The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . Waldeck-Rousseau— Forward, dear friends,look neither to the right nor the left, and we willwin through at last. From Hamoristische Blatter (Berlhi). dition of the French General Staff in a picture showing a fall-ing house of which the occupants, pulling at cross-purposes,were accelerating the downfall. The decision upon Revisionand the dispatching of the Spax to Cayenne to bring Dreyfusback to France was commemorated in London Punch in adignified cartoon called Toward Freedom. Madame laRepublique greeted Dreyfus: Welcome, M. le Capitaine. 3
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . Waldeck-Rousseau— Forward, dear friends,look neither to the right nor the left, and we willwin through at last. From Hamoristische Blatter (Berlhi). dition of the French General Staff in a picture showing a fall-ing house of which the occupants, pulling at cross-purposes,were accelerating the downfall. The decision upon Revisionand the dispatching of the Spax to Cayenne to bring Dreyfusback to France was commemorated in London Punch in adignified cartoon called Toward Freedom. Madame laRepublique greeted Dreyfus: Welcome, M. le Capitaine. 354 CENTURY IN CARICATURE Let me hope I may soon return you your sword. The samephase of the case was more maliciously interpreted byLustige Blatter of Berlin in a cartoon entitled At DevilsIsland, which showed the Master of the Island studyinggrinningly a number of officers whom he held in the hollowof his hand, and saying: They take away one captain fromme: but look here, a whole handful of generals! Oh, afterall, the arrangement is not so AT DEVILS ISLAND. The Master of the Island.—They take away one captainfrom me; but look here, a whole handful of generals! Oh, afterall, the arrangement is not so bad. From Lustige Blatter {Berlin). CHAPTER XXXIII THE MEN OF TO-DAY WITH the Spanish-American War, the AffaireDreyfus in France, and Englands long strug-gle for supremacy in the Transvaal, the periodarbitrarily chosen as the scope of this book comes to a bril-liant and dramatic close. But the cartoonists work is neverdone. Nimble pencils are still busy, as in the days of Row-landson and Gillray, in recording and in influencing the trendof history. And although, now and again during the pastcentury, there has been some individual cartoonist whosework has stood out more boldly and prominently than thework of any one of our contemporaries in Europe or in thiscountry stands out to-day, there has never been a time in thewhole history of comic art when Caricature has held such
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