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t of the genuine names represented by the pseudonyms used above, together with others familiar to the public:-- "Andre Gill" = L.A. Gosset de Guine (1840-1885). "Bac" ("Cab" and "Saro") = Ferdinand Bach (b. 1859). "Caran d'Ache" = Emmanuel Poire. "Cham" = Comte Amedee de Noe (b. 1818). "Crafty" = Victor Gerusez (b. 1840). "Draner" (and "Paf") = Jules Renard (b. 1833). "Faustin" = Faustin Betbeder (b. 1847). "Gavarni" = S.G. Chevalier (1804-1866). "Gedeon" = Gedeon Baril (b. 1832). "Grandville" = J.I.I. Gerard (1803-1847). "Henriot" (and "Piff") = Henri Maigrot (b. 1857). "Henri Somm" = Henri Sommier (b. 1844). "Job" = J.O. de Breville (b. 1858). "Marcelin" = Emile Planat (1825-1887). "Mars" = Maurice Bonvoisin (b. 1849). "Moloch" = Colomb (b. 1849). "Montbard" = C.A. Loye (1841-1905). "Nadar" = Felix Tournachon (b. 1820). "Pasquin" = Georges Coutan (b. 1853). "Pepin" = Ed. Guillaume (b. 1842). "Randon" = Gilbert (1814-1845). "Sahib" = L.E. Lesage (b. 1847). "Said" = Alphonse Levy (b. 1845). "Sem" = George Goursat. "Stop" = L.P. Morel-Retz (b. 1825). _Germany_.--During the later 19th century German caricature flourished principally in the comic papers _Kladderadatsch_ of Berlin and _Fliegende Blatter_ of Munich; the former a political paper with little artistic value, in which the ideas alone are clever, whilst the illustrations are merely a more or less clumsy adjunct to the text, while the _Fliegende Blatter_, on the contrary, has artistic merit as well as wit. Wilhelm Busch (b. 1832), the most brilliant German draughtsman of the last generation, made his _debut_ with an illustrated poem "The Peasant and the Miller," and won a world-wide reputation with the following works: _Pater Filucius, Die Fromme Helene, Max und Moritz, Der heilige Antonius, Maler Kleksel, Balduin Bahlamm, Die Erlebnisse Knopps des Junggesellen_. Busch stands alone among the caricaturists of his nation, inasmuch as he is both the author and the illustrator of these works, his witty doggerel
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