Genre:

Short Fiction, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

wdct. [2]

Illustrators:

T Hood

Subjects:

Transcendentalism, Menageries, Invertebrate Zoology, Animal Development

    Mr Doppledick's favourite pipe had a 'portrait of Kant on [its] bowl' and he 'sucked through its tube a sort of transcendental Philosophy which elevated him above all the ills of human life' (8). The illustration 'Travellers Seeing the "Lions"' (facing 12) depicts a group of tourists intently staring at a lion's head which is apparently part of an ornamental fountain. Prejudice grows rapidly and finds plentiful nutriment; like a 'sea polypus it extends its thousand feelers on every side' (14). The illustration '"What Next?" As the Frog Said When his Tail Fell Off' (facing 22) depicts an alarmed-looking frog whose tail has fallen off, sitting on a rock above a pool containing tadpoles.