Like the worthy who figures below, there is such a choice of pleasures here, that we are puzzled with which to begin.
The Cruikshank collector will recognizes this old friend as
coming from the late Mr Clark's excellent work, ' Three
Courses and a Dessert.' The work was published at a time when
the rage for comic stories was not so great as it since has been,
and Messrs Clark and Cruikshank only sold their hundreds
where Messrs Dickens and Phiz dispose of their thousands. But
if our recommendation can in any way influence the reader, we
would enjoin him to have a copy of the ' Three Courses ' that
contains some of the best designs of our artist, and some of the
most amusing tales in our language. The invention of the pictures, for which Mr Clark
takes credit to himself, says a great
deal for his wit and fancy. Can we, for instance, praise too
highly the man who invented this wonderful oyster ?
