CHAPTER III 



ANTICIPATED REVOLUTION 



Old-time Suggestions of Bolshevism Sf Stephen's Review and Phil 

 May Lord Salisbury to be burned in Trafalgar Square The 

 Duke of Westminster destitute Punished because they paid 

 Other Dukes in Trouble The Popular Poll Frank Slavin as 

 Serjeant-at-Arms 



JAM tempted now to pass through another stage of 

 St Stephens Review, if only to show some more 

 Phil May sketches, and also to indicate rather closely 

 the apprehensions felt in 1889 of the Bolshevist pro- 

 clivities which have developed in these later days, though 

 ineffectually thank goodness ! in our own country. 

 Prophets have always been notoriously bad judges 

 of time intervals, and in producing the St Stephens 

 Review Christmas number of 1889, entitled " Crime," 

 and purporting to describe the coming Revolution, I 

 anticipated the occurrence of the disaster too early. But 

 as told and illustrated in that Christmas number, it is 

 very much what we now know has happened in Russia. 

 All people of any importance were represented as 

 having been incarcerated. A Phil May sketch re- 

 presents Lord Salisbury being burned at the stake in 

 Trafalgar Square, and the big cartoon included all the 

 eminent men of the day doing prison exercise under 

 the supervision of warders, and, of course, in prison garb. 

 Charles Wood, who was then under a cloud, which 

 has for many years been lifted, I am glad to say, was 

 cast for the Bow Street Magistrate, under the supposed 

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