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to its subject, "the Cockaynes " themselves ; that is

to say, Mr. Jerrold sketches "Mrs. Rowe's," an English boarding-house in Paris, with quiet humour, because, as we suppose, he is not striving to be very effective. He wishes to be exceedingly funny when he draws the English family, with the eccentricity of their sayings and doings, and becomes, if we may say so without incurring the penalty of libel, decidedly vulgar, and, for the most, not a little tedious. M. Dore's sketches are clever, with that sort of scratchy caricatured cleverness which the humorous drawing of our neighbours delights in. For our part, we far prefer our own Punch.