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A BOOK OF
DRAWINGS
BY
H. M.
BATEMAN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
G. K.
CHESTERTON
METHUEN &
CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.G.
LONDON
First Published in
1921
INTRODUCTION
IT
Rabelais or Swift
owes much
It
art.
satire
The
in real things.
before
sometimes
is
but
society
For that
to be ridiculed.
modern
riot of ridiculing
a sanity
Mr. Bateman
is
modern
is
said
we have no
that
mocked
to
society
and Swift's wildest fancies can be seen more clearly against the background of
if
deserved rather to
it
was the
it
Mad Tea
Dormouse
And
now-a-days.
Bateman
is
is
at
there
is
tendency, in
Otherwise,
fantastic.
caricature the
Now
politicians.
Hence
manner, will grow
caricatures.
it
which the
himselt
of Mr.
talent
to
grow
facts.
the
caricaturists
found that
They
Queen
to
satire
were supposed
will probably be
more
when
epoch
Victorian
it
up
satirist finds
Mad
Abbey
Party.
like Alice,
That
stiffly
a real
at
be called Nightmare
What
tea.
all
our ablest
farcical,
to
own
artists, in this
are
social philosophers.
is
a delightful design
would be
if a
hotel.
man
in
It
is
a hotel
who
to
fill
book representing
a fountain-pen
filled
But
exceedingly funny.
were allowed
in this
it is
with
not so funny as
forty fountain-pens
it
and ten
large bottles with ink, but were strictly forbidden ever to dip his pen in the ink,
It
would be funnier
ink.
Yet that
is
him
moment
still
if
to take a pen-full,
literally
were
called a
him
to take a
A man
amount he wants.
He
of his wants.
a bottle of ink
But he
is
much
bigger than
is
Now
a pen.
you cannot
refute
what
Why
is
mouse when
any
it
is
more than
is
is
satirise
satirise
You cannot
is
but he
is
spins
.''"
can
why
it
it
than a liqueur
bottles of gin
But
man
can
stampede of stout
this very
And
spins.
which the
thing,
who
of the politician
might draw
artist
And
like
as a lark,
It is
beyond the
last visions
Again,
am
of economy, even
strictly
do not
of
draw
on the average
man
at
Mr. Bateman's
man
fantasy.
much more
him match-boxes
Or
call
But
reasonable
and win the heavenly palm and crown, towards which that flaming
upon
in itself a
regulations.
fection,
was
at least that
in this case to a
Matches were
rational.
any time
if it led
But
citizen, in order to
piled
up
to the skies,
in toppling towers
much
is
very
much
his
lips
full
own, he were
of a very
;
and pyramids,
little
while the
boy
regulation.
London was
lest
street, I
draw
to
would be
a literally
and rigidly
realistic
he
need
sirens,
Well,
picture of a real
as
much
as at
officials
men
make
did
actually
anxious
disturb us
lest
and perhaps
felt,
a regulation that
still
is
felt,
lions
become
Bateman
is
to the
it.
in the rapids,
is
always possessed
any
at
to.
But
in
if
rate
fresher,
it,
for the
in
know now,
in
company with
man who
let
to reproduce the
is
Sporting
&
defines
to go.
at last,
And most
so far as
where we
of
knowing
are really
if it is
quite
God,
CHESTERTON
He has
it,
all
one sense a
exaggerating
we
in
For permission
Punch"
and
G. K.
kindnesses from
the Editors of
Hill.
go there
was
is
going
Ludgate
It is a telescopic satire, at
itself
very typical.
It
freer element
like
to extremes
a burden,
shrill notes
for a taxi-cab
Illustrated
Illustratd
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CONTENTS
page
Two's Company
4
5
8
9
10
-II
11
-III
12
-IV
13
14
Mexicans at Play
15
16
17
19
Force of Habit
Steadiness on Parade
20
They
WOULD
21
have it! I
22
23
25
Brother Brushes I
28
27
29
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33
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35
36
37
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49
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53
54
55
Politician
50
La Vache a L'Espionage I
57
58
59
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II
One Up!
62
65
66
67
68
Naval Disclosures
The Power of the Human Eye
Economy in Matches
69
71
72
73
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