The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-04

great battle, or perhaps a great blum der-to take Up Punch and see himself exactly as others saw him. He had also taught the great men of England in the last half century that there was but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. It was most interesting to judge Sir Johns own career in his own published illustrations, Was he right In thinking that he discovered in them, in constantly increasing degree, gen. tleness, kindness, and tenderness from year to year and generation to genera tion exhibited by him in those wonder full pages? Was he right in believing that time, which had dealt so generous ly with him, had only mellowed and softened him, so that to-day, when he laid down his pencil, he was dreaded by none and absolutely and devotediy loved by all? Was he right that Eng land herself had in the last half centu- ry mellowed with him, and that she had grown very much less alone ana aloof than she appeared to the rest or the world half a century ago! It seemed to him that reflected from these cartoons in Punch there was exhibited a growing and always more cofdlal ana amiable good mood of England Tn her foreign relations as generation succeed ed generation. Could he doubt that that was exhibited particularly toward his own beloved country Gene"ad cheers,) whose people were of one blood and stock with theirs? If there was any doubt of it he would refer to two or in which he represented Britannia shedding pen itential tears over the bloody corpse or Lincoln, and again one in which she was bending in loving sympathy over the bier of the murdered Garfield. He agreed with their chairman that all their guests work was not lncluoeu within the covers of Punch. There was some that he was more fond of-nafne- ly, the illustrations of the works or Lewis Carroll, whom he had helped to make immortal. He believed that the illustra tions to Alice in Wonderland
 and Alice Through the Looking Glass
 were a sort of pastime to their guest, and that in them he was only studying character for the purpose more success fully of Illustrating the characters ana tendencleS Ol puDllC ihoh i''1NO "
 white rabbit, for instance.
 What statesman scholar, poet or SOL dier of England had fame equal to that which he had given to the white rabbit? And would it be possible to go through the House of Lords or the sen ate of the United States without nding some reflection of that great character? The gentlemen of England loved to sit upon benches great and small What lessons did they not learn from the Ca terpillar? And then the Dodo, and the Mock uTrtle, and the Cheshire Cat, and the Jabberwock. They were reflected certainly in every legislative assembly where the English language is spoken, and traces of them were even to De found in the courts of justice. And as to the March Hare. He did not know whether they fouknd more symptoms of him in the pulpit or at the bar. The beauty of these books and of the illus trations was that everybody could find his own picture if he looked for It.
 These animals had been made so hu- man by the pen of Carroll and the pen cil of Tenniel that they felt that they were the missing links between them and the inferior creation that they read