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The English mail has brought many tri- butes to the late Sir Francis Carruthers: Gould, the "F.C.G." who, as caricaturist, for thirty years provided the Liberal Party with most potent weapon against its opponents. All of them bear testi- mony to the essential kindness of the man, to his passion for bis craft, to . his love for experiment in many directions. To myself his death brings the feeling of heavy personal loss I worked with him for more than twenty years, at first in this contact in the office of the Westminster findetle when he was in the bey-day of his power and later by courea- pondence, after he had retired to the de- lightful home he had created for himself at Porlock in Somerset. Less than six final letter months ago, I had from him marked by that writing to which age had brought no quaver. it was a personal note ja which the writer ex- pressed his sense that his work was at an end, and that the time had come to lay down his tools. He wrote cheerfully and courageously, as well he might, for if he contemplated the failure of his po wers he could look back upon süch achievement and such bopours as could never have entered his dreams when a young bank clerk in Barnstaple. Of him oce may truly say that "Glad did I live has changed

and glady *ricature Evently per

power.

in tone and manner rince C. stood unchallenged in his w field. It has become more rollicking in its humour, more instinct with ridicule

and has correspondingly

F.C.G. effectiveness lay in his own sincerity.

To him his gift of drawing was but the inrans

of

"xpressing views that he held strongly. With all his love of nature, bis delight in architecture, his fondness for gardens and birds, and the by-ways

of literature he was first and

ed

all the time a politician, with the firmest belief in the Liberalists of the last twenty years. That be was not a train- draughtsman io the ordinary mean- ing of that term troubled him not a whit. He was conscious that he possessed some thing that better artists could not claim-- the power to illustrate a thought with that rapidity and paint which made his work instantly available for newspaper reproduction. EX was adequately

Tuipped for the work he had set out tot do, and if his drawings will not stand the test of critical examination they forma a unique record of a political ruch as Been through the glasses of a man she never pretended to be impartial: hut believed honestly that he was in the right.

HIS METHODS OF WORK.

As & colleague no man could have been mort delightful.zo work with. He had a quick tumper, as one learned on ocen - sion,but in the main he was the very spirit of humour and of a delightful zest ia life. His position as assistant editor of the Westminster Goette gave him a freer hand than is possible to most caricatur .ists, but no man was ever more

for suggestions in his

his work or them with more abandon of soul Give him a hint, in häffen buur, he would bring in rough pencilled sketches in which he had embroidered and elaborat ed the original iden almost out of reg nition. Many of his most notable cartoons sprang out of the daily editorial conferen ces, but they always came back to us with much that he had himself contributed from an imagination that was Limog Irish in its quiexmess and fertility of resource.

he had to

Although assistant-editor Sir Francis knew well his own limitations Never did he attempt to interfere with palies. Once in conversation with him I discover that the though that he might at some time he called upon to write leading article pursued him as a night- more.

Happily he was never put to the test.

Even the editorial

dence, the rare deal with it, appeared to him as a terrt

responsibility. He would labour over it for hours, with frequent excur sions to a colleague's room to know what ought to be dour with this, tha; or the other, pr

probably ruding with a final ap peal that he st, aid he allowed to hand Över the Whole adget to somebody whom he felt to be more competent to grapple with the difficulties. Yet he loved writ ing, and it would be a sad day for him had he not contributed some paragraph, usually on a light and out of the way topic, to the editorial columns. That gave him all the satisfaction he desired for the sense that he belonged to the literaty side of the paper.

A FIGURE IS SOCIAL LIFE. *. Sir Francis was at his best in his own room whet seated before his drawing board. With his preliviinary sketches/ before him-rough penei notes in.

odd scraps of paper drawn with a verve and an absence of all labour which are fre quently missed in his finished cartons he would simplify his drawing in pen and ink, leaving our all fines that were not essential. His work was done with extraordinary rapidity. Two fours ordinarily sufficed for his most ela borale cartoon, and with his drawing despatched to the photo-etchers he was free for the claim of his home or of that social life in which he figured so largely Never was there a pleasanter companion at the club or at dinner. He gossiped of art,, literature, and nlways Phimself a reputation for brilliance and in public speech he made

4 lew' men wud in his raind was never altun-

lor

and humour

generation.

ed to the more serious Hights of oratory; he was content to be known, as a wit with the lightest of touches and the gayest of hearts.

His later years were characteristic of the

man.

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A complete break with all the local societies. Ther his past.

He initiated and with bin.

were no half measures presided over that wealth of activities Only twice or thrice in the that lies beneath the surface of the quiet to come to London, and, then the man all this more or less public work almost course of about six years did I know hira villages of England. He brought to who had seemed to love every phase of the spirit boyhood

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the life of the capital confessed himself mark upon the life of the little end- bored and even a little frightened at the stir in which he found himself. He had tid and if he was fain to admit in thrown, all his resintless energy into larger happenings of the bigger world, he end that he had lost touch with the countrylife. He gardened; sketched, inboured nobly to the end in the smaller Wrote poetry, tried his hand at books, eirols that he felt he could still serve.-

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