CURRENT CARTOONS. HE cartoonists have spared considerable extent during the period of his Western travels, but he has not been wholly forgotten. The talented draughtsman who supplies the cartoons for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Godwin, -and of whose brilliant work last month we reproduce three or four specimens, - represents Roosevelt on the Pacific coast bearing aloft the banner of national progress at the moment when the newspapers of the country were commenting upon his remarkable San Francisco speech on American expansion and the control of the Pacific. EXPANSION Mr. Rogers, of the New York Herald, makes an amusing hit apropos of the presence of Messrs. Roosevelt and Cleveland at the St. Louis exercises commemorat ing the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. Those who have seen Mansfield play "Beau Brummel" will appreciate this clever adaptation, although, as a matter "EXCELSIOR!" From the Inquirer (Philadelphia). of fact, there was no rivalry at St. Louis, where Miss Popularity gave equal attention to the man from Princeton and the man from Oyster Bay. "BRUMMEL" ROOSEVELT: "Ah! who is your fat friend?"-From the Herald (New York). MISS DEMOCRACY: "Now, dear, give me a sweet kiss and you shall have this stick of candy." From the Inquirer (Philadelphia). AWAKENED. RESCUE OF THE SLEEP-WALKER. The great conflict between Pennypacker and the cartoonists was at its height last month, and scores of pictures had been launched at the reactionary governor of Pennsylvania. The one on this page represents Senator Quay as holding up Pennypacker in a vain attempt to muzzle the press in the guise of the people's watchdog. Next month we may take occasion to give the subject special attention. THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE PEOPLE "A LITTLE LOUDER, PLEASE.' From the Record-Herald (Chicago). It would be amusing to present a large number of the cartoonsmany of them highly humorous, and none of them malicious-in which the newspapers of the country last month made note of ex President Cleveland's "boom" for next year's Democratic nomination. But our space is limited, and a few must suffice. The three on this page are fairly typical. The one from the Brooklyn Eagle expresses the sentiment of many of Mr. Cleveland's old admirers, who look upon him as alone capable of saving the party from its fatal errors. TRYING TO MUZZLE THE WATCHDOG. Mr. Andrew Carnegie does so many interesting things that it is only in a tentative and experimental sense that one may call him "the man of the month,"for he is likely enough to be still more the man of the next month. Mr. Carnegie was, however, very much in evidence in April and May. The tribute he paid to Booker T. Washington, and his gift to Tuskegee Institute, attracted much attention. His offer to build the various engineers' organizations of New York a million-dollar home is alluded to in the cartoon at the top of this page, and his much more conspicuous gift for what is likely to be called the Temple of Peace at The Hague was a topic of international note. This is to be a gift to the government of Holland in trust for the permanent tribunal for arbitration of disputes between nations. Such an edifice will do much to dignify the results of the great Peace Conference. The sum of $1,500,000, given by Mr. Carnegie, is to be expended for a court-house and library to be placed at the service of the international tribunal. In the other cartoon on this page, Uncle Sam is warning John Hay, the Secretary of State, against a precipitate plunge into Chinese waters. The newspapers had From the Inquirer (Philadelphia). reported Mr. Hay as much wrought up over Russia's position in Manchuria, but Mr. Hay has evidently abstained from plunging. DR. JOHN FINLEY, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. (From a photograph taken especially for the REVIEW OF REVIEWS.) THE COLLEGE OF THE THE AND ITS NEW HE election of Dr. John Huston Finley to be president of the College of the City of New York is the event of the month in the educational world. This institution, supported by the city of New York, was established in 1847, and has been doing a large and worthy educational work, but in a conservative and old-fash PRESIDENT. ioned atmosphere that somewhat obscured its achievements and opportunities. Dr. Finley, formerly-at twenty-nine years of age-president of Knox College, Illinois, and now professor of politics at Princeton University, is a young man of thirty-nine, who has the knack of success, and, particularly, proved ability as an educational organizer and administrator. He is plainly the man to take hold of the college of the metropolitan city, at just the moment when all external conditions are keyed up to a great expansion of its value and reputation if only there is added a vigorous, sane, and open-minded administrator. In 1847, when the people of New York City voted for the establishment of an institution which should be a college and something of a polytechnic institution as well, the name chosen was the New York Free Academy. A building. was constructed on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue and Twenty-third Street, which is still the home of the College of the City of New York, as it came to be known in 1866. In the middle of the last century, this location was away up town, a mile above the center of population. The beautiful buildings recently designed by Mr. George B. Post for the new home of the college are going up six miles to the north of the old site, at One Hundred and Thirtyeighth Street and Amsterdam Avenue. We reproduce two of the architect's plans, to suggest the magnificent conception and dimensions of the structures which are to mark this new era in the life of the college. These imposing Gothic halls are to cost no less than $2,600,000, a figure all the more impressive when it is considered that no dormitories are included. Before 1882, the college was open only to |