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Current History in Caricature. 



"My friends, what is peace? 

 war ? No." 



Is it 



I.<ilil ll:llcl.lllc- 



' Mr. L'hadband. 



The foreign cnrtoons this 

 month are largely devoted to 

 the war in TripoH, although 

 Morocco, with its consequent 

 international rivalries, has not 

 yet quite disappeared from 

 the comic press. 'J'he Chinese 

 revolution, of course, provides 

 very good material for the 

 caricaturist, and the recent 

 indiscretions of the CJernian 

 Crown Prince in the Reich- 

 stag have not been over- 

 looked. The cartoon on 

 p. 572 from a Dutch paper 

 is the best on this subject. 

 At home, the Christmas num- 

 bers of J'linch and Truth 

 provide us with a good deal 

 of merriment. Punch is an 

 excellent number ; especially 

 good is the double l)age of 

 sketches of well-known men 

 in the characters which it is 

 suggested they might assume 

 in accepting invitations to 

 Mr. Punch's Literary Cos- 

 tume Hall. We reproduce 

 two of these to show with 

 what a pretty humour Mr. 

 Bernard Partridge has in- 

 vested his subjects. Tiiith 



" I don't like London." 



surveys the politii:al situation Kaihcr Hernaul Vaugh.in as " llie Private 

 under the title of the Durb- Secretary.'^ 



Arabian Nights, and the cari- 

 cature of the well-known poster' advertising "The Follies" is 

 cleverly and effectively inade to do duty for the exit of Mr. Bailout, 

 while ihe Halsbury Club look on Irom the stage. 



FrVM " Truth" Chriyitnti^ \u>lrUr,'\ 



The Opposition Follies. 

 ^With .i|«.loi;irs 10 Mr. II. C. I'l.-li.wier.^ 



By f'tunbttm of thr frti^riflm-t Kf " fftfi."] 



Overdoing: It 



John Blil.I. : "Is llial llic lot?" 



