The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2

The Confessions of a Caricaturist,
Vol 2
by Harry Furniss

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Title: The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
Author: Harry Furniss
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[Illustration: AN ARTISTIC JOKE.

A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.]

THE CONFESSIONS OF A CARICATURIST
BY
HARRY FURNISS
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
1902.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,
LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
All rights reserved.
December, 1901.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE ARTISTIC JOKE.

The First Idea--How it was Made--"Fire!"--I am a Somnambulist--My
Workshop--My Business "Partner"--Not by Gainsborough--Lord
Leighton--The Private View--The Catalogue--Sold Out--How the
R.A.'s Took It--How a Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne
as a Company Promoter--A One-man Show--Punch's Mistake--A Joke
within a Joke--My Offer to the Nation pp. 1--25
CHAPTER IX.
CONFESSIONS OF A COLUMBUS.
The Cause of my Cruise--No Work--The Atlantic Greyhound--Irish
Ship--Irish Doctor--Irish Visitors--Queenstown--A
Surprise--Fiddles--Edward Lloyd--Lib--Chess--The Syren--The
American Pilot--Real and Ideal--Red Tape--Bribery--Liberty--The
Floating Flower Show--The Bouquet--A Bath and a Bishop--"Beastly
Healthy"--Entertainment for Shipwrecked
Sailors--Passengers--Superstition.
AMERICA IN A HURRY--Harry Columbus Furniss--The Inky
Inquisition--First Impressions--Trilby--Tempting
Offers--Kidnapped--Major Pond--Sarony--Ice--James B.
Brown--Fire!--An Explanation.
WASHINGTON--Mr. French of Nowhere--Sold--Interviewed--The
Sporting Editor--Hot Stuff--The Capitol--Congress--House of
Representatives--The Page Boys--The Agent--Filibuster--The
"Reccard"--A Pandemonium--Interviewing the President.
CHICAGO--The Windy City--Blowers--Niagara--Water and
Wood--Darkness to Light--My Vis-à-Vis--Mr. Punch--My Driver--It
Grows upon Me--Inspiration--Harnessing Niagara--The Three
Sisters--Incline Railway--Captain Webb.
TRAVELLING--Tickets--Thirst--Sancho Panza--Proclaimed
States--"The Amurrican Gurl"--A Lady Interviewer--The English
Girl--A Hair Restorer--Twelfth Night Club Reception at a Ladies'
Club--The Great Presidential Election--Sound Money v. Free

Silver--Slumland--Detective O'Flaherty.
pp. 26--130
CHAPTER X.
AUSTRALIA.
Quarantined--The Receiver-General of Australia--An Australian
Guide-book--A Death Trap--A Death Story--The New
Chum--Commercial Confessions--Mad
Melbourne--Hydrophobia--Madness--A Land Boom--A Paper
Panic--Ruin.
SYDNEY--The Confessions of a Legislator--Federation--Patrick
Francis Moran.
ADELAIDE--Wanted, a Harbour--Wanted, an
Expression--Zoological--Guinea-pigs--Paradise!--Types--Hell Fire
Jack--The Horse--The Wrong Room! pp. 131--153
CHAPTER XI.
PLATFORM CONFESSIONS.
Lectures and Lecturers--The Boy's Idea--How to Deliver It--The
Professor--The Actors--My First Platform--Smoke--Cards--On the
Table--Nurses--Some Unrehearsed Effects--Dress--A Struggle with a
Shirt--A Struggle with a Bluebottle--Sir William Harcourt Goes
out--My Lanternists Go Out--Chairmen--The Absent Chairman--The
Ideal Chairman--The Political Chairman--The Ignorant
Chairman--Chestnuts--Misunderstood--Advice to Those about to
Lecture--I am Overworked--"'Arry to Harry." pp. 154-189
CHAPTER XII.
MY CONFESSIONS AS A "REFORMER."

Portraiture Past and Present--The National Portrait Gallery
Scandal--Fashionable Portraiture--The Price of an Autograph--Marquis
Tseng--"So That's My Father!"--Sala Attacks Me--My Retort--Du
Maurier's Little Joke--My Speech--What I Said and What I Did Not
Say--Fury of Sala--The Great Six-Toe Trial--Lockwood Serious--My
Little Joke--Nottingham Again--Prince of Journalists--Royal Academy
Antics--An Earnest Confession--My Object--My Lady
Oil--Congratulations--Confirmations--The Tate Gallery--The Proposed
Banquet--The P.R.A. and Modern Art--My Confessions in the Central
Criminal Court--Cricket in the Park--Reform!--All About that
Snake--The Discovery--The Capture--Safe--The
Press--Mystery--Evasive--Experts--I Retaliate--The Westminster
Gazette--The Schoolboy--The Scare--Sensation--Death--Matters
Zoological--Modern Inconveniences--Do Women Fail in Art?--Wanted
a Wife pp. 190-234
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CONFESSIONS OF A DINER.
My FirstCity Dinner--A Minnow against the Stream--Those Table
Plans--Chaos --The City Alderman, Past and Present--Whistler's
Lollipops--Odd Volumes--Exchanging Names--Ye Red Lyon
Clubbe--The Pointed Beard--Baltimore Oysters--The Sound Money
Dinner--To Meet General Boulanger--A Lunch at Washington--No
Speeches.
THE THIRTEEN CLUB--What it was--How it was
Boomed--Gruesome Details--Squint-Eyed Waiters--Superstitious
Absentees--My Reasons for being Present--'Arry of Punch--The Lost
"Vocal" Chords--The Undergraduate and the Undertaker--Model
Speeches--Albert Smith--An Atlantic Contradiction--The White
Horse--The White Feather--Exit 13 pp. 235-271
CHAPTER XIV.
THE CONFESSIONS OF AN EDITOR.

Editors--Publishers--An Offer--Why I Refused it--The Pall Mall
Budget --Lika Joko--The New Budget--The Truth about my
Enterprises-- Au Revoir! pp. 272-280
[Illustration: HARRY FURNISS'S (EGYPTIAN STYLE). From
"Punch."]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
An Artistic Joke. A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School.
Frontispiece.
My Studio during the Progress of "An Artistic Joke" 1
Harry Furniss's Royal Academy 3
Throwing myself into it 5
Fire! 6
The Pictures by R. Macbeth: Potato Gang in the Fens; Twitch-burning
in the Fens; A Flood in the Fens 8
Macbeth in the Fens 9
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy 11
"An Artistic Joke" 15
Mr. Sambourne's Prospectus 18
Cover of "How he did it" 20
Initial "T" 20
My Portrait. Frontispiece for "How he did it" 21

Harry Furniss and his "Lay Figure" 22
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy 25
Initial "I" 26
A "T--Tonic" 27
An Atlantic "Greyhound." 28
The Saloon of the Teutonic. The First Morning at Breakfast 30
At Queenstown--A Reminiscence 33
Bog-Oak Souvenirs 34
The Captain's Table 36
Not up in a Balloon 38
Chess 40
Mr. Lloyd and the Lady. "If you will sing, I