The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . HORATIUS CLEVELAND AT THE New York Life. found their way to the public through the medium of Londonprint shops, were long ago replaced by the weekly comicpapers, while to-day these in turn find formidable rivals inthe cartoons which have become a feature of most of the lead- 282 CENTURY IN CARICATURE ing daily journals. The celerity with which a caricature isnow conceived and executed, thanks to the modern mechan-ical improvements and the prevailing spirit of alertness,makes it possible for the cartoonist to keep pace with then
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . HORATIUS CLEVELAND AT THE New York Life. found their way to the public through the medium of Londonprint shops, were long ago replaced by the weekly comicpapers, while to-day these in turn find formidable rivals inthe cartoons which have become a feature of most of the lead- 282 CENTURY IN CARICATURE ing daily journals. The celerity with which a caricature isnow conceived and executed, thanks to the modern mechan-ical improvements and the prevailing spirit of alertness,makes it possible for the cartoonist to keep pace with thenews of the day, to seize upon the latest political blunder, thesocial fad of the moment, and hit it off with a stroke of in-cisive irony, without fear that it will be forgotten before the. BERNARD GILLAM OF JUDGE. drawing can appear in print. The consequences of all thismodern haste and enterprise are not wholly talent is often wasted upon mediocre ideas under thecompulsion of producing a daily cartoon, and again a reallybrilliant conception is marred by overhaste in execution, alack of artistic finish in the detail. Besides, the tendency of alarge part of contemporary cartoons is toward the local and CENTURY IN CARICATURE 283
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