I have now introduced to my readers the youngest and oldest members of the great society.

I have forgotten the name of the individual who discovered Ursus Major, but I will wager all I owe, that the average Californian will remember to his dying day (and mayhap transmit the intelligence to his successors), the discoverer of Ursus Minor Californiensis. Jimmy Swinnerton, the Examiner artist, does not need an introduction to San Franciscans. An honored member of the society, he has made the Examiner Bear a household word in the community.

Turning into old Montgomery Avenue, that historic street where Stevenson, Tavernier, Tilden, and the rest of the true school of Bohemians lived, breathed, and forgot the world of misery and woe, I saw Frank A. Nankivell, the caricaturist, and his inseparable companion, Robert H. Davis, who was the first man in San Francisco to recognize Nankivell's talent. These two Bohemians of a later day are seldom seen apart, and though distinctly opposite in their natures, they are in sympathy in their mutual ambitions. In the writer, I know the erratic, impetuous, talkative whirlwind, rushing around the country, caring for no map, and seeking for no landing. In the artist there is a calm, collected, quiet nature, one which glows only at his easel, and flashes when his deft pencil by a master stroke finishes the line which completes

his caricature. charms for him. Engrossed in his art, he turns out with wonderful rapidity the daintiest decorations, and interlaces his work with the characteristic faces that he sees on the thoroughfares and takes into his mind, until the picture, almost living with expression, is cast out into the world to tell its own story of the maker's gift. Nankivell is a native of Australia, and has been in America nearly a year. Frederic Villiers, the war artist of Black and White, says, that he is by far the best caricaturist in America, and James D. Phelan, of our own art circle, has bought many of his sketches and believes him to be one of the coming artists of the day. The Echo, of Chicago, says of him, "There is no denying the quality and freshness of his work. There is a vivid sketchiness not

The mob outside has no

From a wash drawing by Nankive 1.

SAMUEL C. SHORTRIDGE.

to be found even in our Gibsons, our Wenzells, or our Thulstrups."

Homer Davenport is the only successor of the inimitable Nast, and while the drawings reproduced in this article are of a higher grade in thought and technique, his caricatures have all the Nast touch. The drawing is better than that of Nast,