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contributor,may be " edited ” and thus his meaning be qualified ; 12 the illustrator, like the interviewer,may find himself persona non grata ;13 the illustration may be used to further international hatred or friendship ,14 or to perpetuate sectional ill will,15 or to minister to national glory ; 16 it may bring danger of persecution to the

illustrator,17 or unintentionally bring undeserved discredit to the

person illustrated ;18 it may be used for propagandist purposes, as effectively as is the text.19 12 It was rumored that Raemaekers' cartoons in the New York American were thus edited, in spite of the contract that no captions or drawings should be changed. — New York Tribune, August 26, October 12, 1917. Differences of opinion between Th. Nast and G. W. Curtis are discussed

by A. B. Paine, Th. Nast, pp. 214 – 220 . 13 H. Vizetelly was commissioned by Vincent Dowling to make sketches of the coronation of Queen Victoria for Bells ' Life in London and The Ob

server. Hemade preliminary sketches of Westminster Abbey and Dowling then asked permission of the Duke of Wellington to allow him

to make a

sketch from the roof of Apsley House of the royal procession passing along Picadilly. The answer ran :

“ F. M. the Duke of Wellington has received a letter signed Vincent Dowling. “ The Duke has no knowledge of the writer of the letter, neither is he inter ested in any way in 'the Observer ' newspaper. Apsley House is not a public

building but the Duke's private residence, and he declines to allow any stranger to go upon the roof.

“ Apsley House, " June 21, 1838." Henry Vizetelly, Glances Back Through Seventy Years, I, 156. 14 The frequent ridicule by Germany of America 's sympathies with Eng land was answered by Life in a cartoon called “ Our Nursery Days. ” — Cited by the New York Times, August 5, 1917.

16 “ The Fate of the Carpetbagger and the Scalawag,” W. L. Fleming, Documentary History of Reconstruction, Vol. I, Frontispiece, reproduced from the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, September 1, 1868. 16 The recent war gave rise in America alone to forty - seven thousand off cial photographs and one hundred and sixty -five miles of motion -picture negatives. - New York Evening Post, August 16, 1919.

i7 It was charged that the fires in Paris in 1871 were started by the Com munard and the Petroleuses, that there were two thousand of the latter at Satory, that they were in regiments and well drilled , and every woman taken prisoner was called a “ Petroleuse." Only one or two so -called “ Petroleuses' were brought to trial, the evidence was ridiculous, and the trial was aban

doned. But Paris believed it and " a photographer tried to earn an 'honest penny' by its means. He published portraits of the Petroleuses. For this purpose he utilized some old negatives of female faces that chanced to be

unprepossessing, but at last he was prosecuted by a citizen for using in this way the portrait of his mother - in -law or some other near relative." — W . Simpson, Autobiography, pp . 267– 268.

18 In 1866, William Simpson was sent to Russia to make sketches for the Illustrated London News of the marriage of the Czarevich and a sister of the For footnote 19 see