Chapter VII: 219

Revival of Wood-engraving by Thomas Bewick--The _Observer_
started, 1791--The _Times_ an Illustrated Paper--Illustrations of
News in the _Observer_--St. Helena and Napoleon Bonaparte--Abraham
Thornton and the 'Assize of Battle'--Mr. William Clement and
Illustrated Journalism--The Cato Street Conspiracy--Trial of Queen
Caroline--The House of Commons in 1821--Coronation of George
IV.--Royal Visits to Ireland and Scotland--Murder of Mr.
Weare--Illustrations of the Murder in the _Morning Chronicle_, the
_Observer_, and the _Englishman_--_Bell's Life in
London_--Prize-Fight at Warwick--Liston as 'Paul Pry'--'Gallery of
Comicalities,' &c.--_Pierce Egan's Life in London_--Death of the
Duke of York--Death of Mr. Canning--Opening of Hammersmith Bridge,
1827--Mr. Gurney's Steam Coach--The Thames Tunnel--The Murder in
the Red Barn--The Siamese Twins--Death of George IV.--Opening of
New London Bridge, 1831--Coronation of William IV. and Queen
Adelaide--Fieschi's Infernal Machine--Funeral of William
IV.--Queen Victoria's First Visit to the City--Coronation and
Marriage of the Queen--Christening of the Prince of Wales--The
_Weekly Chronicle_--The Greenacre Murder--Mr. Cocking and his
Parachute--The Courtney Riots at Canterbury--Burning of the Tower
of London, 1841--The _Sunday Times_--Burning of the Houses of
Parliament, 1834--The _Champion_--The _Weekly Herald_--The
_Magnet_--Removing the Body of Napoleon I.--The _Penny
Magazine_--Charles Knight--Humorous Journalism of the Victorian
Era.

CHAPTER VIII 284

The _Illustrated London News_--The Early Numbers--The Burning of
Hamburg--Facetious Advertisements--Bal Masque at Buckingham
Palace--Attempted Assassination of the Queen--The Queen's First
Trip by Railway--First Royal Visit to Scotland--Political
Portraits--R. Cobden--Lord John Russell--Benjamin Disraeli--The
French Revolution, 1848--The Great Exhibition, 1851--The Crimean
War--Coloured Pictures--Christmas Numbers--Herbert Ingram--The
_Pictorial Times_--Other Illustrated Journals.

CHAPTER IX 315

How an Illustrated Newspaper is
Produced--Wood-Engraving--Boxwood--Blocks for Illustrated
Newspapers--Rapid Sketching--Drawing on the Block--Method of
Dividing the Block for Engraving--Electrotyping--Development of
the Printing Machine--Printing Woodcuts--Machinery for Folding
Newspapers--Special Artists--Their Dangers and Difficulties--Their
Adventures in War and Peace.

CHAPTER X 355

Artists who have assisted in founding the Pictorial Press--Sir
John Gilbert, R.A., G. H. Thomas, and others--Wood-Engraving and
its Connexion with the Pictorial Press--Other Methods of producing
Illustrations--Wood-Engraving in England before and after Bewick's
time--Its wide Diffusion owing to the kindred Art of Printing--The
resources of the Art developed by Pictorial
Newspapers--Conclusion. Newspapers a Necessity of Civilised
Life--The _Acta Diurna_ of the Romans--Early Newspapers in Venice,
Germany, and the Low Countries--List of Illustrated Newspapers
published Abroad.

THE PICTORIAL PRESS: ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.