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Notes
1: "Naples and the Campagna Felice." In a Series of Letters addressed to a Friend in England, in 1802, p. 104.
2: "A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians," by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, 2 vols., Harper & Brothers, 1854.
3: "The Champagne Country," p. 34, by Robert Tomes, London, 1867.
4: Quoted in Champfleury, p. 7, from "Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum," vol. xxvii., p. 323.
5: "Gog and Magog: the Giants in Guildhall," by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., London, 1859.
6: "Essai sur les Dances des Morts," vol. i., p. 151, par E. H. Langlois, Paris, 1852.
7: "History of Crime in England," vol. i., by Luke Owen Pike, London, 1873.
8: From "A Treatise on Wood-engraving," p. 268, by Jackson and Chatto, London, 1866.
9: "History of Sign-boards," p. 319, by Larwood and Hotten, London.
10: "History of Crime in England," p. 248, by L. O. Pike, London, 1873.
11: From "A History of Caricature," p. 254, by Thomas Wright, London, 1864.
12: From "Holbein and his Time," p. 241-243, by Alfred Woltmann; translated by F. E. Bunnett, London, 1872.
13: From "Musée de la Caricature en France," Paris, 1834.
14: "Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum," Division I., vol. i., p. 2. London, 1870.
15: From "Malcolm's Caricaturing," plate 2, and p. 23. See, also, "Catalogue of the Prints and Drawings in the British Museum," Division I., vol. ii., p. 177.
16: From Malcolm, who copied it from the original in the British Museum. See Malcolm's "Caricaturing," plate 22.
17: From Chatto's "Origin and History of Playing Cards," p. 131, London, 1848.
18: "Law, son Système et son Époque," p. 2, par P. A. Cochut, Paris, 1853.
19: "Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum," Division I., vol. ii., p. 566.
20: "Hogarth's Works," frontispiece to vol. iii., by Ireland and Nichols.
21: Thomas Wright, "Caricature History of the Georges," p. 128.
22: Champfleury, "Histoire de la Caricature sous la République," etc., p. 5.
23: Champfleury, "Histoire de la Caricature sous la République," p. 81.
24: "Gavarni, l'Homme et l'Œuvre," par Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, Paris, 1873.
25: "From History of Sign-boards," by Larwood and Hotten.
26: From Wright's "Caricature History of the Georges," p. 256.
27: "Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India," vol. i., p. 316, by J. A. Dubois, London, 1817.
28: From "The Middle Kingdom," vol. ii., p. 177, by S. W. Williams, New York, 1871.
29: Small feet.
30: White is the color worn as mourning in China.
31: Red is worn on joyful occasions, such as weddings, etc.
32: "Malcolm's Caricaturing," plate iv., fig. 9.
33: "Malcolm's Caricaturing," plate iv., fig. 3.
34: "Tales of Old Japan," vol. ii., p. 138, by A. W. Mitford, Secretary of the British Legation in Japan, London, 1874.
35: "Napoleon at St. Helena," p. 90, by John S. C. Abbott, New York, Harper & Brothers.
36: In the London and Westminster Review for April, 1839, Article II.
37: "Histoire de la Caricature Moderne," p. 100, par Champfleury.
38: "Roba di Roma," p. 283.
39: "In the pit [of the Chatham Theatre, New York] persons pulled off their coats in order to be cool.... Gentlemen keep their hats on in the boxes, and in the pit they make themselves in every respect comfortable."—Travels through North America during the Years 1825 and 1826, p. 145, by his Highness Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
40: Only eleven States had accepted the Constitution when this was written.
Notes
Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.