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representing themeeting of General Stewart and GeneralGordon , calling it “ At Last." But Khartoum had fallen two days pre

viously and the cartoon a week later was named " Too Late !" 49 The illustration may also, like the text, sometimes suffer from

other forms of " previousness," but these are not necessarily disconcerting:50 The versatile cartoon may turn its coat and

serve to illustrate equally well entirely different situations.51 These have been suggestions of a variety of errors frequently found in the illustrations of periodicals. They are due to a variety of causes and while they detract from the strict accuracy

of the illustration, they are for the most part unimportant in themse, themselves and they are readily corrected. very large class ohut all such error Another very large class of errors in the illustration is due to deliberate misrepresentation, but all such errors are explained away by their authors in the spirit of “ no one knows any better. and it doesn 't matter.” In the end, however, some one often

does know better, or the illustration itself may prove its own undoing.52 49 The cartoons are in the issues of February 7 and February 14, 1885. 50 The Independent, February 7, 1916 , gives a portrait of Louis D. Bran

deis with the caption " Mr. Justice Brandeis." The nomination of Mr. Bran deis was not confirmed by the Senate until June 1, 1916. 51 The New York Evening Postmade effective use ofone of Cesare 's cartoons representing Wilson and Hughes standing near the chair of state. Election

eve it was published over the caption “ The Anxious Seat” and three days later over the caption “ Watchful Waiting." — November 6, 9 , 1916 . 52 October 31, 1914 , the New York Evening Sun and the New York Mail

both published the same picture on their front pages. One labelled it “ Sink ing of the Cressy, Aboukir and Hogue by a German submarine," and the other called it “ Sinking of two German destroyers by British cruiser in the North Sea. " — W. R. Page in the New York Evening Post, November 7, 1914. The Sunday gravure section of the New York Tribune, March 26, 1916 , gave an illustration of Nahr- el -Kelb, Syria , and named it Boyap Junction.

" The place pictured is on a sixteen mile branch line along the sea coast and

in no way connected with the Bagdad railway which was the subject of the page of photographs. There is no 'Boyap Junction '. A glance at the map would have shown the name of the junction, and the map would also have shown that it is in the midst of a broad level plain, and not a rocky gorge like

that at Dog River or Nahr -el-Kelb where the picture printed was taken ."

- Personal letter from M. O. Williams, a former resident of Syria. " At the time of the Benjamin Franklin bicentenary there appeared in one

or more papers a reproduction of ‘Franklin chez lui, à Philadelphie ' illustrat ing Manasseh Cutler's letter describing Franklin with others, seated in his garden. A little investigation proved that the picture had been painted

about 1876 by Henry Bacon and was therefore a purely imaginary depiction of something that might indeed have tak