_May 15, 1814._ _Macassar Oil: an oily puff for soft heads._--It is rather a question whether subjects similar to the present, in which some popular nostrum was held up to ridicule, were wholly playful or in part executed to order--a skilful method of indirect puffing much and ingeniously practised in the magazines and other channels of the day. The wondrous fluid Macassar is seen in application. A stout old party has laid off his fool's cap and is seated in an armchair, undergoing a trial of the efficacy of the oil: the perfectly bald head of the subject is a good field for its employment, and the operator--who, by some inconsistency characteristic of vendors of hair restoratives, is quite bereft of hair himself--is sleepily pouring oil from a flask over the broad surface beneath him. A lady has apparently been making a trial of the process, and on consulting the looking-glass she seems amazed to find a bushy head of hair pushing itself straight upwards with amazing vigour. Round the apartment are files of bottles, 'wig oil, one guinea per bottle,' and notices, 'Wonderful discovery: carroty or grey whiskers changed to black, brown, or blue, &c.' _June 14, 1814._ _Miseries of London, or a Surly Hackney Coachman._ _June 20, 1814._ _Rural Sports, or a Pleasant Way of Making Hay._ Published by T. Tegg (16).--In the rear are lasses raking the hay together, and lads are tossing the loads on to the well-filled wains. In the front of the picture is a group of boisterous haymakers of both sexes, who, throwing aside their rakes and forks, are tumbling the hay about by armfuls, rolling one over another in the grass, and sprawling about in picturesque confusion. _July 14, 1814._ _The Rivals._ Published by T. Rowlandson, James Street. (See 1812.) [Illustration: PORTSMOUTH POINT.]