For Hokusai's caricatures and Hendschel's sketches might be twins.

If there is a difference, it lies not so much in the artist's work as in the greater generality of its appreciation.

Humor flits easily there at the sea-level of the multitude.

For the Japanese temperament is ever on the verge of a smile which breaks out with catching naivete at the first provocation.

The language abounds in puns which are not suffered to lie idle, and even poetry often hinges on certain consecrated plays on words.