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the scramble for Africa. In the first the lion, not 

 caricatured, is being coaxed by the German on one 

 hand, and stirred up by Mr. Stanley on the other. 

 In the two last the fox, disguised in a shovel-hat, 

 umbrella, and " pantoffeln," is the hero. In one he 

 addresses the lion with a budget of anti-slavery 

 papers : " You, that so nople are so strong let us 

 in this so holy crusade together join ! " He is a real 

 fox, infinitely sly. But the foxiness is surpassed in 

 the last cartoon, where the animal, having laid down 

 his pipe and umbrella, has pulled down a placard of 

 " Down with Slavery ! " and is unrolling " Up with 

 Slavery ! " looking over his shoulder the while with 

 a quiet furtiveness more animal than human, which, 

 unaided by the setting, makes this single figure a 

 masterpiece of expression. 



Another political cartoon " made in Germany " 

 naturally represented a different view of the same 

 question. It sold largely in Holland shortly after 

 the Jameson raid, gave huge delight to sober-minded 

 grown-up Hollanders, and even more to the " Young 

 Dutch party " man when he diverted his serious boy- 

 hood by a stroll among the shops of Amsterdam. It 

 represented John Bull as a " land hamster," the greedy 

 field-rat of Germany, who has already stuffed Vene- 

 zuela and Egypt into his cheek-pouches, and has sent 

 his pet dog, Dr. Jameson, into the Transvaal, though 

 a notice at the gate gives warning that trespass is 

 " streng verboden." The dog is just being let out of 

 a trap, labelled " Johannesburg made in Germany," 

 and the hamster, got up as John Bull in a red coat 



