LEECH'S PIINCH DESIGNS.*
Mr. Leech's illustrations to Punch are as familiar as may well be to every one in the pages of Punch himself, and were made even more so by the issue of a first series of them in a collected form like the present on a previous occasion. We then expressed our sense of the vast stock of truth, observation, ease, fun, and good-humour, which is to be found in Mr. Leech's designs, and of the symptoms which turn up every now and-then of a fresh and genial eye for outward nature. If, therefore, we are brief-now, it is not because there is nothing to say, or no good-will for saying it. The mine into which the artist has here dug for the second time will bear the operation again and again without being exhausted ; and each successive "find" will bid fair to call forth more laughter than any other picture-book of the season, with plenty of approbation of the more critical kind to boot. The present volume contains, amidst its innumerable subjects and suggestions, some of the Tom Noddy, Flunkei- atm, and Servantgalism series, with war and sporting incidents, and hits at poultry-msnis, ladies' hats, and dandies' long coats, in abundance.
'0 Pictures of Life and Character. By Tohn Leech. From the Collection of Mr. Punch. Second Series. Published by Bradbury and Evans.
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