English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.

CHAPTER I.

_OF THE ENGLISH CARICATURE AND ITS DECAY._

DEFINITION OF CARICATURE

If you turn to the word "_caricatura_" in your Italian dictionary, it is just possible that you will be gratified by learning that it means "caricature"; but if you refer to the same word in old Dr. Johnson, he will tell you, with the plain, practical common-sense which dis...