| Show LIBELS ON SHERI SHERIDAN DAri THIS whole country has rung with praises of gallant phil sheridan and the press without regard to party or creed has endeavored to do the dead hero justice but bat the wretched wood cuts accompanying the eulogies some ot of them publish purporting to be pictures of the departed soldier are most disgusting libels and look like delibe rate raie contradictions of the letter press panegyrics they are intended to embellish some seme of them bear a faint re semblance to sheridan while others are worse than caricatures patent inside papers come with blotched and blurred and blackened I 1 portraits I 1 that are a disgrace to the artist and shameful to the firms that print them it is time that journals with any claim to respectability cease to patronize these claisy ugly cuts of public men and either secure something like a decent portrait or drop the pictorial innovation that disfigures so many newspapers altogether it is often a burlesque on OB art and an aa offence offense instead of a compliment to the persons supposed to be represented as well as a gross deception of the public |
