The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . TO TH-E DEATH. toon entitled The Temptation. Bryan in the form of ahuge angel of darkness has taken the farmer to the top of ahigh mountain to show him the riches of the world. As faras the eye can see stretch oceans and cities and hills and riversand mountains of silver. It is a great pity that so grim and 328 CENTURY IN CARICATURE powerful a cartoon should have been marred by that displayof bad taste which has been too frequent in the history ofcaricature. The caricature produced by the campaign between and Mr. Bryan in 1900 o
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . TO TH-E DEATH. toon entitled The Temptation. Bryan in the form of ahuge angel of darkness has taken the farmer to the top of ahigh mountain to show him the riches of the world. As faras the eye can see stretch oceans and cities and hills and riversand mountains of silver. It is a great pity that so grim and 328 CENTURY IN CARICATURE powerful a cartoon should have been marred by that displayof bad taste which has been too frequent in the history ofcaricature. The caricature produced by the campaign between and Mr. Bryan in 1900 offers few, if any, cartoonsmore admirable than that by Mr. Victor Gillam, representing. Don Quixote Bryan meeting disaster in his fight against thefull dinner pail. This cartoon has that literary flavor whichhas been too much lacking in American caricature, and whichraises this particular cartoon far above the average in thesame school. The idea, of course, is based on Don Quixotesdisastrous encounter with the windmill, which that poor crack-brained gentleman took to be a giant. The body of thewindmill is a huge dinner pail and its arms are a crossed knife CENTURY IN CARICATURE 329 and fork. Don Quixote, incased in armor from head tofoot, and mounted on the Democratic donkey with free silverfor a saddle, has tilted against the solid structure withdisastrous results. His lance is shattered, and he and his
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