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...presume that you consider that the advertisements on pp. 2, 37 and 41 appeal to a higher class of intelligence than George Cruikshank and John Leech...
...such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked down for $6 or so, while Lawrence Gomme paid $3,200 for a collection of 5,000 caricatures in 24 folio volumes, including original drawings by Dowland, Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth...
...named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain, who put out wethered; but Grant in turn was beaten by R. W. Crummack, Lancashire champion. Bombardier Wells, British boxer, qualified for the tournament, won twice before he fell. Cruikshank, Britisher from the Argentine, was eliminated; only Robert Harris of Scotland, Captain of the British Golf team that opposed the U. S. in 1922 and 1923, was left to face K. F. Fradgely who, weakened by a recent illness, unnerved by losing four of the first five holes, went to pieces...
...Tampa, James Barnes, Walter Hagen, John Farrell, Robert Cruikshank, Edward Loos, Gene Sarazen, Joseph Kirkwocd and many another famed professional golfer competed in the Florida Open Championship. Among them Leo Diegel, Washingtonian and Champion of Canada, drove, chipped, putted. On the first two rounds, his performance was competent: his third round, though not brilliant, brought him within one stroke of the leader- Barnes. The golfers set out on the fourth round, attended by a great gallery which often cheered the. admirable shots of Diegel as those of a player who was making a gallant and unlikely attempt at last-round...
...them from their cards, pasted them on the effigies of contemporary actors. They took pains. Often the scenes constructed in the three-sided rooms of the toy theatres were works of subtle art. Artists afterwards famed sometimes got bread by engraving the penny cards, the tuppeny cards-Blake, Flaxman, Cruikshank. Thousands worked at the making of the theatres; now only one man is left who gets his living so-one B. Pollock of London; he is the last. Yet there still remain here and there a few people who cherish the toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre...