Excerpts from the Book 'George Cruikshank':

... one sinks or rises in a storm of politics, and in either case it is as good to fall as to rise-to mount a bubble on the crest of the wave, ...
... in a quiet, gentleman-like kind of way. There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart ...
... Mirth and Morality, the mirth being, for the most part, on the side of the designer-the morality, unexceptionable certainly, the author's capital. ...
... old man, his body and mind were enfeebled, and second childishness had come upon him. How often have I bent over him, vainly endeavoring to recall to ...
... bribe say what he did not think, or lend his aid to sneer down anything meritorious, or to praise any thing or person that deserved censure. When he ...
... called Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, which must have a word of notice here, for, although by no means Mr. Cruikshank's best work, his reputation ...
... portfolio in which he had found them. Passing from this painful subject, we come, we regret to state, to a series of prints representing personages ...
... place, the essional dustman, who, having in the enthusiastic exercise of his delightful trade, laid hands upon property not strictly his own, is pursued, ...
... out of a gin-shop on a Sunday morning, is pressing eagerly his suit. Gin has furnished many subjects to Mr. Cruikshank, who labors in his own sound ...
... appears to him to be something almost as ridiculous as in the uniform of the gentleman of the shoulder-knot. Tall life-guardsmen and fierce grenadiers ...
... people in the broken-down chaise roaring after him is as deaf as the post by which he passes. Suppose all the accessories were away, could not one swear ...
... peopled with the most droll, good-natured fiends possible. We have before us Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl, with Cruikshank's designs translated ...
... had a true insight into the character of the little people. They are something like men and women, and yet not flesh and blood they are laughing ...
... but let every reader of this Review fill up the blank according to his own fancy, and on comparing it with the copy purchased by his neighbors, he ...
... this scene the artist has immortalized. We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney character ...
... of Mr. Stubbs, who made his appearance in the Almanac for 1839, had, we think, great merit, although his adventures were somewhat of too tragical ...
... In point of workmanship they are equally good, the manner quite unaffected, the effect produced without any violent contrast, the whole scene evidently ...
... Thames Darrell, the handsome young man of the book, is, in Mr. Cruikshank's portraits of him, no favorite of ours. The lad seems to wish to ...
... gone-abiit, evasit, erupit. Mr. Wild must catch him again if he can. We must not forget to mention Oliver Twist, and Mr. Cruikshank's famous designs ...
... or you starve-Give us fresh fun we have eaten up the old and are hungry. And all this has he been obliged to do-to wring laughter day by day, sometimes, ...