The Century illustrated monthly magazine . BLOW AT THE PRES THE MATCH BETWEEN RATAFOIL AND M. BERRYER. inches and many labors. M. Thiers musthave been dear to the caricaturist, for he be-longed to the type that was easy to do ;it being well known that these gentlemen ap-preciate public characters in direct proportionto their saliency of feature. When faces arereducible to a few telling strokes their wearersare overwhelmed with the honors of publicity;with which, on the other hand, nothing ismore likely to interfere than the possession ofa countenance neatly classical. Daumier hadonly to give M
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . BLOW AT THE PRES THE MATCH BETWEEN RATAFOIL AND M. BERRYER. inches and many labors. M. Thiers musthave been dear to the caricaturist, for he be-longed to the type that was easy to do ;it being well known that these gentlemen ap-preciate public characters in direct proportionto their saliency of feature. When faces arereducible to a few telling strokes their wearersare overwhelmed with the honors of publicity;with which, on the other hand, nothing ismore likely to interfere than the possession ofa countenance neatly classical. Daumier hadonly to give M. Thiers the face of an the stupidity, and the trick was course skill was needed to keep the stu-pidity out and put something else in its place,but that is what caricaturists are meant how well he succeeded the admirable plateof the lively little minister in a new dress —tricked out in the uniform of a general of theFirst Republic — is a sufficient illustration. Thebird of night is not an acute bird, but how
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