GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. [Illustration: PREFACE. "DE OMNIBUS REBUS ET QUIRUSDAN ALIIS."] PUBLISHED BY TILT & BOGUE, 86, FLEET STREET GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S OMNIBUS. ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL AND WOOD. "De Omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis." EDITED BY LAMAN BLANCHARD, ESQ. LONDON: TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXLII. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS. PAGE "Our Preface" described. My Portrait 1 My last pair of Hessian Boots 8 Epigram 13 Love seeking a Lodging 14 Frank Heartwell; or, Fifty Years Ago, 15, 39, 76, 112, 144, 177, 210, 246, 282. Monument to Napoleon 26 Photographic Phenomena; or, the New School of Portrait Painting 29 Commentary on the New Police Act--Punch _v._ Law 33 Original Poetry, by the late SIR FRETFUL PLAGIARY, Knt. "Ode to the Human Heart," "On Life et cetera," &c. 35 Love has Legs 52 Bernard Cavanagh, the Irish Cameleon 53 The Ass on the Ladder 54 Omnibus Chat 59 Scene near Hogsnorton 61 Chancery Lane Enigma ib. Sonnets to Macready 63 Large Order to a Hom[oe]opathic Apothecary, &c. 64 "My Vote and Interest." A Communication from Mr. Simpleton Schemer, of Doltford Lodge, Crooksley 65 The Census 72 Love's Masquerading 75 The Livery--Out of London 89 Omnibus Chat 92 Legend of Van Diemen's Land 92 The Girl and the Philosopher 94 The Grave of the Suicide (who thought better of it). ib. A Rigid Sense of Duty 95 Frights 97 A Peep into a Leg-of-Beef Shop 100 A Few Notes on Unpaid Letters 102 First Discovery of Van Demon's Land 104