The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . URY IN CARICATURE 165 he actually did in Punch. The great tragedies of those fouryears, Gettysburg and Bull Run and the Battle of the Wilder-ness, would have been pictured with the tragic dignity thatstamps his famous cartoon in which he commemorated theassassination of Lincoln. CHAPTER XVIII THE SOUTH SECEDES IN view of what might have been done, it Is somewhatexasperating to look over the actual cartoons of thewar as they have come down to us. Even when aclever idea was evolved none seemed to have the cleverness orthe enterprise to develo
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . URY IN CARICATURE 165 he actually did in Punch. The great tragedies of those fouryears, Gettysburg and Bull Run and the Battle of the Wilder-ness, would have been pictured with the tragic dignity thatstamps his famous cartoon in which he commemorated theassassination of Lincoln. CHAPTER XVIII THE SOUTH SECEDES IN view of what might have been done, it Is somewhatexasperating to look over the actual cartoons of thewar as they have come down to us. Even when aclever idea was evolved none seemed to have the cleverness orthe enterprise to develop it. As all the modern cartoonistsrealize, nothing is more effective than a well-planned is like the constant dropping that wears away the most potent pictorial satire has always been the gradualelaboration of some clever idea—the periodic reappearanceof the same characters in slightly modified environment, likethe successive chapters of a serial story. The public learnto look forward to them, and hail each reappearance with a. renewed burst of enthusiasm. The cartoonists of the CivilWar do not seem to have grasped this idea. A single ex-ample will serve as an illustration. A clever cartoon, en-titled Virginia Pausing, appeared just at the time thatVirginia, the last of the States to secede, joined the Con- 166 CENTURY IN CARICATURE 167 federacy. The several Southern States, represented as youngrats, are gayly scampering off, in the order in which theyseceded, South Carolina heading the procession. Virginia
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