The Tomahawk Volume 1; A Saturday Journal of Satire (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...and--(pull the string)--see them now, how bitterly they hate one another--how they walk two and two, conversing disparagingly of one another's performances. See how like a set of disappointed men they dawdle away. Look well at them and answer this: Would it not appear that these men are so conscious of their own pitiful weakness--are so fearful of their own small powers, that they dare not meet and brave the world singly and unaided?--that although hating one another in their heart of hearts, they must band themselves together for their own protection--for their own existence? Would it not seem that we live in a degenerate age, when it is necessary for "scholars" and "gentlemen" to enter a Trade Union to protect themselves from the attacks of gentlemen and scholars, attacks that, i were it not for the shielding combination, would be annihilating? And i (pull the string) is it not strange, that with all the accomplished essayists now in London, with all the real scholars and real gentlemen connected with English journalism living among us, it has been left to a young paper like the Tomahawk to strike the first blow at that system of intimidation that has made deep thinkers and great writers accept pennya-liners as authors, and consent to regard in the light of a literary club, an establishment that by its right name would be known merely as the House-of-Call for Grub Street? MUSIC, We hail with sincere satisfaction the recommencement of the Crystal j Palace Saturday Concerts, albeit it betokens the sad truth that summer is waning, and autumn at hand; but we do not care for the music which takes place at the Palace during the summer months, consisting, j as it does for the most part, of Operatic Concerts, and bearing, as is not j unfrequen...