Review of Heviews, 1/6/06. 



Current History in Caricature. 



" O wad some power the giftie gie us, 

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



The cartoons this month are quite above the 

 avL-rage. Although the political foes of the British Go- 

 vernment are hopelessly routed, the cartoonists cannot 

 retrain from firing some playful squibs after them, 

 as a kind of final expression of exultation at victor)-. 

 As it does'nt hurt the dead, it is therefore quite 

 harmless. A veiy clever cartoon of C.-B. (published 

 in another part of this paper), published by Black 

 and White, refers to the demonstration in the Ladies' 

 Gallery. The Daily Chronicle, representing the 

 political marriage of Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Bal- 

 four, and the advent of their son, is very amusing. 

 The cartoon showing Mr. Haldane' performing the 

 difficult feat of riding at unce the two horses, " Effi- 

 ciency " and " Economy," is very apt and s'Jggesti\-e. 

 The Tribune's pictjre of Mary and her little lamb 

 is splendid, and the Westminster Gazette's cartoon 

 by F. C. Gould, " A Horrid Change," is so true to 

 lie as to provoke much merriment. The Sontli African 

 Nnvs shows C.-B. as hauling down the pirate's 





flag of the foreign financier in South Africa, and re- 

 placing it with the Union Jack of equal rights. The 

 new discrimination is in favour, not of Boer against 

 Briton, but of English ideas against the greed that 

 knows neither conscience nor country. 



Local cartoons give the Bulletin's idea of the 

 South African muddle in a series of graphic pic- 

 tures. Melbourne Punch depicts an imaginary con- 

 versation between Mr. Deakin and Mr. Watson, but 

 does not hit off the exact situation by any means. 

 It is not conceivable that Mr. Deakin desires the 

 support of the Labour Party simply and solely to 

 keep him in power. The same paper, in another 

 cartoon, rather contradicts itself, representing a kind 

 of alliance between the same two personages for a 

 common object. The Worker represents the Com- 

 monwealth as an old motherly hen in a fi^rment over 

 the problem of converting the product of six eggs 

 into one comprehensive chicken. The work of con- 

 verting the debts into one debt would not, however, 

 be a task so difficult as the cartoon suggests. The 

 Sydney Bulletin suggests that battleship repairs on 

 the Australian station would more than pay for 

 locallv-owned fleet. 



Daily Chronicle.'] 



*A Family Tragedy. 



SON OF THE HOUSE (to Mr. Balfour): "Father, as a re- 

 sponsible person I have come to the conclusion tliat the 

 partner of your choice is not, and never can he. an essential 

 part of our home life." 



SiEPMOTHEH : " llow Very— interesting. Please don't slam 

 the door a" you go out!" 



Westmintter GazHte.'i 



A Dual Responsibility. 



Mr. Haldane has to perform the difficult task of riding 

 the two horses " Efficiency " and " Economy " 



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