AN ADVENTUREIN JAVA

How a British Midshipman's Peril Was Averted by aMalay Princess.

BY IDA.N O'CONNELL.

The anchor of her H. M.R. Pelorus hadhardly found the bottom of Anjer Headone pleasant morning inJune, 1865, beforeshe was surrounded with a bumboat fleet.

'Nice monk, gentlemen, nice monk!Only one shilling! Mongoose, mongoose,lovely mongoose. Sweet potato, pomolo,banana, plantain, yams," were the shoutsof the Malay boatmen as they clusteredaround the ship prepared to reap a richharvest. And they were not disappointed,for the waist ofthe ship intwenty minuteslooked like a vegetable and food marketWith monkey, mongoose and a lot of birds•with the most brilliant plumage thrown in.

We were to cruise about the Straits ofSunda and the China seas in search ofpiratical junks, which were at that timevery bold and troublesome in those waters.In the gunroom mess, which numberedeight all told, was a young Welshmannamed Daniels, who was my particularchum. We had served in the AustralianBquad together, we had shared the penal-ties of many an escapade, and it severaltimes happened that whileIwas astride ofthe niizzen-topmast crosstrees, .Midship-man Daniels grinned at me from the main.He was an enthusiastic, light-hearted man,and though as full of mischief as amonkey is of tricks, was withal a goodand efficient officer.

We were all impatient to stretch our legsashore and curious to explore the land ofthe deadly Upas. Java is v country so in-tensely tropical that every form of lifeandplant characteristic of the tropics has therean exaggerated development. The nextmorning Daniels and myself went ashore.The town. Anjer, since destroyed by anearthquake, was at that period a most in-teresting place. Itwas approached by anarrow estuary having on one side the

European settlement and on the other theMalay village. Itwas a Dutch possession,and the Dutch soldiers we saw were alto-

fether unlike that typical Mynheer VanMink of eood and portly presence. They

\u25a0were as lean as a downcast Yankee, andtheir clothes hung about them much toolarge for their heat-worn bodies. The firstthine when we stepped off the little jettyof the Dutch town was to inquire wherewe could have a good, comfortable shorebreakfast. This we asked a stout red-. faced looking fellow who had watchedour boat come alongside.

"1 will answer that question verypromptly, gentlemen, if you will permit•*me," he said, "by inviting you to break-fast with me. Iam a countryman ofyours and a merchant, residing inBatav'ia,at the side of the island, and Iwill con-eider ita compliment if you willhonor meby being my guests."

"We readily assented, and our Batavmnfriend took us through the town. Eachcitizen had two houses, one of red brickfor winter habitation, and the other ofbamboo forsummer use. Among the treesabove our heads troops of monkeysgamboled and chattered, for the simianis a valuable article of commerce, and is

encouraged and made to feel quite athome among the abodes of civilization.

The heat as we walked toward the bam-boo house, where our Batavian friend wasto eat the morning meal, was indescrib-ably intense. We bad come ashore in lightduck jackets and trousers, but our hostsuggested that itwould be more comfort-able to exchange these for pongee pajamasand grass slippers before we ventured uponthe exercise of eating. This we gratefully\u25a0lid from his wardrobe, and while theMalay servants kept the punkah swingingin the middle of the room and others wetdownithe bamboo walls outside, we ate adelicious breakfast of fish, fowl and fruit,washed down with some light Rhine wine.The conversation turned upon Malays,and my friend Daniels was curious abouttheir literature and traditions and oddsand ends he might be able to pick up forhis museum.

"Ishould like above all things," he} Baid, "to get a krisse, a genuine Malay

krisse, for1have seen lots of bogus ones,but never, Ithink, the real thing.""Ithink you will find itdifficult," said

the Batavian, "forour Malays here esteemtheir weapons very highly and on most ofthem you will perceive - the carven linea-ments of their household gods."

"Well, divinities or no divinities,"laughed Daniels, "Ishall not leave Anjer-without a krisse." •\u25a0'stfHt*

"You'd better be careful." said the Ba-tavian. "Those little fellows are verytierce and murderous when anything per-tains to their religious affairs."

After feoffee such as one rarely tastes

outside a coffee country, our good-naturedentertainer proposed to escort us over theMalay town. At one of the best-lookinghuts the Batavian called out and a younggirlappeared. She was one of the most

beautiful creatures Iever beheld, and shestood at the door of this hut impassive as abronze statue while the Batavian, in herown language, asked permission to exam-ine the interior.

"By Jovp!"saidpaniels,"isn't that a stun-ning girl?" At his voice the Malay beautyturned and regarded him closely. Icanrecall the picture now

—the girl, looking

witha surprised air at the young officer.who, with his cap perched on the back ofhis head, a mass of curls clustering overhis sun-bnrned forehead, his well-cut,handsome features and his merry laughingeyes, was a graml specimen of the well-born, frank Englishman. She evidentlyunderstood that there was a complimentin Daniels' remark, for she smiled at himpleasantly.

"Shake hands," said Daniels, extendinghis own, and the village beauty laid herpalm confidingly inhis, and began to ex-amine the rings on his finger withchildishcuriosity.

"Nice* very nice," she said, pointing to aplain gold circlet.

"Oh, you speak English?" said Daniels."Yes. one little," rejoined the chief's

daughter, for such our guide informed usshe was.

"Then you shall have this ring," saidDaniels, and as he detached it from histinger and placed it on lers he laughinglyadded, "With this rim: 1 thee wed."

The girl had evidently some compre-hension of the significance of the gesture.for she looked down in an embarrassedsort of way at the ring, and then inDaniels' face, as ifto inquire what all thismeant. She was about to return the ringto him, but Daniels witha gentle gestureindicated that it was hers. Again she

|looked at him with a curious, inquiring,expression on her face, butIsaid :"Oh, come along, Daniels, belay this flir-

tation; ifwe stay here much longer youwill be endowing this maiden with your

j watch and all your worldly goods."We had not proceeded very far down the

istreet when a messenger from the other\u25a0 town told the Batavian that somebodyiwanted to see him on business. PromisingIto rejoin us shortly he crossed the estuaryand we continued "ourramble along.

"There's a krisse Ishould like to have,"isaid Daniels, as a lithe young native walked]rapidly down the street with one of the

weapons at his side. We halted him, andDaniels endeavored to explain to him thathe wanted to buy the krisse, but the Malayeither would not or could not understand.

The midshipman took out several Mexi-can dollars, and, pointing to the horse,offered them to the native. The lattershook his head and smiled good-naturedly.Daniels, concluding that the sum was notsufficient, displayed some more coins, butagain the native smiled and shook hishead. Then the sailor got impatient andplucked the weapon rudely from the handsof its owner.

"Here you are," he said, shoving fivedollars in his hand. "This old piece ofiron and wood can't be worth any more."

The Malay made a grasp for his knife,but Daniels struck him a sharp"^low acrossthe chest, which staggered him. Iremon-strated and was about endeavoring to con-ciliate the Malay, when, with a malignantglance at Daniels and muttering some-thing in his own language, he walkedsmartly in the opposite direction.

"I'm afraid we're iroing to have sometrouble from this, Daniels," Isaid. "Yousee the black fellow has got his householdgod carved on this hilt,and, unless Imis-take, you shall hear more about your curio.And see, he has thrown the money in thestreet. Trust me that fellow certainlymeans mischief."

"Well, it can't be helped now, Isup-pose," said Daniels. "Idon't see wherethe beggar's disappeared to, or Iwouldcall after him. We will see our Batavianfriend and have him fix the matter up."

Strolling leisurely along and observingthe quaint and interesting things about us,we awaited the return of our host of themorning.

"By Jove! What's going on up there?"pointing to a crowd that had assembledsome sixty yards away, cried Daniels."I'm blest if they're not holding somekind of a meetiug.and my friend of thekris is in the middle of them, makingsome kind of a speecn. Ibelieve."

"We're going to have trouble, Daniels,to a dead certainty," said I. "That fellowis getting up an indignation meeting and.

they will attack us before we get to theboat landing."

Fortunately we had taken the advice ofan old quartermaster in the morning, whohad been among those islands before. Hetold us that the Malays were a treacherouslot and that we would be foolish to goashore unarmed. Although we had no ap-prehension of any trouble the idea that wemight possibly get into the woods and seesomething to shoot at had more weightthan the sailor's warning, so we hadslipped our revolvers on toour sword belts.As the crowd came angrily toward usthere could be no mistake about their in-tentions. They were undoubtedly hostile.We looked around the long street forafriendly sail, but not a soul hove insight."I fancy we'll have to engage the

enemy's fleet alone and unsupported,"laughed Daniels.

"1don't think it's anylaughing matter,"said I,"hut about one thing Icharge youto be careful. Do not shoot until there isabsolute necessity for it. We may keepthose fellows off with our swords, butshould we be compelled to killthem, andeven get on board all right, think of thecourt-martial behind us.""

On they came, shouting and gesticulat-ing, and when they were within abouttwenty feet of us we drew our swords.Every fellow was armed with a kris,which he flourished viciously, as iflongingto have the carving of two plump British-ers. Our bold front checked them for amoment, but as it was a case of about sixto one they plucked up courage and madeanother advance.

"Now for our pistols." Isaid toDaniels,"but don't fire until they are close uponus."

The sight of the revolver-barrels was toomuch for Malay valor, and the army beata rapid and undignified retreat. We lostno time ourselves ingetting to the landing,where we found our Batavian acquaintance.We related the adventure to him and helooked serious. He dined at our mess thatevening and told us many things about theMalay character, showing that they wereof a very treacherous and revengeful na-ture.

•1 should warn you," he said, "whenyou're ashore after dark to keep a cautiouslookout, because in carrying off that krisyou have offended, not alone the owner,but. allhis relations, and you have beenjudged guilty of sacrilege."

A few days after this Daniels andthe chaplain went on a botanizingexpedition, which my duties onboard prevented me from joining.Nijiht, the swift, tropical night, came on,and Ibegan to grow uneasy. The chap-lain had left word that if he was not at thelanding at 8 o'clock the ship's boat neednot wait for nim, as he and Daniels wouldcome on in one of the natives' canoes.The incident of the kris made me un-comffcrtable, and when two bells went Icalled a first cutter, after explainingthe situation and obtaining per-mission from the first lieutenant.Noiselessly as possible we made thelanding, and Coxhedge, a brother midship-man, and also an intimate friend of Dan-iels, accompanied me up the long street ofthe native village. Ihad ordered the cox-swain if he heard me blow my whistletwice to come to the spot as quickly aspossible withhis men. All was silent inthe village, and when Igot to the top ofthe long street and not a being was to beseen abroad Ifelt considerably puzzled asto what to do next. It would have beenmanifestly absurd just then to search everyhouse in the village, and, besides, "Ihad no authority for such a proceeding.While Coxhedge and myself were holdinga council of war and feeling decidedly un-comfortable a figure glided from behind acocoa palm and advanced toward us. Re-membering the Batavian's comments onthe Malay character Idrew my pistol andstepped back a few paces.

'Holdon," whispered Coxhedge, "itis agirl.'

She came rapidly toward us, and by thebright starlight 1 recognized the prettyface of the girl to whom Daniels hadgiven the ring. She recognized me also,and, putting her tinger to her throat, shewhispered, "Come; they kill." Thenshook her head, putting up two fingers.

"I'll tell you what she means, Cox-hedge," Isaid. "She means that we arenot strong enough. Hurry back to thelanding-place as quick as you can andbring the boat's crew up with you. Itlooks as ifwe were going to have some badwork."

Coxhedge darted off likea greyhound,and by the most eloquent and expressivegestures the girl explained to me thatDaniels and the parson were confined ina hut close by and that they were going tokillDaniels for desecrating the kris andsend the parson to prison or up thecountry. By this time Coxhedge had re-turned with the men, who were grinningal) over at the prospect of a scrini-mace. We surrounded the house indicatedby the girl, who drew herself somedistance aside. One whack of the burlycoxswain's fist burst the door in, and thereon the floor lay Daniels and the chaplain,tightly bound with naanilla ropes andguarded by three Malays, but not gagged.

Daniels had been cursing ever since theircapture, the chaplain told me afterward,which occurred just as they were enteringthe village to go to the boat landing threehours before. Their guards made no showof resistance, and for my part 1made noattempt to restrain our fellows from givingthem a sound thrashing with our boat-stretchers. As we brought the rescuedheroes from the cabin Itold Daniels howIdiscovered what had befallen him, andhe declared on the spot that he wouldmarry the girl offhand and wanted to re-main back and thank her, but Iinsistedupon getting out of the place as quickly aspossible, and when we reached the boatlanding there stood our Malay heroine.Daniels clasped her ivhis arms without amoment's hesitation, and swore that ifshecame aboard the ship with him he shouldmarry her there and then.

""Why not have the ceremony take placehere?" said I,"his reverence is handy andyou might as wellhave the thing over atonce.""

I'lltre hanged if Idon't, if she'll haveme," cried Daniels, and Imust say themaiden looked very willing.

On the followingday the ship was ran-sacked for beads and trinkets and thingswhich might b« acceptable to the chief'sdaughter. She was taken on board and allthe youngsters at once fell in love withher. And when three weeks afterward wesailed away for the Gulf of Saghalien, thelast figure we descried on the landing wasthe poor, dusky Ariadne waving her handto her Welsh sweetheart.

"WITH THIS KINGITHEE WED."

LOOKINGFOR HEIRS.The Lord Mayor of London Assists an

Enterprising American in a Busi-ness Venture.

John Wilson, an Englishman keeping asecond-hand store, died in 1894, leaving anestate worth several thousand dollars, butno will nor known heirs. 3. H. Burke of2524 Clay street caw an opportunity for astroke of business. He at once put him-self in communication with different peo-ple with the idea of findingan heir. Amongothers he wrote to the LordMayor of Lon-don, hoping to get some gratuitous adver-tising. As a result the following notice ap-peared in the London Westminster Gazette:

An Owner fob a Forttnk Wanted.— The LordMayor has received a letter from J. H.Burke of205 Franklin street, San Kranei.'co. stating thatJohn Henry Bernard Wilson, an Englishman,died intestate there in June last, leaving a con-siderable sum of money, which, in default ofheirs, will escheat to the State of California.The deceased was born in London about 1833,and was in the royal navy for a short period.He settled in San Francisco in 1864, first as aboot and shoemaker, and latterly as the keeperof ahardware store. Itis believed he has a sisterliving. The Lord Mayor's correspondent adds:"Iknow of no way of giving this money intothe hands of Wilson's relatives except throughyour kind assistance. Will you do us all thekindness to ask the newspapers of London togive publicity to the tacts above stated?"

Several letters of inquiry have been re-ceived by Mr.Burke. No heir has as yetbeen discovered.

The Sultan of Morocco likes to look onthe faces of his foes

—when they are dead.

He lately received at Fez two cartloads ofsalted human heads, the remains of Ra-hauma rebels. They are to adorn the citywalls.

TO MEET AT SANTA CRUZComing Eighth Grand Council

of the Catholic Ladies'Aid Society.

The List of Delegates Elected—Re-ports of the Various

Branches.

The board of directors of the CatholicLadies' Aid Society will hold its eighthGrand Council at the Hotel del Mar, SantaCruz, on Wednesday, the 26th inst. Thiswillbe the largest council in point of at-tendance of any yet held, as a number ofnew branches were organized during theyear.

The proceedings will be opened onWednesday morning with a solemn highmass in the Church of the Holy Cross,Santa Cruz. As this ia a part of BishopMontgomery's diocese itis the expectationof the ladies that he willbe present andaddress them.

The reports of the various branches sofar received by Miss Margaret Curtis, grandsecretar3% indicate an increase inmember-ship over last year, besides greater dis-bursements of all kinds of relief. TheHotel del Mar property, which is managedby a separate board, subordinate to theregular board of directors, willalso show abalance on the right side of the ledger.The ladies are therefore well pleased withthe year's work.

Many of the delegates are already on theground. The railroad company hasgranted a one and a third rate ticket, gooduntil June 30. This rate is open to allmembers of the order on receipt of theproper blanks from the grand secretary.

The delegates and alternates who willattend the Grand Council are as follows:

No.1. Oakland— Delegates, Mrs. H. Coleman,Miss Maggie Smith. Alternates, Miss MaryGannon, Miss Aunie Porter.

Xo. ii,San Francisco—

Delegates, Mrs. H. Mol-loy, Miss K.Miles. Alternates, Mrs. M. Henry,Mrs. S. Miller.

No. 3, Alameda— Delegates, Mrs. M. McStay,Miss Anna Weir. Alternates, Miss Annie Kear-ney, Mrs.Quill.

No. 4, San Francisco— Delegates, Miss LizzieKeating, Mrs. James Looney. Alternates, MissMary McCarthy, Miss Annie Brennan.

No. 6, Gilroy—

Delegates, Miss L.E. Ryan,Miss Katie Cullen. Alternates, Miss KateSchaeffer, Miss Hanora O'Connor.

No. 8, San Francisco— Delegates, Miss AnnieO'Conuor, Miss Louise Knorp. Alternates,Miss M. Fortune, Mrs. \V.Kelly.

No. 10, San Francisco— Delegates, Miss MaryFleming, Mrs. C. Harrigan. Alternates, Mrs.Faust, Miss Josie Moran.

No.11,San Francisco— Delegates, Miss EmmaRussell, Miss Annie Collins. Alternates, MissElla O'Neil, Miss Tessie Burns.

No,13, Santa Cruz— Delegates, Mrs. K.Peter-son, Mrs. Emma Mangels. Alternates, Mrs.James Tait, Miss Minnie Wint.

No.17, San Luis Obispo—Delegates,Mrs.Orte-gay, Miss Mary Kelly. Alternates, Mrs. Voll-mer, Mrs. Pinho.

No.18,South San Francisco—

Delegates, MissFlorence Fanning, Miss Mary McDonough.Alternates, Miss Mary Ford, Miss Annie Mc-Donough.

No. 19, San Francisco—

Delegates, Eliza A.Macdonald, Miss Olive Libby. Alternates,Mrs.James Adtms, Mrs. K.Langdon.

No. 20, San Francisco— Delegates, Miss Hand,Miss Grennan. Alternates, Mrs. Hansen, Mrs.Donnelly.

No. 20, Hollister—

Delegates, Miss MarySmyth, Miss Mary Patterson. Alternates, Mrs.J. Nibley, Miss Kate Sullivan.

No. 22, Santa Rosa— Delegates, Mrs. T. P.Keegan, Miss Annie Burnett. Alternates, Mrs.J. Keegan, Mrs. M.Mulvehill.

No. 23, Petaluma— Miss Kate Sullivan. Alter-nate, Miss Addie Brandon.

DENTISTS TO MEET.A Convention Will Be Held at the

Academy of Sciences onJuly 9.

The California State Dental Associationwillcelebrate the twenty-fifth anniversaryof its foundation on July 9 and for fourdays thereafter. A convention will beheld at the Academy of Sciences.

Circulars have been issued by PresidentLuther A.Teague to ail dentists In theState calling their attention to the matterand soliciting their co-operation.

Committees were appointed as follow:Pathology and surgery— W. J. Younger, J. L.

Asay,L. B. Holmes, Frank Burton, J. G. Par-sons, S. H. Roberts.

Therapeutics— W. A. Knowles, W. F. Sharp,J. G.Parker, F.F. Tibbits, B.B. Brewer, H. E.Knox.

Dental Chemistry— H.R.Morton, Max SichelSr., I.W. Hays Jr., H.P. Carlton. J.H.Hatch.

Operative dentistry—L.L. Dnnbar, Miss C.M.McElroy,F. Teague, George Van Orden, A.F.Merriman Jr., C. R. Sabiu.

Mechanical dentistry— T. N.Iplehart, GeorgeMcCowen, Warren Decrow. A.H.Millberry,D.Cave, J. C. Cummings.

Dental histology—S. E. Knowles, A. M.Barker, A.Cane, J. V. Twist,F. W. Bliss, H. G.Richards.

Dental literature and education— C. L. God-dard, F.H.Metcalf, A. C. Hart, \V.G. Craig, O.Carpenter, C. H.Farman.

Microscopy— L.Van Orden, M. A. Greenlaw,A.H. Mories, J. J. Giusti, W. I.Prather.

Orthodontia— J. W. LundDorg, F. J. Lane, E.A. L,undy, T.H. Hill,Thomas Morffew, JamesE. Combs.

Clinics— Frank C. Pague, C. W. Hibbard, H.D.Boyes, J. M.Dunn, A.F.Merriman Sr.

Committee of arrangements—

R. H. Cool, M.J.Dunn, D.R.Taggart, A.Warner, W. R.Meek,W. A. Moore.

Programme— W. F.Lewis.The delegates to the convention will be

entertained by the Stomatological Club inits rooms at Stockton and Post streets. Aprogramme, including an excursion and abanquet, is in course of preparation.

NAPOLEON and

theCARICATURISTS.Notable Work of Gillray, Cruikshank and Rowlandson.

PARIS, France, May 25.—From the ab-dication to tne return from Elba, and fromWaterloo to 1830, anti-Napoleonic carica-ture in France was so coarse and so desti-tute of all art that it is really not worthnoticing. During these two periods theBourbon Government openly favored thisproduction of anonymous caricatures,vilely colored and with grossly insultingcommentaries, by the appearance of whichthey hoped the Napoleon legend would beeffectually stilled.In a short time repulsive pictures of Na-

poleon were everywhere conspicuous, ahideous nightmare in the print-sellers'windows. Farewell to the Bonaparte atthe bridge of Arcola! No more of theFirst Consul crossing the Alps. No longerNapoleon appears in majesty beneath thearches of the Notre Dame or in the cathe-dral of Milan,his brows encircled by theimperial diadem or the iron crown of theLombards.

'

To the famous engravings signed by thenames of Qros, David, Isabey, Gerard andAppiani, to the popular pictures withdithyrambic legends, have succeeded in-numerable caricatures, nearly all anony-mous, of astonishing coarseness and abso-lutely devoid of art.

A fact worthy of mention is that inFrance no artist of talent consented todegrade his brush in this base campaign ofinsults against the thunder-blasted Titan.Itwas necessary that all possible means

should be used to inspire in the people ahorror even of the name of Bonaparte.

The task was certainly a difficult '>np, theeople being always ready, with the in

pstinctive generosity of their heart, to pardon the offenses of those who have accom- jplished really great things, and to forgetvery quickly sufferings by the excesses ofglory.Itis in England we must seek for really

eood caricatures of Napoleon. There artwas combined with satire, and certaincaricatures by Gillrav and Rowlandsonmight occupy a place of honor in the finestCollections of engravings.

Among the numerous caricaturists whoattacked Napoleon Gillray is by far themost celebrated. His influence on satiricpainters of his time was considerable; notonly in England, but also in France, Ger-many, Jtaly and especially in Russia hehad Innumerable imitators.

J. Gillray is par excellence the caricatur-ist of Napoleon, and he incarnates in hiswork all the hatred of England against theEmperor. Moreover, the satiric vocationwas never more imperious than in the caseof this artist. He seems to have been borninto ihe world for the purpose of ridicul-inghis contemporaries. Nobody was safefrom his attacks, and George 111 wasamong the first to experience the stings ofhis poisoned darts. Numerous are thecaricatures in which he ridicules withmerciless humor the eccentricities and theavarice of his sovereign.

British spleen was delighted with thosebitingcriticisms, but at last the court be-came displeased and a minister was com-manded tobuy the terrible pencil ofGillrav,

who, drunkard and gambler, lent himselfwith a good grace to the bargain.

One of the articles in the conventionprobably required him to turn the arrowsof his satire against "the Corsican ogre,""the Corsican plague"; for from the daythe imbecilities 01 George 111 ceased toserve as a butt for his raillery, Napoleonbecame his daily target. Anditmust beadmitted that his inexhaustible fancy didnot suffer from the change ofdirection.

From the coup d'etat of Brumaire until1815, the year of his death, he held on tohis victim. Itwas the unceasing attack ofthe hornet on the lion. The list of pic-tures illustrating that Homeric fight isalong one. Among the most celebrated maybe mentioned "Napoleon Putting an Endto the French Revolution," "The Inter-view Between Britannia and the FrenchCitizen." and "The Feast of Belshazzar,"in which Bonaparte, Josephine and thecourtiers are feasting on the riches of Eng-land.

On one plate, served like calf's head, isthe head of King George; on another, agigantic pie, representing the Bank ofEngland. Josephine, enormous i\nd ex-pansive (itis thus that history is written),is emptying her glass at a gulp; one of theguests is swallowing the Tower of London.But at the moment when the First Consulattacks a cake representing St. Jamespalace, three fateful words of the scripturalstory shine out on the wall, and Bonaparteshrinks back in horror, while behind himstand his trembling sisters, attired in cos-tumes of the slightest.

Then there are: "The Valley of theShadow of Death," "The Plum Pudding inDanger," "The Toreador," "The Unex-pected Meeting,". "The Castles in the Air,"etc.Ishall describe only the principal.

The subject of "The Toreador" was sug-gested to Giilray by the Spanish war.Here we see the Emperor, inmatador cos-tume, in the arena. He has broken thehead of his espada on tne shoulder of oneof the bulls,who, maddened by the wound,

stabs him with his horns. The sovereignsof Europe form the audience and contem-plate the scene withevident delight.

In the "Valley of the Shadow of Death"Napoleon is represented as entering thegloomy valley,holding inleash the North-ern bear. He encounters here the Britishlion, the terrier of Sicily, the wolf ofPortugal, and last of all Death, mountedon an Andalusian steed, witharched neck,and urging them to combat.

Some of Gillray's compositions mightbe reproached for theirobscure symbolism,in spite of the extensive explanatory notesthat coyer more than half the drawing orescape in scrolls from the mouths of thepersonages like streams of gall.

A long way after him comes GeorgeCruikshank, who is only his pale imitator,but whose "Satirical History of Napoleon,"with its colored plates, constitutes a curiousstudy in caricature.

Thomas Rowlandson completes the trin-ity; but among his numerous works, al-though entirely consecrated to the paint-ingof manners and customs, and especiallythe evil ones of his own country, Napo-leonic satire only appears by the way. Wemay mention as an example of this greatartist's work, the colored print, "The TwoKings of Terror," a title the laconic elo-quence of which forms a contrast to the in-terminable commentaries of Gillray's ob-scure designs.

Rowlandhon here represents a conferencebetween Death and Napoleon, who sit faceto face, one on a cannon, the other on adrum, in attitudes of meditation. In thebackground are battalions mingling in theshock of battle under a stormy sky. Thatis all, and yet the picture is painful in itsimpressiveness. Itis of the highest art.

There is also a series of prints, either an

onymous or signed byobscure names, pub-lished at the time of the formation of thecamp at Boulogne, in which is reflectedunder the appearance of defiance the veryreal terror spread throughout England bythe prospect of an invasion.

We may mention, also, the satiric printsexecuted at St. Helena from nature bysuch men as Marryat, Bunbury, Dodginand Crockatt, which inspite of intentionaland often grotesque exaggeration of thecharacteristic features of the model, forma valuable iconographic series.

OnJv the death of Napoleon caused thepencil to drop from the hands of the Eng-lish caricaturists, and from this moment,freed from all cause to fear, they bowedrespectfully before the coffin of theirglorious adversary, while France on theother hand, governed by the Bourbons,proteges of the Holy Alliance, aboundedin coarse prints that threw insult even onthe long and cruel agony of the great cap-tiveof St. Helena.

Gillrav, like Rowlandson, and later,George Cruikshank, inspite of the differ-ence in the historic epochs he represented,never varied the features of Napoleon inany of his designs. For the English sati-rist the Bonaparte of the Kremlin is thesame as the Bonaparte of Toulon, and onthe rock of St. Helena he is as lean andlong-haired as on the bridge of Arcola;always the same puny, raging dwarf, withlong, hooked nose, everlasting frowningbrows, thin flanks and the jaws of a madwolf; always dressed inan enormous over-coat loosely belted, and always incoherent

movement, epileptic gestures, bullying at-titudes, a continual agitation.Itis the invariable formula.InGermany caricatures of the general or

consul are rarely seen.The satirists of Dresden. Berlin, Munich

and Vienna maintain a prudent reserveuntil the disaster of 1812. After that dateGerman caricature appears in the form ofKlein's bitter and ghastly cartoons, andsoon satirical sketches are multiplied toinfinity.In nearly every case the image of Na-

poleon of declining days is nothing but arough distortion of the life-like patriot byDahling.

Less cruel than the English artists, theGerman caricaturists show us, now in theisland of Elba, now at St. Helena, a Napo-leon grotesquely accoutered, bewailing hissins, while smoking a large clay pipe; ordressed like Robinson Crusoe, contemplat-ing with profound melancholy from under

I the shade of a great umbrella legions ofrats, who are gnawing at his boots.

At times, however, German caricatureassumes a savage harshness and Napoleonthen becomes the great grave-digger, seatedwith shovel inhand on a throne made ofheaped-up skulls.

There is little to be said regarding Ital-ian caricature, which is a feeble imitationof the German. For reasons easy to under-stand itdid not appear until the close ofthe empire and then only timidly.

"L'Estampe Russe," of which the mostcurious plates have been carefully collectedby M. Rawinski, contains a considerablenumber of Napoleonic caricatures. Almostall of them have reference to the campaignof 1812.

Many are only clumsy adaptations ofGerman, and, above all, of English draw-ings, due to the audacious imagination ofthe Muscovite, Lepedeheer, who, withone stroke, upsets the order, the originalcomposition, and the spirit of the legend.

Tnen there is the series of popularsketches, which are of an infantile art andatrociously colored, but at times reflect

with extraordinary violence and bittereloquence the feelings of the Russianpeople from the passage of the Niemen tothat of the Beresina.Ihave constantly before my eyes that

emaciated Napoleon holding a review ofskeletons in the middle of a vast whiteplain. And that return to Paris, that de-parture ina sledge drawn by a pig whosewretched pace is accelerated by the lancesof the Cossacks ! He is well worth seeing—

that melancholy Napoleon in sordidrags, from whose long, very long, nosehangs stalactites of ice.

Sad and cruel images of old time, verydifferent from those which the French andRussian peoples exchange to-day withtouching confidence in the mysterious fu-ture. Armand Dayot,

Inspector dcs Beaux Arts.Copyright, 189S, by8. S. McClure, Limited.

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