“Oh, the pity of it!”] [Illustration: _August, 1898._ Bismarck.] [Illustration: _May, 1898._ Honour à la Russe. BRITISH LION. “What! Not come in here! Why, you gave me your word!” RUSSIAN BEAR. “My friend! HOW you misunderstand me!” BRITISH LION. “Do I! All right! NEVER NO MORE!”] [Illustration: _July, 1898._ Our Masters’ Masters. NEWSPAPER HAWKER. “Shout away, Bill! We’re safe enough as long as we votes ‘Progressive’!!”] [Illustration: _September, 1898._ Khartoum! Monday, January 26, 1885. Friday, September 2, 1898.] [Illustration: _November, 1898._ A Fixture.] [Illustration: _December, 1898._ Under the Mistletoe. MISS WILHELMINA HARCOURT (to MISS JOANNA MORLEY). “Really, my dear, I don’t think it seems much use our staying here any longer.... They won’t come!”] [Illustration: _January, 1899._ A New Year’s Greeting.] [Illustration: _January, 1899._ Diogenes-Morley. (In search of a genuine Liberal.) D.-M. “Can’t see one anywhere.” [_Gives it up._] [Illustration: _August, 1899._ A Free Hand! HARTHUR B. (to the Butler). “Well, thank ’Evins, Mr. Salisbury, they’ve all left the ’Ouse!” JOE (the Buttons). “Now we can do just as we like, and no questions arst.”] [Illustration: _August, 1899._ Open at Last! RUSSIAN BEAR (politely). “Come in, Miss. How COULD I keep my door closed against YOU!”] [Illustration: _October, 1899._ Plain English. JOHN BULL (to Boer). “As you WILL fight, you shall have it. THIS time it’s a fight to a finish.”] [Illustration: _March, 1900._ Who said “Dead”?] [Illustration: _March, 1900._ Full of Resource. PRESIDENT KRUGER (reading the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech on the Budget debate):—“I am not going to bind myself as to what I will do on the termination of the War. I look first to the Transvaal.” “Oh, DOES he? I know what I’M going to do on the termination of the war. I’M going through the BANKRUPTCY COURT!”] [Illustration: _April, 1900._ Good Wishes!] [Illustration: _July, 1900._ The Avenger!] [Illustration: _May, 1900._ The Imperial Dispensary. THE KANGAROO. “I’ve got a sort of—er—feeling of oppression. My doctor at home gave me that Prescription!” MR. CHAMBERLAIN (Colonial Chemist and Druggist according to the British Pharmacopœia). “‘Abolition of Appeal to Privy Council’—of course, I COULD make it up for you, but I think I can give you something that will exactly suit your constitution!”] [Illustration: _June, 1900._ Shifting his Capital.] [Illustration: _August, 1900._ In the Movement. OOM PAUL (to himself). “Shifting her Capital? My idea!”] [Illustration: _September, 1900._ Reporting Himself. You that answered England’s call At the darkest of the night, Come and take your coronal Won in many a gallant fight! She that armed your eager ranks, She from whom you have your name, London’s city yields you thanks For your gift of added fame!]