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CARICATURE,
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The true function of the satirist and the cartoonist take to be the delinea, tion of typER. Molliere did this, and Hogarth, is the only form of the art which survives The Rake's Progress" and "The Ille Apprentice" will with
the political while "The pleasure we take in peroral enri-libels on Castlereagh and the Regent cature, writes A.A.B., is much the same have to be hanted for in old print shops. as that aroused by satirical invective,It is in this higher impersonal sphere and is not very creditable to human na-that Mr. Beerbohm is at his hest, for tare. There is something in the mis- there he avoids 'personal impertinenc Fortunes of our friends, wrote the French escapes from his incapacity to catch moralist. which is not displeasing to us. likeness, and gives us his pungenc and Mimicry again, the interior sister of common-sensible opinions ou queations of caricature, is very, amusing for every body exopting the person mimicked. Brown is no doubt a great man, and as) bottom a good fellow. But it will do him a world of good to be laughed at, And even for his physical aldigies,
so we go to the Leicester Galleries to laugh at those we know and don't know.
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WIT AND HUMOUR..
Mr. Berbohm is justly scornful of the forbleness of the upper and middle classes in kissing the rod of the trade unionists, and this view he expresses in the unhappy but indissoluble marriage of Civilisation with Industrialism. He judges American men as despising, while It must be obvious that there is a whey squeeze debts out of. England, and
American millionaitases as difference between personal and polition! Royalty and titles with frantie rivalry
pursuing or social caricatures, the first being pri- vatand the second publie matter. & In attacking of defeiding a cause repre Mr. Máx Beerbohm is neither Swift sented by an individual, great Intitador Hogarth. But he is a very observant has always been allowed to pen, and man, to when a rare combination of wit pencil. A fret is to be produced, and humour in almost equal proportions pleasant or unpleasant, for a public has been given. Some of his drawings, object, or an opinion dear to the heart the one, for instance, of Lord Birkenhead of the artist. But is there and racuse and Mr. Duff Cooper, must have been for a carienture which picks ant and done within the last three weeks, certain. exaggerates peculiarities of fag or figurely since his arrival in town, which shows for 16 other object than to render great executive power. Fudiernus ne repulsive an individual It is not yet possible to assign the ni- whom the artist happens to dislike? Porche in the historical gallery which he sonal caricatures surely are indefensible Fwill occupy Tosterity, as Laird, Bea- unless they are pleasant as well as consfield has reminded us, is a very funny.
limited audience, and a very uncertain Doe Who, for instance, could have fore- seen that "Sibyl," laughed at as the ex- Mr. Max Beerbolin has given us cari travaganza of a Tory novelist turned entures of individuais pleasant and un-politician, would eighty years later be- pleasant, Take th two caricatures of come the source of the Socialist's quota. Lord Creil and Mr. Lytton Strachey, tions Of living caricaturiste Mr. Beer curiously alike in contour Lord Cecit is bohn is unquestionably the first. The represented as a ghoul, a tali lanky comparison of his work with that of hunchback, with the long neck of a fowl Tenniel, Pellegrini, Leslie Ward, F. C. for bird of prey stretched almost at right could, E. T. Reid, and Hurry Furniss angles to the bly, with a terrible beak would require more knowledge, and time of a nose, Mr. Berrbabm has no desire that. I have at command.
PLEASANT AND UNPLEASANT,
to hold up the League of Nations to Not the bash clever af his achieve- hatred, ridicul or contempt in the per-ments is the fugcity by which he keeps sor of its champinu, for he confides to us that be only intends a shrer at the superiority of the C'veils,
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Now contrast this pair of homes with another couple, entirely pleasant and very funny. Lord Birkenhead, with his Troneal smile and the inevitable cigar.
atul eyes which, though closing up. "R still expressive, stooping down to pat Mr. Du Cooper ob the head" and "our Mr. Austen's immaculate costume being. criticised by the Parisian statesnec. are quite good. But perhaps the perfection of personal enfienture 14 reached in little Cunningham Grahan on a hobby-hors Egazing at a centaur with a Vandyke beach fleaping into space: there is hoth wit and
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Mr. Beerbohin is uot always equally successful with the une person. Lord Halfour playing bridge is a failure, be chase the profile and the hands are not j abuse of Arthur, and the metaphysical quotations put into bis mouth are not in charneter. With all his faults our Elder Statesman would not talk so at the card- talle. On the other hand, the bagly Balfour (uot Balfour of Burleigh), in white flanzela and tortoiseshell spectacles armed with a racket, is being implored by the recumbent youth surrounded by medicine bottles to go away, is a high
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IMPERSOSAL' CARICATURES. With catlike steps Mr. Beerbohm pieka his way over the treacherous ash of the Boer War Lord Miller's likeness is: BO-s, but the irony of the words cuts like a razor. Yolumes of criticism could not do more to wither than the imaginary doubts of the great Proconsul about his
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