Review.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 553, 4 November 1867, Page 1

Review.

The Tomahawk — A Saturday Journal of Satire. —No. 15. T. C. iliLCOx, Ltmdoa. We have at length, hy the courtesy of the spirited publisher of this extraordinary periodica!, been favored with a copy of tlie number for Satin day, August 17th, and are now able to form some opinion of a work which has succeeded in causing a seusati m through-tit the whole world. From time to time we have met with ex time's from its columns calculated to give us some idea of its fearless and ■ •u’<!nken manner of exposing “ things is limy are,” which we havf given to mr readers; ami we have also seen carious notices <-f its c nitwits more or less favorable to it. Of late we liml i lint its rein .irks have given offence go s -me that were f memo-t in award;iaj its earlier tiumb'-rs their praise; j uid the somewhat violent criticism (bestowed on it Iris caused the Ivlin.r, in the number before us, to say a lew I words in self-d-femv ; i We have nolimi'.' to c.iaiptaiu of -'Viiiot our | onUtiers of 1;k- l’r. a, if they c!u> ■-> to aboac us, | min it inn In sums fin- truth, 1 n>c. •■ v r aiiyh-asaut, Ita s-virv ur. oT.-alar, liivh or !w, is nut 1;i-:y Uo r.-i.vivc aiuanri' than to ask fur cv: “ treatjufiit at the h:a U of contemporaries, for ill.-Imn-t part, in lce.l, \va have re.'.‘ ■■■■ 1 f.ir r.ioiv | i’r; -n.lly nvocait ioa at t’l -ir !um Sth .a v.e might i'roe looks,l for; hat lli.'v s via .1 -raihi ?.l now

’i> make up fur any lapse in tin- \\uiy oi guod-nature which they may have comm.tied. Misrepr--- mtatum has always boon the favorite weapon otT'm-e who are Caul routed by aa obnoxious trutli aaispokun, or who-; prejudices suddenly r av;vc a rude shock. It is the Ihpaum -a much a iw-a-tlavs to df-gui-e one's real feelings in public, an 1 auv alluaapi la write or even to think the tenth, is sa very rare, that common-p. e-e people stigmatise lear!es-ncss as iiun'ence, tiinl revile sinearitv as scurrility. An-1 this public di-honesty in writers, which steeps lia'ir pens in battery ei 1 degrades tlmir criticlsi.l to smi-eiess adulation, - aieli makes lb uu accept shams as realities ami ja uv down before the stuffed image if its ont-i !r |be oulv gild si, co-exmts, strange (a say, With a l-triv.lv lave far the ilitliiest scandal in private, and ".n.l aup m habit of insimv.it ion w 1.; ■i\ be-natters its victim ev ■'l l art train hcbiad lem cowardly s'l-ller of e, laa-ae.aas be irsay. Ti;e man who will whisper th • vii calumny again-t a pnhh.r eVir.i > er at tb ‘ dun u'-taife, goes In mi ■to It'.s s’, a . an-1 sits ilaua ia write eahtinns al muita'am -a ;.u same per—-i. This may b' very refuiul aaa ie-al, Jlint to n< it aaa ars ignoble au.l ire mber-u-, and biairutlifa' in the Inchest decree. We prefer to i-'rike borl'y an 1 to v r'k ■ a;i -alv ; we prefer las iy Ipri'.ately n flung :- I .>e.• ban we fare -y in pah.:e, Ire.v.l to sav in pubbe no-umg h‘ss taan we d aa l say ‘in private ; an! be the consequences wlt.tr they jinav, we arc re-alve] to adhere to litis principle ; atml we warn all aur readers that in the ’paces oi the Tomahawk all e 'iisar-, nil renin inch,nil liatre.l, ]is O’vnlv not insinuated. W e satiiri/.e, r, .. ib. note. near. Nor will we ii ■ r.--snan-ffe f.ir tie 1 m-aemgs w'aicli those who Jaih j with sc in e>l an-1 pi .y t'ne coy prn-te with ca’.umn.

jnviv s.vk to ;k on our won's or actto'.is. Uur w.v;;)o;i sViU always be employed on the stile ol' •wlnt is •,-ol nnJ true, in the (hm-ViCe of the weal; mi l tine honest, in ileiianee tit" the strong nnJ the dmho'.vst. Bat \vc reeo;-iue,e no l.ov which calls on i.s to snare evii an 1 folly, because they may be hiliin-J !,Mve,.hness. I'inatb, of this let all our |criiies, public or private, assure themselves, that Caillini us all the names which the vocabulary of abuse contains will not ileter ns from our purpose as lone: as Jlnmhn.r ami Hypocrisy bohl the hiyrli place ia the worn! which they do iu the present aye. The Tomahawk is printed on toned paper, an. 1 , fur s at e n ason the abominably u]y old-faced type is used—a 1 type, by the way, which we are sorry to see coat in or more and more into use. It has a full-paged cartoon, on a tinted ground, entitled " Fishing for Coronets,” which is exceedingly well executed, and well illustrates the allegorical sketch of modern society by which it is accompanied. There artseveral capital things in this nuaibei i which we shall transfer to our own , columns ; that which we consider the best is entitled, “ A New National r Gallery.”