John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character

The Project Gutenberg EBook of John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, by William Makepeace Thackeray This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Release Date: May 21, 2006 [EBook #2646] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN LEECH'S PICTURES OF *** Produced by Donald Lainson; David Widger JOHN LEECH'S PICTURES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER By William Makepeace Thackeray * Reprinted from the Quarterly Review, No. 191, Dec. 1854, by permission of Mr. John Murray. We, who can recall the consulship of Plancus, and quite respectable, old- fogyfied times, remember amongst other amusements which we had as children the pictures at which we were permitted to look. There was Boydell's Shakspeare, black and ghastly gallery of murky Opies, glum Northcotes, straddling Fuselis!