The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . THE FLYING Journal. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 347. OOM PAUL S FAVORITE PASTIME. From the Wiener Humoristische Blatter. the Honor of the Army, and France was divided into twoangry camps, one had only to glance at the current cartoonsto realize that Dreyfus was, as the late G. W. Steevens calledhim, the most famous man in the world. For a time thegreat personages of the earth were relegated to the back-ground. The monarchs and statesmen of Europe were ofinterest and importance only so far as their careers affectedthat of the
The history of the nineteenth century in caricature . THE FLYING Journal. CENTURY IN CARICATURE 347. OOM PAUL S FAVORITE PASTIME. From the Wiener Humoristische Blatter. the Honor of the Army, and France was divided into twoangry camps, one had only to glance at the current cartoonsto realize that Dreyfus was, as the late G. W. Steevens calledhim, the most famous man in the world. For a time thegreat personages of the earth were relegated to the back-ground. The monarchs and statesmen of Europe were ofinterest and importance only so far as their careers affectedthat of the formerly obscure Jewish officer. Perhaps the most famous of all the admirable cartoonsdealing with IAffaire was the Design for a New FrenchBastile, which was of German origin and which caused thepaper publishing it to be excluded from French territory. Itappeared just after Colonel Henry had cut his throat with arazor in his cell in the Fortress of Vincennes, when suspicionsof collusion were openly expressed, and some went so far asto hint that the prisoners death might be a case of murderand not suicide. The Design
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