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The Penny Illustrated Paper, under the guidance of the son of the editor of the Illustrated London News, has secured a well-merited popularity with every class . It has practically no rival. It sells in its hundreds of thousands weekly, and is impartial in its pictorial delineations of all kinds of matters interesting to the proletariat. Now it is a battle, now a shipwreck; one week there is a batch of Conservative portraits given , another a batch of Liberal. Whatever of interest that takes place during the week and lends itself to treatment in a pen-and-ink sketch is brought before the admiring gaze of the multitude by the Penny Illustrated, whilst the world in general is rallied good-humouredly on its faults and foibles by the editor in the person of the Showman. — Edward G. Salmon, p. 112
Bibliography
Salmon, Edward G. "What the Working Classes Read." The Nineteenth Century, ed. James Knowles. XX (July 1886): 108-17. HathiTrust, from a copy in University of Illinois Library at Urbana - Champaign. Web. 29 May 2025.
Created 29 May 2025