E-text prepared by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28003-h.htm or 28003-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/0/28003/28003-h/28003-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/0/28003/28003-h.zip) SUPPLEMENT TO "PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI" SEPTEMBER 16, 1914. THE NEW RAKE'S PROGRESS Cartoons from "Punch" Illustrating the Kaiser's Career, 1888-1914. "Punch" Office, 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. * * * * * Illustration: _GERMAN KAISER._ "LET US PREY." _Sept. 9, 1914._ * * * * * Illustration: A WISE WARNING. DAEDALUS BISMARCK (_POLITICAL PARENT OF_ WILHELM ICARUS). "MY SON, OBSERVE THE MIDDLE PATH TO FLY, AND FEAR TO SINK TOO LOW, OR RISE TOO HIGH. HERE THE SUN MELTS, THERE VAPOURS DAMP YOUR FORCE, BETWEEN THE TWO EXTREMES DIRECT YOUR COURSE." "NOR ON THE BEAR, NOR ON BOOETES GAZE, NOR ON SWORD-ARM'D ORION'S DANGEROUS RAYS: BUT FOLLOW ME, THY GUIDE, WITH WATCHFUL SIGHT, AND, AS I STEER, DIRECT THY CAUTIOUS FLIGHT." OVID, _"Metamorphoses," Book VIII., Fable III._ _October 6, 1888._ * * * *** =The Kaiser is warned by the Great Chancellor.= * * * * * Illustration: L'ENFANT TERRIBLE. CHORUS IN THE STERN. "DON'T GO ON LIKE THAT--OR YOU'LL UPSET US ALL!" _May 10, 1890._ * * * *** =The Kaiser begins to alarm his fellow Rulers.= * * * * * Illustration: THE IMPERIAL JACK-IN-THE-BOX. _Chorus_ (_Everybody_). "EVERYTHING IN ORDER EVERYWHERE! O! WHAT A SURPRISE! SOLD AGAIN!" _January 30, 1892._ * * * *** =The Kaiser has a finger in every German Pie.= * * * * * Illustration: THE MODERN ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF SOUND. "WITH RAVISHED EARS, THE MONARCH HEARS, ASSUMES THE GOD, AFFECTS TO NOD, AND SEEMS TO SHAKE THE SPHERES!" _March 5, 1892._ * * * *** =The Kaiser feels his feet. This cartoon caused _Punch_ to be excluded for a while from the Imperial Palace.= * * * * * Illustration: THE STORY OF FIDGETY WILHELM. (_Up-to-date Version of "Struwwelpeter."_) "LET ME SEE IF WILHELM CAN BE A LITTLE GENTLEMAN; LET ME SEE IF HE IS ABLE TO SIT STILL FOR ONCE AT TABLE!" "BUT FIDGETY WILL HE _WON'T_ SIT STILL." JUST LIKE ANY BUCKING HORSE. "WILHELM! WE ARE GETTING CROSS!" _February 1, 1896._ * * * *** =The Kaiser worries his friends of the Triple Alliance.= * * * * * Illustration: A NEW ROLE.