"The most humorous drawing I have ever seen was in the Christmas number of the _Pelican_, some few years back, of a parrot with one feather sticking out of its tail--the rest bare--sitting on its perch, and a pot-boy in the background. Below was the inscription: 'Here he comes again. If he pulls another feather out I'll fly away!' It was by an actor, I fancy. For the most humorous artist I should plump for Zim. Zimmerman, who draws for New York _Judge_. About ten years ago his work was, to my mind, always exceedingly humorous." [Illustration: "AN INCIDENT IN THE MIDDLE AGES."--BY LINLEY SAMBOURNE IN "PUNCH." SELECTED BY MR. WILLIAM PARKINSON.] A draughtsman with a keen sense of humour is Mr. William Parkinson. He writes:-- "For real funniness, I think A. B. Frost, the American, is very hard to beat; especially in some of his picture-stories in the last pages of _Scribner_ or the _Century_. I should call his book of drawings, 'The Good-Natured Man and the Bull Calf,' a masterpiece of humour. Linley Sambourne also is a master and an artist too, and some of his drawings for _Punch's_ Almanacks are real masterpieces. 'An Incident in the Middle Ages,' where a poor knight in armour is tormented under his mail shirt by a persistent----Well, the fancy is tickled as much as was the poor knight." [Illustration: An ensign who thought he would wake up another ensign for a lark--But he mistook the tent. FROM THE "GRAPHIC."--BY A. C. CORBOULD. SELECTED BY MR. LOUIS WAIN.] There are not many pictorial comedians with a larger following than Mr. Louis Wain, who tells us:-- "I like one of Corbould's drawings best which appeared in the _Graphic_ of some eighteen years back. A subaltern with a broom over his head was hitting out at a military tent with it where there appeared to be a protuberance. A second picture showed a fat general sitting up in bed rubbing his head and looking furiously mad. (He had had the broom on it.) This drawing has kept me happy through many a gloomy period, and set my own work going again." [Illustration: THE MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT.--OLD MR. WHAT'S-HIS-NAME: "Egad, I don't wonder at moustaches coming into fashion; for--eh? What? By Jove, it does improve one's appearance." BY JOHN LEECH IN "PUNCH'S ALMANACK," 1857. SELECTED BY MR. CHARLES HARRISON.] "With a pretty extensive knowledge of all the Continental and American artists," writes Mr. Charles Harrison, one of the regular contributors to _Punch_, "I think I have derived more amusement from John Leech than anyone else. In certain things he is, and so will ever remain, absolutely unapproachable, and I enclose what I consider one of his funniest efforts. At least, there is no effort in it, which is one of the charms in all Leech's work." _The Country of the Blind._ BY H. G. WELLS.