BEACONSFIELD'S CARICATURE OF THACKERAY.
Mccu bitterness has been excited in some quarters by Lord Beaconslield's caricature of Thackeray, whom the great satirist's admirers profess to identify beneath the traits of "St. Barbe," the journalist in " Endymion." The uncomplimentary sketch is thought to be intended as the Ex-Premier's revenge for Thackeray's burlesque novel of Conlingsby. The likeness in the case, as in all other cases, has been purposely distorted so as to leave room for denial by the noble author that any portrait was intended, but everybody recognizes the original. "Gushy," the rival of whom "St. Barbo" is always talking disparagingly, is taken to be Dickens. .Lord Beacouslield has undertaken to throw people off the scent by amalgamating his characters —thus " Vigo" is made to bo a combination of Poole the tailor and of George Hudson, the Sunderland railway kiiiL', once omnipotent iu English society, but who died in comparative obscurity some years ago, This artifice, however, will not save him from severe attacks by the wrathtul Mends of Thackeray and Dickens,— Correspondent New i'ork World.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 7
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