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...Provide Artists' Outfits at the Desk. We appreciate the struggling efforts of our Cesares and Colliers and Bud Fishers on the margins of pages and on fly leaves, but it grieves us to see their efforts so "cabin'd, cribb'd, confined". Why shouldn't we furnish such incipient cartoonists with regular drawing books, in the interest of art and freedom...
There are several other prints of interest, one of which is an original drawing of the match between Matthew Houghton and George Shepheard. Cribb vs. Molineaux is a picture of value in showing the interest taken in an early fight. Another good picture is that of John Broughton. It is an excellent example of the type of prize fighter that existed in the 18th century...
...contain fifty sub-divisions,--quotations at random from three plays. These fifty quotations are to be "placed," interpreted, discussed, information supplied as the case may require (vague paraphrases not acceptable), and parallel passages quoted. Among the sub-divisions appear the following: "A man forbid." "The valued file." "Cabin'd cribb'd, confined." "Indent with fears." "Did oppress our rest...