Review of reviews and world's work . :^m THE LATE LORD JUSTICE COTTON. CURRENT HISTORY IN CARICATURE. GRIPS EDITOR AND CARTOONIST. WHAT Nast, Keppler, Gillam, and a score of lesserknights of the pencil are to caricature in the Uni-ted States, Bengough, the foinider and editor of the To-ronto Grip, is to that art in Canada. The thirty-eight. MR. J. W. BENGOUGH. half-yearly volumes of his paper constitute the sum totalof all there is or ever has been of distinctly caricaturejournalism in the Dominion. The first number of Grip appeared in May, 18T3. ThePacific Railway scandal, which was cheii the
Review of reviews and world's work . :^m THE LATE LORD JUSTICE COTTON. CURRENT HISTORY IN CARICATURE. GRIPS EDITOR AND CARTOONIST. WHAT Nast, Keppler, Gillam, and a score of lesserknights of the pencil are to caricature in the Uni-ted States, Bengough, the foinider and editor of the To-ronto Grip, is to that art in Canada. The thirty-eight. MR. J. W. BENGOUGH. half-yearly volumes of his paper constitute the sum totalof all there is or ever has been of distinctly caricaturejournalism in the Dominion. The first number of Grip appeared in May, 18T3. ThePacific Railway scandal, which was cheii the political sen-sation of the hour, furnished the aggressive young weeklywith most inviting subject-matter. By its attack uponSir John Macdonald and his party allies, who it will beremembered were charged with venality in the letting ofthe contract to the Pacific Railroad Company, Grip atonce made itself felt in the land, and has never sincefeared to strike at fraud and cori-upticu as they appearedabove the surface of Canadian politics. Many of Ben-goughs cartoons in the early numbers of Grip are amongthe best he has ever made. His grotesque representationof Sir John Macdonald as at once the witness, counsel, andjury of the Royal Commission appointed by that astutepolitician to investigate the Pacific scandal is as famousthroughout t
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