an obvious adaptation of Sir Philip Sidney's "that sweet enemy France." But in the realm of foreign affairs the most striking event was the Chino-Japanese war. Here _Punch's_ sympathies are clearly revealed in his cartoon, "Jap the Giant-killer," with an up-to-date fairy-tale text; in the picture of Japan as the Infant Phenomenon lecturing on the Art of War to John Bull, Jonathan, the Kaiser and other crowned heads; and in the condemnation of the jealous intervention of Russia and Germany to rob Japan, who had "played a square game," of the fruits of victory. The death of the Tsar Alexander III in November, 1894, is commemorated in a cartoon in which Peace is chief mourner. _Punch_, as we have seen, had not been enthusiastic over the gravitation of Russia towards a French alliance; but no official declaration of its existence was made until 1897, though it was mentioned publicly by M. Ribot in 1895. [Illustration: "WHO SAID--'ATROCITIES'?" (After the popular engraving) "Old as I am my feelings have not been deadened in regard to matters of such a dreadful description." (_Mr. Gladstone's Birthday speech at Hawarden on the Armenian atrocities_.)] [Sidenote: _The Seven Lord Roseberys_] The Rosebery Cabinet resigned in June, 1895. _Punch's_ admiration for Lord Rosebery had steadily waned during his brief tenure of the Premiership, and distrust of his versatility is revealed in the versified comment on Mr. St. Loe Strachey's article in the _Nineteenth Century_. There the "Seven Ages of Rosebery" are traced, in the manner of Jaques, from the Home Ruler onward through the phase of London County Council chairman to Premier, and Sphinx _à la_ Dizzy, ending:-- Last scene of all That ends this strange eventful history, Newmarket Rosebery, _Ladas_-owner, Lord-- _Sans_ grit, _sans_ nous, _sans_ go, _sans_ everything.