" We'll ravage and rob, well bombard and well bully,"
we are not surprised. We are used to this sort of thing from the poet ; but the draughtsman has a better reputation, and we are sorry to see him encouraging such nonsense. The fact is that it is a very unequal alliance. There is not much wit in the "rhyme," but the "line" is always good.—We must notice at the same time the reprint of "F. C. G.'s " admirable cartoons from the Westminster Gazette,—Political Caricatures, 1904 (E. Arnold, 6s. net). It is no exaggeration to say that "F. C. G." shows a genius for political caricature which has never been sur- passed. His words are as clever as his pictures are funny. Very often the picture and the words taken together crystallise, and also clarify, a most intricate political situation far better than could a hundred leading articles. But though "F. C. G." hits so
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