HtoUw Of Reviexcs, SOp/06. 



Current History in Caricature. 



" O wad some power the giftie gie us, 

 To see ourselves as itbers see us." — BURNS. 



Westminster Gazette.} 



The Wrecker. 



Si monumentum requiris circumspice. 



Cartoons played a very important part in the 

 making of history in Britain last month. Indeed, 

 they practically monopolised the 

 British humorous papers. 



Mr. Bernard Partridge has a 

 fine cartoon in Punch representing 

 a miserable old snow man, with a 

 visage that everyone will recog- 

 nise, slowly but surelv melting 

 away in the rays of the rising sun, 

 and bleating the while for " some 

 protection against this sort of 

 thing.'' It is a happy inspiration 

 which hits off the failure of the 

 Tariff Reform propaganda of Mr. 

 Chamberlain. 



There is less about Russia in the 

 Continental papers just now. The 

 cartoonists seem to have exhausted 

 themselves on that topic. Such 

 caricatures as are reproduced from 

 the Continental papers speak for 

 themselves. 



The cartoonist of the Sydney 

 Bulletin is evidently anxious to 



impress upon those in the old 

 country that Australia will con- 

 tinue to look to them for naval 

 protection. Britannia may wade 

 in, however, lor all she is worth. 

 The same authority emphasises the 

 Australian dislike of the Anglo- 

 Japanese alliance, and rebukes 

 Mr. Deakin for his lavish offers of 

 land to anyone who will come and 

 take it. 



The Australasian cartoonists 

 deal with the situation in Britain, 

 the Bulletin representing Mr. Bal- 

 four as having spoken to his elec- 

 tors while bearing on his back the 

 burden of a smiling Chinese. Mel- 

 bourne Bunch has a cartoon on the 

 bomb explosion in a. Melbourne 

 detective's house, the explosion 

 being put down to the fact that 

 this detective is hunting down law- 

 breaking gamblers. Punch's criti- 

 cism is apt and timely. The Vic- 

 torian disasters, fire and railway 

 accidents are treated with the 



humorous hope that they will not add to the feeling 



at home against the Colonies. 



Puck.] 



Second Call for the Peace Congress. 



[New York. 



