New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-26
CARIcITURING NITTONS.


From The LONDON Spectator.
That the subjects should iali To see the accuracy
of sketches uvOwedly Caricatures is ustural-<a
should never recognize our own noses, II CrulE.
shank drew them. though our.iriends wOuld-but
what puzzles us, and has puzzled us for year, %
why such sketches excite 80 much resentment or.
1t ali events, why the resentment should be 81
great and 50 unequally distributed II every
nation were vrOth with It's carca.ursts, we could
understand 1t. We have always supposed that
nation. with unfortunate histories would reseus
satire most and that Is true or the Irish. who get
sayagely angry WITH Punch. aud we're as Wrotl
WIKI Tbackeray Is ever Lord Beaconsheld was;
ana il true Of the Jews who grow yndictiye
under the butter testing which once meant mock.
cry though 1t Is now much more Ike resn' 81
fear But the Spanards, who consider themse ives
the most Ill-used Of nations, are not sensitive 20
carrie tture; While the AmeriCaBs, the most IOItU'
nate of earthly peoples hardly know Low 10 put up
with il, and before their Civil War were ready 70
an. Ne of a Joke "A national offence TIE French, al
though defeated, would not care II they were carl-
catured AL the world Over,-uncss the drawing
was bad ; while the Germans are quite lDsultcl II
ANYBODY HINTS that with their masses sulylty Il
manner is not the distinguishing feature WHAT On
earth can that signify, II one has the qualities
which lead to the TOP OF the world Inc German
dictates 10 EuIOpe, he Nils the W"rd win MS Pl"O
puy ne is rapidly acquiring eYerywho wealth Ills
JUNCTION and appreciation; but he Is not content
bec.use JrmOcritus will tell him that there arc
men more polished than his nation, on the 'efage.
Is Why ~ he SO disgOntentedf The EnglIshman
Is not more successful than the German. lie = a.
most as Icutonic and ne Is constantly q1i'e IS
boOrsh. especially outside London though MS
boorishness is stUlld, while the German -
grumpy: but if he Is told of 10 ten times day IS
ne Is by French and American DOyellsts. lie docs
nor care one whit any more than he cares because
all Partisan caricaturisJs depict LINN with lohg
teeth He does not even Inquire whether long
teeth are exceptionally common m England-we
have fancy they are-but goes on chuckAng at mo
carlcatures quite proper attempts at fun but
hOpeessly badly done. II those teeth were At
tributed Germans, dozen savants would collect
al the dental statistics OF AL the schools. and call
/ mon Cham To explain why he made such an
IN .natured charge. Yet the Germans are probably
4 btfrrt ron "a IN. 4
enjoy their humOr more as our foreiathers did N
Shakespeare's time. than as We do now. W hy ara
they so sensitive because "a travelling Engllshnan,
with turn farcicsl description. declares they
ass WHAT too Otien. 10 abruptly, aud win
their lips coo rigidly shut Nuppo-e they Tctors
that Eu-iishmeu are always saJ lng Neau, Tor
No" in au abrupt manner. aud with That unspeu-
able ac,eit--Whlch, rs regards millions Of rs ~
a. te true-vhat EnglIshman will bee hurt enough
to remember the charge tive minutes Very cJln-
lea of tgc German ~ notice IT, be VIII say; and
| wish people wOnld say No.
A friend near us says 1t Is all cOnceit, and that
the German - annoyed because lie considers himself
ID have attained "a position which ought 10 exempt
him f.om such remarks; but We should attribute
srnsitivrnr.s rather to want of cOnceIt Your con-
crited man has usually. IN compensation tor his
iubl- a healthy thickness OF skin. Ne one taxes
chat aud especially chan OF the malignant
him \, ian tie com posure OF tie II II i-hmah. he
cause nobody else lie 80 certain that lie - un-
assal.ab.e. aud that anybody VINO as'alls him on
any ground wuatrYer-uniess' indeed. such person
dcnl e, that the Engllshmau. who l. a ways wander
M away liom his kin,fo-k IN search OF wors OF
wealth. is dOmestlc-ls either out az temper. or 3
making fun. the latter process which. on the
whole he is inclined 70 approve. That concelt Dot
nnlv shields him but distinctly sweetens his
temper and so tar from thlr king It bad quality,
We sh.u be tempted n INSTRUMENTATION Is 60
Outrun iule-cOmmnulty OF undtrstandln2 as II now
does To wish that tue quality were "a little more
widely dIfused. The nations are listening TO each
other. AMI watching each other ana longing Tor
each Others good opinion, TIL every word Ol DO
scrpfi0n talls but they It'll fail TO understand ono
rD a
,erna Durposeiy Ill-naturel. Inc German " 30 ~
really IN 6lhi both kindly and sentimental. asks
GROSSLY why he Is 10 modern Ensllshneu alWaJ'
martinez. bile the trenchman, VINO Is the bcst OF
sons the klnde-t Of fathers and, outside Paris. 4
very fair husband, cannot CONCEIVE Why he Is de-
pictel by Eng .shmea as y rather vicious person. ~
undue levty Perhaps, however II Is better ~ lt
is II all satirlst, exactly understood tie weak
point they might hit little too hard, Tor II Us The
exposure of faults we have and conceal. not to
exposure OF faults we have not " hlch cuts q tho
bone Tel a Frcurarau that m business bis cuun-
tryueu are tie most eeil.y rapacious ~ maukiud,
and by no means scrupulOus aud he gets seriously