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THK PROPER HEIGHT.
SHE : " What do you think is the proper
height to bol 1 my dreaa up5"
He : "Juat a little over two feet."?
I'un.
Barbrr : ' Vou s.iyvou have been bere
before? I don't aeem t" remember
your face." Victim : " Probably not. It
is all heale.1 up n.-xx
Tln- llterature and art oi tbe
greal Xapoleonic era have Uen
pretty thoroughly exploted .hu
ing the past few yeara, except in
one field -lhe tieatmrtit of the
great Napoleon by the English
caricaturists. Vet that isa moat
interesting phase of the great
rpoch in which the Man <>f l><
linv was the central figun .
\Ve reproiluce on thi- page four
representatlve cartoons bi I-.u._
Hsfa artists at that time. No. i
w.is drawn by Rowlandson. It
waa entitled "The Devil's Dar
ling." H ahowa the popular Eng?
lish conception of Napoleon as a
Satanic genius. No. 2 is by tbe
same artist and w.is originalli
published in water coltmi, en
titled "The Two Kings of Ter
ror " Tothe English jjopular mind in i?oj
*?,,. ,; _e of this cartoon) Napoleon wa*
,'?,m- '; a monsterof carnage and cruelt>.
I Napoleon cartoon by Thomas Rowland
so!li iSo5*-"The Devil l Darling."
TURKISH SOLDIERS ON GUARD AT CONSTANTINOPLE QUAY
SIMCB IheSultan of Turkey was rudely awakened to the factthatthc very retention
of tbe crown tbat sits ao beavily upon his head ilepended upon lhe ahility of his
nivruiidons to ln.iintain order, at leaat in Conatantinople. lhe position of the poi"*
aiidsoldiery who have been enuustcd with the care of kceping the blood-lustful scum
of tbe city witbin bounds
has had nothing of the
rinecure ahout it. Danger
xx;is an.l is aa iiiuch to l.e
appreheii.leil from aea*
xviir.l as from the slums,
an.l the qnaya have tt. bc
Btrongly guarded in con
Bequencc ; for, during the
recent riota?were they
officially adviaed, ?.r .li.l
thev snitT plun.ler from
afar ? ? boat-loada of niur
ilerous pillagers poured
into the city from Aaia
Minor, aml tt.ok .. lead
ina part in the niiiss.i
cres, while the troops looked calmlyon. Now, however. the conditions for lhe
nonce. at all eventa-are changed, and ahould any other robber banda attempt anex
eursion thej will meet with a very differentrecepUon from tlu- aoldiery on R-*-"1- ?!u'
ioteteating illustration ahowing tbe Sultan's watch doga on guard wasaketchtd by a
I ondon Graphic artist and 1ns task was .... easy one. The Turki are ,-. suspictous people
and firmly believe that the man who painU or draws the hnman face or form will be re
qnired to furniah his pictorial presentment after his death with ? 100I.
KNGMSH CARICATl'RKS OF THK GRF.AT NAI-OI.F.ON
III. Napoleon cartoon by James Gilray, i*So.-j -"The World'a
Flum-Pud.ling in Danger; State Fpicures Taking Fetit
Supper."
worthy to rank with death himself. " tbe
lasl great enemy of 111..::,.::;.!.
N<>. * is from the pencil '?! the celelrra
ted Jamea Gilray. It '-x-.s entitled, " Flum
Puddingin Danger -State Kpicur. sTaking
Petit S:i;.i.er." Gilray's i lea of the situa
tion (1805) was that Kurope was a '.ig
II. Napoleon cartoon by Thomaa Row
landson, 1805?"The Two Kings of
Tenor."
plum pudding, with Napoleon on the one
side <>f it an.l Nelson on the other, com
peting as carvers for the largeal slices of it.
Xo. 4 is another > f I'.ilrai 'a pro
?luctioita, aud one ".?' Ir.s CKirsest.
lt shows John Bull c irrying the
beadof Napoleon alofton a pitch
fork, freah from lhe exctmtioncr's
block. This gory cartoon w.is en
titteil : " Napoleon, Forty-Eight
H"t.rs After 1.1. 'l.n.. iu Eng?
land." From tbe mouth "t" John
Bull in tln- original cartoon wonla
were repreaented ?? - iiiming. which
are too cwrse to Iw here repro
duceil. Among othei t'linga he
w.is r. present-1 assbouti; ?? tothe
dishonored beail of N.i]...:. nn was
this: " Ht* My little II >xu j '
Whatdost think of Johnui Bull
now ? Plundi r old England, ln i ?
Make Freneh slavesofus all, bey?
ete., ete."
Such was tlu- wit and humorof
the Knglish cartoonists who dealt with llie
great Napoleon, They were gtitn jokers.
IV, Napoleon cartoon by James Gilray,
iS. ?5 -? Napoleon 48 houra after land
ing in England."