Nobody could congratulate Mother Turk and Father Ferdinand on the son (Turco-Bulgar Agreement) Doctor Kaiser has just helped into the world. It would hardly be tactful for the closest friend to hazard a statement that it favoured either parent. [Illustration: XXVI.] A POLISH CARTOONIST XXVII. M. d'Ostoya, the well-known Polish artist, has published in Paris, during the war, a very strong series of drawings, both in colour and in black. Of this series the two shown here are among the best-contrasted. Says the Prussian Officer: "Who is it who commands here? You, a simple little Jew, or I—who have thirteen quarterings of nobility?" [Illustration: Gott mit uns! Qui est-ce qui commande ici, toi qui n'es qu'un simple petit juif ou moi qui possède treize quartiers de noblesse? XXVII.] XXVIII. A DINNER AT HEADQUARTERS. "A pig's head was also served, ornamented with laurel-leaves—for in Germany it is customary to crown pigs with laurel." Heinrich Heine, _Germania_. [Illustration: Un diner au Quartier Général ... On servit aussi une tête de porc ornée de feuilles de laurier, car en Allemagne on a l'habitude de couronner de laurier le front des cochons Henri Heine, Germania XXVIII.] FRENCH CARTOONS XXIX. Poulbot is the interpreter of French childhood, and in that capacity his pencil, before August 1914, had given infinite pleasure. But pleasure ceased to be a very important pre-occupation in August, 1914, and even Poulbot's sympathetic pencil lent itself to horror as easily as to mirth. This drawing appeared in _l'Anti-Boche_, of Paris. "Don't be frightened, kill her—I've got hold of her," runs the legend. [Illustration: —N'aie pas peur, tue-la, j'la tiens. XXIX.] XXX. When the Zeppelins first came to Paris, public interest was immense, and children were wakened that they might not miss the sight. This drawing by Baldo from _l'Anti-Boche_, is not at all exaggerated. "It looks like a sausage!" "Oh, no!" cries the child, "if it had been a sausage the Boches would have eaten it long ago." [Illustration: XXX.] XXXI. THE GERMAN ATROCITIES. This was one of the earliest coloured prints published in Paris during the war, and formed part of a cheap series, issued at a few sous each, and printed in colours the most brilliant and most naïve. The little boy of seven who was shot for levelling his wooden gun in play at the German invaders was a very favourite theme with all French artists, from Véber downwards. The incident is alleged to have taken place in the village of Magny, Alsace. [Illustration: LES ATROCITÉS ALLEMANDES LES ALLEMANDS TUENT UN ENFANT DE 7 ANS QUI LES AVAIT MIS EN JOUE AVEC SON FUSIL DE BOIS