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| III: you may have been Gillray's
print of HMM the old wig. in the
stout, old hideous Windsor uniform
as the King of Brobdingnag, peerins
at a little Gulliver. whom he holds up
| In his hand, whilst in the other he
has an opera glass, through which
he surveys the pigmy. Our fathers
chose to set up George as type Of a
great king: and the little CULVER Ii
the great Napoleon"
But that was one Of the kindliest Of
all the pictures. There was one by
Gillray showing "Boney" and his fam
lily In rags gnawing raw bones in a
rude Corsican hut: another portraying
him in q turban and with hookah.
having adopted the Mohammedan re-
ligion; third depicting him in the
act Of numbering the sick at Joppa-
Always when sdrawn by .Gillray's
pencil. either as First Consul or EN-
peror "the Man Of Destiny" was q
monster, a fend in human shape,
craven and murderous; but when deal
ing with the question OF this fiend's
power for evil Gillray was hardly
consistent. It pleased the Englishman
| and his audience nightly when the
ogre was represented as being kicked
about from toe to toe; by the Turks
the Spaniards, the Russians, the Prus-
| slams and the Austrians. But the very
next cartoon was likely to picture him
at table, slicing of half the pudding
that symbolized the continent. or as
"Tiddy- Doll. the Great French Ginger
bread Baker. Drawing Out a New
Batch Of Kings"
| Gillray's greatest cartoon, and one
was the one called 1.-THE Valley of the
gers surrounding the Emperor in
1908. The valley Of the picture is the
valley Of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's
Progress" Napoleon is moving timor-
ously along a treacherous path. The
way Is fanked by the waters of styx
and hemmed in by a circle Of flame.
Horrors threaten him from every
side The British lion, raging and
furious, IL springing at his throat.
The Portuguese wolf has broken his
chain. King Death. mounted on a
mule Of "True Royal Spanish Breed"
has cleared at a bound the body<of the
ex-King Joseph. watch has been
thrown into the Ditch of styx."
Death Is posing his spear with fatal
aim. warningly holding up at the same
time his hour glass with the sand ex-
kausted: flames follow in his course.
From the smoke rise the figures
Of Junot and Dupont, the beaten
generals. The papal tiara is descend
ing as a Roman meteor" charged
| with lightnipgs to blast the Corsican.
| The Turkish New Moon" IL rising In
blood. The spirit of Charles XII"
| appears from the flames to avenge
| the wrongs OF Sweden. The I'm
| perial German Eagle" IL emerging
from a cloud; the Prusslan bird ap-
pears as q scarecrow. making desper-
ate efforts to fly and screaming re-
yenEe. From the "Lethean Ditch"
the American Rattlesnake" Is thrust
ing forth a poisoned tongue. The
Dutch Frogs" are splitting out their
spite, and the Rhenish Federation Is
personified ss a herd Of starved
Rats" ready to feast on the Corsican
when he stumbles. The great rus
sian Bear" the only ally of Napoleon,
Is shaking his chain and growing.
a formidable enemy in the rear.
Early American War Cartoons.
There was very little caricature
espousing the continental side in the
War for American Independence. But
there was one pencil welded in the
attempt to spur the then little United
States to martial ardor during the
second struggle with Great Britain.
That pencil wrought cartoons that
were in feeble imitation of the car
toons OF James Gillray, and the man
lwho fiourished It was William
Charles. q Scotchman by birth. who.
forced to leave his native country.
came 10 America. and here saWgely,
though rather Intellectually. attacked
his renowned land. Charles's "John
Bull Making a New Batch of Ships
to Send to the Lakes" was direct
imitation OF Gillray's "riddy- Doll, the
Great French Gingerbread Maker"
Charles used the awkward loops then
in vogue 10 make his points. One OF
his cartoons Of the War Of 1912 showed
john Bull caught in the mire. with an
4 American holding one ear and a
lETsnohman the other. John 70 say