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riginality, dwelling not only on the aesthetic but on the essentially pessimistic side of satiric art); _English Caricaturists and Graphic Humorists of the Nineteenth Century_, by Graham Everitt (i.e. William Rodgers Richardson), (4to, London, 1886), (a careful and interesting survey); _La Caricature en Angleterre_, by Augustin Filva (8vo, Paris, 1902), (an able criticism from the point of view of psycho-sociology); _The History of Punch_, by M.H. Spielmann (8vo, London, 1895), (dealing with caricature art of England during the half-century covered by the book); _Magazine of Art_, passim, for biographies of English caricaturists--"Our Graphic Humorists"; _Social Pictorial Satire_, by George du Maurier (12mo, London, 1898); _Les Moeurs et la caricature en France_, by J. Grand-Carteret (8vo, Paris, 1885); _La Caricature et l'humeur francais au XIXe siecle_, by Raoul Deberdt (8vo, Paris); _Les Maitres de la caricature francaise en XIXe siecle_, by Armand Dayot (Paris); _Nos humoristes_, by Ad. Brisson (4to, Paris, 1900); _Les Moeurs et la caricature en Allemagne, &c._, by J. Grand-Carteret (8vo, Paris, 1885). See also biographies of Charles Keene, H. Daumier, John Leech, &c., indicated under those names. (M. H. S.) CARIGARA, a town of the province of Leyte, island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on Carigara Bay, 22 m. W. of Tacloban, the capital. Pop. (1903) 19,488, including that of Capoocan (3106), annexed to Carigara in the same year. Carigara is open to coast trade, exports large quantities of hemp, raises much rice, and manufactures cotton and abaca fabrics. It also has important fisheries. CARIGNANO, a town of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Turin, 11 m. S. by steam tramway from the town of Turin. Pop. (1901) town, 4672, commune, 7104. It has a handsome church (S. Giovanni Battista) erected in 1756-1766 by the architect Benedetto Alfieri di Sostegno (1700-1767), uncle of the poet Alfieri. S. Maria delle Grazie contains the tomb of Bianca Palaeologus, wife of Duke Charles I. of Savoy, at whose court Bayard was brought up. The town passed into the hands of the counts of Savoy in 1418. Carignano was erected by Charles Emmanuel I. of Savoy into a principality as an appanage for his third son, Thomas Francis (1596-1656), whose descendant, Charles Albert, prince of Carignano, became king of Sardinia on the extinction of the elder line of the house of Savoy with th
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