Figure 1.--This was one of the Lewis Baumer illustrations from "The Lighter Side of School Life". The caption was "The rank and file". Image courtest of the AM collection.

Baumer was an established illustrator and cartoonist with a consideranle reputation. He was born in St. John's Wood, London during 1870. He was educated at South Kensington School and the Royal Academy School. His early work consisted primarily on water-color, pastel and oil portraits. Baumer during World War I contributed his destinctive illustrations to several periodical magazines, usualy as often quite biting satirical cartoons. The most important publicztion he contributed to was Punch Magazine. He also contributed to several lesser known publications, including The Bystander, The Idler, The Illustrated Bits, The London Magazine, The Strand Magazine and The Royal Magazine. Baumer also illustrated several books. These included The Perfect Gentleman (1912), Vanity Fair (1913), The Complete Sportsman (1914), The Shallow End (1924), Silver and Gold (1925) and Bright Young Things (1928). We are unsure to what extent he illustrated children's books or school stories. We do know of one children's book that he helped illustrate, E. Nesbit's New Treasure Seekers. The only school book that we know Baumer illustrated was Ian Hay's The Lighter Side of School Life. Ther may well have been more. Baumer died in 1963.

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