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IN T E R N A T ION A L

A R T O O N

F T H E WASE LE CTE D WITH A N INTR ODUCTION

by H . PEARL ADAM

E . P . DUTTON 899 CO .

6 8 1 FIFTH AVENUENEW 'ORK

The des ign on the Cover is reproduced from theColour- Plate—R heims Cathedral—by MarcelGaillard . That on the T i t le- page is reprin ted

by permiss ion Le W ot, Paris .

I nte rnatio na l C arto o n s O th e W ar

INTR ODUCTION

TH E H I STO R I A N who,a couple o f centur ies hence , tr i es to get at th e real

kernel o f th e great War,wil l find h imself overwhelmed with mater ial

,buried

under evidence,l ike th e great auth ori ty on Penguinia . Every doubtful

poin t wil l be clearly and irrefutably decided for h im in at leas t seven diff er, ent ways . A burning s ense Of convict ion may be h is

,but h e wil l not be

sure wh ich conviction i t is . Th e lot of th e h is torian has changed fo r th eworse s i nce th e days of Herodotus . I t no longer suffices for an accounto f a battle to be poss ible i f not probable , marvellous i f not poss ible, for i tto rank as h is tory ; mankind chose to s tart on th e thorny ques t of Truth ,and is now beginn ing to see that i n every affa i r there '

are exactly as manyTruth s as th ere are actors .

~When th e war broke out in Augus t,1 9 1 4 , th e curio us

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art o f conveyinga knowledge o f th ough ts and fact between two or more h uman organ isms

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th e only art o r appl iance wh i ch man has really i nvented without referr ingto Nature—th e art o f wri ti ng—w as resorted to on every han’d . An unpreceden ted crop of war books began to sprout from th e blood—ferti l ized fieldsof Flanders . M en m igh t safely exclaim : “M i ne enemy hath wri tten abook they had perforce to add : '‘And so hath each of my fri ends .

Th ey poured from the P ress,l i ttle books and big

,sober and hys teri cal

,

speculative and emotional . After th em came th e sedate polychromati cproces s i on of Government l i terature . Along wi th th em flowed th e swiftand multi tud inous efforts of j ournal ism . And i n a very short t ime beganthose s trange enterpri ses

,at once droll and

.

portentou s,th e Serial H is tori es

O f th e War .What th e great h istorian wi ll make o f all th is wh en his t ime comes to

correlate i t,i t is difficult to say . I f h e feel conscient ious ly bo und to consult

contemporary evidence,there is l i ttle hope for h im

,unless h e takes th e

bold s tep ofwrit ing a h is tori cal novel out of h is i nner consciousness i ns tead .

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But th ere wi l l be at leas t o ne unfai li ng gu ide fo r h im . The very increasei n mechan ical proces s es wh ich contribu tes to h is undoing in th e matter ofbooks

,wil l come to his a id with regard to p ictures . Every great event

s i nce th e invention of mechan ica l reproduct ive processes has produced itsdue

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re flectio n i n the m irror o f th e art is t . Th e crude o ld broads heets toldth e ir tale of th e Napoleon ic wars more vividly than any h is tor ian could ;and th e present s truggle

,wh ile i t s lew nearly every oth er art for th e t ime

being,worked up to fever—p i tch th e output o f p ictor ial comment . I n

France,where th is form of expres s ion has always been popular

,an unex

ampled flood Of cartoon and car i cature poured from artis ts both celebratedand unknown . O th er countr ies followed su i t

,i n proport ion to th e ir

nat ional l ik ing for pri nts ; and th e evidence suppl i ed by th is mass of in ternational material is as d irect and rel iable as anyone need demand .

I I .T H E V A LU E of th e contemporary cartoon is very great ; for i t deals almos tent i rely wi th what people are feel ing

,i n d is t i nct ion to what th ey are do ing .

I t uses th e ir deeds as a mere background to th ei r emotion s,and i t is only

the emotions wh ich count . What th e sold ier feels,th e sa i lor

,th e moth er

at home,th e man in th e s treet— th es e are the real ly important th ings

,for

i t is th es e th ings wh ich are th e caus es of events . I f enough ord inarypeople want peace at any price

,th e Governments of al l th e States i n th e

world wil l be powerless to wage war o n e moment longer ; i f enough ordinary people cons ider th e i r honour i nvolved in figh ting to a finish

,emperors

and kings and pres idents and trade unions and th e N .C .C . wil l un i ted beunable to break th e smalles t twig from th e O l ive .Th e mater ial of th e cartoon is t is drawn from sources useless to th ewri ter

,or at bes t

,of only ephemeral uti l i ty . A chance—h eard remark

,th e

expres s ion o f a face seen in th e s treet,th e glances turned o n a wounded

man as h e h obbles by o n h is s ti ck,th e i nept i tude of a comment o n the day ’s

news—th ese are th e media by wh ich th e cartoon is t conveys his view ofwhat his country feels . And he has th is advantage over th e writer—that awel l-done drawing is a volume i n i tself; i n one glance th e eye has absorbedth e background wh ich a ted ious explanation is necessary to convey in

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words,and is free to take i n th e es sent ial mean ing of th e drawing . A

p icture appeals as directly to th e eye as does a suns et,o r as food to th e

s tomach,or a soft bed to th e ti red body . I t uses a natura l sense

,not a

cultivated faculty .Cartoons are meant for the man i n the

,s tree t ; th ey are meant to tel l a

s tory,to convey some feel i ng or idea rather than to be an art is t i c render ing

of an obj ect or collect ion o f obj ects . Therefore artis ti c canons apply toth em in th is l imi ted sense—that wh i le th e great cartoon is t may and mus tbe as big an artis t as h e can

,h e mus t firs t of all remember that h e has to

explain h imself and his subj ects,or h e ceases to be a cartoon is t at all . A

Futuris t Forai n,a Cubis t R aemakers

,are i nconceivable because th ey would

be qui te usel es s as cartoon ists,whatever th ey were as arti s ts .

Th e artis t i c value o f th e cartoon s is sued in all countries —and i n somecas es i t is very great— is a matter for future d iscuss i on . I t is of no presentimportance . What is o f some actual value is a comparison between th ecarto o ns o f th e various countries

,for they show wi th unfai l i ng accuracy th e

trend of publ i c op in ion . From th e h uman po int of V i ew th i s comparisonis i nvaluable to th e s tuden t of human i ty i n th e present uph eaval . Fromth e ch eap postcard to th e twopenny broadsheet

,from th e mos t common

place pos ter to th e fines t l i thograph,each has its place . To collect th es e

th ings is not only very in teres ti ng,but mos t enl igh ten ing ; th e national

sp iri t and th e national moods Of each country are unmis takably portrayed ,and th e crudes t production takes rank wi th th e bes t as a h uman document .

II I .

T H E G O O D cause has always produced th e good cartoonis t—witnes s th eNapoleon ic wars

,when England rej o iced in G i l lray and R owlandson

,wh ile

France had no top ical draugh tsman of any outs tanding meri t . So far aso ne can tell

,th i s is very much th e cas e wi th th e present war . At any rate ,

th e good cause has produced its good men , and , j udging by w hat one canmanage to see of German cari cature

,th ey have no mind of any large cal ibre

at work on cartoons . Th is is,perhaps

,because th e greater part o f th e

German drawings I h ave seen are intended to rouse hatred , s corn , andanger . C lever th ey certa inly are , but to o many o f th em are sp iri tual ly

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debased . Th e bes t are th ose d irected agains t England,wh ich are ded icated

to h atred,a pass ion greater than scorn or anger

,and consequently more

elevating in its eff ects . O th erwis e th e German cartoon is t has not dis ti nguished h imself, i n th e sense that th e war has n o t raised h im above h imself.Th is can certain ly not be said of France

,where a crowd of new men

have appeared,and wh ere th e well- known draughtsmen o f pre-war days

h ave been roused to unprecedented excellence by the i r emotions . At leas to n e o f th em

,M . Forain

,has made h is tory wi th his penci l . Th ere came a

t ime,when the firs t exci tement had died aw ay

,when th e victory of th e

Marne had for month s been followed by s tagnation— s tagnation i n victory,

progress in casualt i es— a t ime when no n ews ever came,when Paris w as

left i n a kind of twil igh t of suspense and endurance,when th e economic

p inch began to be acutely fel t,when bereaved wives and mothers were told

i n th e morn ing that th ei r loved ones “were glorious ly dead for th eircountry

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' and read at n igh t that “ th ere is noth ing to report on th e front ;th e n igh t w as calm .

' And for j us t a moment th e h uman need and sorrowo f th e ind ividual cr i ed louder than th e pride of country . “It

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s very long,

th is war ' “What I want to know is,how much more do th ey expect u s

to endure “Could defeat be wors e th an war'' and even th e s i n is ter “ i fwe win

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' were ph rases that crept i nto conversation . I t w as hardly to bewondered at . France had expended so much energy on h er magn ificenteffort i n Augus t

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1 4 , when h er very babies bore th emselves proudly andwith self- control

,that she was bound to feel th e reaction .

I t d id not las t long,and i t w as Forain who swept it away by a dose of

s trong ton ic . He drew two French privates i n a trench,snow and hai l and

sh rapnel rai n ing round th em,i n condit ions as bad as th e mos t anxious

moth er ’s n igh tmare could h ave pictured th em . And o n e says : “ If onlyth ey hold o ut'

' Th e oth er,with a look o f great surpris e

,enqu ires :

“Who '' “Those civi l ians' I n a week that drawing w as h is tor i c,and

civi l ian France,with a blush and a laugh

,had pulled h erself togeth er .

M . Forain does not care to h ave his drawings reproduced,o r th is famous

cartoon would h ave been included in th is book .Nor

,unfortunately

,will M . Jean Veber have h is cartoons reproduced

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t i l l after th e war,wh ich deprives us of th at Napoleon of his

,s tand i ng on

his ow n tomb and crying “V ive l'A ngleterre , wh ich created such a s t i r o nboth s ides o f th e Channel . “La B rute e st Léch ée

,by the same artis t

,is

o n e of th e mos t impress ive drawings France has produced s i nce th e war .Publ ish ed so early as September

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1 4 , i t represents th e Pruss ian mon s ter ,madnes s and fury in his face

,s tart ing o ut l ike an un leash ed an imal o n his

career o f des truction .Th is prin t was th e firs t to i nd icate th e enormous boom in war—drawingswh ich has characterized Par is . Publ ish ed at 5 francs , i t w as with i n a fewmonth s unobtainable under 500. Collectors took th e h int

,and th e draw

ings o f Forain,Ste in len ,

and oth er wel l—known artists were eagerly sough tafter

,and ros e to very h igh premiums . Th e character of th e prints

changed ; with th e exception o f M . Véber’

s s er ies,th e greater part o f th e

drawings publ ish ed outs ide magaz i nes and newspapers had been ch eap ,ranging from threepence to two francs each

,and including some pub l i ca

t ions o f del iberately na'ive cons truction and crude colours,oth ers wh ich

ach ieved without del iberat ion a s tartl i ng l ikeness to th e o ld broadsh eetswith th e ir ch i ld l ike s impl i city . Pos tcards and prints fairly flooded Parisi n th e firs t few months Of th e war

,but s i n c e th e coll ector appeared on th e

scene i n his dozens th e ch eaper publ i cat ions have been d isplaced by moreambi t ious works that range up to a hundred francs each

,and have crowded

out th e smaller art is t,th e smaller print—seller . and th e smaller col lector .

Th is variety o f outpu t has been increased by the publ i cat ion o r manyi llustrated war—papers i n Par is

,such as LeMot

,Z’

E urop e c/fnti- Prussienne,

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,war edi t ion s of already establ ished papers

,and

a crop o f crude halfpenny papers,pri nted after th e Ep i nal manner

,and

greatly us ed by ch i ldren and th e very low classes . A coloured h is tory o rth e war, of extraord inary na‘ivete, issued i n penny sh eets , w as i ntended foru se i n s chools

,bu t ach i eved an addi t ional success in h osp i tals

,where th e

th i n sh eet was eas i ly h eld and folded,and th e i ncidents dep icted roused

th e l ivel i es t i nteres t among th e wounded .I n the w hole of th is output i t is d ifficul t to find any s ign o f waveringin th e nat ional spi ri t o f France . O nce th e civi l ians had decided to ho ld

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o ut,there could be no oth er s tumbling- block . Naturally

,i n such a range

o f drawings,th ere are many that drop into brutal i ty on th e o ne h and

,vul

gari ty o n th e oth er ; but th e overwhelming maj ori ty breath e a spi r i t of calm ,determined endurance

,with a ready laugh for hardsh ip s

,a sly dig at pol-i

ticians,and no l i ttl e i rony at th e expens e o f th eir own weakness es and

foibles . V ery often,so often as to set th e key for th e whole

,th e note is

h ero ic,sometimes gr imly so . Th ere is none of th e spleneti c fury of th e

German draw ings'

abo ut th e maj ori ty o f th e French ones ; th e Germans arerid iculed and hated

,i t is true

,but th e sp iri t is more s teady and less sp i te

ful- it res ts o n an emotion wh ich for forty-five years has been a rel igionto th e Frenchman .Th e Engl is h cartoons are as di ff eren t as pos s ib le from both th e Frenchand th e German . We have no separately publ ish ed pri nts

,our pos tcards

have been few,vulgar

,and negl igible ; our cartoon is ts are real ly only

O ff ered th e pages of newspapers and magaz i nes i n wh i ch to exert th eiri nfluence over us . And there cannot be two ques t ions as to that i nfluence— it is th e i nfluence o f good h umour . Th e French mis take i t sometimesfor ind ifference

,but th e Engl ish know better . Th e Germans say th ey

m is take i t for fr ivol i ty,but th ey so foam at th e mouth about i t that one

su spects th em of gl imps i ng th e sp iri t beh ind th e smile . The gr im note o fSte in len and Forai n is almos t wholly wanting from Engl ish cartoons . Th eKa iser

,who is a devi l i n France

,is merely making an unholy fool of h im

s elf in England ; the Crown-Pr i nce, a mass of vice i n Par is , is “an awfuls i l ly bl igh ter' i n London . Will Dyson

,th e young art is t of whom

Aus tral ia has such reason to be proud,is o ur grimmes t product

,and even

h e lets th e Pru ss ian o ff more eas i ly than do th e French artis ts . Because,

after all,don ’ t yo u know, we ’re go ing to th ras h th e brutes , but th ere ’s no

need to make a fuss about i t,h ang i t al l . Let u s have our p ipe and o ur

grin,and let us keep to those t i l l th e end . For th e Lord ’s sake don ’ t let

us h ave any h ero ics— those are fo r doing,not for showing . That is th e att i

tude wh ich one finds over and over again i n Engl ish drawings ; not contempto f danger

,so much as a serene determinat ion to grin at i t and have n o fuss

Pumla has come o ut bri ll iantly i n th is part icular . Al lowed by trad i t ion

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to have two hero ic cartoons a week,th e res t o f his pages are ded icated to

th e god of laughter . Germany reads Pam/zwith s tupefaction . What , wenot only laugh at th e Germans

,we laugh more at th e Engl is h ' E xtrao r

d inary, s i n is ter , e ff ete , degenerate race' I t is true , we laugh at ours elvesfar more than at anybody else—and very often i t is for that painful butcogent reason

,that we may not weep . Perhaps at th e front th ey laugh

wholeheartedly at Pane/z; at h ome i t is a d i fferent laugh that greetsTommy in h is imperturbable good—humour . I n th e mids t o f a hell of fire ,Tommy says that what with th e beas tly Belgian tobacco and th e bloomingFrench matches

,th is ’ l l be th e death of h im . S i tt ing on th e edge o f a

trench wh ich cons is ts o f noth ing but mud and water,i n a fearful downpour,

h e remarks that h e p i t ies th e poor fellows at h ome— th e London s treetsmus t be someth ing awful' And on a dozen oth er occas i ons h e has express ed that ch eery soul o f h is

,i n a way as charming as i t is moving .

A s for the Germans,perh aps M r . Punch reach ed h is happ ies t moment

wh en h e gave u s th e German family “enj oying its morn ing hate . ' A

French paper cop ied that wi th enj oyment tinged with bewi lderment,s i nce

th e id iomati c “morning hate ' w as beyond th e French edi tor,who publ ish ed

i t merely as “a s tudy Of a German fami ly at breakfas t t ime Th e Germans h ave not publ is hed it at al l .Noth i ng more l igh t—h earted and 'good—h umoured than M r . Heath

R obinson ’ s fantas t i c i nvent ions (such as th e Tatcho bomb) could be foundunless perhaps

,i n th e i n im i table “B ig and L i tt le Will ie ' OfM r . Has elden

,

wh ich have given pleasure to countless people,at th e front and at home

,

and have caus ed howls of Maj es tatsbeleidigungisch laugh ter i n Germantrenches

,when Tommy has been so kind as to th row a copy over .

England has never taken cartoons so s erious ly as has France,nor

has she a publ i c fo r separate top ical pri nts ; but she has done as muchas sh e can

,fo r her war cartoon s accurately expres s her m ind

,and that is

th ei r real function and cons t i tu tes th ei r real value .N eutral countries have had to be careful in some ways ; i t is difficult to

find any interes ti ng war- prints o r pos tcards on sale th ere . What th ere are

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are rath er ins ip id,at any rate to th e Al l i ed mind . But in individual news

papers and per iodicals th e s truggle has raged fiercely by pen and pencil,pro-A l ly or pro-German . M r . R obert Carter

,for ins tance

,i n h is drawings

i n th eMae Tore Evening Sun, has spoken with no uncertai n voice,as one

o f his cartoons i n th is book wi l l wi tness . Spain has h ad more pro—A l lycartoon s than one migh t h ave expected

,Scandinavia has been very dis creet

—I taly never w as,even before she came i n .

Holland remains,and well has she shown that she s ti l l poss esses that

spiri t o f res is tance to th e oppres sor wh ich d ictated th e pages o f h er superbh is tory . Small i n s ize

,i n a geograph ical pos i t ion of great danger, h er eco

nomic interes ts very largely ident ified with th e welfare o f Germany ,Holland migh t have been excused for h old ing h er peace . Everyone knewthat German influence w as

,and is

,very important i n Holland ; that th e

N eth erlands reek with German esp ionage,and that method o f commercial

penetrat ion wh i ch is one o f Pruss i a ’s mos t valued weapons . 'et none o fth ese th i ngs suff i ced to s i lence th e D utch love of l iberty and hatred ofoppress i on . A band of D utch cartooni s ts

,hot wi th i ndignat ion , took th e

bi t between th ei r teeth,and ran away wi th th eir penci ls

,th ei r papers ,

the ir publ ic,and

,i f th ei r s tartled Governmen t is righ t

,very nearly wi th

D utch neutral i ty . Anyone wh o has watched D utch drawings mus t h avebeen impres sed by th e fire Of th e pro-Al ly art is ts

,Braaken siek , Albert

H ah n,Peter van den Hem

,and Lazrom . N eutral i ty is to o pale for th em .

And,of course

,th ere is Loui s R aemakers . O nly a neutral could have

done what h e has done ; but i t m igh t not h ave been done at all h ad n o t

R aemakers ari sen with h is accus i ng pen ci l . I n h is work th e war takes o n

its righ t colour,as someth ing far above internat ional h atreds o r th e s truggle

of pol i ci es,far above even a batt le for th e welfare of peoples whose

i nterests are Opposed . I t appears i n its righ t aspect,as a sp iri tual confli ct,

more deadly,more earnes t

,more vital

,than any revolut ion o r reformation

or war s i nce th at s truggle i n wh ich proud Lucifer fell . Th is is every man ’swar

,th e world ’ s war

,th e war o f God and devi l . And , taki ng th is h ero i c

view of i t,R aemakers has s tepped i nto th e rOle o f Tragedy, wh ich is “to

arouse p i ty and terror,and th e noble movements o f th e soul . H is

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Pr isoners and “Barbed Wire (P lates XX I I . and XXI I I .)show well h isdetach ed

,tragi c qual i ty. Th ere are many o f h is drawings wh ich are too

dreadful to be contemplated for long -“S low G as Po isoni ng

,

' the Germanth i ef trampl i ng i n blood that drops from h is h eavy sack

,th e professor and

th e devi l leeri ng del igh tedly i nto each oth er ’ s eyes . But after ‘such horrorso ne comes always back to th e exqu is i te t enderness wh ich is th e real distinguishing charact eri s t i c o f R aemakers . Th e young German soldi er whowri tes home that “our cemeter i es now s tretch nearly to th e sea'

is as

tenderly drawn as are th e widows of Belgium . Th e tendernes s of s trengthis the h eart o f th e tragic spir i t

,th e h eart that bleeds for suff er i ng and

weakness,th e h eart that grows hot for i nj us t ice and wrong . I t is th is

sp ir i t,with its h eart of tenderness

,that has made th e fame of R aemakers .

I t is not comfortable no r pleasant to be roused to th e tragic sent iments,

but i t is righ t th at we should ; and had th e A l l i es needed any reassuranceas to th e nature o f th e reason for wh ich th ey figh t

,R aemakers

’ work wouldhave suppl i ed i t . The good cause has found its good artis t

,and h e is all

th e s tronger because h e is a neutral . L i ke Truth i n th e cartoon withwh ich th is book closes

,h e has h eld up the m irror to th e Pruss i an

,and we

can see,Germany can see

,th e whole world can see

,what ki nd o f soul is

reflected th erei n .

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ENGLISH CARTOONS

The famous cartoon by F . H . Townsend,

“ B ravoBelgium

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fitly appears as the front ispiece to th is book .

I t i s reprinted from P anel) by permi ss ion of th e

P roprie tors .

REHABILITATEDGermany (to her Professor)

Wha t if we do no t fulfil ou r promisesthewhole world mus t now admiringly confesswe are men of honour—w e fulfil ou r threa tsBy Will Dy son . Fi rs t publ ished in TbeN a tion

,May 1 5 ,

1 9 1 5 .

ENGLISH CARTOONS(continued)

AUDIENCE .

T rumz’

anz

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rm. And Poe t s,Profe ssors

,

Ins truc tors of the 'oung,le t i t be 'our d ivine

labour to qu icken our Germany wi th a ha te o fEngland so vas t

,so holy ,

so unappeasable,tha t

WE need fear no more the danger of herha t ing U S.

By Wi l l Dyson . First publ ished in TheN a tion

,May 8

,1 9 1 5 .

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ENGLISH CARTOONScontinued)

THE BAFFLED BU ROLAR .

T/ze Burgla r :“ I ’ve go t the swag

,bu t s t rafe

tha t copper ' I can ’ t ge t away wi th i t andthere ’ s no food in tha t beas tly cupboardBy “ F . C . G . Firs t publ ished in theWestminster Gazette, February 1 1

,1 9 1 6 .


Th is very H aselden ian page speaks for i t self.By permiss i on of the Edi tor of the D a ilyMirrar


IMPERIALI SMU S .Under th is laconic t i tle Mr . E . J . Sull ivanshows u s a museum spec imen of tha t ex t inc tmonster The German Eagle . '

R eproduced from “The Kaiser’s Garland,

by permiss ion of Mr . Wil l iam Heinemann .

ENGLISH CARTOONS(cantinned)

Mr . W Heath R obinson ’ s well- known seriesent i t led “ R ej ec ted by the Invent i ons Board , ' is

typical of the i rrespons ible sense of fun wh ichEngli sh People seem able to re tain even in w ar- t ime .Here we see an excellent idea pu t into ac t ion“ Th e Armoured Corn—Crusher for t reading on theEnemy ’s Toes .

R eproduced from ‘I /ze Stete/z of Jan . 5 ,

1 9 1 6 .


A N EW Z EALAND CARTOON

VII I . Th is is wha t the A y e/{land Oaser fver though t o f

floa t ing mines , in the firs t few mon th s of the w ar .

Those w ere the days before submarine warfare pu teven mines in the shade for wan ton cruel ty and s tupiddes truc t iveness .

ITALIAN CARTOONS

There were few pro-German car toons i n I taly,even

before she came in wi th the Alli es . . Now and thenher arti sts took a cynical and de tached a t t i tudetowards the awful s t ruggle in the north

,bu t for th e

most par t thei r drawings l eft no doub t as to wherethei r sympa th ies lay , as may be judged by th is andthe two following cartoons . Th is firs t is from theTurin N amer o . Mu s in i shows the Germans pavingthe ru ined s tree t s of Flanders wi th th e materialmost plen t iful ly to hand .

VI I I .

ITALIAN CARTOONS(continued)

In these allegorical ske tches,publ ished by l ’Uomo

‘P ietraho f Milan

,the ar t is t p i c tures the resul ts to

Europe should Germany and should th e All ies win .

U nder the Pruss ian sword and helme t the wholecon t i nen t l i es burning and bleeding ; around thePhrygian cap of l iber ty h e r merry and Obviouslywell- nouri shed ch ildren play over her prosperou slands

,amid comm erce- laden seas .

TWO ARGENTINE DRAW INGS

XI I . Sc XI I I . The Argen t ine i s a long way o ff—fur ther thanWash ing ton—and migh t have been pardonedif she had looked wi th de tached ph ilosophyupon the deeds of Germany . H e r a t t i tude

,

however,leaves much to be de s i red from th e

point of V iew of Berl in . Whe the r as a ra tcove t ing the good D u tch cheese , o r as “ theMons ter taking wha t h e wan t s from helplessBelgium

,the German does no t cu t a good

figure in the Critica,

'

Of Buenos—Ayres .

AMERICAN CARTOONS

XIV The neu tral i ty of these three d rawings i sdis t inc t ly open to quest ion . The Order of theI ron Cross ' i s from Lgfi,

of New 'ork .

XI I I .

AMERICAN CARTOONS(continued)

“The Hand of God , by Nelson G reene . One ofbes t known American cartoons s ince the war .From Pucé, of New 'ork .


AMERICAN CARTOONS(continued)

XVI . Mr . R o be rt arter’

s drawings for the N ew 'orkE vening Sun have acqui red a repu ta t i on in Europes ince the war . Th i s is o n e of th e best

,which

appeared on January 1 8,1 9 1 6 .

The Bear : “ G lad to se e you ou t again .

Ka i ser : “ I fee l be t ter myself ''

A JAPANESE CARTOON

XVI I . “The Aust ro- German All iance , as seen by anart is t of the s i Sbinipo of Tokio .

XVI I .

DUTCH CARTOONS

XVI I I . THE GAME OF CHESS .

He alone can dec ide how the game(we R oréanz

,of Maest ri ch t).

XIX . IN THE SUBMARINE .

TWENTIETH CENTU R 'MONUMENTAL ST'LE .

'

Suggest i on by M . Alber t Hahn,in D e

N otenéra éer,of Amste rdam

,fo r the re

building o f R he ims Ca thedral after the

w ar,in a s tyle more conformable to Kul tur

than the Go th ic .

XVI I I .

DUTCH CARTOONS(continued)

XXI . “ KR E U Z LA ND KR E U Z LA ND UBERALLES

By Lou is R aemakers .

Th is is the th i rd and last of a powerfulseries of three drawings of the sorrows ofBelgium—“ The Mo thers

,

' “The Widows,

'

and “ The Children . Th is and the threefollow ing drawings were among those whichappeared in the Amsterdam Telegraaf, andcarried the fame of M . R aem akers almostinstan taneously ove r the world . They arerepro duced here by permiss io n of th e Proprie to rs o f Land and Wa ter .


DUTCH CARTOONSccutznued

XXI I . PR I SONERS .

“ HUNGER A ND M I SER' .

By Lou is R aemakers .

XXI I I . BARBED W IRE .

By Louis R aem akers .

Barbed wire figures i n bo th these drawings,

widely- diff erent as they are . I t h as a spec ials ignificance

,used as a background to tw o such

cont ras t ing aspec t s of war .

XXIV

DUTCH CARTOONS(continued)

“ OUR FATHER WH ICH A R T INHEAVEN .

'

By Louis R aem akers .

XXIV .

TWO RUSSIAN CARTOONS

f rom tbe P etrograd“Louéomorye

XXV Franz Joseph depart s to the Front to cheerh is Troops . Bu t w il l h e ge t there '

XXVI . THE WEAKLING .

Nobody could congra tula te Mo ther Turkand Fa ther Ferdinand on the son (Tu rcoBulgar Agreemen t) D oc tor Kaiser has jus thelped in to the world . I t would hardly betac tful for the closes t friend to hazard as ta temen t tha t i t favoured e i ther paren t .

XXVI I I .

POLISH CARTOONIST

M . d’

O sto ya , the well - known Pol ish art is t , haspublished in Paris

,during th e war

,a very s t rong

series o f drawings,bo th in colour and in black .

Of this seri es the two shown here are among thebes t—con t rasted .

Says the Prussi an Ofi’

icer : “Wh o is i t whocommands here ' ' o u

,a s imple l i t t le Jew

,or I

w h o have th irteen quarterings of nobil i ty ''

A DINNER AT HEADQ UARTERS .A pig ’ s head was al so served

,o rnamented

wi th laurel- leave s— for in Germany i t i scus tomary to crow n pigs wi th laurel .Heinrich Heine

, G ermania .


FRENCH CARTOONS(continued)

XXIX . Poulbo t is th e in te rpre ter of French ch ildhood , andin that capaci ty h is penc il

,b efo re Augu st 1 9 1 4 ,

hadgiven infin i te pleasu re . Bu t pleasure ceased to be avery impo rtan t pre—occupa t i on in Augus t , 1 9 1 4 ,

and even Po ulbo t ’s sympa the t ic pencil len t i tself tohorror as easily as to mirth .

Th is drawing appeared in t ’

e/f nti-B oette,of Paris .

D on ’ t be frigh tened,kill her—I ’ve go t hold

of her,

' runs the legend .

N’

a ie p a s peur , tue-la , 3 1a tien s .

XXIX .


XXX. When the Z eppel ins fi rst came to Paris , publi c interestwas immense

,and ch ildren w ere wakened that they

migh t n o t miss th e sigh t . Th is draw ing by Baklofrom l ’A nti—B oc/ze , is no t a t al l exaggera ted .

I t looks l ike a sausageOh

,no'' cries the ch ild , “ if i t had been a

sausage the Boches would have eaten i t long ago . '

XXXI . THE GERMAN ATROC ITIES .

Th is w as o n e of the earl ies t co loured print s published i n Paris during the w ar

,and formed part

of a cheap se r i es,issued a t a few so us each

,and

printed in colours the mos t br i ll ian t and mos tnaive . The li t t le boy of seven who w as sho tfor levell ing h is wooden gun in play a t theGerman invaders w as a very favouri te themewi th all French ar t is ts

,from Veber dow nw ards .

The incident is alleged to have taken place inthe village of Magny

,Alsace .

XXX .

XXXL


XXXI I . A drawing by Armengol , from Le fliire R ouge,Paris . “R e t reat from the Fron t (Le Front seD egarn it).

XXXI I I . THE BAGN IOBy Gallo .“What did you doI killed my mo ther . And youI was Empero r of Germany .

'

(R eproduc t i on of a drawing in o f la

iBa ionnette,Paris .)

XXXI I .

XXXI I I .


XXXIV THE CONSULTATION ON THE KA I SER .

D r . G eorge : I t is astonish ing how eff ec t iveare the “7 5 pills of D r . Poincaré .

“D r . ef f /aert : 'es

,I agree wi th you ; the

t reatment should be co n t inued .

XXXV “THE SACRED UN ION .

By Garci a Beni to .

TbeMa rc/none“~ “D ear me—in uniform onecan ’ t tell mine from yours'



XXXVI . “THE S ILENT ONE JOFFRE .

By Leandre,the allegori cal cartoonist

,in Le R ire

fliouge , Pari s .

The repu tat i on fo r s il ence enj o yed by GeneralJ o ffre is be t ter- founded than is alw ay s the casew i th the repu ted charac te rist i cs of gre at men . Inthe course of being shaved a t a Pa r i s barber ’sre cent ly

,an Engl ish cl ien t w as told tha t General

J o ff re h ad for fifte en years been a regular customerat the sh Op .

“ A nd w ha t sor t of person is hereally'' “ I don ’ t know

,s i r—h e never said

‘3 ’any thing .

XXXVI I . French sa t i re has no t devo ted i tse lf en t i rely to ourenemie s

,bu t has been frequen tly tu rned o n France .

Th e re are comedy and i rony,perhaps even pa thos

,

in Alber t Guillaume ’ s cartoon in Le fi re R ouge ,o f the fai r and probably fra i l lady w h o repl ies tothe S is te r of Mercy ’s reques t fo r clo thes for therefugee s : “Cer tainly , Sis ter . Franco ise , bring me

my pink dress w i th s i lve r sequins . D O you mindi t ’s being sl i t up a t one s ide

,S ister' I t does rather

da te i t . '


XXXVI I I . THE S ICK MAN ’ S BURDEN .

Th e Two-H unned Camel 'Le Chameau aD eux Boches'.From Le {Rire

‘Ziouge .

XXXIX . AT THE GATES OF THE VATICAN .

Open' Open' I t is unhappy Belgium'The Pope ’s neu t ral i ty was no t popular in France

,

even before he refused to pronounce an opin ionon the viola t i on of Belgium

,as “ tha t had hap

pened in h i s predecessor’s t ime . Many peoplecons ider tha t by th is a t t i tude the Va t ican los t apri celess opportun i ty of re - cap turing France . I tis significan t tha t th is moving cartoon

,from Le

R'

ire R ouge , is signed : “A . Wi lle t te , Ca thol ique . '


XL .

“ The Pope saysBy G randj o uan Le fliire

XLI . GOTT M IT UNS .Wha t would they have left if Ht

e i

‘

had

no t been wi th them''

Le fi re R otg e .

FRENCH CARTOONS

XLI I . 69° XLI I I .(continued)

Ste inlen was once known bes t for h is blackca t s—th in

,ra ther wicked ca t s

,prowling and

hungry,and wi th inscru table though t s of

thei r own . Hi s fame grew,h is scope widened

and deepened,bu t never had he probe d so

deep n o r risen so h igh as he has done s incethe wa r took h im from h is observat i on ofsocial t ra i ts and concen t ra ted h im on thenobler aspec t s of mankind—and espec iallywomankind . These two drawings are froma series which they wor th ily represent :“ Na t ional Aid' and “Gl ory .


FREN CH CARTOONS(continued)

XLIV KAI SER BONNOT ,by H . A . Ibels .

The w ar has no t obl i terated so comple tely thel ife tha t w en t before i t

,tha t we have forgotten

the Motor Bandi t s,headed by Bonno t

,who

terrorised Paris by thei r audaci ty for m anyweeks . Had thi s drawing no t been a l ikenessof the Kaiser i t would s t il l have been a wonderful del inea t ion of the apache

,h is reckless soul

showing through every inch of h is s teal thybody .

Kmser 3 o t

XLIV .


DAVID A ND GOLIATH,by Paul Iribe .

This drawing formed th e cover of the firstnumber of Le W ot

,a short—l ived bu t mos t

interes t ing penny paper publ ished in Parisduring the war .


XLVI . TH E FAILURE,by Sem .

“After the . Battle of the Marne,more thanGerman corpses were counted'

(The Papers).Le W ot.

FRENCH CARTOONS

(A Franco- R u ss ian D rawing .)

XLVI I . This drawing by Baks t,w h ich appeared ln Le

bears the following legend :Leon Baks t

,the grea t R ussian pa in ter

,promises

very soon,he says : From the Carpathians to

Be rl in a bound in the s tyle of the R uss ianballe t s

,to the grea t s tupefac t i on of those hounds

of Germans and Aus trians . '



XLVI I I . The Empress Eugenie has turned her hou se intoa mil i tary hospi tal .

D o you know where we are,J immy'

The nurse told m e that i t ’s the house of a ladywho has los t her so n in the war . '

From Le W ot.

XLIX . THE HOSTAGES,by A . Hermann—Paul .

From a woodcu t publ ished by theLibrarie de l’E stampe ,

6 8 Chausse'e d ’

A ntin,Paris .

h u m 0M: qua n o us c omma Jimmy 7

u o ur“ m a ma qua c'Ma it ch u un e d emo qm a pe rdu e o n fi le a I. g o o n

-a

XLVI I I .

XLIX .

LII .

LI I I .

FOUR POSTCARDS

A Japanese postcard,on the res istance of Belgium to

Germany . Th is is a charac teris t i c produc t ion , wi ththe legend in Japane se , and w as no t publi shed forthe We s te rn marke t . The Engl ish names and numbe r we re wri t ten on i t by the purchaser i n Japan .

Th is spiri ted and del igh tful pos tcard by N ike,one

of a seri es which foreran h is boo k of soldie rs (almo stth e

“ only wholesome war- book for ch ildren), w as

published as early as Augu st , 1 9 14 ,before the vic

to ry of the Marne . Looking a t its breezy ou tl ine s,

and a t the merry colours of the original,i t is difficul t

to bel ieve tha t i t was drawn and prin ted a t a t imewhen all the printers were mobil ised

,and makeshift

workmen formed the only labour .

TH E BATTLE OF TH E MARNE .

In a magnificen t rush the German armieshave tw ice passed the Marne . All goes well .The t roops are fresh .

—hVo/jr

Collec t ion of 6 cards of the firm Bouvere t , Le Mans .

THE LAST TANGO .

L . D alvy , 5 0 Bd . de S trasbourg , Par is .

GERMAN CARTOONS

It is no t easy to come by copies of the German papers,

as the Trade—w i th—the—Enemy Ac t frowns upon such commerce . Happily , there are neu tral count rie s , throughwhose agency some th ing may be do ne . Th i s and thefollowing six pages are devo ted to German Cartoons

,from

Scinp/icirrznzur, th e famous Munich illust ra ted paper . Theyare very cleve r

,very mordant

,very amus ing

,and always a t

thei r bes t when d i rec ted agains t England .

THE LU S ITAN IA .

I sn ’ t i t madness,to take so many wom en and

ch ildren in a m uni t ion t ransport“On the cont rary ; by th is means , wh en thesh ip goes to th e devil

,th e w orld will be raging

aga ins t Germany .

And i t w as

GERMAN CARTOONS(continued)

EARNEST TIMES IN W INDSOR CASTLE .

“To the noisy applause of the Sa lva t i on Army,

King George banishes the D evil Alcohol . '

Th e cast le is n o t very l ife - l ike,bu t the bo t tle is—the free

adve rt i semen t should be worth some th ing,even in w ar

t ime .


LVI .

LVII .


D’

A nnunzio :“A t any ra te

,I am sure of be ing im

mortal in the hear t of my credi tors . '

WHEN BUDDHA WAKES .

Th is i s a typical example o f th e V iew taken of theB ri t ish soldie r by the German art is t—tha t he is extrem ely l ong , ex tremely th in , and ex t remely ugly . Heis no t here

,how ever

,smoking the u sual pipe .

LVI I .


LVI I I . APACHES IN THE TRENCHES .“Pari s wi thou t l igh t and wi thou t pol ice Tha tdoes make a man homes i ck

LIX . THE MOOD IN FRANCE .

a Beh ind the German l ines .(5) Beh ind the French l ines .

LX. THE MOOD IN FLANDERS .

Is that an enemy aeroplane,Madele ine

NO,Fri tz ; i t isn ’ t an enemy, its a German

LVI I I .


Z EPPELIN OVER TR AFALGAR SQ UARE .

Free advert isemen t appears again here—O therwise,the

cab- h o rse and King Charl es are the s triking features .


LXI I . SONN INO A ND SALANDR A .

“N o w we ’ve go t the money , Herr Colleague ,you can summon the I tal ian people to its grea th is torical miss i on .

LXI I I . KITCHENER A N D FRANCE ’S RECRUITS .

“Only have pa t i ence,boys

,and you shall ye t

figh t for England . We will keep th e w ar onlong enough for tha t .

LXIV BR ITANN IA THE HOU SEKEEPER,TO

THE FLEETI mu st dust you nicely every week , so tha t youmay be as good as n ew w hen peace is concluded .

'

LXV THE POOR LAR K .

I g ive i t up,trying to s ing against the guns'

I ’m comple te ly hoarse al ready .



LXVI . ENGLI SH TACTICS .

“Only two D readnough t s agains t one smallc ru iser— I t will take a lo t to make the Engl isha t tack'

LXVI I . LORD KITCHENER DI STORTS THEEV IDENCE .

This m an says tha t the Germans treat thei rw o unded priso ners well . Bu t you see , Si r , tha tthey have tortured h im so te rribly tha t he h asl os t h is senses . '

Be t ter ca ri ca ture s than these o n e could no t ask to see .Tommy comes o ff worse than anyone else

,and even for

h im his ear and h i s bre eches have been rendered charac teristically .

LXVI .

LXVI I .

LXVI I I . THE TRUTH .

By Lou is R aem ake rs .

By permiss ion of the proprie tors of Landand

“Wa ter .

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