Eemeir of rcmews, l/f,/lS. 



OO 



HISTORY OF THE MONTH IN 



CARICATURE. 



Oh, wad some Power the giftie gie us 

 To see oursels as ithers see us. Ihinis 



Some of the cleverest cartoons of the 

 month will be found m the leadmg 

 articles, and in the Progress, " Hop " 

 has excelled himself m his skit upon 

 the laying of the foundation stone at 

 Canberra, whilst Norman Lindsay's 

 rather unexpected attitude towards the 

 Suffragette agitation in England is skil- 

 ful 1}- portrayed. 



As has been the case during the last 

 few months, there is little else in the 

 Continental papers except cartoons 

 dealing with the Balkan war. One of 

 the best of these appeared in Kladdeia- 

 datsch forecasting what has actually 

 happened at Adrianople. Dcr WaJne 

 Jacob was not so far-sighted in its 

 variation of " First catch your Goose." 

 IJlk cleverly hits off the attitude ot 

 Austria and Italy t(iwards Servia's 

 " little window," and towards each 

 other. 



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Kladdfiadatiii /i.] 



THE DEAF MAN 



[Berlin. 



7.V/- 11(1 ;mx' Jacob.] [Stuttgart. 



THE TURK ANI> THE BAl.KAX STATES. 



In order to take possession of what you have 



inlierited from your fathers you must 



tirsl win it. 



The conference of Ambassadors in 

 London has been made the butt of al- 

 most e\er}' cartoonist in Europe. Le 

 Cri de Fans is t\'i-)ical of the rest. Pas- 

 qu'ino, copying Verestchagin's famous 

 masterpiece perches Diplomacy upon a 

 ghastly heap of skulls, and in another 

 sketch shows Tiu-key grinding a sword 

 for his own destruction. 



It is curious to note the different st\-le 

 employed in their drawings by the 

 l^uro]")ean cartoonists on the one side, 

 and the American on the other. The 



