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triumph with his astoundingly perfect shadow pantomime, "L'Epopée", at the little "Chat Noir" Theatre. Caran d'Ache had spared no trouble to make his silhouettes and the effects in which they were set as perfect as possible. No greater pains could have been taken preliminary to the painting of a series of Salon pictures; and he reaped fame as his reward,

"L'Epopée" dealt with Napoleon's succession of military triumphs. Opportunity was thus early given to M, Poiré to display his astonishing knowledge of the horse in all its varied attitudes.

The horse he delights and excels in is a magnificent, proud, high-mettled beast, whom he puts at some breakneck charge, or causes to career about in high-strung excitement. Caran d'Ache's army horses are not surpassed even by those of such acknowledged masters as Meissonier and Détaille. The Studio published some splendid equine studies of his a year or so ago, which must-have been a revelation to those who had previously looked on Caran d'Ache as a comic artist and nothing more.

His drawings have been produced in innumerable papers, magazines, and books, and are for ever being re-reproduced abroad. Collections of his caricatures have been published as "L' Album Caran-d'-Ache," "Bric-a-Brac,'" "Le Carnet de Cheques,' "La Comédie du Jour," Les Courses dans l'Antiquité," "Fantaisies," "Galérie Comique," "Les Peintres chez-eux," apart from his illustrations to "C'est à