_The New Society Craze_

_A Pictorial Puzzle_

_Refinements of Modern Speech_

_"Reading without Tears"_

_The Height of Impropriety_

_Things one would wish to have expressed differently_




SOCIAL PICTORIAL SATIRE


It is my purpose to speak of the craft to which I have devoted the
best years of my life, the craft of portraying, by means of little
pen-and-ink strokes, lines, and scratches, a small portion of the
world in which we live; such social and domestic incidents as lend
themselves to humorous or satirical treatment; the illustrated
criticism of life, of the life of our time and country, in its lighter
aspects.

The fact that I have spent so many years in the practice of this craft
does not of itself, I am well aware, entitle me to lay down the law
about it; the mere exercise of an art so patent to all, so easily