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Title: Supplement to Punch, or the London Charivari, September 16, 1914 The New Rake's Progress: Cartoons from "Punch" Illustrating the Kaiser's Career, 1888-1914
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SUPPLEMENT TO "PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI"
Cartoons from "Punch" Illustrating the Kaiser's Career, 1888-1914.
"Punch" Office, 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.
Illustration: _GERMAN KAISER._ "LET US PREY."
DÆDALUS BISMARCK (_POLITICAL PARENT OF_ WILHELM ICARUS).
"MY SON, OBSERVE THE MIDDLE PATH TO FLY, AND FEAR TO SINK TOO LOW, OR RISE TOO HIGH. HERE THE SUN MELTS, THERE VAPOURS DAMP YOUR FORCE, BETWEEN THE TWO EXTREMES DIRECT YOUR COURSE."
"NOR ON THE BEAR, NOR ON BOÖTES GAZE, NOR ON SWORD-ARM'D ORION'S DANGEROUS RAYS: BUT FOLLOW ME, THY GUIDE, WITH WATCHFUL SIGHT, AND, AS I STEER, DIRECT THY CAUTIOUS FLIGHT."
OVID, _"Metamorphoses," Book VIII., Fable III._
*** =The Kaiser is warned by the Great Chancellor.=
CHORUS IN THE STERN. "DON'T GO ON LIKE THAT--OR YOU'LL UPSET US ALL!"
*** =The Kaiser begins to alarm his fellow Rulers.=
Illustration: THE IMPERIAL JACK-IN-THE-BOX.
_Chorus_ (_Everybody_). "EVERYTHING IN ORDER EVERYWHERE! O! WHAT A SURPRISE! SOLD AGAIN!"
*** =The Kaiser has a finger in every German Pie.=
Illustration: THE MODERN ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF SOUND.
"WITH RAVISHED EARS, THE MONARCH HEARS, ASSUMES THE GOD, AFFECTS TO NOD, AND SEEMS TO SHAKE THE SPHERES!"