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...represent Dickens, there is a copy of the first edition of "Bleak House" and also several letters to his friends. A note from George Cruikshank comments on the cartoons for the Pickwick Papers...
...first letter appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1887, correcting a statement that George Cruikshank, famed caricaturist, was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery -his tomb really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows...
There is an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket Books of the Month. Kate Green way's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
There will be an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket's Books of the Mouth, Kate Greenway's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
...statement by Lawyer Howland S. England of Detroit was also published, indicating that the experiments would follow the ideas of Anthropologist F. G. Cruikshank* of London. The latter's researches have convinced him that offspring capable of reproducing themselves can be obtained by crossing orangoutangs with the yellow race, gorillas with the black race and chimpanzees with the white race, the theory being that the divisions of the anthropoid and human races pair off thus most closely as kindred types...