A pencil flashed in the facile fingers of a little man with twinkling eyes as he stood in the cor-rider of the Continental boat train at Victoria to-day, and in a few seconds there he was twink-Jing up from the paper as you see him here.
But since he was "Sem." the famous French caricaturist, he wag not too kind with his own features; for even those who consider that they suffer most at the hands of the artists who put a drop of acid in their ink cannot complain that the caricature ists are any gentler in their treatment of themselves.
"Sem" has probably sketched more notable. people than any liv-"ing artist. Asked to suggest number he said it might be thousands, He follows beauty to the brink of its sea bath at Deauville, diplomatic dignity to the cafe tables at Biarritz, finance to the salons of the Riviera.
As for crowned heads—he began to compile a list, and it was like a, mingling of the jbluestblooded pages born from Debrett and the Almanach de Gotha.
There was King Edward, the present King when he was Prince Wales, the ex-King of Portugal, the King of Sweden, the King of the Belgians, and may ers.
"Sem"? was a great friend of King Edward, and Queen Alexandre bought and presented to her. husband the whole collection of caricatures of the late monarch.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.