Excerpt from The Life of Sir John Falstaff: Illustrated by George Cruikshank, With a Biography of the Knight From Authentic Sources
It was a natural thought, then, for a modern humorist, - using the pencil and etching point as his means of expression, -a man whose competence to appreciate and illustrate the arch-humorist, Shakspeare.
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