By Grandjouan (_Le Rire Rouge_). [Illustration: XL.] XLI. GOTT MIT UNS. "What would they have left Him if He had not been with them?" _Le Rire Rouge._ [Illustration: XLI.] XLII. & XLIII. Steinlen was once known best for his black cats—thin, rather wicked cats, prowling and hungry, and with inscrutable thoughts of their own. His fame grew, his scope widened and deepened, but never had he probed so deep nor risen so high as he has done since the war took him from his observation of social traits and concentrated him on the nobler aspects of mankind—and especially womankind. These two drawings are from a series which they worthily represent: "National Aid" and "Glory." [Illustration: XLII.] [Illustration: XLIII.] XLIV. KAISER BONNOT, by H. A. Ibels. The war has not obliterated so completely the life that went before it, that we have forgotten the Motor Bandits, headed by Bonnot, who terrorised Paris by their audacity for many weeks. Had this drawing not been a likeness of the Kaiser it would still have been a wonderful delineation of the apache, his reckless soul showing through every inch of his stealthy body. [Illustration: XLIV. Kaiser - Bonnot XLIV.] XLV. DAVID AND GOLIATH, by Paul Iribe. This drawing formed the cover of the first number of _Le Mot_, a short-lived but most interesting penny paper published in Paris during the war. [Illustration: XLV. David et Goliath] XLVI. THE FAILURE, by Sem. "After the Battle of the Marne, more than 50,000 German corpses were counted"—(The Papers). _Le Mot._ [Illustration: LE RATÉ. après la bataille de la Marne on a compté plus de 80.000 cadavres allemands... (LES JOURNAUX). XLVI.] (A Franco-Russian Drawing.) XLVII. This drawing by Bakst, which appeared in _Le Mot_, bears the following legend: "Leon Bakst, the great Russian painter, promises very soon, he says: From the Carpathians to Berlin a bound in the style of the Russian ballets, to the great stupefaction of those hounds of Germans and Austrians." [Illustration: _Leon Bakst, le grand peintre russe, nous promet pour bientôt, dit-il: "Des Karpathes a Berlin, un bond dans le style des Ballets Russes, a la grande stupeur de ces chiens d'Allemands et d'Autrichiens."_ XLVII.] XLVIII. The Empress Eugènie has turned her house into a military hospital. "Do you know where we are, Jimmy?" "The nurse told me that it's the house of a lady who has lost her son in the war." From _Le Mot_. [Illustration: L'IMPERATRICE EUGENIE A TRANSFORME SA RESIDENCE DE FARNBOROUGH HILL EN HOPITAL MILITAIRE. —Savez-vous chez qui nous sommes Jimmy? —La nurse m'a dit que c'était chez une dame qui a perdu son fils à la guerre. XLVIII.] XLIX. THE HOSTAGES, by A. Hermann-Paul. From a woodcut published by the Librarie de l'Estampe, 68 Chaussée d'Antin, Paris. [Illustration: XLIX.] FOUR POSTCARDS