Britannia as Lady Macbeth trying to wash away the Stains of the Boer War.
From the "Lustige Blätter."
The Flying Dutchman.
Minneapolis "Journal."
Judged by the manner it was mirrored in the caricature of Europe and America, the Dreyfus Case assumed the magnitude of a great war or a crisis in national existence. During the last two or three years that the degraded Captain of Artillery was a prisoner at Devil's Island, when Zola was furiously accusing, and the General Staff was talking about "the Honor of the Army," and France was divided into two angry camps, one had only to glance at the current cartoons to realize that Dreyfus was, as the late G. W. Steevens called him, "the most famous man in the world." For a time the great personages of the earth were relegated to the background. The monarchs and statesmen of Europe were of interest and importance only so far as their careers affected that of the formerly obscure Jewish officer.