132 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



extracts from the last-named. In Society of 

 June 18th, 1881, in an illustrated article making 

 fun of some of the pictures in the Roj^al Academy, 

 Wallis Mackay, in " taking-off " No. 322, has a 

 sketch caricaturing a large painting presumably 

 showing " Galileo before the Inquisition," and 

 representing Tegetmeier kneeling before the Com- 

 mittee. I give a reduced reproduction of the 

 illustration, which was accompanied by the fol- 

 lowing letterpress : " Here you may observe that 

 great and good man Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier before 

 the Committee of the Savage Club. It may not 

 generally be known that the Savage Club is an 

 institution for the suppression of art, science, and 

 the drama, where groups of men as prejudiced 

 against science in such matters as ever were 

 the crimson - cowled Inquisitors, who extracted 

 falsehood from Galileo, meet and sit upon (meta- 

 phorically) any person or persons having the 

 daring to propound a new idea. The justly cele- 

 brated Tegetmeier being nothing if not scientific, 

 and mostly that where birds are concerned, has 

 been making efforts to introduce the game of 

 4 Chicken Hazard ' into the Savage Club, and 

 the naturally incensed committee have gathered 

 together those of their number who happen to 

 be in town, and the injudicious pigeon-fancier is 

 reading them the romance of his recantation." 

 Again, the Christmas Number of Society for 1882 

 has in its opening feature, " A Vision of Vanities," 



