11 DECEMBER 1875, Page 3

Mr. Tenniel has achieved a stroke this week. He has

seldom given us anything better or more suggestive than Mr. Disraeli, with the key of India in his hand, passing on his route the Sphinx, which, with a face of antique, weird, and yet vulgar mystery, winks at him approvingly as he goes. " We understand one another, you and I," sneers the Face ; "you, who are so like ine, though so little and so new." There is no trace in the picture of that London vulgarity of spirit which would caricature the Pyramids, if it only could, and yet there is amid all its suggestive- ness the true taint of the sordidness of the modern worlds