The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22

rsuccessors, Rowland and Cruikshank, Then the lapse of interest in carica- ture till the use of the periodicals: Punch of London, La Caricature of Paris, Fliegende sBlatter, and in the Union Puck and Judge.
 with these and the great Sunday sheets, we have certainly aarrived al the zenith of this styleso art. A full and funny chapter Is given to the "Poine," Philipons caricature of the face of Louis Philippe. which lead him to many trial.
 Very interesting is the story retold l of the Mayeux of Travies. of Macaire and Bertrands quaint creations whose daily appendices delighted all Paris even as Buster Brown of Sunday fame delights New York with his exploits in the circle of home.
 | Mayeux had a larger field. Most interesting Is the story of the origin of Mayeux as quoted from Beau l delaire:
 named Le Claire, who had the run oi speciality was to make tiles d'expres- sions; that is, by series of facial con- | tortions, he would express successively | the varius human expressions. This man. a clown by nature. was very mel l ancholy and possessed with a mad dei | sire for friendship. All the time not | occupied in practice and in giving his | grotesque performances, he spent ir searching for a friend, and when ht had been drinking, tears of solitude l flowed freely from his eyes. Travies
 saw him. It was a time when the great | patriotic enthusiasm of July was at its height. A luminous idea entered his | brain. Mayeux was created, and for 6 long time afterwards this same turbu. lent Mayeux talked, screamed, haran- | gued. and gesticulated in the memory | of the people of Paris
 | Mayeux and the Macarie and Der. | trand series of caricatures, not in the 1 main political satires. but rather touch ing all sides of life. are like the picto. rial satires of Hogarth, of wider and
 more long-llved interest than those that | are merely political. Just as humanity and human intent and human nature
 holds interest beyond all governments | and dynasties.
 Crufkshanks prophetic cartoon, 'ThS Blessing of Peace; or, the Curse of the Corn Bill" is again brought into the prominent notice it deserves. l The origin of Punch, good for noth.
 ing without Leemon," (Mark Leemonl | IS charmlnSiy retoId.
 Space does not permit noting the en. thralling chapters: AS and the Cour d'Etat; The Struggle in the Crimea The Mexican War and Slavery; The South Secedes; The Outbreak of tht Franco Prussian War.
 Coming to our own times, we have
 the chapters: The Third French Repub. lie: American Political Campaigns ol 1880 and 1884; American Parties ant Platforms; The Spanish-American War
 The Boer War. and the Dreyfus Case
 The Men of Today. Many reprints are | given of the brilliant work of Mast; oI
 MT. Opper, Mir. Davenport, Mir. Bush
 and others.
 Besides the interest of this unique
 volume as study of art, as feast ol wit. spread of satire, 1t is valuable 1 as vivid resume of the History of the l Century. These narrations of events nailed in with a bright depletion of
 currents at flood tide, make more vivid l pictures in memory than if told in the
 more severe and less striking mannel of the usual historian. @ No student of history, certainly no II.
 brary. should be without this vivid vol.
 tune. The history of the Nineteenth Cen. tury, in Caricature, by Arthur Bartlett
 Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper
 Dcdd, Mead & Co.,, New York; price
 $2.50.
 Triumphs of Science, edited by M. A.
 L. Lane, another of Ginn and Company's
 valuable supplemental readers. A most l valuable collection of stories of the
 mighty accomplishments of science, told
 by the men who know best how to tell
 them. Cyrus M. Field writes The Story
 of the Atlantic Cable; Edward S. Holden
 O. A Modern Observatory. the Story oi
 Mount Hamilton and the Lick Observa-
 tory; c. A. Young of Astronomical Pho
 tography; The Lighting of our Coast, by
 Louise Lyndon Sibley; Modern Great
 Guns by John B. Briggs; Submarine
 Boats. by J. D. Jerrold Kelley; The Bos-
 ton Library; H. G. Prout of The St.
 Clair Tunnel; Curtis Brown of Harness
 ing Niagara; J. L. Harbour of Where
 Railroads Go; James Porter of The Mari
 ners' Compass.
 s. c. W. Benjamin writes of Artesiar
 Wells. Strange that there is no mention
 in his article of the artesian wells oi
 Alabama. The Great Goodreun Well in
 Hale County. Ala, is said to give the
 greatest flow of water of any in the