doubtedly is--I had
no idea (as some of my too favourable critics seem to have imagined) of
writing a history of caricature itself. For this task, indeed, I am not
qualified, nor does it in the slightest degree enlist my sympathy.

G. EVERITT.

_11th August, 1893._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Dr. Johnson's definition of the word _Caricatura_.--Francis Grose's
definition.--Modern signification of the word.--Change in the Spirit
of English Caricature during the last Fifty Years.--Its
Causes.--Gillray.--Rowlandson.--Bunbury.--Influence of Gillray and
Rowlandson on their immediate Successors.--Gradual Disappearance of
the Coarseness of the Old Caricaturists.--Change wrought by John
Doyle.--We have now no Caricaturist.--Effect of Wood Engraving on
Caricature.--Hogarth, although a Satirist, not a
Caricaturist.--Gustave Dore misdescribed a Caricaturist.--Absurdity of
comparing him with Cruikshank.--"Etching Moralized."
_pp._ 1-11.

CHAPTER II.

Connection of Gillray and Rowlandson with Nineteenth Century
Caricaturists.--Napoleon Bonaparte.--The Causes of English
Exasperation against him explained.--Sketch of his Policy towards
England.--The "Berlin Decree."--English Caricatures brought to the
notice of Bonaparte.--"A Political Fair."--The "Gallick Storehouse for
English Shipping."--"Spanish Flies, or Boney taking an Immoderate
Dose."--"Boney and his New Wife, or a Quarrel about Nothing."--Birth
of the young King of Rome.--"British Cookery, or Out of the Frying-pan
into the Fire."--"General Frost Shaving Boney."--"Polish Diet with
French Dessert."--"The Corsican Blood-hound beset by the Bears of
Russia." "Nap nearly Nab'd, or a Retreating Jump just in
time."--"Boney Returning from Russia covered with Glory."--"Nap's
Glorious Return."--Rowlandson's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--French
Contemporary Satires.--Gillray's Anti-Bonaparte Caricatures.--His
Libels on Josephine.--Madame Tallien.--Robert Dighton.--Consequences
of a Pinch of Snuff.--Master Betty--Impeachment of Lord
Melville.--Introduction of Gas.--Mary Anne Clarke.--Imbecility and
Death of James Gillray
_pp._ 12-33.

CHAPTER III.

Re-opening of Drury Lane.--Dr. Busby's "Monologue."--"A Buz in a Box,
or the Poet in a Pet."--"Doctors Differ, or Dame Nature against the
College."--Joanna Southcott.--Flight of the Princess
Charlotte.--"Plebeian Spirit, or Coachee and th