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Cartoon — From the April 1864 issue
Treatise on disease
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Cartoon — From the June 1863 issue
From the collection of A. Levi, Esq.
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Cartoon — From the June 1863 issue
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Cartoon — From the May 1863 issue
Never on exhibition
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Cartoon — From the May 1863 issue
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Editor's drawer — From the September 1862 issue
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Comicalities, original and selected — From the October 1852 issue
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)
Comicalities, original and selected — From the October 1852 issue
“But in thy lineaments I trace / What time shall strengthen, nor efface.” Giaour, 192
By John McLenan (Cartoonist)

Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

Babies prefer to look at attractive people.

A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Nadia Shira Cohen.

