[Illustration: _February, 1867._ J. A. ROEBUCK. E. HORSMAN. T. HUGHES. LORD CRANBORNE. S. H. WALPOLE. SIR JOHN PAKINGTON. LORD STANLEY. R. LOWE. J. S. MILL. LORD JOHN RUSSEL. W. E. GLADSTONE. EARL OF DERBY. B. DISRAELI. JOHN BRIGHT. Gladiators preparing for the Arena.] [Illustration: _January, 1870._ “Onward!”] [Illustration: _September, 1870._ France, Sept. 4, 1870. “Aux armes, Citoyens; Formez vos bataillons!” _The “Marseillaise.”_] [Illustration: _July, 1870._ A Vision on the Way. “BEWARE!”] [Illustration: _October, 1870._ Versailles, Oct. 5, 1870. GHOST OF LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH (to GHOST OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST). “Is this the end of ‘All the Glories?’”] [Illustration: _July, 1871._ Ajax Defying the Lightning.] [Illustration: _March, 1871._ “Væ Victis!” Paris, March 1st, 1871.] [Illustration: _December, 1871._ Suspense.] [Illustration: _September, 1872._ The Loving Cup. “In this we bury all unkindness!”—SHAKSPEARE.] [Illustration: _February, 1874._ Paradise and the Peri. “Joy, joy for ever! My task is done— The gates are passed, and Heaven is won!” _Lalla Rookh._] [Illustration: _March, 1874._ Dearly Bought. SIR GARNET. “It don’t look much, Madam, but it has cost good money, and better lives.” BRITANNIA. “And but for you, Sir Garnet, might have cost more of both!”] [Illustration: _December, 1874._ The Damp Roman Candle. PAPA PIUS. “But it won’t go off!”] [Illustration: _December, 1875._ “Mosé in Egitto!!!”] [Illustration: _June, 1875._ Waiting to be Won.] [Illustration: _November, 1877._ Stuck in the Mud. M. LE MARÉCHAL (loq.). “J’y suis! J’y reste!” (?)] [Illustration: _August, 1878._ The “Pas de Deux!” (From the “Scène de Triomphe” in the Grand Anglo-Turkish Ballet d’Action.)] [Illustration: _February, 1880._ Imperium et Libertas! (Russ. Translation.)] [Illustration: _May, 1881._ The School of Musketry. BOER (to F. M. H. R. H. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF). “I say, Dook! You don’t happen to want a practical ‘Musketry Instructor,’ do you?”] [Illustration: _October, 1881._ A Common Sorrow.] [Illustration: _August, 1881._ “Out of the Wood!”] [Illustration: _December, 1882._ Change of Address. “For Despatch of Business.” Mr. PUNCH (to Themis). “Well, Madam, now that your New Establishment is open, I trust the system you mean to adopt is—Low Charges and no Delays.”] [Illustration: _February, 1883._ On the Trail.] [Illustration: _November, 1883._ Snubbed! MOSSOO (aside). “Ha!—with my hated Rival! Why was I so rude to her?!”] [Illustration: _April, 1884._ “Mirage.” GENERAL GORDON.... “What is it that I seem to see Across the sand waste? Is it the quick gleam Of English steel, or but a desert-dream? Help—or that last illusion of distress, The mocking Mirage of the wilderness?”]