Tux cartoon in Punch this week represents Lord Randolph Churchill and his former henchman, Mr. A. us the Idle and the Industrivus Apprentice, " long way after Hogarth. The former is playing dice with himself in South Africa on the gravestone of his political reputation; the latter is making a speech in the House of Com-I mons, The accompanying text opens rather neatly Grandolph and Arthur were two young Apprentices, bound betimes to the ingenious and estimable Art or Craft of Cabinet-Jaking, Both of them were youths of a Sprightly Genius, and of an Alert Apprehension, attended' in the case of Grandolph, with a mighty heat and ebullition of Fancy, which Ted early to a certain frothiness or ventosi inepeech. Arthur, on the other hand, though possessed of excellent Parts, appeared to of a more phlegmatic temperament, and took ona more languorous, not to say saturnine demeanour.
So it came about that for the time Gran-dolph seemed to carry it over his fellow Apprentice, who indeed, amongst superficial observers incurred the reproach of indolence and lackadaisical indifference, and although both were of creditable repute in the Crajt, yet did Grandolph shine the more prominently
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.