THE
Grip Cartoons
VOLS. I. & II.
May, 1873, to May, 1874.
WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION
BY J. W BENGOUGH.
TORONTO:
ROGERS & LARMINIE, 22 ADELAIDE STREET EAST.
1875.
Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, by Rogers & Larminie,
in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
Here, O Public! here they are! You have been clamoring in the most importunateand flattering fashion for a re-issue of the Cartoons of Grip, and outof pure good humour, I have gone to work and re-drawn them for you, because,you must know, these destiny-shaping pictures were not originally engravedupon wood, but were produced by lithography, and in due time each was utterlyerased from the stone to make way for bill-heads and cigar labels. This has beenno light task, but of course my good will towards men, together with the anticipationof being an author and writing an “introduction,” made it a labourof love. Now, the fact of the public request aforesaid will spare me the usualeditorial humiliation of an introductory apology; and I need say nothing hereabout the subject matter of the sketches, as I have written an explanatory note(comprehensive and lucid enough I hope) opposite to each, and, therefore, my prefatoryremarks are complete—with, by the way, a word to the Critics. Dear Critics, I defy youto do your worst. This work, as you know in your heart of hearts, is above criticism.There are no errata to be found in the text, and no false perspective or other defects inthe drawings. If you hit upon anything that may persuade you to the contrary praydon’t write it. Come and see me personally at No. 2 Toronto Street, where I havehung my basket, and every Saturday croak “Never Say Die” to an ever increasingcircle of patrons. But what an ungrateful rook I am to be sure, thus impudentlychattering to those who have shown me nothing but generosity during my career,and to be thus boring the generous Canadian Public who have, with unexampledgoodness, bestowed their favours on
Their humb