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prendre ou à laisser," "Prince Kozakokoff," "Malbrough," &c. More recently "L' Album "published a selection of his works, including some drawings done in a bolder style than that which he generally produces fer reproduction, — such are the Battery of Dreadnoughts, bold and grim, and the splendid Chargé. In the drawing of himself there is a good specimen of these caricature portraits for which he is so renowned.

His work appeared in the pages of Tout Paris, La Vie Moderne, La Revue Illustrée, and Le Chat Noir, &c.; superb military sketches came out in La Caricature; and every week he carries on a running fire of pencilled commentary in Le Journal, and Le Figaro, contributing at the same time to Le Canard Sauvage, and Le Rire. A special number of the latter paper entitled Tactique et Stratégie consisted of a short serics of vigorous military cartoons, representing various epochs, drawn on a large scale, and some of them reproduced in colours.

However, it is by his stories without words that Caran d'Ache has attracted most attention, and, it must be confessed, they are simply captivating. Comic stories have been told by the same: means in Germany for half a century or more, but Caran d'Ache is credited with having introduced the progressive drawing into France.

Caran d'Ache's little tales need not a syllable of explanation, All is told by the subtlest of altera-