or, and to take over the same as a
going concern.

These productions have been in continual flow for many years past,
and are too well known to need any assurance of the possibility of
a failure of supply. It is therefore with the utmost confidence
that this sure and certain investment is now offered to the public
with an absolute guarantee of a percentage for Fifteen Years of
Forty-five per cent.

Mr. Furniss can be seen at work with the regularity of a threshing
machine and the variety of a kaleidoscope any day from 8 o'c. a.m.
to 8 o'c. p.m. on presentation of visiting card.

BANKERS,
Close, Gatherum & Co., Lombard Street.

SOLICITORS,
Black, White & Co., Tube Court.

SECRETARY, _pro tem._
Earl M----,
Arrystone Grange.

_The Subscription List will close on or before Monday, April 1st,
1887._

* * * * *

Messrs. C. White & Greyon Grey invite subscriptions for the
undermentioned Share Capital and Debentures of the

HARRY FURNISS PARODY CARTOON COMPANY
(Unlimited).

Incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1862 and 1883.

Share Capital L4,000,000.

Divided as follows:

450,000 Ordinary Shares of L5 each L2,250,000
175,000 7 p.c. Cumulative Preference Shares
of L10 each 1,750,000

DIRECTORS.

Chairman: H. V---- W----, Esq., Regent Street, photographer.
Sir John S---- V----, Kt., Pine Court, Kent.
H---- F----, Esq., Draughtsman and Designer, 45, Drury Lane.

HARRY FURNISS, ESQ., R.R.A., R.R.I., &c.,
will join the Board as Managing Director on allotment.

A JOKE WITHIN A JOKE.

[Illustration]

A showman, particularly with some attraction of the passing hour, must
"boom his show for all it's worth," as the Americans say; so I "boomed"
my "Artistic Joke" with an advertising joke, and at the same time
parodied another branch of art--the art of advertising the artists, by a
special number of a magazine devoted to the work of an Academician. The
special numbers, generally published at Christmas, are familiar and
interesting to us all. Still, from any point of view they are fair game.
They are of course merely non-critical, eulogistic accounts of the
artist and his work. So

"_How he Did It--The Story of my 'Artistic Joke,'_" d