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THE FUTURE OF THE CARTOONIST. 



The cartoon is one ot the most potent educative 

 agencies in the world to-day. Its message is so 

 (juickly understood. The eye cannot at a glance 

 seize upon the details of pages of letterpress, but it 

 can take in at a glance the meaning of a picture. 

 Moreover, the cartoon has a knack of appealing to 

 the mind as nothing else of the kind has. The one 

 main idea can be emphasised by the artist in a way 

 that would not be permissible in the author. Seve- 

 ral of the most influential newspapers in the Old 

 World and America regularly publish cartoons on 

 current scK-ial and pclitii-al subjects, but Australasian 

 dallies have not reached that point yet. Caricature 

 and cartoon work is mainly left to the weeklies. It 

 would be a gooi thing if our daily papers took it 

 up, confining themselves to a higher order of work 

 than is mainfest in Australasia now. Much of what 

 is done is of a vicious character, and of so exagge- 

 lated a type that it fails in its intended object, for it 

 creates a pity for the subject. The high-class, subtle 

 cartoon that depicts a current situation in a way 

 that appeals to the imagination, but which does not 

 offend by grossness of conception, like that of Mr. 

 F. C. Gould, of Li^ndon, has yet to be developed 

 here. The illustrations of Mr. J. Campbell Cory, on 

 this page, taken from The Ndu York World, ar<' 

 representative of a deal of the better 

 class of work now being done by Ameri- 

 can artists. They tell their own tales 

 without the necessity of nnv roniiii«Mit. 



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