Political Caricatures. By F. Carruthers Gould. (E. Arnold. Sa. net.)—These
caricatures cover the political history of the year November, 1901—November, 1905. They refer, in the main, to British affairs, but the artist now and then takes an excursion abroad. Thus we have the Egyptian Spirit of Judgment weighing the soul of Leopold II., and the Kaiser as he presents himself in various moods to non-German observers, both admirable caricatures. But to praise "F. C. G.'s " work is really superfluous. Every one knows what it is, how fresh, how vigorous, how original. One thing will at once strike any one who may have seen these cartoons when they first appeared in the Westminster Gazette,—how vastly improved they are in appearance by the more responsive medium to which they have been transferred.—The Doings of Arthur, by the Westminster Gazette Office Boy (Francis Brown) (Methuen and Co., 2s. 04. net), is sufficiently amusing, though the humour, both literary and pictorial, is a little drawn out. There are some things which please better in snippets than in bulk.
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