THE NEW RAKE'S PROGRESS.

German Kaiser. "Let us prey."
Sept. 9. 1914
Cartoons from "Punch"
Illustrating the Kaiser's Career,
1888-1914.

A WISE WARNING.
Dædalus Bismarck (Political Parent of Wilhelm Icarus).
October 6, 1888.
⁂ The Kaiser is warned by the Great Chancellor.

L'ENFANT TERRIBLE.
Chorus in the Stern. "Don't go on like that—or you'll upset us all!!"
May 10, 1890.
⁂ The Kaiser begins to alarm his fellow Rulers.

THE IMPERIAL JACK-IN-THE-BOX.
Chorus (Everybody) "Everything in Order Everywhere! O! What a Surprise! Sold Again!"
January 30, 1892.
⁂ The Kaiser has a finger in every German Pie.

THE MODERN ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OR, THE POWER OF SOUND.
March 5, 1892.
⁂ The Kaiser feels his feet. This cartoon caused Punch to be excluded for a while from the Imperial Palace.

THE STORY OF FIDGETY WILHELM.
(Up-to-date Version of "Struwwelpeter.")
February 1, 1896.
⁂ The Kaiser worries his friends of the Triple Alliance.

A NEW RÔLE.
Imperial "Manager-Actor" (who has cast himself for a leading part in "Un Voyage en Chine," sotto voce). "Um—Ha! With just a few additional touches here and there, I shall make a first-rate Emperor of China!"
January 15, 1898.
⁂ The Kaiser prepares for China.

COOK'S CRUSADER.
Imperial Knight Templar (the German Emperor—to Saladin). "What!! The Christian Powers putting pressure upon You, my dear Friend!! Horrible! I can't think how People can do such things!"
October 15, 1898.
⁂ The Kaiser sympathises with the Turk.

ON TOUR.
(Tangier, March 31.)
Kaiser Wilhelm (as the Moor of Potsdam) sings:—
"'Unter den Linden'—always at Home,
'Under the Lime-light' wherever I roam!"
April 5, 1905.
⁂ The Kaiser woos Morocco.

NOT IN THE PICTURE.
Scene.—On shore, during the vicit of the British Fleet to Brest.
Mr. Punch (Photographer, suavely, to the Kaiser). "Just a little further back, please, Sir. your shadow still rather interferes with the group."
July 12, 1908.
⁂ The Kaiser (not for the first time) is out of it with England and France.

THE SOWER OF TARES.
(After Millais.)
August 23, 1908.
⁂ The Kaiser as enemy of Europe.

"ISOLATION."
Peace (attending the Inter-Parliamentary Congress at Berlin.) "Everybody else seems to be my friend; why do you stand aloof?"
German Kaiser. "But haven't I always sais that I was your friend?"
Peace. "Yes; but can't you do something to prove it?"
September 23, 1908.
⁂ The Kaiser as the platonic friend of Peace.

THE TEUTONISING OF TURKEY.
German Kaiser. "Good Bird!"
October 5, 1910.
⁂ The Kaiser takes Turkey in hand.

HARMONY.
[The German Emperor has been patronising the Centenary of Krupp's Gun Factory.]
August 14, 1912.
⁂ The Kaiser prepares for the Millennium (Prussian Version).

THE COMING OF THE COSSACKS.
Wilhelm II. "What is this Distant Rumbling that I hear? Doubtless the Plaudits of my People!"
⁂ The Kaiser deludes himself.

THE WORLD'S ENEMY.
The Kaiser. "Who goes there?"
Spirit of Carnage. "A friend—your only one."
⁂ The Kaiser as the foe of humanity.