.--The
Military fire on the People.--Alderman Sir William Curtis in Highland
Costume.--Indignation of the King.--Satires on both.--Statue of
Achilles.--Other Caricatures of 1822.--Satires of 1823 and
1824.--Joint Stock Company Mania of 1825.--Undated Satires.--Amazing
value of George Cruikshank's Caricatures.
_pp._ 125-166.

CHAPTER VIII.

George Cruikshank as a Book Illustrator.--Defects and
Excellencies.--Women, Horses, Trees.--"Greenwich Hospital."--Sikes and
the Dog.--Jonathan Wild.--Simon Renard and Winwike.--"Born a Genius
and Born a Dwarf."--Its History.--Randalph and Hilda at
Ranelagh.--Sale of the Shadow.--Sailors Carousing.--Paying off a
Jew.--Simpkin Dancing.--The Last Cab Driver.--Dominie
Sampson.--Dumbiedikes.--Fall of the Leaf.--Taurus.--Libra.--Revolution
at Madame Tussaud's.--Theatrical Fun Dinner.--"Gone!"--Duke of
Marlborough's Boot.--The Two Elves.--Witches' Frolic.--Ghosts.--Jack
o' Lantern.--Devils.--The Gin Shop.--Redgauntlet.--Fagin in the
Condemned Cell.--Murder of Sir Rowland Trenchard.--Xit Wedded to the
Scavenger's Daughter.--Mauger Sharpening his Axe.--Massacre at
Tullabogue, etc.--His Genius.
_pp._ 167-188.

CHAPTER IX.

The Sleep of Thirty Years.--Causes of George Cruikshank's Decadence
Insufficiently Understood.--Professor Bates' Theory.--Charles
Dickens's Nervousness (?).--Why Cruikshank was Unfitted to Illustrate
his Novels.--The Rejected Illustration to Oliver Twist.--Quarrel with
Bentley.--Guy Fawkes Illustrations.--"Ainsworth's Magazine."--Progress
of the Cruikshank _versus_ Bentley Campaign.--Cruikshank's Declaration
of War.--His Tactics.--"Our Library Table."--Quarrel with Harrison
Ainsworth.--Cruikshank's Claim to be Originator of Two of his Stories
Considered.--A word for Harrison Ainsworth.--Popularity and Success of
his Novels.--Charles Lever's "Arthur O'Leary."--Cruikshank's final
Leap in the Dark.--Its Fatal Consequences.--Crusade against
Drink.--"Worship of Bacchus."--His Work Falls away.--Thirty Years of
Artistic Sterility.--Fairy Stories turned into Temperance
Tracts.--Forgotten!

_pp._ 189-207.

CHAPTER X.

Birth of Robert Seymour.--Starts as a Painter in Oils.--Death of
George IV.--His Contemptible Character.--Sale of his Wardrobe.--Order
for General Mourning.--"The Adelaide Mill."--Revolution of
1830.--Dismissal of the German Band.--St. John Long the
Quack.--Administering an Oath.--The "Humorous Sketches."--"Book of
Christmas."--"New Readings of Old Authors."--"Figaro in London."--A
Beckett's Editorial Amenities.--Feud between him and Seymour.--Seymour
Caricatures A Beckett.--"Figaro" passes into the hands of
Mayhew.--Re-engagement of Seymour.--Origin of the "Pickwick
Papers."--The Rejected Etching.--Suicide of Seymour.--His Claim to be
the "Inventor" of "Pickwick" considered.
_pp._ 208-234.