Mr. Will Dyson's work as a cartoonist first became popular
in the Socialist paper, the Daily Herald, now published weekly as the Herald. He has lately been sharpening his pencil into a sword, and instead of Cosmopolitan Capitalism be has chosen for his victim Prussian Militarism. The result is now before us in the shape of a volume containing a score of Huller Cartoons, with a Preface by Mr. H. G. Wells (Stanley Paul and Co., 2s. net). We need not comment upon the obviously brilliant qualities of Mr. Dyson's draughtsmanship. It may, however, be worth while to point out that both his aesthetic ideals and his technique are purely derivative, and that they are derived, by a curious stroke of irony, from the very %altar that they criticize so fiercely. Every one of these cartoons seems to have leapt straight from the pages of Simplicissimus.
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