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PART I. THE NAPOLEONIC ERA

• The Beginning of Political Caricature 1
• Hogarth and his Times 12
• James Gillray 19
• Bonaparte As First Consul 28
• The Emperor at his Apogee 35
• Napoleon's Waning Power 44

PART II. FROM WATERLOO THROUGH THE CRIMEAN WAR

• After the Downfall 57
• The "Poire" 65
• The Baiting of Louis-Phillipe 73
• Mayeux and Robert Macaire 90
• From Cruikshank to Leech 97
• The Beginning of Punch 101
• Retrospective 111
• '48 and the Coup d'État 119
• The Struggle in the Crimea 128

PART III. THE CIVIL AND FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WARS

• The Mexican War and Slavery 143
• Neglected Opportunities 159
• The South Secedes 166
• The Four Years' Struggle 175
• Nations and Men in Caricature 188
• The Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War 197
• The Débâcle 206

PART IV. THE END OF THE CENTURY

• The Evolution of American Caricature 231
• The Third French Republic 236
• General European Affairs 245
• Thomas Nast 255
• The American Political Campaigns of 1880 and 1884 269
• The Influence of Journalism 278
• Years of Turbulence 289
• American Parties and Platforms 309
• The Spanish-American War 330
• The Boer War and the Dreyfus Case 342
• The Men of To-day 355

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• What It Is and What Is It? Frontispiece
• French Invasion of England 3
• Nelson at the Battle of the Nile (Gillray) 5
• Bonaparte after Landing (Gillray) 6
• John Bull Taking a Luncheon (Gillray) 8
• French Consular Triumvirate (Gillray) 11
• Capture of the Danish Ships (Gillray) 14
• The Broad-Bottom Administration (Gillray) 16
• Pacific Overtures (Gillray) 19
• The Great Coronation Procession (Gillray) 21
• Napoleon and Pitt (Gillray) 23
• Armed Heroes (Gillray) 25
• The Handwriting on the Wall (Gillray) 27
• The Double-Faced Napoleon (German cartoon) 29
• The Two Kings of Terror (Rowlandson) 31
• The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver (Gillray) 33
• Napoleon's Burden (German cartoon) 36
• The French Gingerbread Baker (Gillray) 38
• The Devil and Napoleon (French cartoon) 39
• The Consultation (French cartoon) 41
• The Corsican Top in Full Flight 45
• Napoleon in the Valley of the Shadow of Death (Gillray) 47
• The Spider's Web (Volk) 48
• The Partition of the Map 49
• Napoleon's Plight (French cartoon) 50
• The Signature of Abdication (Cruikshank) 52
• The Allies' Oven (French cartoon) 54
• The New Robinson Crusoe (German cartoon) 55
• Napoleon Caged (French cartoon) 56
• Restitution 58
• Adjusting the Balance 60
• John Bull's New Batch of Ships (Charles) 62
• Russia as Mediator (Charles) 63
• The Cossack Bite (Charles) 63
• John Bull and the Alexandrians (Charles) 64
• John Bull's Troubles (Charles) 64
• The Order of the Extinguishers (French cartoon) 67
• Proudhon 68
• Digging the Grave 69
• Le Poire (Philipon) 70
• The Pious Monarch 74
• The Great Nut-Cracker 75
• Enfoncé Lafayette (Daumier) 77
• The Ship of State in Peril 79
• The Pit of Taxation (Grandville) 81
• The Question of Divorce (Daumier) 83
• The Resuscitation (Grandville) 84
• Louis Philippe as Bluebeard (Grandville) 85
• Barbarism and Cholera Invading 89
• The Raid 89
• Mayeux (Traviès) 91
• Robert Macaire (Daumier) 93
• Extinguished! 94
• Louis Philippe as Cain 95
• Laughing John—Crying John 96
• The Wellington Boot 99
• The Land of Liberty 103
• England's Admonition (Leech) 104
• The Napoleon of Peace 105
• The Sea-Serpent of 1848 107
• Europe in 1830 109
• Honoré Daumier (Benjamin) 112
• The Evolution of John Bull 115
• Joseph Prudhomme (Daumier) 116
• The Only Authorised Lamps (Vernier) 120
• Italian Cartoon of '48 121
• Napoleon le Petit (Vernier) 122
• The New Siamese Twins 123
• Louis Napoleon and Madame France 124
• The Proclamation (Gill) 125
• Split Crow in the Crimea 126
• Bursting of the Russian Bubble 130
• General Février Turned Traitor (Leech) 131
• Rochefort and His Lantern 133
• Brothers in Arms 134
• An American Cartoon on the Crimean War 136
• Theatrical Programme 138
• The British Lion's Vengeance (Tenniel) 139
• The French Porcupine (Leech) 141
• Bank-Oh's Ghost, 1837 144
• Balaam and Balaam's Ass 144
• New Map of the United States 145
• The Steeplechase for 1844 147
• Uncle Sam's Taylorifics 150
• The Mexican Commander 151
• Defense of the California Bank 153
• The Presidential Foot Race 153
• Presidential Campaign of '56 154
• No Higher Law 155
• The Fugitive Slave Law 157
• The Great Disunion Serpent 158
• Rough and Ready Locomotive Against the Field 160
• Sauce for Goose and Gander 162
• Peace (Nast) 164
• Virginia Pausing 166
• Civil War Envelopes 167
• Long Abe 168
• The Promissory Note 169
• The Great Tight Rope Feat 170
• At the Throttle 171
• The Expert Bartender 172
• The Southern Confederacy a Fact 173
• The Brighter Prospect 174
• "Why Don't you Take It?" 175
• The Old Bull Dog on the Right Track 176
• Little Mac in his Great Act 178
• The Grave of the Union 180
• The Abolition Catastrophe 181
• The Blockade 182
• Miscegenation 183
• The Confederacy in Petticoats 184
• Uncle Sam's Menagerie 185
• Protecting Free Ballot 186
• The Nation at Lincoln's Bier (Tenniel) 187
• Figures from a Triumph 189
• The Diagnosis (Cham) 190
• The Egerean Nymph (Daumier) 191
• Paul and Virginia (Gill) 192
• The First Conscript of France (Gill) 193
• The Situation (Gill) 195
• Louis Blanc (Gill) 197
• Rival Arbiters (Tenniel) 198
• The Man Who Laughs (Gill) 199
• The Man Who Thinks (Gill) 200
• "To Be or Not to Be" (Gill) 201
• Achilles in Retreat (Gill) 202
• The President of Rhodes (Daumier) 203
• A Tempest in a Glass of Water (Gill) 204
• A Duel to the Death (Tenniel) 205
• September 4th, 1870 206
• Her Baptism of Fire (Tenniel) 207
• André Gill 208
• The Marquis de Galliffet (Willette) 209
• The History of a Reign (Daumier) 210
• "This has Killed That" (Daumier) 211
• The Mousetrap and its Victims (Daumier) 211
• Prussia Annexes Alsace (Cham) 213
• Britannia's Sympathy (Cham) 214
• Adieu (Cham) 215
• Souvenirs and Regrets (Aranda) 216
• The Napoleon Mountebanks (Hadol) 217
• Prussia Introducing the New Assembly (Daumier) 219
• "Let us Eat the Prussian" (Gill) 220
• Design for a New Handbell (Daumier) 222
• Germany's Farewell 223
• Bismarck the First 224
• Trochu—1870 225
• Marshal Bazaine (Faustin) 226
• Rochefort 227
• The German Emperor Enters Paris (Régamey) 228
• Caran D'Ache 232
• Gulliver Crispi 233
• Changing the Map (Gill) 234
• Poor France! (Daumier) 237
• The Warning (Daumier) 238
• The New Year (Daumier) 239
• The Root of all Evil 240
• The Napoleonic Drama 241
• The French Political Situation (Régamey) 243
• New Crowns for Old 245
• Tightening the Grip 246
• Aeolus 247
• "L'État, C'est Moi" 248
• The Hidden Hand 249
• The Irish Frankenstein 250
• The Daring Duckling 251
• Settling the Alabama Claims 252
• Gordon Waiting at Khartoum 253
• The Gratz Brown Tag to Greeley's Coat (Nast) 256
• Thomas Nast 257
• Labour Cap and Dinner Pail (Nast) 259
• The Rag Baby (Nast) 260
• The Inflation Donkey (Nast) 261
• The Brains of Tammany (Nast) 262
• A Popular Verdict 263
• The Tattooed Columbia (Keppler) 264
• Splitting the Party 265
• The Headless Candidates 266
• On the Down Grade 267
• Forbidding the Banns (Keppler) 270
• The Wake (Keppler) 272
• A Common Sorrow 273
• Why They Dislike Him 274
• The First Tattooed Man (Gillam) 275
• A German Idea of Irish Home Rule 279
• The New National Sexton 280
• Horatius Cleveland 281
• Bernard Gillam 282
• Joseph Keppler 283
• The John Bull Octopus 285
• The Hand of Anarchy 286
• The Triple Alliance 287
• A Present-Day Lesson 290
• Gordon in Khartoum 291
• The Spurious Parnell Letters 291
• Dropping the Pilot (Tenniel) 292
• L'Enfant Terrible 293
• William Bluebeard 294
• Chinese Native Cartoon 295
• Japan in Corea 296
• Business at the Deathbed 297
• The Start for the China Cup 297
• End of the Chinese-Japanese War 298
• The Chinese Exclusion Act 299
• The Great Republican Circus (Opper) 300
• To the Rescue 301
• A Pilgrim's Progress 302
• General Boulanger 303
• The Hague Peace Conference 303
• A Fixture 304
• Group of Modern French Caricaturists 305
• The Anglo-French War Barometer 307
• Rip Van Winkle Awakes 310
• They're Off 311
• Where am I at? (Gillam) 312
• The Political Columbus (Gillam) 314
• Cleveland's Map of the United States (Gillam) 315
• Return of the Southern Flags (Gillam) 317
• The Champion Masher (Gillam) 319
• The Harrison Platform (Keppler) 320
• The Chilian Affair 322
• A Political Tam O'Shanter (Gillam) 324
• Don Quixote Bryan and the Windmill (Victor Gillam) 325
• Outing of the Anarchists 326
• To the Death 327
• The Great Weyler Ape 328
• We are the People 329
• Be Careful! It's Loaded (Victor Gillam) 331
• The Safety Valve 333
• The Latest War Bulletin (Hamilton) 334
• Spanish Cartoons of the Spanish-American War 335
• The Spanish Brute (Hamilton) 337
• Spanish Cartoons of the Spanish-American War 339
• The Rhodes Colossus (Sambourne) 342
• The Situation in South Africa (Gillam) 343
• Bloody Cartography 344
• Lady Macbeth 345
• The Flying Dutchman 346
• Oom Paul's Favorite Pastime 347
• Up against the Breastworks 348
• The Napoleon of South Africa 349
• Fire! 350
• The Last Phase of the Dreyfus Case 350
• Toward Freedom 351
• The French General's Staff 352
• Between Scylla and Charybdis 353
• Devil's Island 354
• C. G. Bush 356
• Willie and His Papa (Opper) 357
• Homer Davenport 359
• Davenport's Conception of the Trusts 361