ic and brutal relish. M. Albert Robida, born at Compiegne in
1848, collaborated with Decaux in 1871 to found _La Caricature_; he is
a paradoxical seer of the possible future and a curiosity-hunter of
the past. Old Paris has no secrets from him; he knows all the old
stones and costumes of the middle ages, and has illustrated Rabelais;
and for fertility of fancy he reminds us of Gustave Dore, but with a
sense of movement so vibrant as to be almost distressing. "Bac," born
at Vienna in 1859, has infused a strain of the Austrian woman into the
Parisienne; representing her merely as a pleasure- and love-seeking
creature, as the toy of an evening, he has recorded her peccadilloes,
her witcheries and her vices. Others who have shot folly as it flies
are M. Albert Guillaume, who illustrated the Exhibition of 1900 in a
series of remarkable silhouettes; "Mars"; "Henri Somm"; Gerbault; and
Grun. M. Huard depicts to perfection the country townsfolk in their
elementary psychology. M. Hermann Paul, M. Forain's not unworthy
successor on the _Figaro_, is a cruel satirist, who in a single face
can epitomize a whole class of society, and could catalogue the actors
of the _comedie humaine_ in a series of drawings. M. Jean Veber loves
fantastic subjects, the gnomes of fairy-tales and myths; but he has a
biting irony for contemporary history, as in the _Butcher's Shop_,
where Bismarck is the blood-stained butcher. M. Abel Faivre, a refined
and charming painter, is a whimiscal humorist with the pencil. He
shows us monstrous women, fabulously hideous, drawing them with a sort
of realism which is droll by sheer ugliness. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
startles us by extraordinary dislocations, scrawled limbs and
inexplicable anatomy; he has left an inimitable series of sketches of
Mme Yvette Guilbert when she was at her thinnest. M. Felix Vallotton
reproduces crows in blots of black with a Japanese use of the brush.
M. G. Jeanniot, a notable illustrator, sometimes amuses himself by
contributing to _Le Rire, Le Sourire, Le Pompon, L'Assiette au
Beurre_, &c., drawing the two types he most affects: the fashionable
world and soldiers. M. Ibels, Capiello and many more might be
enumerated, but it is impossible to chronicle all the clever humorous
artists of the illustrated papers.

It is the frequent habit of French caricaturists to employ a
_nom-de-guerre_. We therefore give here a lis