BY ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE and FREDERIC TABER COOPER PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 1904 Copyright , 1903, 1904 By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY BURR PRINTING HOUSE NEW YORK PART I. THE NAPOLEONIC ERA PART II. FROM WATERLOO THROUGH THE CRIMEAN WAR PART III. THE CIVIL AND FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WARS PART IV. THE END OF THE CENTURY PART II. FROM WATERLOO THROUGH THE CRIMEAN WAR PART III. THE CIVIL AND FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WARS PART IV. THE END OF THE CENTURY...

While the impulse to satirize public men in picture is probably as old as satiric verse, if not older, the political cartoon, as an effective agent in molding public opinion, is essentially a product of modern conditions and methods. As with the campaign song, its success depends upon its timeliness, upon the ability to seize upon a critical moment, a burning question of the hour, and anticipate the outcome while public excitement is still at a white heat. But unlike satiric verse, it is depende

"Restitution: Or, to Each his Share." From a colored stamp of the period. With the downfall of Napoleon the Gillray school of caricature came to an abrupt and very natural close. It was a school born of fear and nurtured upon rancor—a school that indulged freely in obscenity and sacrilege, and did not hesitate to stoop to kick the fallen hero, to heap insult and ignominy upon Napoleon in his exile. Only during a great world crisis, a death struggle of nations, could popular opinion have tolerate

In this country the political cartoon, which practically began with William Charles's parodies upon Gillray, developed in a fitful and spasmodic fashion until about the middle of the century. Their basis was the Gillray group of many figures, and they had also much of the Gillray coarseness and indecency, with a minimum of artistic skill. They were mostly lithographs of the crudest sort, designed to pass from hand to hand, or to be tacked up on the wall. It was not until the first administration

During the period covered by the present chapter the foundation of the two leading American comic weeklies, Puck and Judge , the former in 1877 and the latter in 1881, led to a distinct advance in political caricature in this country. It also made it possible for the first time to draw an intelligent comparison between the tendencies of caricature in England and in America. No one can look over the early files of Puck and Judge and compare them with Punch for the corresponding years without bein