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Title: The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)

Author: Harry Furniss

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[Illustration: AN ARTISTIC JOKE.

_A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School._]

THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST

BY

HARRY FURNISS

_ILLUSTRATED_

VOLUME II

[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

1902.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

_All rights reserved._

December, 1901.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE ARTISTIC JOKE.

The First Idea--How it was Made--"Fire!"--I am a Somnambulist--My
Workshop--My Business "Partner"--Not by Gainsborough--Lord Leighton--The
Private View--The Catalogue--Sold Out--How the R.A.'s Took It--How a
Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter--A
One-man Show--_Punch's_ Mistake--A Joke within a Joke--My Offer to the
Nation
_pp._ 1--25

CHAPTER IX.

CONFESSIONS OF A COLUMBUS.

The Cause of my Cruise--No Work--The Atlantic Greyhound--Irish
Ship--Irish Doctor--Irish Visitors--Queenstown--A
Surprise--Fiddles--Edward Lloyd--Lib--Chess--The Syren--The American
Pilot--Real and Ideal--Red Tape--Bribery--Liberty--The Floating Flower
Show--The Bouquet--A Bath and a Bishop--"Beastly Healthy"--Entertainment
for Shipwrecked Sailors--Passengers--Superstition.

AMERICA IN A HURRY--Harry Columbus Furniss--The Inky Inquisition--First
Impressions--Trilby--Tempting Offers--Kidnapped--Major
Pond--Sarony--Ice--James B. Brown--Fire!--An Explanation.

WASHINGTON--Mr. French of Nowhere--Sold--Interviewed--The Sporting
Editor--Hot Stuff--The Capitol--Congress--House of Representatives--The
Page Boys--The Agent--Filibuster--Th