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An Evening 



FROM AMONG THE THOUSAND EVENINQS 
WHICH MAY BE SPENT 



with "Punch" 



Being a selection, from tlie ** First Fifty Years of *Puncli/" 
of a few of tlie Pictures, some of tlie Wit, and some of the 
Wisdom, with which the volumes of ** Punch" abound. 
To which are added sundry notes and comments 




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Dedicated to the mtfortunate 

Man, Woman , oy Child, 

in whose home there 

is not a set of 

the " Punch " 
Volumes. 



PUBLISHERS' NOTE. 




4JHM^MM«> 



The pictures, the prose and the verses which this modest anthology reproduces, arc all 
taken from "The First Fifty Years of Punch," 1841 to 1891. In some cases the copyrights 
are vested in the contributors or their representatives, and the permission which they 
have courteously granted for this occasion must not be supposed to waive their rights as 
against unauthorised republication of their contributions to Punch, 




AN evening with Punch need not be regulated by any formal programme ; and save for the fact 
A-\ that these selections all come from " The First Fifty Years " — 1841 to 1891, no definite plan 
has directed the incidence of the scissors. It is, perhaps, the most characteristic charm of 
a set of Punch volumes that one may open them at random. The plums are impartially distributed 
throughout the cake, and the cake itself is always of a generous quality. Pictures, prose and verse by 
the most eminent English artists and authors have, indeed, become so merged in the general body of 
Punch's unsigned treasures, that one is surprised to find how noble a roll of names the editorial registers 
present. 

Tennyson and Thackeray, Hood and Jerrold, Mr. Burnand and Mr. W. S. Gilbert, Mr. Andrew 
Lang and H. D. Traill, Charles Lever and Tom Taylor, the creator of "Trilby" and the 
creator of Mr. Verdant Green ; Mr. Anstey and C. S. Calverley, Albert Smith and Horace Smith, 
"Jacob Omnium "and Dean Hole, Shirley Brooks and James Payn, Sala, the i Bccketts of two 
generations, and that greatest of diarists, Mr. Henry Lucy — writers of every sort have enriched the 
pages of the famous weekly. 



Nor have Punch's artists been Punch men only. Four of the greatest among them. Leech, Keene, 
Doyle, Sir John Tenniel, and Mr. Linley Sambourne, are indeed best known as " Punchites," 
but the public associate others with a quite different sort of art : Lord Leighton, for instance, Sir John 
Millais, Sir John Gilbert, Fred Walker and Stacy Marks, Birkct Foster and Mr. G. A. Storey, Mr. 
Briton Riviere and Mr. Walter Crane, liandolph CaldecoU and Fred Barnard. 



George du Maurier (who, by the way, wrote a little as well as drew a deal for Punch), was loved 
by Punch readers for the gentle chivalry and kindliness of his work, as well as for its beauty and 
its artistry, y^ars before his novels brought him another circle of admirers, and, even now, Trilby, 
Peter Ibbetsen, and the Martian are hardly so well known as Mrs. Ponsonby de Tomkyns, Grigsby, 
Sir Pompey Bedell ; Sir Gorgius Midas, his "lady," and his heir ; young Cadby ; 'Arry and 'Arriet ; 
his Grace of Stilton and his august spouse; Maudle, Postlethwaite and the intensest Mrs. Cimabue 
Brown ; Miss Sopeley, Mr. Todeson and Mrs. Vere de Vere. 

From among the work of these and other Punch contributors the selections which form this 
book have been chosen, in the attempt to give a broader view of Punch than could be afforded by 
any single hundred pages taken bodily from one volume. The general appearance of the Punch 
pages has been so far as possible preserved, and a number of the pictures and jests which have been 
most talked about are reproduced. But the result is, after all, no more than a casual hour or two with 
Punch, 2L gathering together of such fragments as might arrest a desultory reader in the course of 
turning the leaves. It will serve to whet, rather than to gratify, the appetite ; and the critic who 
concludes that he would have made a very different choice is paying the best of compliments to 
Punch. No two men or women would agree if they were asked to name their favourite pages out of 
all the thousands, and even the children who so love the genial Hunchback would differ about the 
choice. That is the very essence of the charm which lies in the volumes : Punch has been, from the 
first. Everybody's Weekly, and no two people would give the same reason for their tenderness. 

When voting competitions were in vogue, and we were all invited to pick our pet poets and 
painters, someone might well have asked the public to name the most effective cartoon, the keenest 
social satire, or the drollest sporting cut in Mr, Punch's gallery. If but one page could be framed to 
hang upon the wall of a colonist's hut, or the bulkhead of a South Sea schooner's cabin, would it be 
a Leech or a Tenniel, a du Maurier or a Sambourne ? Por mere beauty's sake, nothing could well be 
more lovable than some of the pictures. If a race desired to deify a woman, what nobler figure 
could they choose than one of the majestic creatures whom Sir John Tenniel has given us ? Was the 
nymph that Heine saw, in the shadow of the Lurlei Cliff, more strangely beautiful that Mr. Sam- 
bourne's "May"?* Ruskin knew no type of English girlhood more exquisite than Leech's, and 
du Maurier has given us children and girls and mothers — grandmothers, too, as sweet and fair as saints. 
Douglas Jerrold was surely jesting when he objected to Sir John Gilbert's contributions, saying **We 
don't want Rubens on Punch," for it has been the policy of the paper to think that nothing was too 
good for Punch's constituency. 

It is a mistake, however, to think of the Punch volumes as mere picture-books— as great a mistake 
as to think of Punch as a mere jester. If one were to interleave a history of the Victorian Era with 
added illustrations, nearly every cartoon in Punch would be needed. If a treatise were now to be 
written describing the " manners, customs, and dress" of Victorian England, as Lacroix in his famous 
work described the peoples of Mediaeval Europe, Punch would be ransacked for "documents." But 
the letterpress in tlie Punch volumes is not a mere grey background for the cuts ; nor has any great 



* On page 41, iufra. 



PREFACE. 



part of tlie good things in Punch been reprinled. Thackeray's contributions have, indeed, been 
sorted out willi pious care, but he was one of many writers — some of Iheni hardly known by name — 
who gave of their best to Punch, year after year. Sir Walter Besant published the other day" a striking 
study of the novels that have made History, and a not less interesting examination might be made of 
ihe articles, as well as the cartoons, in Punch which have influenced the political and social develop- 
ments of the last sixty years. Of these developments they are a most valuable record. The historical 
novel, with all its falsity of perspective, has been of incalculable service, because it directed to the past 
the attention of the general reader, and Punch's informal accounts of Victorian events not only supply 
an amusing survey of our own time, but are eminently fair and straightforward. 

If one dwelt long enough upon this train of thought, enumerating all the elements of value in 
the Punch volumes, one might well arrive at the conclusion that it was a crime to tamper with those 
volumes at all, and burn this small anthology unopened. But one may pause before that point of 
view has been attained, and express a hope that the reader who glances at these pages will remember 
that they pretend to be no more than chips from Mr, Punch's quarry. 

It has been thought expedient to add some notes and comments to these selections, and Mr. 
Spielmann's admirable " History of Punch " has been, by permission, so freely drawn upon that 
every page of the annotations is indebted to it. And the reader may be glad to know that an edition 
of " The First Fifty Years of ' Punch,' " in twcnty-fivc quadruple volumes, with this " History of ' Punch ' " 
added as a twenty-sixth volume, is mentioned in the publishers' announcements which appear at 
the end of these pages. 



So much by way of apology for this small wineglassful from Mr. Punch's vast tun : 
it holds has come from a noble vintage — drink it down, and Goil Save the Queen ! 



A hat little 



iif Famous Lileralurt,"' publialietl by The Standard. 





John Leech. 
{Drawn by R. Dovlc. 
In the British Museum.) 



A PICTURE by John Leech is the most littiag point of de- 
parture for a collection of Punches creations. From very 
nearly the beginning (Leech made his appearance in the fourth 
number) he '* surveyed society from the gentleman's point of 
view " — as Thackeray said of him — until his death in 
October, 1864. His last drawing for Punch, which 



'THE RISING 
GENERATION. 



is reproduced on page 45 of this collection, was in 
the hands of the engravers when he was " harassed to his grave " 
by the organ-grinders, against whose " pestilent noises " he had so 
often and so wittily protested. " Carlyle " (says Mr. Moncure 
Conway), " who suffered from the same fraternity, mingled with 
his sorrow for Leech some severe sermons against that kind of 
liberty which ' permitted Italian foreigners to invade London and 
kill John Leech, and no doubt hundreds of other nervous people 
who die and make no sign.' " 

Charles Dickens (who was, by the way, like Mr. Joseph Chamber- 
lain and other notabilities, a "rejected contributor" to Punch, 
dm'ing its First Fifty Years) cherished a great admiration for this 
picture of the precocious boy, and remarked with reference to it 
that the young gentleman's feeling, " he should be * deuced 
inclined to go and cut that fellow out,' appears to us one of the 
most natural emotions of the human breast." 

The drawing by Sir John Gilbert, which appeal's on the page 
facing this, was one of his earliest contributions to Punch. It was 
published as an illustration to the first chapter of Albert Smith's 
" Natural History of Courtship," appearing without 
a caption, and is now called " The Love Letter," for 
convenience of reference. For more than fifty years 
Punch presented, from time to time, the handiwork of this 
distinguished artist, who was at once a pre-eminent master of 
black and white, and a historical painter of serious powers. His 
*' Wolsey and Buckingham" and "Murder of Thomas a Beckett,'* 
both painted in 1878, are still freely reproduced for sale. One 
of his most spirited di*awings for Punch was the frontispiece to the 
third volume, also used on the wrapper of the parts for the latter 



"THE LOVE 
LETTER." 



10 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON GHAEIVAEI. 




Sinoci re of neighbouring i's, as Miltino obsen'ea, the 
ecomplisht Lady Hanorlina Tuistlewoob. daughter of my 
exie t frcnd, John Georqe Govphbt dis Bullion Thibtlb- 
wooD barl of Unrciicres, Ijaron Soutlidomij in the Peerii^ 
of tl e Un t«i[ Kiriuiloiii, Baron Hag^aniore, la Scotland, Kt., 
\ Lord Leftiuuit of tliu Count; of Diddlcsei, Jcc, &c. Tliis 
)o nj, lady wiw witli her Noble Ma. when I wa* kindncted 
lords I rt And irari'ly never hulited on this limrth n, more 
i Ifcllflevifclin. Ih thfttgiillixyof BcwtytheLAOYHANUJSLiNA 
Hd. ti efurest SUir— in that rroth o Loveliness the aweetest 
Hasebudd i'oii! Many IIa.mj, my Art's young nffeckidinB 
I ad been seiitcrd on thee ; but like water through n siw, 
I er unnudge diiianeoreil in a nioinink, and left ine intnuisd 
n tl e presnts of Hakuelina '. 

Ladv ItAKBAatEH nuidp nie a niyjcstick bow— a grand and 
1 awlte ji Minge her IinilyKliiii is, with a Homing Nose, and an 
em nnut ikium of HoKtiiilge (ihutherK ; the fare Hakoelina 
am led n til a sweelness ptTfitklv bcwhildring, nnd said, '0, 
Mk it ia Pm'i'iir, I 'ni mi ilcliglited to iiioke your aequain- 
tanee I linieoften licord of ;|'oti.' 

^^ ho snys ), ' linN nientioned my insJggniAii'knt igsistance 

to II c fa r liAliT Hancki.ina, kti l/oniire i(/ilrame poor 

irm (for you see 1 Ve not Ktuddicd Pel/iam for notoink, 

n 1 1 a^c I nt a fen Freneli (iliniceH, uitliout which no dent of 

foHl n spcnks now.) 

rp( lies my lady, ' it was Papa first ; and then a very, 



ver old fnend of yi 

WhotiC name is,' says I, piisht oi 

' Hogoikb^Mart Ann HoooiKs'^nnsmTed mv lady 
(lalbng 1 1 t to Hplitt her little sidcK.) ' She is my moid, Mr. vk 
LA Lucuh and I'm afraid j'ou ni'e a very sad, snd person.' 

A ncre bng^'ytell,' says ], 'In foniiiicr (lays 1 wa* 
n[iiantcd viith tlint voun;; woman; Imt lu>lt(-red Kiickmstancies 
have scppamtcd m lor ' ' ^ ■ .. . ■■ 

Do ti.ll me all alwiit it Who is 
are all dying to know.' 

" ' Since alK>nl two niinnits, and the Lnily's name begins vith 
a lla,' mys I, looking her tcndorly in tlic face, and co^jring 
lip hall the fnssanations of my unile. 

'"Mr. ve LA Plvciik,' here said a gentleman in whiskers 
and inistnshes standing by, ' hadn't you Dctter take your spun 
out of the CouNTEM 01* Baheackku' train!'— "Never mind 
Mamma's tiiiin' (said Lady llAtiOKMNA): 'this is the great 
Mk. he I.A pLUciiB, wlio is to make all ourfortunes — yonn too, 
Mb. db la 1'j.uciiK, let cue pi-csent you to Cawaim Qwomom 



n by my stoopid c 



ir hever, and ramnj cure is irratrect-ably 
isiti When was it? We 



t Icnth 
rjince i 

But I _ 

woidd gratafy impaltmtU eiii'mot- 
nil/. Rispect for our reckoniied 
instatewtiouK it my fiixt ipiallatv. I, 
for one, will dye rallying round niy 
Thrown. 

" Siiltise it Co «ay, when I stood in 
the Horgust Presnts, — when I sor 
on tlie rifht ft, of my HimncrinI 
ftovring tliat Most Groeioiw I'rins, 
to admire womb luw been tlie chief 
Objick of my life, my busum was 
sensed with an iinotium which my 
I'onn rifewacs to dixeribe — my 
trembliiig knees lialmost infuseil 
their hotns— I reckleck nothing moi- 
tiiilll 1 was found phaintine in tlie 
hitnns of the Lokd Ciiahkrhmiio. 
Hm llonRRT Pral apnd to he stand- 
in({by(I knew our wiitliy Pbimhibr 
l)v PuncK'4 pictnrs of liim, igspeci- 
iilly his ligs), and he was conwui«iiig 
with ft man of womb I fjiall «ny 
ncrthink, hut tliat he in a Hero of 
100 lites, and heveni fiU he fit lie 

™. tfead r say that I elude to Harthuh nr Wki.mnotiko ? I 

introjuiced myself to these Jpnta, and intend to iuipiwe tlie aiuaiut- 

ance, and perapg aat Ouvmint for a Hometcy. 

" Bill there was anothtr pusn womb on thi' <lrorin(;-room I fust luul 

the Miagspre-ssable dttUte to lieolil. This was that SWr of fwhing, tli.it 




^Jln....,., 




THE LOVE LETTER. 

(An Illuhthatioh to " The NATi^At HisTORr op 



r John GllberQ 

CouRnniP," 




JEAMES'S 

DIARY." 



half of 1843 and for subsequent monthly parts. Tlie little figure 
of Punch, which appears on the margin of this page, is a detail 
from this design. 

■'Jeames's Diary " is an excellent specimen of Thackeray in his 
most riotously humorous vein. Mr. de la Pluche's spelling is in 
itself droll enough to amuse the most serious reader, and the 
drawings with which the great novelist adorned his prose and 
verse would have earned him a phicc at the Piiiuh table if he had 
never written a line. He illustrated, indeed, not only 
his own articles, but some by other contributors, and 
the fact that he was a "pcn-and-pencil" man enabled 
him to do the fullest justice to his own conceptions. No one who 
reads his contributions to Punch as they appear in his collected 
works can hope to lind the same pleasure that they give in their 
original form ; and until Mr. Spielmann's elaborate bibliography 
of his work for Punch was compiled, not even the biographers 
knew liow great a share Thackeray had in the images of Punch 
from 1842 to 1835. 

Mr. Punch's love of field sports has always been one of the 
characteristics which did most to enshrine him in the hearts of a 
sportsmanlike nation, and the extraordinary adventures of that 
immortal muff, Mr. Briggs, kept England laughing (or years. It 
would not be easy to find in the history of all art and literature 
any publication— even the Handley-Crnss aovels need not he 
excepted — which appeals so surely as does ■■ The First 
Fifty Years of Punch" to the man who has been «triuMPHANT 
brought up to regard gim and rod and horse and SUCCESS OF 
hounds as natural appliances without which life is **"*■ BRIGGS." 
incomplete. Leech was himself an ardent rather than 
a successful sportsman, and had so little confidence in his horse- 
manship that he once insisted on buying a broken-winded horse 
because it was sure not to carry him far if it bolted. 



Mr. Bumand lias said" of Georpc du Mai 



r that " society was 



F. C Bunund, P;iri lil 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF MR. BRIGGS. 

SoHEiiow OB oiiieU (*saisTBii nr iiis Little Bot Walter), he catches a Jack, which, to 
Flii» at iiih, AifD Bakk.4 like a Dou ! 

i-cLl, INll. -r,,/. ia;i :'16.] 



[Bi,JBl.alfali.-i 



SiLVKRTop.'— Tlic CatiliTif; bent just one jint of liin l«rk very slitclj; 
1 iftimtl Ills stnre with ei|iiill liottinexs. ' Qo and nee for Lady JtAHE- 
acrem' carrJilKf, Ciiablek,' myH lits Lordiiliip ; nnd vispen to hip, *r 
c-oimin of oiini— a poor relntion.' So I took no notin of tlie feller 
when he cnine haek, tior in inv suliaqiiint viiiit« to Hill Street, where 
it Keems a knife nnd fork wnn kid re^'Ur for tliia sliabhy Cniiting." 

"ThiMliii/ Ni'rhf.—O ITanokmna, HASflELiitA, my pAshn for yoii 
lio)^ient4 tlniily '. 1 've bmn witli licr two the llnpm. 1 Nent hfr a 
hcwtitic Ctuiirllia Jyponiky frmii Covn Gnnlinj;, with a rr<[iiest "he 
would wpftr it in lipr ravine Air. I wonr nnotlier in my imtn-ole. 
Kvnn, what wah my Kattnsmekihn as 1 leant hover lier chair, and 
iKKAinniined the lioiixc nitli my gUn '. 

" '" "IN Nnlky and silent as naiTshlf, however — would srarcdv 

■ ■■ md little ,: 

Mil stny 



^ Feiitii;i.--\ wan Nleejiles all iiij^it. I imvf went t 
the follci'inK liii<« -there 's a hi ir nut of ItALPK'H H 
fond of. I eilnptiil Uieiii to that mellmiy. 

"i^Iio WHS In tliedrorinfr-nxiin alone with IaiIv B 
lilLng at the jivanna an I lirntereil. I lliini; tfi 
mewHick ; Kaid I miti): myself, (I Ve ad IrsnH 
TwANKTViLi^}; and, on her rekwesting nic to ( 
tliink, I linst out with my iioiin : 



"WHEN MiXtNLIKE ORE THE H.VZURJ 1EAS 



" ' When moonlike ore tlie Itaziire sra* 
In soft efliilseni* cwell^ 
When silver jew.' and halniv bi-eazc 
Bend down the Lily's MU ; 




THINGS ONE 
WOULD 
RATHER 
HAVE LEFT 
UNSAID." 




his study ; society men and women his models ; as models he 
sought them, and :is n philosophic draughlsman of poetic tem- 
perament, he accepted their proferred companionship." 
"The sheltered life" of England, "the gartlen-p;irly 
environment," in which du Maurier found almost all 
his subjects, is peopled by Women as beautiful, certainly, 
as any in the world. Du Maurier's imagination 
adorned them with a further grace ; an almost excessive stature, a 
clearness of prortlc, a dignity of poise, which recalls to many of us 
the souvenir — gioritied, no doubt— of the women of Aries. His tall 
youiiR men are superhumanly strong and lithe ; he could not help 
deifying the race, and "Lady Glitter" in this cut is surely orte of his 
tallest order. 

One of Ihc most popular jokes P«;ic/(ever published appeared in 
Punch's Almanac for 1845. It was printed in the same small type 

in which it appears in the lower left-hand corner of this 

"WORTHY OF 
page, and the editor apparently had no idea that the attention." 
[| advicehcquotesas worthy of attention would become an 
immortal landmark in "The First Fifty Years of Piiiuli." 

For more than half a century- this little jest has been quoted in 
one newspaper and another, in connection with all sorts of 
subjects, week after week, and yet we learn from Mr. Spielmann's 
" Htstorj' of Punch" that one of the knottiest problems he 
encountered, in the course of his four years' labour upon the book, 
was the tracing of the origin of the joke. Chance at last revealed 
that the author was, ui fact, no other than Henry Mayhew, one of 
the three co-editors under whose direction Punch was first pub- 
lished. 

The Prince of Wales, as a child, was an especial pet of 
Mr. Punch's, and when his Roj'al Highness celebrated 
his Jubilee (which occurred, by the way, iii the same 
year as that of the great weekly, for Punch is less than 
four months the Prince's senior) Mr. Punch declared that "the 
longer he knew him, the better he liked him." 



■' ROYAL 
SPORT.- 



PUNCH, OK THE L(Wr)()N C!HARIVA1U. 




THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID. 

SfntlVt. "IiAPT (imtteii'k (.'arhuoe !" 

Sonoftlif lloiiiif(temlerly,aiiht}tanii> her Ladijtliip out). "An! I vk ukkn n.MTlJir. 
iBll. IBHT.-fo/. 9ap.a!H.l 



B|f Oeortc du Maarh r 

MOUEKT ALL THE ETEMINa!" 



Wlimi mini (vnil ilmii, \\ 

HiiH liiiit yum Mill ill 

BIlANQIiLlHEl Itlmly 

DoHt tliou rtMiii'iiilii'i' . 






KK.1? 



"I mnrk thcc in t)ii- Miuhl.' All, 

Whmv KitKliitid'n lovi-lii<!<t nIiiiic — 

I My the falTTNl of them liull 
In Ladt I [AnaKLiHR. 

My HMil, in iltwlatc eelipsv, 

And tlien I liiutk, uit)i wiping lips 
DoHt tlkoii reiijfiiilii'i' Jt:.kUE:i'r 

"Away : I nmy not ull iln-e liitll 

THib BOHBhrinK liiairt uriJiirM— 
TlifTB \a n ItHU'ly sticrrit-tTill 

Tluit Sorrow ni'vor tiim ; 
Tlitn- i.i rt litlli', little Star, 

TImt still ilIk>v<' uic Ikmhis : 
It i." tlicStiinif iloiM- 'liiitiir! 

DiMt ihuii rcnii'iLilirr 3f,t.vtf,*''.' 



"Wlien I camp to tlicliwt wnnls.'Diwl tlMinrpniPinlxr-TK 
I threw hui'Il ilh itisiirruhii of iirnittnihlilc t«iiclcriiiss into i 
at the heiiil, Iliut IIanuklina could \<nte it nn ninvi'. : 
linciuiitrollahlc eitiotiiiiii seized licr. Slic put licr nnkcri'li 
&CB anil left the rDoiii. I iinini her luffing uiid .-ioliljiiij,' I 




1 oy. 



lB:i Uinr<< ^avhea-.l . 



All VIC G TO fKRBOJis ABOCT Ti 



ROYAL SPORT. 

It nill li<> in the riy^ollcrtiiiii cif oni muli-rs tliat a handsome rod 
[lii'li liirriK out to In< rmllr a hsliing rod aXler nil), mu a little while 
1 pirwnttHl to llw PrinV-e of Waliul HU Itojal Highneaa luw 
I'll- liiul wiinc i-tti>ilnl simrt wjUi this tod, liavinu succeeded in 
itiiriii'.' 'u'vcml o[ liin Mnninia'N Ktiltl Ridi, one of which «as as bi^ an 
Vu-c and weigheii sLt oniice!.. It waa very nearly pulling the Pnnco 




Mr. " Punch " in a rage. 
{By Sir John T<nni(i.) 



"A TERRIBLE 
THREAT." 



*^A Terrible Threat" appeared in the issue of Punch dated 
October nth, 1884. It was an expression of the very general 
dissatisfaction aroused by the attitude of Mr. Gladstone's Govern- 
ment toward the South African Kepubhc. 

On September 26th, about a w^eek before this cartoon 
was drawn, **The Times" pubUshed a leading article 
in which the following passage occured : — 

"The Boers arc not a people in be tritled with, nor to be bound by mere 
paper agreements. If we let them believe that a Convention may be torn to 
pieces before the ink with which it was signed is dry, ihey are not likely to 
respect longer than it suits them the artificial boundary of the Reserve or 
even the frontier of Natal. 

"This, at any rate, is a question in which the honour and self-respect of 
England, to say nothing of the vital interests of the South African Colonies, 
are directly involved. Unless we are prepared to retire altogether from 
South Africa, we cannot allow the Boers to extort concession after concession, 
to heap insult upon insult, and to treat Convention after Convention as 
things which are made only to be broken. When we annexed the Transvaal 
we very soon found we had got a wolf by the ear. We were willing to let 
it go, and we incurred some humiliation in doing so. But the humiliation 
we underwent in undoing that which it would have been far belter never to 
have done, was nothing in comparison to that which we should incur if, now 
that the Boers are the aggressors, we allow them to flout us with impunity." 

On October 9th, the day after the first copies of the issue of 
Punch containing the cartoon had been sent out, another leading 
article was pubhshed in " The Times,'* in which this cartoon is 
cited. The invasion of Bechuanaland by the Boers was arousing 
more and more indignation. 

** The Times " said :— " Most people, however, are of opinion that the thing 
ha3 now gone far enough, and that, although the British Lion need not 
•rouse* himself overmuch, it is time for Mr. Gladstone to assume an attitude 
somewhat more energetic than the mildly admonitory one in which he is 
depicted in the cartoon in this week's Punch. . . 

". . . To keep the Boers in order we must have a force upon the spot. 
They are not to be trusted for a week to adhere to any engagement they 
may make, and they do not constitute an organised State upon which 
effective restraint can be laid, or from which substantial guarantees can be 
exacted. They are rather a mob of lawless and disorderly persons who 
must be controlled by an armed police. 

" South Africa contains abundance of excellent material for the construc- 
tion of a force capable of teaching the Boers to construe a Convention some- 
what more accurately than at present. There is no lack of hardy settlers 
devoted to the British connection who will gladly enrol themselves under 
the British flag, and should be able to discharge the task of keeping in check 
the adventurers of the Transvaal," 

This forecast of Punch has been more than justified. The 

British Lion was "roused" at last — fifteen years later. The 



16 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON OHABIVARI. 




A TEllRIBLE THREAT! 



IBu ar John Tinalcl] 



Mil. W. E. n. "LOOK HERE. MY CJHHISTIAN FRIKXH. YOrVP: TIIREATIvXEl) TO IIORSRWHIi' OUR 
FO RUES; YOU 'VE VIOLATED OUR TREATY; YOUVl'; MARCHED INTO STKLLALAND; AXIJ YOU'VE PULLEb 
DOWN OUR FLAO. A LITTLE MORE,— AND— AND— ror/.t JiUCSE THE lilHTlSH LlUS! f" 



" Little more " which the legend beneath Sir John Tenniel's cartoon 
puts in Mr. Gladstone's mouth was a good deal more : but the 
result came. 



» 




ZOOLOGY. ' 



The anecdote of the railway porter and the tortoise, which may 
be counted as one of the most often quoted jests in ** The First 
Fifty Years of Pm«c//," is illustrated by Keene with 
the intense truthfulness which was the greatest charac- 
teristic of his work. From 1851 to 1891, when Keene died, 
only a few months before the celebration of Punches Jubilee, he 
contributed nearly six thous;uid designs which portray the types 
of those forty years so accurately that one may rely upon them as 
if they were kinetoscopic records. It has been said of him that, 
like Charles Dickens — and the two men's methods had indeed 
much in common — he never brought a gentleman upon his stage, 
but the whole range of the middle and lower middle classes afforded 
a tield in which he was almost matchless. It was his privilege to 
study the masses before their dress and manner of life had become 
so dully imitative as they are to-day ; he did not exaggerate their 
rugged individualities to the extent of absolute distortion, as did 
Crnikshank, but he lost nothing of their quaintness. 



The divers 
S/gfia/ttres o, 
Charles Keene 
emf loved hi 
Tunch.' 



Although Douglas Jerrold did not plume himself upon the success 
of the ** Curtain Lectures,'* preferring to believe that his repu- 
tation rested upon his power of comedy rather than of u ^rs. 
farce, there can be no question but that Mrs. Caudle's CAUDLE'S 

scoldings did more than anv other letterpress to make CURTAIN 

- LECTURES 

Punch popular among the larger public. The papers 

were translated into half a dozen languages, and the story was 

promptly transferred to the stage. One aggrieved matron wrote 

to complain that the Lectures were '* bringing discord into 

families and making a multitude of women miserable," but Jerrold 

put himself right with the sex he had caricatured, when, at a 

public dinner at Birmingham, he declared that he "did not believe 

that there was a Mrs. Caudle in the whole world." 



18 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVABI. 




: ' DoQp,' AND Rabbits is 




^^^mim^^^^ 



[JOM. n, ISlA-I'u/ 



a TO A PKIEND. 



"Villi oii;jlit to 1x1 vcfT rii-li, Mr. Caudlb. I woniier wlio'il leml 
vwi live iioiiikIb'J lliit Ml it th: i» wifo may wwk nrnl niny slave 

Ilii,il(nr! Uiu iiui — *'■' — *'■-• —■-'■* ' ' — '-- ----' '^-- 

|niii[||Ih ! A.H if |> 

iilwnys wp » 1 

tlin«' tlin 

my* I ilnti'l diiaw im Ui-oiiir^ voiir wife'-iiiul I dmi't; b«t 

tlmt to von, Mk, ('*iur.K? N(ithii)(.'. Oli nor vo« ran liavc fine 

fi-clinjis f.ir pvcrybojj Init lliow lielotipinK to yint. I wish ppopli' 
t 's "II. Ytiii like to be callol liberal— niiil 



if [mmiti |iK' , . 

I t'Xit, aIh. (JAnii.t! ! I 'vc mwntcil n bliwk satin ^towii 

1' venrH, niid tlitit five )>oiinils wuiilil Ihivc pretty ut-il 

lint it 's till mutter liow 1 {«>,— not at ull. Kvm'hoilv 



j.-irls wiint Ixiriiirt*, and when lliey 're to jrel 'em I ea 
mil. Half five pounds would liavp Imiiirht 'em— Imt now thev nn 
l,i|> willimiL (>f iwiirtp, rt"( belong to you ; and anybody but yo 
own Hwh aiKl likwd, Mr. cijni.K. 



I " Tlie uinn mlleil for llie wii 

I ItTniiv Imiv iHKiiilu ait to juiy 

1 ^verv fellow tiuit nsks thciu. 

. "I'ei'luiiK )-oii don't know that Jack, UiIk morning, knocked hiit 

sluiltle'Cot'k throiiuli hiK brd-rooiii window. 1 van filing to send for 

! llie k'"^''^'" to nu-nd it ; but after yon lent tlmt five jiounda I wan sure 

, wennildn'l aflbrd it. Oli, no! llie window nnw-t t'o mi it in; and 

I iiii'tij wnillicr for a dear ihild to ultep nitli a bitikcn window. 

I tie 's ^iit II cold lUrenily on bis luni.'s, and 1 Rlioiililn't at all wonder 

I if (bat broken window settled liiin— if the dear Imy diex, his dentil 

will lie ii]ion Iiih fatlieHs lieiul ; for I'm sure we i-an't now jny to 

mend wiiidowx. Wc iniftht tlioiigh, and ilo a good uinny more UuiigK, 

I if (iconle didn't throw nway their live poundH. 

I "Ne^t Tnewlny the tire-inMiranee ih diif. I shonld like to know 
I how it 's to Imi ]ia'id - Wliy, it can't I* (miil at nil. Tlmt five pounds 
I woidd luive just done it— and now, itiKumnei' i:j out of till? qiitktiiin. 
. And tlicre never wen- ko iiMiiy lireN as there are now. 1 idiall never 
I'liise my evi-s nil iiijjht,— but wlint '» tltat to vou, mi people can rail 
you li1>riiif M u. Cai'di.k '. Your wife and cliililren iiuiy all tie burnt 
iilivc in thiHr lieils— ax all of us to a crrlnintv sluill lie, for tlie innui- 
amv musMinii. Ami iifter nc ve iriMired for so uiuny ymrat Jliit 
linw. I Hluiuld liki' to know, itre ikhiiIi: to iuKurc who make diickii and 
draki'K'if their five jxnnnds! 

" I did think wi> iiujihl ;;o (o Murfiiiti- this summer. There's poor little 
Caihii.ink, I 'm sure >lie wnnts ilie mil Hut no, dear [renliirc ! idie 
must stoti at home— all of us must stop at )ioiii«— >he 'II p) intoacon- 
KUin|itioii,lliere'xnndnii))tof tlmt; yii>- swectlittk'iin({ci!— I'vciimdo 
up my uiiiul to lose her, uotr. 'ilie iliiW nifsht have been loived ; but 
|H-niilc can't wvc their ihililren and tbniw awaT their Btc pounds, too. 

" I wond<>r where imiir little Ciibrub is '. Wliili' juu wcru lending 
that five pounds, tlic do;; mn out ot the fhiifj. Yoti know, I ticver 
let it en into the street fur friir it slioidd lie hit by some ntatl dof;, and 
I'otiie tiome luid liitc alt iIh- children. It wonMnt now at all Mtonisb 
mc if the imiiiial was tii i-onie lnu-k with the liyiIrn]iliobla, and jrive it 
to all the fiimilv. tlowevei-, wbal's vmir fwiiily to you, im yoii can 
liliiv the lilH'iTil rreatnie with twv iiiuimI- ' 




DIST1NQUI8HED 
AMATEURS." 



It is often said that Georf;e du Maurier Imagined his xsthetes : 
Maudlc, l'rif{sl»y, Postletliwaite, and Mis. Cimabue Brown : chilled 
them into li(e to be liis cocksliics, and tlint the only " greencry- 
yallcry " people were those who, when tliey saw the aestlietea 
caiicatiiicd in PhmcA, thought the a:sthetic fad was really fashion- 
able, and determined to adopt it. Whether the carica- 
tures were based upon silly people, or silly people 
upon the cnricatnres, is a question of purely academic 
intci^st. As soon as the Mrs. Cimabue Brown of Punch began to 
be t;ilked about, there were Mrs. Cimabue Browns to be seen in 
real life, and these latter pretended to be outraged by Punch's jeers. 
A gentle sense of martjTdom accorded with their sorrowful c;ist of 
countenance and the subdued hues of their gowns. It was not a 
costly game to play, this a.-stlieticism, and it spread to the very 
periphery of the suburl)s. Knterprisiiig drapers |icrceived that 
limp material was cheap, and that shrimp colour and sickly green 
were no more costly than other dyes. Kocmd shouldered, gaunt 
jawed women, who had submitted to hve in the background, tried 
to believe that they had become the rage, and even the lexicogr;;- 
plicrs have to admit that du Maurier had changed the meaning of a 
wortl. The modern authorities' give two definitions of " a.'slhet ; " : — 
I. Properly, one who cultivates the sense of the beautiful ^ 
one in whom the artistic sense or faculty is highly de\eloped ; 
one very sensible of the l>eauties of nature or art. 2. Com- 
monly, a peison who afFects great love of art, music, jxietry, 
and the like, and corresponding indifFerencc to practical 
matters ; one who Cinries the cultivatioivcf subordinate forms 
of the beiiutiful to an exaggerated extent : used in slight 
contempt. 
This second meaning has ellKiwed its senior out of usage. Nd 
one n!Hv:id:iys would describe his neighbour as an xsthete, save by 
way of ridicule. The story of the Ilyssus which du Maurier gives 
us mi the opix>site page Is one of the sharpest of the shafts he 
aimed at this special class of butts, (or it pierced the pretence 
which was the very core of a;stheficism. The people who fell 
into chlorolic attitudes at the sight of pictures which had all the 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAEIVAEI. 




[8|f Geortt Ju Mami x ] 

DISTINGUISHED AMATEURS.-2. THE ART-CRITIC. 


RtNUE lir AmCIENT, MeUIXTAI.. ok MoDBIli* Art, recall ANrTIIINO QUITE RO fAIR ANIl PIIKI'IOUS; UNLESS IT 
HKiD OV THAT SDPBKUBKT MaBTEIIPIEIB Of GhEEK ScULPTCKAIF, TUB ILYSSUS, WIIEHEOP INIIKEH, IS A CKRTAIS 
LIBQ or THB LOVELI KlMK, AND I* TUB BUUTLr BELEl-TABLE CuKVEa OP THE ClIEEK AJtl> ClIlN, IT PArNTLV, VET > 


08T EXQDISITEL.y, 


CftoriM <!/■ Fa\r F.»thH»»i'U I'rko tlill MifK in Pngihy). " On, tes— TEa '.-of cocbee !-tiie I LYSSl'S ! I-is th 
TOD SMOwlM How Tltl-E. '.'.'. '" 


Eulis MABBLia, 


Alwaib reaut Tfl Learn, isn derplt impressed bt TriB extent "p 1'ricsbt'h ivpormatio";, ovr Gall 

COLOKEI. TAKES AS KAHLY OITIlUTINtTT OF VI8IT1N0 TUB BRITISH MuSEtlH, IN ORDER TO ^VUV THE IIeaD AND KecK 


XT ritlEHD THB 


IJ(.TKA13,l«ffl.-r.,l7K,,- lU] 






"I)ii you Iiimr tliiit >liiLtU'r liiiiv it's hfttifrinj; lonnd fro? 
Yes,— I know wlint it wimts on ufII ns you, it wnuls a iiiw 
fahtcninR. I nas KoinR to nwiil for the lilni-kKiiiilli to-<liiy. 
ItiLt now it 'k oiit of the i[iir)ition : now it iiiii>^t bang of 
riiidits, Kini-r yon 'vc lln-uun anay tivc pounds. 

"WHl. lliitif.'s nre i-onip to n jiretty iwws: Tliis ix tlie 
first niglit [ cviT liuule my siipim' off iinst licvf witlimit 
iiii'klni. lint wlio is to nffurtl (iklilcs wlini folks lu-e alwuya 
IcnilinK five )«iiin<U'f 

"Hit! tlirri' 'ii tliciioot fiillinc clown tlic iliiiiinpy. If I 
Imtp titc smell of nnvtliint;, it 's tlii> suii-ll of s ' ' ' 
know it ; Imt ivliat :iri' niy tppliiij;s lo yi>i; 



: Yes. i 



all > 



' fllH- 






H.iii.»ry-Wl.o« ., ... ., ....^ 

til !«■ inl'l fur by iniipli; »!lo don't take niixi of tliiir 

"IM you limr the niicc nmnini! almut tlir roonit / 
lii-ar tbcni. if they iiTic only lo ilmc joii out of lied, it 
"oiilil lie no niftttiT. S<'t ft trwp for tliinn ! Yi-s, it 'h easy 
riu)nj:li lo siiy — set a tin|i for 'cui, Hiit how arc pcnpla 
to nffoni till" rlipose, when rvcry diiy tliry lose tivp poiindH ? 

"Hark! 1 'in snrc tlierp 's ft noise down slain. It 
wniililn't fit nil soqin'* nic if there were tliicves in tlte 
house. Well, it iiinii lie the mt ; hut thievra are pretty 
sure lo eouie in hjmic niiHit There 's ft wreti'heil fniitenin»! 
to the liRck ilooT ; but tlteiic itrc not times ti) nfiord 
Imlts nnil Imrs, when fooU won't tike earc of llicir livo 
pounds. 



faults and none of the merits of the Pre-Raphaelite School neither 
knew nor cared a fig for art of any sort. They loved a round word 
like ** Ilyssus," something Hellenic, and tricky of spelling, just as 
Mrs. Ramsbotham found comfort in the word " Mesopotamia.*' 
They not only talked of statues they had not seen, but quoted 
books they had not read. They were dehcious imbeciles ; and 
their passing has left only two traces : du Manner's immortal 
drawings ; and the scraps of mustard-coloured gauze which are 
still, alas, to be seen — ^suspended like housemaids' forgotten dusting- 
cloths on the corners of picture frames, and on the backs of antique 
chairs from Curtain Row. 

H ^ Mr. Furniss's complicated caricature of Sir William Vernon 

Harcourt is so ingenious that one hardly remembers how repul- 
sively hideous it is. From a few feet away, the head "ALL 
seems only a little more grotesque than other caricatures ; H ARCOU RTS. 
but, when one begins to study the detail, there are minute repetitions 

U C o^ ^^^ theme, worked up with an almost perverse ingenuity, and 

extending even to the artist's signature. This exaggerated obesity, 
like the straw which the cartoonists of " The First Fifty Years of 
Punch'* always put in Lord Palmerston's mouth, John Bright's 
eyeglass, and Gladstone's collars, became so familiar that the public 
knew these fantastic presentments better than they knew the man 
himself. If there was not in every case a foundation for the trade 
mark which the cartoonist fastened upon his victim, there was at 
any rate some suggestion in it of the man's personality. Some 
other public men, on the other hand. Lord Rosebery and Mr. Morley, 
Ur.Harty foi' cxamplc, no one has ever been able to caricature. Amusing 

Fmrniss storics are told of the ingenious expedients devised by Mr. Furniss 

in order that he might secure accurate portraits of his victims. He 
always tried to catch them unawares, and his great trick, as Mr. 
Spielmann tells us, was to ask the Member for A — shire to engage the 
Member for B — shire in conversiition, in order that the latter might be 
sketched by the artist. The Member for A — shire would enter into 
the sport with all his heart, quite unconscious that it was he himself 
whom Mr. Furniss was sketching, and not the Member for B — shire ! 




22 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




MR. PUNCH'S PUZZLE-HEADED PEOPLE. No. 6. "ALL HARCOURTS. 



[Bv Ilarrf FumlMul 



" Mart Annk uii^lit Ui Iwive j;"'"' t" t'"' ''<'"' 
"iinlM tliicc tei-lli WkiT out. Noiv, it i-an't In- done. Tliree twtli tluit 

tlie Hivcetest fhcc tlmt was ovw iiMide. (HImtwIw, she 'd liavp liwn ii 
wifeforulonl Nkh', wtienKlic f;row.si]|),w]iii1l lianOicr ? Noliody. Wc 
kIuII dicn and liiivr lier ftlniii- iiml iiiiimitntol iii tlir norld. But wliitt 
do ynii mru for tluit? Notlihii; ; mi villi uin Miiiitiiili-r.in'nv fivp iKiiiridK. 
''And now. >»-t- Mr. Caui.lk Hlmt n iiii«!rT vwt 'v.- [)n)ii;;lit iitK>u 
your ttrettlioil (oiiiilj ! ! cun t li;n« ;i xilin tionn— tJic niiln laii't 



Imvc iipw bnnni'W— the wntcr-mtP iiiii.-'t Ktand ovit— Jack must not 
Ids denlli tlir(Hif;h a liroki'ii niTidow— our fire-insiiranco can't be 
imid, s<i nc kIuiII nit fnll riitiiii.s lo Itiii dcvuuriiic vlenicnt^ne can't 
KoUiMar(.-nt« andCAKOLCM'. uill (.-ci toiin cnrly (.Tavc— Uie dog will 
coiun tiaiiie and bite its all mod— Iliat idnittcr nill no banging for 
eviT—llic Boot «ill nlways (all— tlie niirc m'vvr let ua liave a wink 
iif rierji ihicri's U< aliva)-K brciikinf; in the hoiisr— and our dear 
Mahv Axsk bu for ever left an iin[)ixitci:U.<d inaiil,— and all, aU 

iMk. CAt'UI.E, Ul-aUH.' YOU WILL GO ON LEKDINU FIVE PODHM ] " 




The people of these islands are so fortunately situated that 
they ean afford to make a ^reat pother about the small troubles 
of life, and *^The First Fifty Years of Pnncli" show "THE GUIDE 
sympathy with the least of our sorrows. Five-and-thirty TO 
years ago, railway travelling was in many respects a BRADSHAW." 
less comfortable process than it is now, and the intricacies of the 
old-fashioned railway time-table were enough to put the traveller 
in ill humour before his journey began. Mr. Burnand's extra- 
ordinary page from an imaginary guide, which is reproduced on 
the opposite page, will repay close scrutiny. 

•^ The poor children whose only playground is the London streets* 

and whose only playthings are the things that other people have 

thrown away, appear aeain and again in Leech's draw^- 

" " PROPRIETY " 

ar^ Jngs. He was profoundly sorry for them, and yet he 

never lost sight of the fact that their precocious imaginings enabled 

them to build all sorts of pretty little romances upon the squalid 

foundation of their daily life. Du Maurier's children are almost 

always pretty children, prettily dressed. But in such drawings as 

this Leech shows us the charm and the interest of the mites in the 

poorer London streets. His studies of more prosperous childrei. 

are on the whole less loving than his observation of such types as 

/Sarah-Jane and Matilda. His familiar Greedy Boy is perhaps as un- 
pleasant a creature as ever Punch pilloried, and his schoolboy home 
for the holidays seems animated by an almost Satanic ingenuity of 
malice. One may be permitted to conjecture that Leech thought 
that the readei's of Punch needed to be reminded that their own 
children were not always delightful, and to be shown, on the other 
^ignatuns, hand, how much of pathetic beauty is to be found among the 

children of the slums. 

Plays upon words, rendered the more playful by being trans- 
lated into drawings, were among the earlier — and, " PASSING A 
as the reader may think, among the simpler— of BILL." 
Mr. Punches devices for amusing the public. The first two or three 
volumes are full of little comic drawings, like that which appears 
on the lower right-hand corner of the opposite page. 



Letch' I 
vatiout 



24 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 



THE GUIDE TO BRADSHAW. 

lAugaU ID, ISDi.-Vol 49. p. OL] 

CIIAi'TER III. 



[Bl/ F. C Burnand.i 



uttentinn to the 
tiitlinr'H i>R-i iliac 
■eiMv tlil'Oii;jli- 




.'nwlrr will 1* cowl --■ 

iuto|>t uiir iiietluxl, \ie will HiK)n 
iwtwessed of iimmis for Uie iliir 
-Kill}; uf tlio gicat Ukadsiiaw 

After ronxiilerahln Inluiir, wc til- 
vide nil triiiiin iiiUiMx clatuwH; rxdii- 
sive of tliHr own iiitpnial diviHii 
(itlas!j ot^/ir/il, tteoiul, aiul Min/ 

Tlie 1st ronsiiibi of tliosc trains 

wlitrli Htnit and arrive. Tlic 3nd of 

sitrli ]f.il.i iKit -lirl. Imii :triiM' Tlin 3nl of such aa r/o st:irt, Uit <<» ttot an'ive. Tlic4thuf 

till' ii .iJi .ill ■-.- iiiiiiin. .- h .11, ihr' starlitic joint is iiiil>se<|ilei>t to tlieir arririd at tlirir 

lll'^trl ! ' I ' iiiL^ ivhii'li, iii'it]ier stAitin^ ncH' arriving, yet nianagp to uull 

at -■<■■. ■ I'll- Ctli, wliiilineitlier st'irl nor nrrivi", iHifniii." 

Tli-:";i I-' !;■■,■. k' i iii-i ■ n/ur, the Iftstlwo to llio /noMi'iiVin,' nmning |irohftbl.Ton 
llm (;fuuii-ii mil 1iil<'. I. -11^1!' "itln.iit liruultli, wlipreof tito cMrcnie ixiIuIm liave no |«rts 
or nkoii'iiitiule, uiul the " |iuiiit.->iiif[i " iiiinintrriiil Duiibin Jonn^irs ; tliat is qiuulrilateral 
or foiir-Hiiled (ignres. Ajiart froni tlirxe i-laxNeH lue the Meteoric trains, whidi neitlicr stait, 
nor nnive, nor viiit ; but am aliwirlmt. 
Having i^ot llm» fitr, ivc will take a li?a( out of Dhadsmaw, and i-arefiilly eiuiiuine it :— 

LONDON, MOTTLEBOaO', ■WAITIHOHAM, 8T0PF0BD, PICKLES- 
WADE, DEPSTEB, WAOrON, M'fiTEB, ■WDMSLET, COOBT, 
BELLHAH, Ac. N.W. 

0™. Wrm. m J. Biiiin ] |Sup(, of iiiw, 1- JUi.lhl ^ui.(B(.(-S.'p( , Gimtioi, Jim. 






FuM Crom 



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nuloj 60, te. 1! 1 



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PROPRIETY. 

FEBSOHB BE?KEB£HTBD: 

SAHAH-JANE. 
MATILDA. 

SCKME.— t'lHilWlH Toini. 



MalilUn. "You B 



^-■17, Wa-Tul U.p, 



, . . NoWiJiut take a Hinipli! < 
unce niaxttral it, ,t7iu11 ne 
'e troiihin witli BiitiMiiAw um 



«, and hav- 
r linve any 



idvpriinient 
CS lit WoR- 
iil' it utatt* 
, liorhiiry'f 
n this tr.iin 



train. Tliat s,mu<.U »HI, 11 

t<in at throe. JiiJ^t Ihi' tl 

from Ilorlnirvl Hun- do r 

Well, say in a rnh. All !' 

runs on Satiiiitnr?! otit,v ; ami voii iiiiii gii on 

Wcilnesday. Give iiji Column No. -2. Ct>loinn 

3 is a iHtzzle. Whore is Feltiin Stiilion ! Ah, 

no I Look luiek at Cohiniri '2. Ohserve tin; 

trjin that leaves florin 

(<il.Alt o,»r«) tlie trail " 

at 2'33, No, ilori't v"o see uiai it n:H |ire- 

vioiisly arrived at I'ij.'n'aldsen, ami ^to]>|)eti 

there ( Of course. So i;iv« iiji Colnniiis 2 and 



iiry ,u 0.4.-,^ n 
lat gi-U to Mol 




IDyJoha FMIIiH.] 



•■THRIFT." 



The tale about " Bang went Saxpence " is one of the few true 
stories wliigli are as funny as if they had been constructed secundum 
artcm by the trained joke-smith. The words were really 
said in sober earnest hya, Ghswegian, and overheard by 
Sir John Gilbert, who repeated them to Mr. Birket Foster one day 
while they were " hanging" pictures at the Exhibition of the Royal 
Water- Col our Society. Foster tried it on some friends of his, who 
kiughed so heartily that he thought the storj- worth sending to 
Keene, and it was by this succession of cliances that the phrase 
became part of the Enghsh language. 




Mr. Francis Cowley Burnand was a humorist of acknowledged 
standing before he joined the Punch staff in 1863, and before 
he became the editor, in 1880, he was recognised as "HAPPY 
being the most ingenious wit of the day. The series THOUGHTS." 
of " Happy Thoughts," which began in 1867, played a great 
part in the building of his reputation, and were of the greatest 
ser\'ice to Punch. No other series, except the "Caudle Lectures," 
pubhshed twenty years earlier, has ever done so much to make 
" The First Fifty Years of Punch " talked about as well as 
read. 

Of the results of Mr. Burnand's assumption of Punch's editorial 
chair, Mr. Spielmann, in his " History of Punch," well says : — 

"There wis somelhinR of greater import brought in by Mr. Burnand's 
editorship than the literary lone, II was tolerance, political and religious, 
and wider sympathy Ihan had lalcly been llie case. The heavy political 
partisanship of Tom Taylor gave way to (he more bencficenl neulralily of 
Mr. Burnand — a personal neutrality, at leasl, even Ihough Whig proclivities 
slill coloured the cartoons to a certain, yet not unreasonable, degree. And a 
larger religious tolerance and warmer mngnanimily developed in Punch, 
such as comes chiefly from quarters where oppression has t>een known." 

Like one or two other distinguished men of our time, Mr. 
Btirnand has enjoyed the privilege of having his obituary written 
some time before it was required : — 

" !n the autumn of 18^, when he fell ill, alarming reports were spread. 
One of his colleagues on (he staff received a request for a column obituary 
notice of the dying man from the editor of a leading daily newspaper. B>it 
Mr. Burnand was much belter, and was greatly cheered on Icarninc the 
parliculars. ' Really,' he said. ' that's more ttian I expected, A column ! 
Why, (hat's what (hey gave (o Nelson and (he Duke of York ! ' " 



■■ l-auih" tinii lUa 
{From a FhDlnrath »/ 
F. T. Patmtr. Kanifli}. 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVAEI. 




[^™fm^n■G, IHflB.-] 



Hajipu lltoughl.^ljoaV lA Btho's birtbd^r presente 
iLrnuigra on the table. Think Fridouhe InokH at ma Am 

I WBitling iijy time 7 I think ] must br, lui Bma i-ometi up 
nnd nsks me if I am fonil of nichirrx 1 1 kImiuIiI liko to my, 
" No : liate 'em.° Wlint I an fay in, " Yes ; very.' I knew 
till', rwiiilt, Pliotogmpli book. &a;ii it before (linner. 

Wati'Ii MiLBUHD aiu] FHroouME. Try to efttoh her ere 
An<l express a great deai. Cali'b /tii : and lie winks. He 
is wluii lie mils "liavirig a dial" with Mi»« PKiDOLUtK. 

All luc conversationiilly engaged exeept myself. I baw 
nil tlic people in the Photogr^i book. Shut it Btrg is 
rendy at once for me. Am 1 fond of ferns T 

Hajip!/ ThoufffU.—To My " No 1 " boldly. 

" Ydu (I like these tliouL'h, I lliink," he rotiimR. " Mw» 
FtudoiiIme arnmged a. book <a 'em for lue for my Idrthdnjf 
i wiv "Oil 1" Tiiis would liave led to eotiversaljoii, hul I 
inV^ljcronBistent in mying "I don't like fema" [NoUfor 
Tmncil DrvdopvuiitiC\w>.l\. liook XIII. p. 6. " Moao- 
,-,fl.,l,iePrl(U.-/uliif.n 

1 tiikc a sent nenr Uie ottoman where hlie and Milbdhd 
arc Kitting. Difbcnlt ta join suddenly in a etinversation. 
Himting subject Slie eipeets nie to sav noiiiotliing, I am 
sure. Feel hot Feel tliat my luiirana tie vant odjuiit- 
incnt. Cough as if I wax goinK to sing. Milbpkd (idiot) 
say!!, " He hopes I feel better after that" f smile to show 
tliat 1 consider him a jirivilq^eil fooL Wonder if my smile 
tlor» convey this idea. Try it in tlio ekum at bed-time. 

Will touch him ihorply. 

Hirj>l>!f Ifumghl. — Say pointwlly, " How often it happens 
tliat n Wrson who is always making jokes, can't t4iJce one 
himself. " 

He is ready (I admit liis readiness) villi a reputeei 
" You ought^' he savs to me, " to lake jrikes from any one 
very well. 1 know I do. Mim Fkhklink asks why 7 I 
think he 'k going to pay a tribute to my graid-natiiri'. Not 

II bit of it lleBiijH, "He linibi it very easy to take jokes 
from other peojile : it saves makinf; tlicin for liitiDielf." 

[Hapjiu ThoughC.^Notf/mlltpartte.—'What I oiKjhl to 



style) " 



nill make n 

s down. It strikes 

n turning on my 



HAPPY THOUGHTS. 

(At Hvso'b. r/it Uraichi-j }2omn. l%in 



M.) 



telling very 
and jokcK. 



GoiKO to tlie I>r,iivirig-rooiii. 

Old Mr. SrMPERsiiN, Fhidoline'm faUier, has li 
ancient stories. So haj> Bthq's Whole Uncle. 

Uapvy 77<oiiffhl.—lM\sh at all Old Svhpbrson'b k 
It is diBiciilt to Hhow him that not a word of bis is lout upon ine, m 
there are five between iia. Btno's Whole Uncle, e.neoutnged by liiis, 
tells a long story, and looks to me for a laugh. No. 

Hamij Thought.— -%tni\f. as if it wasn't iKid, lint not to be men- 
tioned in tlie same brcutli witli anytliing of Old Svhpi:iu»h's. 

Mtl^VRD (hang him ) intcmipts tlicKC elderly genllcinen, (he lias 
no revercni*, not ft bit,) and It-llNafunnv story.' Old Svhfermih is 
convxdsed. and nsks I!y«o, wulibly, who IIIiluurd is ( 

I wish 1 could make him ask souictliiiig n1>oiit iik. 

Happy Thmujkl. —VlcbXTC liiin to myself, in liis sliidy with liis 
slippers on, giving his consent 

Ijget claie to liim in l.-aving the room. Ho whispers wnnpthini: to 
me jocoeely n« Bimo oiicnH tlie drawing-room door. I don't hair it. 

Haj>py r/ioMjAf.— liiHigh. JVcfe.—You mn enter a iliiiwing-room 
eonor if you laugh as you walk in. 

The Wliolc Undc enters the room siden-aj-s, bnnn cngapd in es- 
plaining details of the cocoa-nut tnuic (l tJiink) to a rcMgncil 
middle-aseil person witli a wandering eye. BrNO is receiving "many 
hi^^f retums's" from piiestd who have i-oiiie in for tbc ovming. OliI 
Ma. SmPEHBon is being Bjiokpn to sliarjily, I imagine from Miw. 
BniPBiiaoN's rigid smile, on tbc subject of sooiDlJnngwIiii-h " lie knows 
MTW amvs with Idm." Milbubp is, in a second, witli Fridoline. 

MiBs Telmnole is esperting, no doubt, tluit I am going toack lier 
(or some more trifiea from Nova Scotia. 1 avoid her. 



liaveBiiJ. "Tiicn Sir,''(Joh 
Jest at your exiiensG." 

Odd ; it Ls past midnight as I put tli 
me after the candle's out, and just on „ 

steeping side. I)y the light of tliR fir« 1 record it If tins 
conversalion ever recurs, I t^hall \ie prepared. 

A>wtker Happy Thought. — Wake MiijBurd, and say it 

Would if T knew his room. Bed ac^n. Think I 've 
tlinnght of sometliinj! else. Out of bed ocain. Liglit 
Odd : striking tlie lucifer has put it (whatever it was) out of 
my head. Bed again. Strange.] 
Miss Pkllinole Vi kinil enough to play the piano. White slie is 
Ififorming, I can talk to FiODOLiin!. 

M iss I'bi.lihci.k having to pass nie on her rond to tlie instniment, I 
am obliged to rise. 

llijipy Thaiighl.—Snj, " Yoti 're going to piny something 7 That '» 
dianning." 
She Arc 
action at I 

me "Tlianks, old fellow! You know all about miisir: turn over for 
her, will yon 7 Clever girl 1 Think 1 told yon she 'd lieen to NoTa 
Bcotia,cfi7" And he leaves me at the piano's side. 

Happy TKaught.—To look helplessly towards Phidoliite, as mDch 
OH to sny, " Set; bow I am placed 1 I don't want to I>e here : 1 wish to 



PIlc doesn't St 



tlio least interested. 

immenccs " Routteav's Drenm," witli variations. 
Beautiful melody, by itself first, clear and distinct Only the slighleat 
possible inljmaljon of tJie coming variations given by one little not« 
which is not in tlie original air. 

tl'ip]»j Thoiujl,l.—fata over. 

" No, not yet. tliank^i." Too early. 

A ]icciiliady lianuomsed vcrriion of the. nir announces tlie aimroach 
of variations. Two note* at a time instead of one. The "Driettm" 
still lo lie distingiiisliod. Mim I'sbLinuLE jerk'i her eye at me 

l/n/>ji<i Thmiyhl.—TnTa over. 

Beg jnnlon : two pages. Mim Pblliniilr's right band now swoops 
■town on tJiP country occupied by the left, find [nrls of the tune Oitn. 
and plays it Left liana nuikes a rrvenLTful raid into right hano 
iiiiiutry, bringing iit part of the tune up llierc, and trying to divrrt 
tiie enemy's attention from the liass. 

Tliey meet in the middle. Scrimmage. Time utterly lost 

Happy TftoHjA*.— Turn over. 

Too late. Steam on : hurried nod of thanks. Now again. The 
light hand, it seems, lias lelt some of tlic tunc in llic left liand's coun- 
try, which the latter finds, and tries to produce. Bight luuid coomb oiit 



^ 



EK 



OR. 



Mr. 

E. T. Re^s 

various 

SigtuttNt es. 



Mr. E. T. Reed, who, when Mr. Harr}' Furniss retired, became 
the ParHamentary artist of Punchy is best known to the pubhc by 
his illustrations for the " Diary of Toby, M.P.,'* and by " WARNING 
his amusing *' Prehistoric Peeps." His grim suggestion TO 
of the effects of which bicycling might have on the ENTHUSIASTS.' 
human form, gave a foretaste of the quality which he was after- 
wards to show in his fantastic studies of primeval life, and is, 
like his other drawings, characterised by an extraordinary com- 
bination of realism with boldness of fancy. The Royal Institution 
has borne public witness to the accuracy of Mr. Reed's scientific 
points of departure, and the ** Warning to Enthusiasts " has the 
same sort of obvious truthfulness which leads a critic to recognise 
a portrait as a good likeness, although he has never seen the 
person portrayed. 



This Westminster Bridge sketch recalls the daj's when mounted 
police were not, and footpads plied their calling in the London 
highways. It was not until nearly ten years after the " WESTMINSTER 
publication of this drawing that Baron BramwelFs BRIDGE." 
stern sentences at the Central Criminal Court checked the prac- 
tices of these brutal ruffians, and the Act of Parliament passed in 
1863, providing for flogging as a punishment for robbery with 
violence, restored the confidence of timorous persons such as the 
victim sliown on the opposite page. 



The vogue of the conundrum has long since passed away, but 
Punch cannot be represented without an allusion to these ingenuous 
conceits, in which Hood excelled. His conundrums "WHYS AND 
were among his earliest contributions to Punchy and WHENS." 
were vastly appreciated by the readers of his day. Great favourites 
were : " Why is killing bees like a confession ? Because you 
unbuzz *em.'* ** Why is *yes' the most ignorant word in the 
language ? Because it doesn't no anything." *• When is a clock 
on the stairs dangerous ? When it runs down.*' 



28 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




Sny ivliat a nice old lady lier mother is. I whli 1 Iwln't, it '» so 
nliiiird to coiniJiment n person on liavin^ a itotlicr. Hay 1 didn't 
know lipr bther before to-ni(^it : Htiipid tliis. No, it ian't, idie Hiys 



' ob 



W-niKiit : Btiipif 
thejiTeasiireolii 
Li'L uj UK H'urju o^ikiiii"— Dieaning Plvte r KAMKKaiJnn ui uiei 
ilifpiiy Thovght. — Bxpress raptiiroiin lio|>c. Hint tliat tlierr ni 
■- ies. " Wh»t obHtBcles ? " Now to begin : ^bide firnt tr ■ 



Hw 



dinnge of nynipatliies, then to fiiendshi|m, ti.-.. .. 

Bv^fQ b^p< iwrdon. lie wantit to K|ieak tonic Hrn-nd Mu.nuitD 

, liave got Honic fun, lie says. Tlie evenin^H dull, und we \n\vX du 

' simictliing clieerfid at Cliristniiu time. Tlipy take lue out of lUe I'ooiii. 

DvNU iiicutioKi clittradeH, and di'essing iiii. 



WHYS AND WHENS. 



:Ala.l81S.-r«/.4.p.llll,] {BiiTl...mn.noa-l-\ 

WhatI* tlie diflerenre between a soldier and n lioiiib-sliuU? 

One goes to wars— tlie other to [lieces. 

Wiiy isn't a widow like lier Irannet ? 

Bet-Aiixc oiie takes ofT nJid tlie otlier takes on. 

When is a pij» like jimw in ft garden ? 

Wlien it reijuires stu.'king. 



IVhy is a com-fiekl payer tlion any other ' 
Uei'aii:ie it runs in ngs and lias lots of larks 
Why is a eon's tail like n siran's bouHii ? 
Ifctiiiise it grows down. 
Why isn't 
Bet-aiise si 
Why is Guy Faux always over-dressed '! 
Because he 's done to rags in tlie morning and burnt K 
finder in the evening. 



[fl f T B 

A WARNING TO ENTHUSIASTS 

[JuIU41BBa-I"/.97,;i.B.l 

with Invsb accotnginninient In the treble, and left liand gives 
meet for the second ttuie. Si'itinliiage. 

Ha]rpy 7 'AoMjAf.— Between livo liani*"^ llou$MO»'» Dtvr 
tlie ground. 

Now the air tries to break out between alternate notes 
soner behind liars. Then we liave a variation entirely Ins. 

Hnppy Thov'jht, — KoL'S8K*u snorinu. 

Then a scai]i]>ei'ing up, a meeting with tlic rii;lLt lianil. a 
down, and a leaji oft one note into s]au?e. Tlieii both in 
wobbiin); ; then <lown into Uie liasii again. 

HiipjHj Thov'jhI. — itousHKAiT ofter a heavy supper. 

A plointive variation.— Bo uscbad in |niti. 

Uenerol idea of HousaEAU vainly tryint; to catch the nir n 

Light Ktmin : MozMirka time. — Rouhsrav kicking in In 

Grand tinisliing uj> : festiviU style, as if Koub»bau had g 
bed, asked all his fneiuls suddenly to a larty, and was dan 
di'esHing-gown. I call it, iuipulsivclv, by a 

Hnjipy Tkoiight.—" Kotmeiiii't A'i'jhliaare." 

All over. kItsH pKt.UNaLE is sorry to have troubled 
sorry sbc did. I leiive her abruptly, .seeing Milbvrd lias 
place and Mish Kkidolitik is alone. 1 sit dowji by lier 
ovykt to liave sjtokcn fint ami aat afterwards.) 

Happy Thowjhl. ~iiay "I 've Itccii trying lo speak to 
evening." (Verv Imt and clioky.) 

She reiJies, "Indeed?" I say, "Yes." Think I '11 sa I 

wanted to exjilain my eondiiet to lier— tliink I won'L 

Hiipp'j Thau'jiti.—" Ilojie yon 're gmng to utop here »oi ti le 

I explain tliat I don't mean on tlic oltonian, bnt in the iioitie. Uli, 
then," she says, "not on the ottoman." Tliat was rude of me— 
accordingly, I explain again. My explanations resemUe Miss Pkl- 
(.iNOLi^g variations, and, I feel, mystify tlie Bnbject iflimideribly. I 
tell licr I am so ilelighled to meet tier upiin. 1 am going to say tliat 
I hope she is delightctl at seeing nic. 

Hiippji TAowi/W.- Better not say it : Uiink it 

Want a general subject for conversation. 

Haj>ji;/ Thoa-jht {"ftfr a ]taii»e).—\\n- motlier. 




Rfduetd Tradttman {to Utile parly rt 



"Did ton WART 



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ilP^ illiiiiii Iii!iMlil = l = "l 



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PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHAEIVAKI. 





Biddells to Lambelh poorhoiisc, and gave Mr. Moses a bad 
quarter of an hour. This was on a Wednesday. On Friday "The 
Times" devoted a leader to the Biddells, and was un- ■■ the SONG 
pleasant enough to call Mr. Moses's scale of payment OF THE 
a "scandalous outrage on humanity." A week later, SHIRT." 
Punch took up the matter, and, under the heading " Famine and 
Fashion," called Mr. Moses a cannibal. Thomas Hood looked 
into the question of seamstresses' pay, and learned that they got 
live farthings for making a shirt, and had to find their own needles. 
And, on this suggestion, he wrote " The Song of the Shirt." 

Three papers, one after another, rejected it, and finally Hood 
sent it to Punch, enclosed with a note in which he expressed the 
fear that it would hardly Ije considered suitable for that Weekly, 
Mark Lemon read the poem aloud at the weekly Punch dinner, 
and a majority of the staff thought that, praiseworthy as the verses 
were, they were somewhat too painful for a comic journal. The 
Editor overruled them, and on the appearance of the Christmas 
number the lines created an extraordinary sensation. " The Times " 
quoted the verses, and was followed by nearly every other newspaper 
in England. All sorts of conjectures were made as to the name of 
the author, and Dickens was one of the few who at once arrived 
at a correct conclusion. The circulation of Punch tripled in 
consequence of the excitement created by "The Song of the Shirt." 

Mr. Ruskin declared that dii Maurier used his per.cil lietter than 
John Leech did, hut he complained that " the charm of du 
Maurier's extremely intelligent, and often exqi:isite]y 
pretty, childicn is dependent, for the greater part, on 
the dressing of their back hair and the fitting of their boots." If 
du Maurier had been a controversialist l:c might have retorted that 
tiie care with which a nioHier dresses her child is. in its way, a very 
charming exhibition of the maternal instinct. But he was not 
given to " talking back," and he went on drawing such delicious 
children as Dora and Eric, o i the opposite page, and dressing them 
prettily, a show of olistinacj- which readers of " The First Fifty 
Years of Punch " will not regret. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 



Vuait,tr.KI3.-rut.!i,f 



THE SONG OF THE SHIRT. 



WITH fingers wpnry ami ivorn, 
Viith eyeliils heavy ami red, 
A Wniiuin sat, in iniwouiiLiily \itiai. 



IS tlie " Song of tlie Shirt ; " 



"Work; work: wmk t 
Wlii!r tli« tiJck is i-nnviii(i aloof ! 

An<l work— ffdik — uiirk. 
Till tliP KtnrK sliiiiu ttiroiigli llic roof ! 
1 1 '.s ( I ! to ]m! a kIiivc 

Ailing with tin- bnrlnroiw Turk, 



if tJiisitiCliristiftn w 



WIli 






" Work-nnrk-noi-k 
Till llic Ijriiiii iH'pns tu switii ; 

W ( irk— work— work 
Till till! cyex nri! Iinivv iiml <liiii 1 
iSciiin, tinU fHUUdit, ami Ituiiil, 

Itiinil, ami (,ii><)<ot> dihI r^iiiiii. 
Till ovM- tlie liiilums I fnll ftslifp, 

AiiU sew tlicin on in » lUi^iii] ! 



'■<>• Mnii, 

>>\ Miri _ 

Ii i< luii liiidi yon 'ru woirinf; out, 

lint liunian ['rrulnrrH' livos ! 
Stitch— stiti-li—Ntitcli, 

In poverty, liimj^'cr, nitd dirt, 
fi'uing at oni'f, nitli a double tlimul, 

A fjliroud as well as a Sliirt. 



" Unt nliv do I talk of Onttli 1 
TImt Pltntitoni of joisly bone, 

I hardly finr hi.t tcirihlc sliape. 
It sccnis so like my own — 



" till ! liiit to liimllii' the lirMth 
Uf tliP toiV8li|i iind priinrwe sweet— 

Wjtii tlie Hky aliove my haul, 
And tltr tTOKs iM'neatli my (ii't, 
for only onn xliort hour 

'I'o feel IIS I iiHod to fecL 
Ui'fiii-e I knew tho woes oi want 

And tlie walk tliat costs a in^ ] 



" ( til tint for one short lionr '. 

A iTsirite liowever hrji'f ! 
No tJchsisl leisure for Love nr Hope, 

Hilt only liniP for Grief ! 
A little ivivgiiiiL' would iitsi' iiij liojirl 

l!ut ill their hrinv Ixxl 
My tc»rx iniiNt titap, fur evri-y lUvy 

llindorx needle niid threitd '. 



Willi finf,Trs Keni7 nnil worn. 

With eyelids henvy and iiil, 
A ^Vuinan sale in utiwomniily m^ 

I'l.rini; licr nenllc ami thrmul— 
StiC'li ■ stitch : Kiii.'h ! 

In jiowi'ty. hnn^cr, and dirt. 
And Htill with n voice ul duluiMiw pili'li, 
Wniild llmt it» tone i-ould rewh tlip [tii:h ! 

She smi; this " Koiij; of the Shiii : *' 



And Hesli and blood s( 






" Work— work— work ! 

My lalmiir never flnpi ; 
Anilwlnvtnreitstvugaif A 1>cd of stiitw, 

A cnist of liroul— and itirs. 
TImt slintlei'd roof— nnil tiiiH naked floor— 

A tnbld- a broken cliair— 
And a wall xn hlniik, niy kIibiIow I thanl: 

I.V11. .uii..ni;...ag tullhig there ! 



Seitni, niid f;ii,>wf-t, nnd Innd, 

II (lie lieiii't Ik Kiek, and the bniin lienimili'd. 

As well as the weaiy linnd. 



In 



Ami w 



«irk, 



When tlie weather in .„.. 

While iindemeiitli the o*ves 

The limodini.' switlloirs clinR 
A- if to show nic tlieir siinnr hacks 

And twit me with the "pnng. 




^ "Colli! IIBHE, TlOB 

"TlUNK VOV, Kllli 

I'j y. ism-rui. Si, p. 3>,j 



"Tlic Guards are coming home!" No other message flashed 
to London over the telegrapli wires so rouses the patriotic spirit 
of all classes, such uproarious delight, such a tumult of 
welcome. On such an occasion Mr, Punch helps to "SHORT 
render the reception of the Guards an event worthy cahc-k 
of their distinguished history. The cartoon on tlie RETURNS" 
opposi'c page was printed October 21, 1882, when 
tlie Guards returned from Egjpt. But a few months before, 
as nien)bers of an exjTeditionaiy force, they had been sent out 
to help to put down Aiabi and his savages. The campaign had 
been ihort, sharp, and brilliantly successful. The Guards had 
again covered themseh'cs with glory. 




' The Times " of October i 
inlry has ample re 



19, 1882, said:— 

ison for satisfacllon wilh the manner in whicli 
ilitary system stood the trial. Wiiiiin seven weeks o( a vole of supply 
for tlic war, an army liad been landed 3,000 miles away, under mo^t un- 
luvouralile pliysioal and cliuiatii: conditions, had delivered battle with 
dcclaive success and bad penetrated to the capital of E^gypl." 

On October 21, " The Times " leader s;iid ; — 

" The e(ilhiisi;i4in of the popular reception accorded yesterday to Hie 
Guards is an indicalton of the viutv til Ihe war taken by the tnasa ot the 
people wliitli is inRnitely more valuable than any amount of ingenious 
theorising at)oul their temper. The men were a mere liandful, baltcied, 
unlccmpt, and waytvom, quite unfilled lo arouse the reptebensible emotions 
whiLh the pomp and majesty of war is held liy some to foster. Hut they 
were the representatives of an ariiiy which has fuuglit a quarrel of which 
Englishmen are not ashamed in a manner of which Enjilishmen are proud, 
:uid wi such lliey received a welcome of unstinted hearliiiess and uanntli." 

Sir John Tenniel, now in his eighly-lirst year, began to draw 
for Fiiiiili early in 1851, succeeding "Dicky" Doyle, when the 
latter suddenly quitted the paper because he objected to the 
cartoons on " Papal Aggression." In one year more Sir John will 
have completed a half-century's service, and have earned the right 
to celebrate his jubilee as the greatest cartoonist in the world. 
His weekly cartoon has come to be recognised as the most con- 
spicuous feature of "The First Fifty Years of Ptiiidir In the 
cartoon which i-; reproduced on the opposite page Sir Julm's 
manner may be seen at its best. 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




IB]/ Sir Joha Tamtel.] 



SHOUT SERVICE AND QUICK RETURNS. 

F.-M. Punch. -CLAU TO SEE YOU DACK AOAIN, DEAlt BOY.'^ 1 VIIU'VI': SHOWN WHAT SORT OF ST0FF 
YOU 'RE MADE OF, AND WEIIE I'UOID OF YOU! WELCOME HOSIE!" 

lOelobfr 21. I>«i - J'r.f. 10, ji. 117.' 




"FrQURATIVE.- 



The drawing which immortalises t!ie facetious w.iiter is 
easily to be recognisecl as one of Cliarles Kcenc's, altliou}^h it 
is not signed. When iin amatcnr hnmorist sends in a 
sketch which Inrnishes the idea for a drawing by 
fine of the staff, it i= the practice of Punch 
that the linishfcJ result shall not bear the signature of the st.ifF 
artist, for the signature is suppose:! to imply all that was conveyed 
by the old-fashioned phrase " iiiv. ct licl." Whoever it was that 
suggested this subject for Keene's pencil may be supposed to have 
lemembered the anecdote of Charles Lamb and the cheesemonger. 
' Will you have it sent home, or shall I wrap it up fcr you now ? " 
asked the merchant from whom Charles Lamb had purchased a 
sUcc of especially sturdy Stilton. " You needn't mind the p-paper, 
if you will let me have a bit of i-tring I'll 1-lcad it home," 
replied Elia, But this, again, may have Iwen only one of the 
coincidences to which the most original jesters must bow. 



The earlier volumes of "The First Fifty Years of Punch" con- 
tain a number of small "eommdrum cuts," like this of ■■ LOOKING 
the dejected father of twins, with its delightful fat-faced DOWN.- 
nursc of the old type, anra;!ed at the parent's want of enthusiasm. 



Of the four great successes in the matter of the text in "The First 
Fifty Years of Puuch " as distinguished from pictures — " The 
Caudle Lectures," "The Song of the Shirt," Mr. Bur- "THE SNOBS 
nand's " Happy Thoughts," and Thackeray's " Snobs of OF ENGLAND." 
England " — the last-named claims the highc-st i-ankaspurc literature. 

Mr, Spiehnann, in his " History of Puuch," tells a story which 
shows that Thackeray was more of a realist than people supposed. 
The great satirist believed that the ccmplaint books of the senior 
clubs would contain many undisguised traces of snobbish senti- 
ment, and he obtained access to tlie old volumes in which past 
members of the Keform and Alhen:enm had noted their grievances. 
To the hints he derived from these sources, the whole Snob 
series, and more especially the puss:iges dealing witli "Club 
Snobs," are greatly indebted. 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHAEIVAKI. 




unvrell, I'bofesror Hollowav 

aujivanMl witli liis {hUk, and ciircd his Lonl- 

NtiiK AH |iei' lulverUKcnieiit, kc., &c. Niiiii- 

bcrliisK iiistaiiLis might be fuiiluccd to riiow, 

tlint wlien a iintioii U in great want tlu' 

I relief is nt IiilikI, jiutt on in the I'niitoiiiiiii^- 

,' (tli:tt mittwiwni) ivliere, wlicu Cloipii wiuib- 

I any tiling— II witrniing-inii, a ]niinp-hiindlc, 

n |.'00H«, or A billy's ttiimt— n fellow comes 

Kauntoi'ini; ont from behinil tlie Kide-Hcenes 

; wilJi tiie very article in niicstion. And hav 

J cftiiiwt help oliscrving liiivf vpryi|ueer an<l 

Bxiiliiir Uie ennilitinn of our own heloveil 
nt!hn'l iukI Irelunil most l>e. One can 
fumy » prut |»miiIc IuI hy Mombs, or 
lilicmtnl liy Wasiiiinotox, or wvcd lij 



tlic Ik-i-u 



< itestineil U 



n.-liei 



; wild 



at prewrit 

me II nni]iie oi iiciUHiriii!. qiiai'kM, UN 8lK 
[(ORRIIT Ikllll Mk. U'UoKNKMi uill lieftT mi- 
out ill nsserting. This i tlironr out at u 
tiiei'e jKireutlietic oliservatiou, atiil revert to 
the fiii'incr urgiiriicnt, wliidi ariylMdy may 
rulmit or cleny. 

nuileiwfciui; iliiii't deny it. — Wiy it in u 
nilrmul : tlie 'lireetois iN-gin l>y Ktnting 
tliat " A nmiv iiitinuil.' mmmiiiiiuitUiii 
iH-tnivn Katliei'sliiiis nnd Da-rryiuine B^ 
is iiui^essAry for the ailviincemciit of eivilj- 
Nitioii, anil ilenMiiih^l hy tlie imiltitiHlinMiH 
ot-i'lituintliHis of the gn<nt Irish poojik-." Ur 
sii|)iioi<F it ix II newN|m|HT; tlin iiniii|>cctii»i 
M;iU'K tlmt "At II ti'ue when tlic Obiireh » 
in (linKiT, tlinntviu.ll friHi) witlmit by 
Ktvngi' fniiiilielMiii ami iniserrant imbclHii, 
anit nnilcimined fmni within liy lUnRermix 
.IcKtiitisiii anil Mili-Wlal iji-hiiuii, ii Want Im-^ 
lieiii iinivennlly fi'U — a luinoiin); pw^J'^ 
liitx loiiknl aliiiinil — fill' an Ktrta^iimtkHi 
L'lliim]niiu uii'l (iiiiinliiiii, A limly iif I'n-- 
bites ituil (li'iitlinui'ii Imve tluTefurc stt'ji|H"l 



.elei-n 



ii'.i i 



t lioi 



FIGURATIVE. 

*■ (/l,<- 01,/ Of at hi-'l irlthf.! far .< m-oayer Cbtese). 

TIIK OollUONZOLA ! " 



r," a.-.-.. 






lint >, 



otlier [if 



THE SNOBS OF ENGLAND. 



lFr:.ni,tnr2K\f 



•I. 10. p. 101.] . 



[D» ir il. Thnfl 



Wiirk. if 
im.,iNl., 

' ami f I l< 



; tliesi' jiointK at h-ast is ineontroviitilile. 
I The [Hihlic wiuitH a thing, tlii-refurc it is 
I sn|H>lied witii it, or tlic jnililii; !» Kiiiqilieil 
. ivitJi It thill!; ; tlu-rofon; it wiintn it. 

1 luive long pine alimit u ith ii mnTii'tiou 

ill my mind tWt I liiul a, work to <lo -.i 

I giiiit W ; y\ I'lutHuie to fiillil ; ii cliasni t.i 

liiiisie & foot ; 11 tireiit S-iiiil Kvil to Dis-nver 

\>nvi.tiou Hiis l'nr.-iiml iiie f.ir Years. It lu- 



ll 

hltik le- 



PIIKFATOIIV KKMARKH. 

I Tlir Mfcetniti/ of a ?rnri on Siiotw, 'IrninutWiteil fr/mi Hii'nni, niiil 
firoml l,!/,lir/ic\lnui illiiitrtilioiii .-—I >!„• Iltt ''mli'vitlMit dexli'nnl I., 
vr'it,^ Ihiit tnrri'—.V;/ neaitioN in iiiiiioaocnl in fri'au of ifivirl 
thi/Hract—l tlmmthiit the. iiviid huf liftit iinnlliflltif tirqmri'ii'j iti-ll' \ 
for tkg woKK (f«'/ thr »Mt-~SH<Ju iiif to lit utiiiUnl Ulcr olhrr ohjrru 
of'Xatura/ Sc'ri'cr, "ml nivajinrt nl'lAr llfiiiti/ii/ (ii-!th n Inr-ir Ii' ' 
Thru permitU 'ill da>/es—AffKtin'j •imhiiice nf'Coloiirl Sntibfr ] . 



raliiilittioDH 1 slioiilil like tn 
is it foimdnl!)-we Im nil, I 
Mkv. lieeii favoiiml )>v jien h i, 
rMiiiirk, tliat wliPii tfip t es I 
nitTssitii-s of llie world II fo 
Ii Man. tii^it iiidiriihinl f 
Thus ,it the l-Vneh Re t 
(nliii'li the veiuler will lie [ilea.si I 
In hiive intiiKliinii so early} wl 
il uiui nHjiiisite tii ndm te 
ninti'tive diw to the ut o 
■' Thifk.i-nti.] ttiiiiKspiKiirii': was found i n t 
jiiileed, ikiiil Mwallowetl wijjerly liy the [ntient, , 
' tiitler's ultinuite advantAge: thus, wlien it liccanic , 
' )iiN Uri.i, oiil of Auierini, Mk. Wahhisotom 






It has often been said that Tliitckeray liiiiiseK did not altogether 
escape the taint of snobbishness which affects men whose successes 
in life bring them into contact with their social superiors. Mr. 
Henry Vi/.etelly tells* a good story in this connection. It seems 
that Thackeray had often ridiculed a certain Rumsey Porster, the 
Society reporter or " Jenkins " of " The Morning Post," and Forster 
told Vizetelly with great glee how he revenged himself when 
Thackeray had begun to be asked to great houses : — 

"You should know, sir," said Forster, "thai at Stafford House, Lndy 
I'alinersloti'!!, and Ihe other swell pbL-es, a little table is sel for me just 
iiutside the drawin);-room doora, wliere I lake down the names of Ihe 
tompany as these are announced by the attendant footmen. Well. Mr. 
Thackeray was at Ihe Marquis of Lansdowne's llie other evening, and hit 
name was called out, as is customary ; nevertheless, I look very good care that 
il should not appear in the list of the company at Lansdownc House given in 
Ihe ' Post.' A night or two afterwards I was at Lord John Russell's, and Mr. 
Thackeray's name was again announced, and again I designedly neglected 
to write it down ; wliereupon the author ol ' The Snobs of England,' of all 
persons in Ihe world (it must be candidly confessed that Tluickeray wis 
himself a bit of a luft-hunler), bowed, and, bending over me, said, ' Mr. 
Thackeray ' ; to which [ replied : ' Yes, sir, I am quite aware ' ; neverthe- 
less, the great Mr. Thackeray's name did not appear in Ihe "Post" Ihe 
Mlowing morning." 
Among the other serials which Thackeray supplied to Puttch 
are; — "Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History," "The 
History of the Next French Revolution," " Travelling Notes by 
our Fat Contributor," " Jeames's Diary," " Punch's Prize Novelists," 
" Travels in London," " Authors' Miseries," " Mr. Brown's Letters 
l<i a Young Man about Town," " Hobson's Choice, or the Tribu- 
lalions of a Gentleman in Search of a Manser\ant," "The Poser," 
"The Lion Huntress of Beigravia," and " Letters from the East, 

by uur own Bashi-Bazouk." 

Sir Pompcy Bedell is regarded by many of du ■■ jhz 
Mainier's admirers as the truest of all the social types he WRONQ 
iuldcd to "The First Fifty Years of Punch." Sir Gorgius BOY." 
Midas was so loudly offensive, so altogether impossible in either 
club or drawing-room, that he seemed unreal. Sir Pompey, on 
Ihe olher hand, was a [xjlite and decorous person, ridiculous only 
because he took himself too seriously. His appearance in the 
House of Commons as the member for a well-nursed constituency, 

' "Looking Back Tbroufih Sennly Yean." 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVABI. 




Sir Pompe'i lieilfU, J.l'. (nn ilitcovtring that hi* Eijtjthell ii 
'loion). " What— n'H^T w tkk MKANma oy this I" 
The NeiB Pivje-"Vvsv a' lUpitiE., Sik !" lHjjiioflc', <iiul is ilU 



H emptij one lurnrd ir/mde 
!M«i a-ilh ii Mniilli's ll'iiijet. 



yesiii and )'eiii's,und were no mere known tluui 
Ajiieiico. itut, ^Tesent\y,~inaen4 palelitl 
If lilts, — the people bcMinie darkly aware timt 
tliere was !>ui:h a race. Nut above five-niid- 
twenty years since, a name, an eipi'esfivc 
nHinasyllahle aiose to desimiate that race, 
Tliat name liaa spread over Engl&nd like rail- 
rondK Mibsniiieiitlv ; Snobs are known and 
rewigniseil uironghoiit an Empire on which 

I am lavi-n lo understand tlie Sun never 
hets. I'littch njipears al tlie ripe neamn, to 
chronicle llieir history; ftiid due ihdivi[>i;al 
conies fortli to write that history in Fundi. 

1 liftve, (and for tliin gift I contrratutate 
inV'Xelf with a Deep and Abiding Tliankful- 
ne»sl an e>-e for a Snob. If the Tnitliful in 
thi< Beaiitiftil : it in Beautiful to Htndy even 
tlie Rnobbisb : to Irax'k Snobs tlirough hu- 
tory, ns cfrlaiii little dop in Hampshint 
hin'it out Iniffles ; to sink sltafts in society 
and («inc upon rich veins of Snobore. 
Snobbij'line.'ss is bkc Death in a quotation 
from Horace, which I hope you never lisvc 
lieani, "l>c«tin^' with e<iiial foot at poorine:i'ii 
door^ and kicking at the cates of fimperors." 

I I is n threat niislake to Judge of Snobaliehtly, 
and think tliey exist aiiionf,' the lowercuiBaes 
merely. An iiuiuenKe per eentage of Stiol)s 
I believe is to he foun<l in eveiy rwik of tliis 
mortal life. Yoa must not judge liaslaiy or 
vidgavly of Bnobe : lo do so shows that you 
ai-e yoiu-self a Snob. T myself have l>ccn 
taken foi- one. 

When I uas taking the waters at Bwnigge 
WelU, and living at the Imperial Hotellhrre, 
there use<l to sit opposite me at breakfast, 
for a ^hort time, a Snob so insuflcrable that 
I felt I sboidd never get any benefit of the 
waters so long iis he remiuned. His nuoe 
was Lieutenjuit Colonel Skoblbt, of Rcer- 
tain dragoon regiment He wore japanned 
boots and inmist4tchios: he lisped, dnwled, 
and left the "i-'s" out of hLs words: he waa 



banilanna, that filled the room with e... 
odour of mnsk so stilling that I determined 
to do battle with tliat Snob, and that 
either he or I shoidd ijiilt the Inn. I first 
began lionnless <'onver>ationa with him ; 
fri^^itenlng Inin exceedingly, for he did not 
know wliat to do when so attacked, and 
liad never the slightest notion that anybody 
woidd lake Mich n liberty with him as to 
meakjiriU: Ihcn 1 hand<^ liim tliepaijer: 
tlten, OS lie uould tukc no notice of tliese 
advances, I uscil lo look him in the face 
steadily and — and u-sc luy fork in tlie light 
of a toothpick. After two niomings of UiU 
iiiiu'tice, he conld bear it no longer, and 
fuirlv <|iiit(etl the place. 

Should the f'lilonci sec this, will he re- 
nieinlier tlie Gent who nsketl him if he 
thought rt'BLii-OALKR Was a fine writer, 
and omve liitii from llie Motel with a four- 
|)Tonged foi k i 



\><y-in\ tlie ill Ihc Ilusy Street ; Reateil ItscK By Me in The Ixniflv 
Siiidv ; .loggiHi My Rllww as it Lifte,! The Wine-cup nt 'Hie Fcvlive 
ItiKinl ; Ptirsii.-.) iiic through the Mazi> nf Itotten Row : Followed me 
i'l Far [jiimK '>n Brighton's Shingly Keiich, or Margate's Sand The 
ViH.1' OitttHiieil the Rofuini; of the Sea ; it Nestles in niy Nightfftp, 
Xm\ It Whis|KTs, " Wake, Sliinilierer, thv Work Is Not 'YetT^ine" 
Utst Year, Hy Moonlight, in the Colos.-iimi, the Tiittle Peilidous Voiie 
ISuiw Tr. .\l.> And Said, "SmTit, or .lo.vw," (Tlie Writer's Naiiii h 
Neither Hen- Nor TlienO "Shitii, or .Iosbv iny line fellow, thi- i- ill 
very well : hut you onght to be at lionic wri'titig your great »oik 

When a man lins tliis .sort of vocation it is all nonsen-w atl«nii)ting 

(peak nut to the nations ; he must nnbiitm 

would say, or choke and die. " Mark to yourHelf," 

'It exclaimed loyoiir hiinible servant, "the gnului ' 

have be ... . , 



to chiile 

iiiniself, (L .. .. 

I linve ofn-n raenlalh 

1 which yoii have been prejiared for, and 



,v led by n 



irrcsictible iiccessitv to enter upon your gmit lalmur. First the 
Woihl was made: then, as a matter of 'in ii-se. Rncilw; tliey existed for | 




(Dnmtng &v That^tmy^ 



CM- his appearance in the liuntinti field :is a stately, ratlicr than 
energetic, inastcr of tlic liouncls, would ercale no surprise. His 
solemn face, with its hi^-li eyebruws and round eliiii may be matched 
again and ag:iin in Hie eouree ot a walk through Pall Mall in Ihe 
season. One is almost yrieved to lind that the " Wrong Boy in the 
Wrong i'lace " couUl by his ill-played levity have ruffled a serenity so 
majestic, outraged so stolidlj* eonvinced a sense of personal dignity. 




It might he Mr. Linley Samlxjurne's special pride, had he any 
need to search for proofs of his powei-, that a large class of I'linch 
readers would love his work if it had no nie;ining at all, cherishing 
it for sheer beauty of line. He treats both political and social 
subjcels with the happiest dexterity; but, if he were not s;itirist, 
his drawings would deserve a place in the pages of Punch — or of 
any other publication which conserves the high traditions of black 
and white work — by their unsupported quahty as pictures. Some 
among his Norwegian landse:i)ies will (lerhaps be re- » |N CORRECT' 
membered as tin: puiest ex;uiiples of his art, but the TIME." 
fantastic suggestions of such a drawing as his " May," on the )iage 
facing this, are so hrmly liased upon truthfulness of line that their 
value appeals to everyone. No artist uses more assiduously his 
" documents " than does Mi*. Samboume. The gossips have told 
everyone about the array of stage proiierties which he has assembled 
in liis studio, ranging frocn Britannia's helmet to a Guardsman's 
jack-boots. There are said tii be no fewer than ten thousand photo- 
graphs, for the most part taken by himself, neatly classed in his 
cabinets lor reference. But these serve only to afford the sohd 
ground from which his fancy takes flight. "May" does not exist ; if 
she did, more than one re;ider of ■' The First Fifty ^ears of Piiiuli " 
would lie glad to sit undei' her luiilnella in the sharpest shower. 



Pinicli's greatest sensation of the year 1846 was Hit- tierce 

rebuke Tennyson admhiistcred tn Bulwer Lytton. In iHio, 

Teiui>-son, then barely one-and-twenty, published a volume of 

verses, containing some " Lines to a Darling Room." The poil 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




««ii.i«»-rj,«i,, mj MR. PUNCH'S NOTES IN CORRECT TIME. [B>/j.i. «.->..,«. 




TENNYSON 

ON LYTTON. 



himself seems to have thought this particular effusion somewhat 

puerile, for lie afterwards suppressed it. When the Laureate 

received his pension of ^200 a year, in 1845, Bulwer 

Lytton, in his " New Timon : A Romance of London," 

recalled this poem, in the course ol an onslaught of the 

brutal sort which has now happily gone out of fashion. One of 

the couplets was : — 

" t*t school -mias Alfred vent lier chaste delight 
On darling rooms, so warm and bright," 
Punch came to the rescue with a clever retort, on Febiiiary 7, 
1846, and in the issue of February 28, Tennyson himself took u|> 
the quarrel, with the verses headed "The New Timon and the 
Poets," reproduced on the page facing this. Thackeray and other 
of Tennyson's admirers on the staff of Punch were delighted to 
see Lytton so soundly trounced, for the author of " Pelham " had 
long been Mr. Puuch's (though not Thackeray's) aversion. Tennyson 
himself, however, felt that he had shown too much heat, and the 
next issue of Punch contained his " After- Thought." Lytton after- 
wards made amends by saying civil things about the Laureate ; 
and in 1851 the quarrel was so completely forgotten that se\'eral 
of the Punch staff took part in a comedy entitled " Not So Bad As 
We Seem," written hy Lytton especially for them, and played at 
Devonshire House before the Queen and Prince Consort. 



The "decorative-bucolic" school of art, which has been 
facetiously described as " representing a nuitiber of persons — all 
very much alike, swinging on gates and sitting on 
stiles — all very much alike," has produced few more haymAKE 
charming works in black and white than Randolph 
Caldecott's picture of "The Haymakers," which is here reproduced 
from the twentieth quadruple volume of " The First Fifty Years of 
Punch." Half-way between Frederick Walker's style and that of 
Miss Kate Greenaway, it is full of Caldecott's buoyancy of spirit, 
and, if it is not strictly speaking "funny," the drawing at any 
rate suggests the atmosphere of content and happiness, in which 
so many of Punch's creations have their being. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAEFVABI. 



THE NEW TIMON, AND THE POETS. 


What profits now to undentand 
The merits of a npotlm aliirt- 

A dapper boot— a little hand— 
If half the little soul is dirt? 


IFti. 38, me.-Vol. 10, p. 103.1 [fly lord Tn>«v«> I 


Wk kiiow liim, out of S&AKBPBARB'a art, 


And thou hne corBen which he spoke ; 


You talk of tinsal ! why we nee 


The old TixoN, witli his noble heart, 


The old mark rf rouge upon your chedo. 
You prate of nature J you are ho 
That trpilt his Ufa about the clique*. 


That, strongly loaUiing, greatlj broke. 
So died the Old : here comee the Ke- 


Regard him : e. familiar face ■ 


A Toiov you 1 Nay, nay, for shonie : 


I t/iouaht we knew him : What, it 'a yoii, 


It looks too arrogant a jest— 
Tlie fierce old man— to t^e Au name 


Tlie padded man— that wcani Uip qtiiyH-" 


Wlio kill'd the girlB ond tlirill'd the 1-iys, 


Youbandbox. Ofi", and let him rest. ALOtBUBW 


Witli dandy pathos when you wrote, 




A Lion, you, that made a noise. 


AFTER-THOUGHT. 




{Marth1.im.-VoLV},p.im [Bv Lord T««v«».i 


And onre you tried the Muses too ; 

Yon failM, Sir : tlierofore now you turn. 


An. OoD I tlie petty fools of rliyme. 


Tltat shriek and sweat in pifpny wan 


Yon fell on those who are to you. 


Before the stonyface of Time, 


As Caiitmn U to Subaltern, 


And looted at by the sUent xiars ; - 


. Hut rneti of long-enduring hopes, 


That hate each other for a sonj;, 


And mrelrHs what this hour may britip, 


And do their little best to bite. 


Can |«nlon little would-be Popes 


That pinch their brothers in the throni;. 
And scratch the very dead for spite. - 


And Ukdnhels, when they try to sting. 


An artist, Sir, siioiild rpst in Art, 


And strain to make on inch of room 


And waive a little of hU claii 


For their sweet selves, and cannot lirar 


To liuve tlie deep poetir hnut 
Is more tlian all |x)etic fame. 


Thi' sullen Lethe rolling ilnom 


IJn tlieui and Uicirs, and aU tliiuss liore ; 


Bntywi, Sir.youareliaril toplcasc-, 
Y.ni never look but half content ■ 


When one small touch of Charin- 


Could lift tlieni nearer Godlikv St 


Nor like a gentleman nt ease. 


Tlinn if the crowded Orh should ci v 


Witli morel brcadtli of temperament. 


Like those tliat crie<t Diaka giiiit. 


And wliat with K[Nt«s and wliat with fenrs. 


And / too talk, and lose the touili 


You cannot let a boily \ie : 


I talk of. Surely, after all, 


II '« always rineiiig in your ears, 
" They call this man aa good as ?ne" 


The noblest answer unto such 


Is kindly silence when they hrani. ALCiBrAi>r>. 




NOT SUCH DISAGREEABLE WEATHER TOR THE HAYMAKERS 

fA„ou^Zim.~roi.v.'>.m A8 80MK PEOPLE THINK. 




A STREE1 

FIGHT.- 



Leech's last drawing was (lie delightfully lacctious Irish scene 
which appears in Ihc upper left-hand corner of the page following 
this, ;ind w:ik published on Guy Fawkes' Day, 1864, a 
week after tlic artist's death. He worked up to uhnost 
the last day of his life, and the news of his unexpected 
death came to the laughter-loving public with the same sort of 
bewildered shock that was produced by the not less sudden death 
of those other two populai- idols, Thackeray and Dickens. The 
genuine love of lighting for mere lighting's sake which has made 
the Irish regiments the terror of Great Britain's enemies w;is a 
source of unceasing delight to Leech, and he never caught the 
Irish spirit more happily than in this last of his drawings for " The 
First Fifty Years of Punch." 

Mr. J. Ashby Sterry began life with the determination to make 
himself a painter, and in 1856, when he was only nineteen years 
old, he contributed some drawings to Piiiuli. In 1880 ■* LAYS OF k 
he appeared again under Punch's flag, but then, and LAZY 
ever since then, he served the good cause with his pen MINSTREL" 
imd not with his pencil. The " Lays of a Lazy Minstrel," which 
are the most fluent and melodious of his verses, beg.m in Punch 
for August 28, 1880, and since then have been intersjiersed with 
a great number of other contributions, book reviews, and notices 
of picture shows, as well as his "Songs of the Street" and 
" Paper-Knifc Poems." _ 

The serious gentlemen who subscribe their guineas ami devote 
their spare time, waking and dreaming, to the purposes of the 
Incorporated Society for Psychical Research were 
cruelly treated by Keene, when he deprived them and 
their successors for all lime to come of so delightful 
a subject of investigation as that suggested on the following 
page. A spook who follows one down the stairs at a decorous 
distance may be tolerable, but it is no wonder that this good 
man's hair stood on end when ihe ghost's footfall so closely 
dogged his own. 



THE UNSEEN 
WORLD." 




(E. ILiHH Kni^l Brmnt). 



THE 
LAWYER." 



Oddlj ciiongli, Mr. Robert Harrison's account of Hablot Kniglit 
Bio\Mics life, in the Dictionary of National Biography, contains 
-xo mention of the fact that " Phiz" contributed to Punch. This 
admn diic work of reference sins in good company, for, although 
seveial lives of "Phi:;" have been published, his 
dnwnigi. for Punch seem to have been overlooked by 
the biognphers. His work is to be found in various 
\oIuniLs from 1843 to 1869, aggregating a total of sixty or seventy 
drawings The valentine for the lawyer, reproduced here, is a 
good evinijile of the artist's characteristic manner with tlie pencil, 
used on a large surface, and at first glance the reader might well 
mistake it for a " Phiz " illustration intended for the " Old Curiosity 
Shop" or " Nicholas Nickleby." The verses which accompany it 
arc often quoted by WTiters who fail to gi\e Mr. Punch his due 
credit for them. One is always astounded, in opening the volumes 
of " The First Fifty Years of Punch," to find how many snatches 
of verses, how many apt phrases and familiar allusions are to be 
found in the thirty thousand pages. Yeiir after year the wittiest 
men in Enghnd produced for /'H«t/( so copious astream of quotable 
phrases and verses, that almost every newspaper in the United King- 
dom ijuotcs, consciously or unconsciously, some Punch jest every 
week in the year. A gentleman of leisure, in the North of England, 
umuscd himself some years ago by attempting to compile a complete 
index to the Punch voltunes, and some idea of the vast total may 
be obtained from quoting the entiies under one single heading 
suggested by the title of this valentine. Under the general 
heading "Law" there are cross references to " Blackstone," 
" Dcod;uid," " Magistrate." and "Oath." The sub-head "Counsel" 
yields no fewer than one hundred references ; "Court," no fewer 
than fifty-two references ; "Jury," no fewer than si.xty references ; 
" Costs," a fruitful topic for gibes aimed at " gentlemen by Act of 
Parliament," yields a score of entries ; while such headings as 
"Action," "Appeal," "Assizes," "Deed," "Solicitor," and the like, 
indicate the various jioints of view from which Mr. Punch has 
regarded the art of litigation. 




Lk.vd IHP j-oiii- niv.-, tltfiii iiifin of law, 
Wliile I Illy iln-Uirntioii dinw,— 

Your lieiirt in ft-c nuiipihIi'I' ; 
As iiiiiinlifl I iiiv suit iii-cfiT, 
Twniil.1 l)C iirciVil to .l.'iiiuv. 

Then lei yonv plm Ik-— ttfiwlcr. 

On ccrbiin promisps I mip 
Oivon fti <<niidry tiiii ' 
Uli '. iloM not it ui... 
Wlitn niiajd li.v passion's Iwldost fit:. 



THE LAWYER. 



Ap|imr in [NTon I bewvi'li, 

Nor itsigiuition iilly teacli 

To one Alrendv lost, sh ; 



Til 



L jJUII tUIIUIblUIL, LIUkL ^tl/IL |U^> 

At onM the delK iiml (.■ot.ts, ,-ir. 

tnke niv heart, be not n Innitt-, 
Ifnt iisk n nilc— jnst to iDiii|Hite 

Tlif DiitetT of itK KtAte, innn ; 
Rome iieojiWs niindK nw wiHly lliin"' 
At sixes and nt ^*^■'llK, I own ; 

Mine's all nt six and elglit, rn:iii. 



It \x-Mti with stu'li ti-einendmi-. forac, 
That its mere motioiiC'qiiiti''' of i.'ourse) 
Is like a joltinj: nut, noiv. 

^ty iiidgnicnt liy drfunlt is j^ono. 
And I, alas '. no I'aving on, 

For fenr yon should forsake ine ; 
Tliere's no defence —don't lien bnite, 
I give ymt n nile alwolnte. 

'■ '"11 take me. 




If the stutlcut of Punch were set an examination paper upon 
till; adventure!! of Mr. Briggs, his answers would make up a „ 
cataloj^jne of tlie most unparalleled sporting disasters. "MR. BRIGQS 
Wherever there was ii young crop Mr. Briggs' liorsc WITH THE 
bolted over it, and the farmer w:is always there to HOUNDS." 
protest. If Mr. Briggs congrutulatecl himself upon li.iving found a 
comfortable gap in the fence, the inviting aperture was immediately 
blocked by the tenant's burly figure. The selections which com- 
pose this small volume may seem to give Mr. Briggs more than 
his fair share of space, but in all the thu-ty thousand page^ of 
"The First Fifty Years of Punch" there can hardly be any 
dntwings lietier loved than those which deal with the most un- 
hicfcy yet plucky of inexpert sportsmen. One reason for the 
peculiar effectiveness of the series is that Leech drew the country 
as it really is, instead of trimming and smoothing his pastures until 
they looked like deer-parks, an<l making his hedges and leirees 
as symmetricitl ;is those which adjoin a suburban villa. 



■■MYSTERIOUS.' 



When authors' and illustrators' guilds rule the land, and all 
the publishers are reduced to a regimen of servitude and bread- 
and-water, the seamier side of London life will be 
altogether lost to literature and art. The humours of 
the 'bus, the sayings and doings of the driver, conductor, and 
the passengers, may, however, so attract the millionaire writers 
and draughtsmen, that they will be willing from time to time to 
forget tlieir new splendours, and to take a penny journey in the 
rimibling vehicles in which Punch men have found material for so 
many jests. To speak of a third person as "that party" had 
become a mark of vulgarity long before Mr. Punch's day, but it is of 
interest in this connection to note that two or three hundred ycais 
ago the usage was considered irreproachable, and tliat no less a 
scholar than Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, employetl 
it with the most serious sort of context." 



!dby-'nn,Timei,"Vi>l. V 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON OHABIVAKI. 




BRJGGS HAS ANOTHER DAY WITH THE HOUNDS. 

riMj i.KAi>s, Bn UK hakrh yi'\i a (i.tr — wiik'ii is tMUKtiiATKbT vltii,r,u iir a kkantic 1' 



I31nrch li. IKT). - 





MYSTERIOUS. 

Omnibiii Priivr. Have j'tiii 'ct down tliat I'artj' 
as got in at Ulc Cri'^coiit, Jkh ! 
UoHduelor. Vus, 

{Ah iiitfrrtil offirr miimtei'.) 

Oiimihii* /Jri'irr. Yuii rucullvck Uuit llicrc ifct 
Siitiiliij 1 ilniv yiiii (town ( 

C:;</iTtor. Air? 

(tiauibiu lirittfr. Well, ilo j-nii rcmt 

t<> .VIII) Unit ui'tri'iMMii I 
L\.i,d,icl.»: 'I'ci In- Min- 1 ill). 

(A,.„lh.r ,..,»^.) 
(hnmbm nriivr. Wei) IIh'ti 

''•MIllllcU'i: Wlllt: villi lliHl't IIIR, 









(■I'Jiiiiliivln,. Tliafs tlic 



IDnrnhir 6. IHTA— r.J. 31. p. nO] 



[InqiihilUv. iUd Gr-l 
rUfd 'It Am ./,>fi 
rett of the dti'j. 



A TENANTS' 
DINNER." 



Thi; Very Rev. Reynolds Hole, Dean of Rochester, sent Punch 
the immortal joke alwiit the yokel who thought Ciiravoa was tor) 
Hood to he served by the thimbleful, and Leech seldom 
drew a droller head tliiui that of the worthy " Turnip- 
tops." Of Deiin Hole's own contributions to Punch, the 
verses entitled " The Sportsmiiii's Dream " and " My Butler " are 
probably those tiest remembered. His :issociation with the staff 
was of real service to the paper, because, as one of them declaiL-d, 
there was always before them " the ideal figure of a genial parson." 



The reader who takes up a volume nf Punch to pass an idle 
hour will always lind, while lie is looking over the pictures and 
smiling at the jukes, that there is something to think -THE FRENCH- 
about as well ; and one of the reflections which will MAN'S FIRST 
suggest itself to him is that history constantly repeats it- t-ESSON," 
self in the course of our foreign relations. A great proportion of tlie 
cartoons which successively appeared in the 2,607 weekly issues 
that make up " The First Fifty Years of Punch " have to do with in- 
ternational questions, and it would be quite possible to issue, week 
by week, a historical Punch number made up of pictures and letter- 
press published years ago, to which the news of the moment would 
ini|iart fresh interest. "The Little Frenchman's First Lesson," on 
the opposite page, is an imagiiiary nursery song, which hardly ex- 
aggerates the silly superstitions entertained in France with regard 
to the diabolical English. The irony of these verses is as pointed 
and as just to-day as it was when they were printed, just after 
Admiral d'Aubigny had arrested the English Consul at Otalieite. 




Although this was poor Efhe's first wasp, it was not du 
Maurier's first, for in Punch of September 27, 1884, he has 
a droll drawing of two Highhuiders in uniform beset 
by a was|j and ill-protected by their kilts. As there 
were some quarter of a million jokes published in 
Punch between 1841 and 1H91, it is not astounding that the wasp 
has been brought on the scene more than once. 



THE FIRST 
WASP." 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHABTVARI. 




Nninu that (.-oiiim no ]« 
Little maitiol boj 
Mtikc llio most of that 

'h! crm„t-lt'f ii/A]tt.:ri<U 



Albio. 



Wlio biiint Jtt.tK or Arq 

(Tlip Xnxldm ! nny, tlic liaker I) 
Kecotil (k-nl iind dork I 

Will) stoniicd John of Atio i 
III-; TI.U KdhMiiium! 

lti;il.-till tliyjdy 
IliiiitaMiiMMimlliiiii, 

I-iltli- Christian Imij I- 
!,• rr n„il-l<'i ilex in;-Jiil(A Alhi""'iiiis,' 
■Ili<v I.1IV llm.,-liut 

lljiiliT iH.lt ami liK-k- 
lr.:ivvift<-li.>.llmt, 

Oil « »ivlrlii'<i iwk :- 
I'liisimiil iIicT,. his f.)uil, 

ItoHsti'il, \n.\\^\, aiKl stev,i'd, 
Litl!(-iiiiirtialiii.iii! 
<,■ ,:■ miil-l.i .ha i^-rjid'* Alhioiu-iU! 

Till, of iill beivfi. 



Tlutl 



^■pnt hi 



At a DfNNKFt OIVKN It 
HANllBI) IN A LlQUEUK-OLAMr 

HAYS— "Oi ZAr, YoDNQ M ^^ 
[Q-fiiVr i.\isffl-n.f. 7,1. p. irji.1 



A TENANTS' DINNER. 



[ByJiiJtH Lftcli.] 
' HIS TlNANTS, CURA^OA W 



AiiiUio died, aiid left 
Aiiiiirr.tin;,'«ili; 

WheiMiii nas tiii|,i<'vs<il 
His iiuiicriiil Mini, 

Byiumrt ln.''|UfNl^ 
Cliihl, j:<i re.L<l Ih.' sf 



ffV/M 



CJIBB TRANSLATION OV 

"THE LITTLE PRKNCHMAN'S FIRST LESSON. 
3n«ntcti, 



■ Mm 



1X)QU1TDR.) 



Cii.MH ami hour m* Icll, 

Little soldifr mini; 
Of thwp Dpvs fell 

Who on Frcnehiiipn dine. 
It will iiiakc you iiiiul ; 

It njll tiii-n von blno ; 
Utile ninrtiulitui. 

Little Frenchinnn tviiP ! — 
tr ce «",,i-l,} ,1,'it iie.-ji'hf A/l.io,„'.< 
Men who will not fi(;lit 

Whi'n theiv iipijihlitiiis tiiuni, 
Yi-t wlio tliiiish lis f)iilte 

Sirtiiiilly, wlK'ti they wnnt. 
TIkmp nudiU'idtiN tfii'i;. 

Morning', mxn, itnd niftlil, 
Litilcsonof Mfli-s, 

Mold ill iiioiulsiiit.'; 

ir ce Minl-tii ihi j>rrji<lr* A/Li 

l.'ursc tlion, boy, PoJiliei-s, 

Crevy, ATincouv, 
Uh'jihciTii, Tnlavti p. 

Am! ft liLindi'eil more- 
Only Foiitency— 




[Ou Geo. du Slaur 

HER FIRST WASP. 

I J'<H)r K^t [v-ho fl/tf llf'll lluilt/).—" PlH^ IT TTALKEV ABOttT ALL OVKI 

Hand, and it was bo kicb! But oh '.—trnSN ir hat Uowx "' 

MtfflM/ 10, IfW) - Fui. 99, p. 75 1 

61 ^ 




The page from Punch reproduced here was one of the Punch 
carlo(Kis which, in depicting a historical event, themselves made 
hihtiny. It was by no means a favourable example of 
John Leech's work as a draughtsman, but the effect it " GENERAL 

FEVRIER 
created was very great. Perhaps the occasion of its -ruRnipn 

publication may be best desaibed in the words of TRAITOR " 
Mr. Spielmann, who, in his " History of Punch," that 
indispensable guide to " The First Fifty Years of Punch," aay.s 
nf it :— 

"Daring Ihe Crimean Wnr llie winler of 1H54-55 was terrible in ils 
severity, and Ihe sufferings of our soldiers were appalling. The suspense 
nt honit increased the country's emotion as to Ihe terrors they lincw of in 
the field. The callous statement of the Czar, therefore, about that (itnu 
reported, thai ' Russia has two generals in whom she can conlide — Generals 
Janvier atid hevrier,' struck indignation and disgust into every British soul." 

On March 3 tlie news arrived of the death of the Emperor, who 
had relied upon General Fcvrier.* 

Mr. Jiu-itin McCarthy, in his " History of Our Own Times," s;iid 
of this cartoon that it was "one of the most remarkable ilhislrn- 
tions ()f an artist's genius devoted lo a political subject." Mr. 
Kuskin said of it: "To all persons accustomed to the earnest 
forms of art, it contained a profound and touching lesson." 

Of the death of the Cz;ir, a "Times" le.idcr, of March 3, 
said :— 

' No simple event could have happened in Europe of such momenlous 
importance at the present lime lo Ihe whole family of civilised nations ; no 
event cojid have occurred more startling from (he contrast tKlweeti the 
piidc and power of a ruler who sent forth but yesterday his myriads to 
liatllc, and seemed to hold the issues of life and death in his own hands, but 
who is now less than the least of his serfs, and lower than the dust of that 
KnifHrc which was lately his own. In llie long array of history, and 
among those figures dimly seen along the ages of the past which bear 
imperishable traces of their guilt and their doom, none stands a more visible 
mark of retributive justice tlian he who has thus abruptly passed from the 
scene of human affairs. The summons of Belsha/Kir upon the fiery wall 
was not more appalling— the destruction of Scrnincht^rib not more tt-rrible." 



It it eutluiK In Ihii c 



lellialaoionKoiir Kictv 
Cirand Chincellui uf II 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




GENERAL FEVRIER" TURNED TRAITOR. 



[Bn John Lcreh.l 



"BusaiA HAS Two Geskraij in wiiomshk can confide— Gem 

[f(*ninr«IM««r.,-ro/.2S.;j ».] 



3 Janvier amd F^MIIF.R."— Syjeec/i oflbe tale Empfror nf Rutna. 



THE LETTER 
WRITER." 




It is on Ihc front ;it Bri;^litoii (lixit \vc lincl Mr. Biiggs on this 
an tnnin afternoon, niagnitk-L-iitly posed on :i hack of the iinniistuli- 
abli: riding-school typi-". ;i"cl atcompunitO by three "MR. BRIGGS 
yciinig Briygsts. Tlie "'and upon the ip," and liie foot AT 
well forward, show in Mr. BrigfjB the tiuc form of the BRIGHTON." 
occasional equestrian who favours Brighton, afld the child who 
brings np the rearguard with a determined smile and a very short 
skirt is one of Leech's drollest types. 

Donjilas Jerrold's greatest success in Punch was, of course, Mrs. 
Candle's Curtain Lectures. The next of his serials in point of 
popularity was "The Story of a Feather," a novel, liie 
chaptei-s of which appeared in 1843 and 1844. Charles 
Dickens declared that it was "a beiiutiful book," but 
to the modern reader it wonld hardly seem as attractive as the 
deliciously funny "Complete Letter Writer." The liflh of the 
letters is reproduce<l here, and readers of " The First Fifty Years 
of /'h;;c7i " will lind the same charm in the other letters :" From 
a Lady Inquiring the Character of a Servant," " From a Maiden 
Aunt to a Niece on the Imprudence of Marriage," and the rest. Mr. 
Spielmannin "The History of Pk/ic/j," analyses with much skill tlie 
quality of Jerrold's humour ; — 

■' II he was nol exactly ihe wil of his day — for his miinl lacked tlie wider 
sympathy, the greater grasp, and genlter rerinemenl oF Sydney Smith's— he 
was certaiDly (tie most lirilliant professional humorist of his generalinii 
— 'a wil, if nol tirat, in the very (irst line.' Something of Ihe bLtle^■le^s 
and savagery of Gillray's rampant pleaitanlry nfllicled his v/j coiiiiVii ; ami 
when a happy thought, however unhappy and painful for the hearer, wiiie 
to the tip of his tongue, he could no more resist slipping it off Ilian he cnulil 
wilfully have done him injury. 

"Mark Lemon used lo say, 'Punch and I were made for each other.' With 
far more reason could that notion of reciprocity be applied to Jerrold. Nd 
man ever gained so much from the paper on which he worked. He shnply 
frolicked in its pages, that fitted his talent as accurately as his genius suited 
the limes in which he lived. It is dout>tful whether he would make the 
same mark in it, were he alive to^ay ; he would have to seek aiiothi't 
publication and another public, or else adopt an utter change of lone. But 
in those lively times, when, obeying Ihe summons addressed to him in 
Boulogne, he sent his first political paper — beginning characteristically wiili 
Ihe introduction of Peel, in time forllie second number — he gnve his powers 
full play. And his sparkle was the brighter for its selling and its surround- 
ings. His wil was for the most part caustic and saturnine, and in no 
other jnunnil could it have so completely identiticd itself with Ihe iiiicmble 



Jbnn. r.S,S.A.iii ih, .Vat 
nurail Calltrt). 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVABI. 




He ih takito 
IIakkiziu 



[fftwrMiff ISjaSL- 



PUNCHS COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER. 




' is niv witness llmt I never 
four (Ipviition of this eveninft 
!■ inatlr inr love— ntter tlic 



witilipvies of lo-nii;lLl 
ftnil ink. Yoiir voice 
citrek— I win, I muitt ( 



-^ : .i^ilHrrc is 1,0 liiii|-fr i-oivihlp. Your 
vpn ine "illi ivliiilivjiiii tniic to 1*11 
I my rar" — your eyes still upon my 



Mitibtiii, 1 liHve loiiK luloveit you. 

- iifler tlie henili- sacrilioe tlmt y 

linp|>y williiiKiKx yoii Iiavi- sliouii tu j^ive iiii fiiHiine, nirik, niiil 
frieiii'ls, and retina ffitli ymir hiver fruii the noilil, tlioii(^i Uuit lover 
nns but ft mmliiuin, with iiiitlilu]: lint liis axe to provide for yoii 
liotli, — aller tlic ilevelojuiieiit iif mh^i ii (eeliiif; (lielieve it, adored 
one, there nas not ii ilry eye in iIh- pitl, 1 Nhoiild wrone tlic HWcet 
su?j'e|itiliilily of yiHir natiiiv. I slKiiim wiwit iiiy.sell, to keep 
sileriee. Nn ; the way in whii-li yoii withenil tiie unprincipled 
uolileinan. the teiuptinu Hedui'er in llie secgitd iict, eonvinred bw 
with an elfrtrii; shock that we trere inailc fot- one anoUKT I 1 thought 
— wsUitik! tlwuBlit ;— that (tttcliint; your eye titun the thinl row, you 
I'end my heart, and, while the thenlre rnnt; with piniuli tit, that out 
soiiU niin||;led < Ah ! wan it tiol >uj ^ 

But why alone si)«tk of yoin- (iilui^ lo-ninlit ? Docs not every 
ni^lit allow yoii more tlian MimHliiii); vailhly'l In nliateveriutua- 
Iton of life you are (ibv^nl, are yini mil in all ei|UiLlly auf^bc T Have 
I not known yrai nceiwnl of tliefl, luiy, iif rourdn—auil Iiave I not 
—witness it. Heaven ; -aikwed .vihi all Ilie mwQ fov the charge ? Han 
an-ident or inali<'e thrown a Aluulow over you, tliat yon nave not 
hiii-st fiirtli all the liritHiter for tlie ]in»<iii|; fdoum '■ And in all tliese 
•arrows I Iiiive lieeii with yon ! J, fwiii the tliinl row of the pit, liavo 
iiTnibli-d with ymi-liave vinitwl yim in iirison- have attended yon 
111 Hie soiftbM's frKJt, Mill then, in that deliiioiis inoincnt when the 
spnoiiH were foMml. nr the ''liild. thought ilctiil, van iiii in a white 
fi-ock,— then luive 1, tlioujrh 'till in tlie thinl ii>«, caught you intio- 
'-■ent to mv arnvs. and wejit in erslarv t 

Ab ft dainihter. liave I not seen yon nil vwir fatlier eould wiiili i 
As ft wife, iiavp voii not rftst a lunlre upon nil voiir weddine-rinKs-- 
os a younc ami tender mother— panlon me, -weet one,— have yon 
not been more devotnl than the pelinvn. f:pM!ier than the dove! « 

How was it possilile, then, for six nioiiths t<i ln-hnid you, moving 
in ami adoiTiini,' every spliere— now to -av vou the polished countCHK, 
now the simple toiintry maid — now smiling at want, and iioiv 
pvinK nwiiv an nneonsidpi-Kl nuuiliei' of Innk notes, — how, in the 



THE GENTLE 
CRAFTSMAN." 




All fishermen and all sorts of lishing arc legitimate fish for Mr. 
Punch's net, for aiigting is a sport pcculimly productive of droll 
mishaos. And none of all the lishing jokes in "The 
First Fifty Years of PwncA" has provoked inoremiilli than 
this of the angler liurling his "book " inlo the stream. 

Charles Keene's first drawing for Puiicli was the "Sketch of the 
Street-sweeping Machines Lately Introduced at Paris." The 
street -sweeping machines in question were cannon. The sketch 
appeared December 20, 1851 (Vol. ji, page 264), only three days 
after I-ord Palmerston was dismissed for having expressed officially 
his approval of the coup tl'clal. Keene's last drawing appeared in 
Punch on Jime 39, 1889 (Vol. 96, page 320), and was one of llie 
illustnitions to the special niimlwr which presented the Britis'i 
public with the results of a visit made to the Paris Exposition ly 
Mr. Punch's staff. Loss than two years later, January 4, 1891, 
Keene died, and on January 17 Punch published the obituary verses 
from which the following lines, describing Keene's work, arc 
qiuited ; — 

W'liat an array ! How* varied a procession I 

The humours of Ihe parlour, shop, and street 
I'hilislia's every calling, crafl, prolession. 
Cockneydom's cliecry lIiccIc ,-ind patler fleet. 

Koitcli dryness, IrisEi uticlioii and cajolery, 
Waiterdom's wiles, Dcacondoin's pomp of poit: 

Iluslic simplicity, doinejitic drollery, 
Hie freaks of Service and Ihe fun oF Spoil , 

And with all such Iruc art, so Rue. uniailini;, 

Of touch so certain, and of chnnn so fresli. 
A-i to lend dignity to Cabmen railing. 

To [usiianed clods and fogies full of flesh. 

Kor human humours only ; who so tender 

Of touch when sunny Nature out-of-.doorh 
WiKx^d his deft pencil ? Who like him could render 

Meadow or hedjjeiou', lurnip-licld or moor ? 

Snowy perspective, long suliurban winding 
Of bowery road-way, villa edged and trim. 

Iron-railed city street, where gas-lamps blindini' 
Gbre tiicough the to^y distance dense and dim ! 



r 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON OHAEIVARI. 




friiit-woiiiFn. CooJ creatiirea 1 there .. 
: lint one nlio ilocs not liiirr; to mo with a plaj- 
' liill, folded dnnii at the f;lorious letten that 

i-oinpose your namp, lier hnpet—a^ though bv 
I lujciiient— )ioiiitiii(,'nt Uiesoul-dehghting word. 
I I will not It'll yml how I traumre tliwte bills ; 

no, yoii slmll never know tliat every Kuch 
: play-bill is folded beneatli ray pillow at night, 

and is resif.Tied to a raoiocco portfolio in the 

iiioriiing ; my si-nsations at tiie theatre tirat 
; lirieHy marked in the margin. This you aliol] 

D my third scat. 



« behind it The 



throh at the overtiiii', ,..., .. „. .. , 

porliaps yoii an' iliwovered in Scene I., in the 
lieplhs of mist-ry— how delicioualy my brajn 



; lai 
71— Noiiictinieii 

lunliaiiically 
1 tlie bead ot 



THE GENTLE CRAFTSMAN. (?) 

IratcibU Aiiyter {mho luisiit hud a lUe nil ihiij). "Tiikki; !"— f 7Viii 



[.si-pifriiVfao.igTB.-r. 



the ttmiiit, laitha iiuilaliclion)^- 



Sfiall I, might I, to iittciiipt I 
night 1 Will my love War will 
Can I doiiht it i 



IKissililc even from llio tliiiil vow 
I lis 1 have done to «or«bip yon I 
1 dcH'ril)c to yoii my feeliUKs for r 
menliilc I write! Why do I tis 



. six -my liesiit, mir Ix-ct watch— I take the 
Ihii'd scat of the ]>it. ()ft<-ri, for tminy iiiiniitcs, I am thprr ahnr. 
1 like it— 1 i'".i"y the solitude. I luive often wished that not iiiiothfi 
xoiil would enter llie theatre, that I mighty a mental cnieure, have 
all tlic fcftst to myself. I seem to cnxlge every man his scat, as 
iikiwly one by one drops in. I nnwillingW suffer unybody to partici- 
pate in yonr HriiiIeK and honied wonls. No r I woiild have yon act 
nil to myself. Kvcn applause somi'timcs throirs me into n dangerons 
paroxvsn) : 1 feel it as an intrusion on mv |>iivilege that any one 
sliould dare to aiii>liLud but nic ; my blood boilsi to my fingers' ends ; 
but I suppress my feelings, and have as yet, tliough sorely tempted, 
knocked no man from his seat. 

I have breathed the secret of my love to nobody : and yet my eyes 
must Ii.ivp l>etrjiypil me. For;.ive nic : I i-ould not cnnlml my 



vi-ius are llirobhing like the tongue of a Jci 
luiiii. PiTluiiis you sing ; and then I feel a 
kind ot sweet swooning Mcknexs— a sort of 
dcatli mikdc cosy^lliat I can't describe. At 
tjmes you damx: ; and then do 1 seem lifted 
bv some iiivisihli- powtT, and made to float 
aliont you. Then yoii leave tlie stAge, and 
all who UHUC after niv. no more to me tlian 
lointcd dolls with ninving eyes. How I 
loiitlic the misi'iTible iHiflinn—the comedy- 
man, as he is called — wlio, while I ain 
languisliing for yoilr next ap|icaninee, 
mokeH tlie em[>ty amlii'nee Liugh aliout me: 
>j|icli niirtli seems an insult to my feclingH — 
Ik desMration of my love. No ! you from tlic 
stage, ]ilot and pLiyersH ' " ' '' 

imly thinkini; of vonr 
idwtracted frmn tlie ; 
<-(iunting the scattci-cd h 
Itie first fiddle. 

Ami tliiis, imlil tlicciirbiin is about to drop, 
and then— my ln«rt with it— I throw a 
Iwininct, that has nesllrtl all tJic night in my 
liutlonbole, at your fairy feet, "rhen do I 
rush from the iiit tolbestngedoor ; andtliere 
-the more delighh'd if it rains— tliere do I 
sbtnd, until sweetly cloaked and slulwtcd, I 
watch you— M* your Adelai<lc boots emeiie 
into the strti'l, luid, with a tliought, vanish 
into cab or diHch. Ha ! the door is dosed 
ivitli a sliuii that stviiis to snap my licart- 
■^trings. The liorsc^oes Kouna in the dis- 
tance— I am alone. 1 wander to my lodges, i 
sometimes in ilespair, and sometimex m ae- 
lirious siHrit.s, fci'Ung that I tinve your arm 
warm and pressinK under mine, and stiU 
seeing your eyes look at me, as I tliought they 
looknl at tlic thini row of tlic pit | 

1 arrive nt my cold lodging. Tet, en I 

sleep, 1 look at yiiiir dozen fiUftji- for I liave 

ut h!ust 11 dimii — iilain mid coloured, hung 

about my walls. 1 es, my beloved one I tliere 

==^^^:= ' yon ai'e, and, tlHiiigh only juiEilished from lialf- 

a-iTOH'n to five shillings, worlds sluiuld not buy you of me I 

If you have playeil a new ]iiii-l, I touch no breakfast until I read 
the injiei's. How my heart gn«-s down upon its knees to the sensible 
• ritic who tries— nlthougb vainly - to sing your full deserts ; whilst 
fur ilw wretch who finds faidt, cr— but enough on tliis diNgusiing 
ilienie. There arc monsters in the human form who write so-called 
I'l'iticisniN for newspapers 

Ami now my deannt love, in tlie same spirit of frankness— with 
[bat boundless pish of oftectioii- which yon liave so wonderfully 
ilevelopcil to-tiiglit— witli tliat fervour ami initli which prove to me 
llmt we were kirn for one anotlier,— and tlwt I liavo too rightly 
1-ead yonr heart to believe tliat niy want of fortune will be any 
lefect in your eyes— ratlier^ indeeil, I should say, frtHn wfiat I have 



[Bu Clinrtri Seme.] 
iiui liU Jhj-hook into 



m'ght,. 



'I, IIIUI-'VII, I 

idation — 



Your devoted Ijover, 

CaARLEa Bpookbill. 
iswer at tlie stage-door. And 
n the Uirnl row to-morrow. 




DROPPING 

THE PILOT.- 



Sir John Tenniel's famous (l(ii[blc-p;iKt' ciirloon, which tlm 
rcuder will sec on turning tlic next page, was published on 
March 29, 1890, the ver>- day on which Prince Bismarck left 
Riid/.iwill Palace, his oflicial residence in Berlin, on the 
^^x occasion of his retirement from all the offices he held : 
the Presidency of the Prussian Ministry, the Foreign 
Ministty, and the Ciiancellorship. Dr. Moritz Busch. in his 
interesting account of this iniportant incident,' quotes the 
great statesimin's words to him on March 17, the day oi his 
resignation. Dr. Busch remarked to him that he could not believe 
that the retirement was an accomplished fact, that it seemed 
impossible. " Impossible," said Bismarck : — 

" It is now a (act. Things have Koric more rjpidiv llian I imagined Dicy 
would. I thouglil he (the Emperor) would be thankful if I were to remain 
with him for 3 few years, tiut 1 find that, on the conlrary. he is simply 
longing with his whole henrt to be lid of mc. in order Ihal he may govern 
alone — with his own genius — and be able to cover I'.imseK with glory. He 
d<H.'s not want Ihe old mentor any longer, but only docile lools. But I 
cannot make genuBexions (/c/i abcrJiiirin iiiclit mil Prostyticsis diciicn). noc 
crouch under the lable like a dog." 

The cartoon made an imnicdiatc hit, and Sir John Tenniel 
linislied the original sketch for Lord Rosebery, who presented it 
to Prince Bismarck. A more graphic manner of picturing the 
situation could not have been conceived than that of the grave and 
angry old statesman, who had steered the ship of State through 
many a time of stress, leavitig the craft to the young imd impulsive 
Emperor, to be piloted by him single-handed ana ;L!one on the 
treacherous sea of diplomacy. 



A few days 
Times " sjiid :- 



liefore the cartoon appeared, a leader 



" The 



"Tlie appointment (of General Von Caprivi as sm/cessor lo llie Chan- 
telliirship) can, therefore, nave no other sigiiiticatioii than that (Ik- 
Emperor intends, for the (ulure.'to make his own will Ihe inspirint; 
intiiience in the German Government. A change of incalciilahle impoii.-incc 
lo the polilic* of Ihe civilised world has thus come 10 pas.s." 



i. Some Ixcia Paget of h 



PUNCH, OK THE LONDON UHAMIVABI. 



MANNEM.vwD- CVS7t)MS-0F-/^NGLY5HE.iN.i849 • N" 22- 




Mr. Pips his Diary. 

^xi-pjit Lovo. At live Mini 



Written bii Ftreiail Lcieh, J 

» tottic Hour comes til c relieved 



••uii.li iiicj uu oL-i; luuiiiini: niii-uivi Nil: m uiKtv ur iiu, iiiiii in u liiK"rnildl'liifi>lliliUHl willihiHStalFuf Ulhce.L'oiiigaliotil tt>iiiake9ptkC0 

prettv pompous Ceremony. Found ui;ii<elfiuiH>nfriw<lir^tilMb)iyiL8rt ; miu kcqi Unler niiMnit; tlie raKgeil Voys ; oiiil 1 reiiieiii1>ui' how, iii my 



o( Pellanit liangiriK About iw 1 tliink I rvn mir.-nritli wIhmii ttroor tlirw 
witii tlie Look oF Gentlemen, nfid » pn-tty St>rink1iii" of AEilliner-tiirb 
and Ni:rse-M[uds, Inittlievpieseiith'ainivfriHn lliellik|;iiiiiiilliii.«tii tlm 
Eut Side of tlie Ytird, and so did I. StniiiKC liow nil Women nliiuist 
do run after Soldiers ; wliidi .Mii. I'uhi'ktxs do va,y in Ihiiiiiih' Wniic- 
ness do, by Instinct, seek tlio I'rotw-tion of Conviifte ; but I tliink is 
ovrbg 10 Notliing at nil Inil tlie Umn'ry of n lleil CimI. In a few 
Minutra more Rm-Rnft' pouring in ; then a Noisi' witliout of ilnnnuiin^ : 
and then just at 1 to 11, » I'arty of tlieOreiiadiertiiMnltiinrcliiniiiii 
under tlie Clock-Towei-, tlie Dniiiis and Fif .'h in Fniiit of lliiiii, and at 
the Head of all tlie Dniin Major, IwirliiiK liiK Mtal)', i<tiiitt«l like u 
Potit«r-Pigeon, as Ntiitclv, ulinuNt, as 1 ever naw •). Uuitlt. The Mm 
at the Wonl of Conmiiui'l jr'onrid AiiiiHn'jthaClanK<AndHtaDd nt Risr 
in Lines, and together witJi thf SiHitiiiors iiuide a iS(|»nn>, ffitli tliu 
Dmnu uid Fifes nt one Knd, imd tlit> Itiiiidat tlientlierlirtheCkiuk- 
Toirer, nnda Post in tlie Middle, and aruii ml the \\mt, witli tlu> UoluiirM, 
UiaOnicenin full Fifn;, iiii;!lity tdiii ; and Mk. WAtuiTAVPiidotrlli 



Yniit]i,rtlKniglitlicwi 

while, by tlie mud ; tlie Biuid- Master, a ^ , .... „ ^ 

Coiidiliiin, cundiiutiiig with a CIniionet for his Batoon. t>iiddenly the 
Miisiiiiii' cut short by the Di'iinis and Fifes, tlie WonI dveii, and the 
Men did bdl in, nrid nwav to Uarrack.-i, a Grand Maivk pTnvin^', and all 
tlie Ti^-lfjiKnt tlieii' Heels. Uiit to H«e tlic Lieutenant, the Officer of 
the I>iiy, set iiii the Colniiri on tlie Pcwt, and touch his Ca|i and kiss 
liis SwDiil tn tlieiii, Hiliilint; tlieiii, which dn seeiii a senseless Panto- 
uiiine, and loiik niorc tike ii Chinese witli liis Joss, tliMi a ChrixtJAn. 
Uesidis, the Khiu, a must nld amisiirrv (uie, htewn into Tatters, wliieli, 
in our UinK )'<-aii', iiinsi lutve 1hi-ii done by the Brei-w nml not the 
Battle ; hut so left, witli a drenailiei to i^uard it, stickinf; in tlic Post. 
Tlifii tlie Ottieer did dixiiiiHs tlie onUiuinl.andaH'ay to his (jnarters (or 
the ]>ay : Initani ttildlie iuavi;o to and fro the (Iiiards' Chih House, 
wliieli linng iiKived fruiii tlie 'I'up of SL James's iStrret lo niKti Marl- 
lH)niiif;li Hinlse, lie is sinred nonr the FntiLiic of niorcliinj:; up Hill, 
Metliiuks tlmt nioiuitiiig Giionl nt the PaWc is a Service al little 



that tlu Guards bavelimve ek>UitnK U 

tha Hen tliat should relinve QiianTwe. . „ ... , _._ „ . ^ _ 

1^7 Soldiers are proykled with so nuK'h Miisii|iu>, and eonelnde it is to \ tlie youni; l>Miily UHiirts of the Guards, and liow tlieir Men will 
hinwr Iheiii from thinking, and almoin bnltic to intlaiiie tlieir Minds i follow tlieiii tliningh tliiek and thin, and what Work those Fellotrscn 
withniit making tliem dnitiK, wliirh Nnthini; tluit I know rein doeniial ' dn when eiillei! on. tint pihv Solilieri nhniit St. Jiimiw's ! 

C3 




If Thackeray, in "Tliu Snob Papers," shows the readers of 
"The First Fifty Years of Punch" the unpleasant side of snoblieiy 
as we all see it from day lo day, others treated the sub- 
ject with less of grim realism but with equal charm and 
humour, as we see in the little drawing on the opposite 
page. The airs and graces with which Punch endows the chiltlicn 
of the narrower streets are always sketched with a loving Iiantl. 



POSITION IS 
EVERYTHING.' 



Mr. George Grossmith and his brother, Mr. Weedon Grossniith, 
have entertained the public in so many different ways « THE DiARY 
that no one can be surprised to see their names on the OF A 
muster roll of Punch's wits. The " Diary of a Nobody" NOBODY." 
is a bright and thoroughly well -deserved slap at the dreary niemuirs 
with which people of no importance flood the booksellers' shops. 

The cut by Thackeray, reproduced on the opposite page, was, 
until a year or two ago, a hopeless puzzle to students of Pumli. 
By some error, Thackeniy failed to write, or the 
printers failed to insert, any legend explaining the TRarpDv • 
iiaiiire of the tragedy. In the Biographical Edition of 
Thackeray's works, published in 1898, it is, however, recounted 
that the artist, returning home one day, found his two little 
(Umghters dressed up and "playing at Queens," the one ordering 
the other to instant execution. This solved the problem. 



Puns, we are told, are very common "in the original languages 
of the Bible, especi;illy in the Old Testament, as in the seventh 
vevse of the lifth chapter of Isaiah."* From Isaiah's 
1 , o .1 I J " RESIGNING 

day to 1^41 there was more or less puumng, and smce SEALS" 

then the volumes of Punch have so abounded in these 
verbal quibbles that Mr. Burnand at last wrote to a contributor, 
" For goodness' sake, don't send any more puns ; Ihcy liiivc al! been 
inniic." This about the seals was one of a very funny series, which 
ran tlirough the first two or three volumes. 



■TbtTlmci,-! 



1. VI,. page 184s. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




IBu OatAala Hoirard.^ 

POSITION IS EVERYTHING. 

fielsv Jivne (in tonfiili'iii'p), " / glimi't jilni/ no moi-e wt/i that 
MatiliUi Jenkiiis. — 'Ki- ihill iini't ijnt no I'erambylntiir — nnd I 

[Mar.-h -SI. R'kl. J':i. :i», /.. I IK.] 

DIARY OF A NOBODY.' 

[irnw2MH8)l.-ro;,iil,/..L'il.] iB:i llfi'n. (iio-aad WrrJm anatiulll:] 

Mr dear ivifc CitRiiri: iiiul I liiivc jiiht hrenftweek in our ncu- 
houho, "TUe Liturt'ls," Kriiklii'lii Tcniu,!', lliillDnny — ft nice iiix- 
raoiiiotl reKidcnu-, not I'ouiiUiii; iNLsoincnt witli » front breakfiist- 
lurluar. We liftv<> :i littli; fiuiit ^iiikii, nnil thci-c is a flight of ten 
xtcjis ii|i U) tlic fmtit'loiiT ; wiiirli, by llio bj'c, we kcnji locked nitli 
tlie ciuiiii ii]i. OuatiiKUHiOnttiMi, tind our oilier intimate fricmis 
olwavB L'onie to tlie Uttlu siikM^ntiiinec, wliieli snvcH tlic Kcrvant tlic 
trouble of goius up tfl tbfl tront <loor, tliiTPli)[ taking her front licr 
work. We Itave a nine little linck gnnlen wbii.'h ninN ilown to tlic 
railnay. Wc iveru lutliur iifmid of tlie noise of the tmins At first, 
but the landlord siuil we slioiild not notice tlieni after a bit, and took 
£2 ofT tiie itnt. I In wils cptULitdy rinlit, and beyond tlie rnu^king of 
tlie garden wiUI at the liotloiii, ive liiiv<' !iii<f>-reil no liiiiiiivenieiicc. 

Alter inv work in tlic City, I like to 1>c at lionie. Wliat'x the gooii 
of a hoMie'if yoiiiii-e never iii it, " Home, Swcrt Home"— tliat 'h my 
motto. lani .ilwiivs in uf an eioiiiiij;. Our old friend Gowmo may 
ask lUi to dniii in. mniM ce'remmiie; so uiay CuxHiKas, irlio lives 
onpoHite. My dcnr wifi^ Cakoi.i.vr luid [ nre plcftsed to see tlicin if 
tliey like to droi> in on lu. lint Uaukir aiid I cnn niaimgc to paiw 
our evenings logetlier ivjtliont friends. Tlierc is always wnicthing to 
DC done. A IJn-tiu.'k lieiv, a Venetjiui blind to init straiKlit, a fan to 
nail n[i,or partof ii[iir|ietto naihintvii— all of irliich I ran do with my 
pipo in tiiy rnoiitli ; while Cakhii!: is not alnvc mitting a button on it 
ahirt, inending a pillow-tase, or iinu'tistn;; the " MaiiUii't I'rtipfr " on 

Ciir new Cottage I'iano (on the three ynirs' system), nianiifattureil 
y W. BiLKSON (in small leCter--\ fi-om Collahd and Collabd (in 
very Ibiot lettcrH). Now for luv cliary :— 

Aiirils. — Tindeiinien inlled for eiistoin, and I promised Farhriuwn, 
tlie Ironmonger, to give bini a tiivii if I wanted any nnils, or tools. 
IJy the bye, Uiat reminds me lliert- is no key to our iM-diiioni door. 
Dimr friend OowiNd drop|>ed in, lint wouldn't stay, saying there was 
an infernal aiiioll of {laint. 

Aju-il 4.— Tradesmen slill nMm'^, (^akhie 1>r<iig out, I arranged to 
deni with Bihks, nho seemed ii civil Jtutiliei' with a nice clean slioj). 

' As everyboily who in niiylimiv ii. publl»liina Hfiminlseonc™, Dlario«. 
Nolei. AuloblogmpliiOH, nnd Itii-nllct^Monx. wo arc Hlocerely imteful to " A 
Nobody" ror peraiiltinir us lo inM ti. lit- l.l-lorii- mLlcril<in. Fl). 



Ordered a idioulder of nmtton for to-morrow to give him a trial. 
Carrie arranged with Dorhet, the Dntlenuan, and ordered a pound 
of freth bntter, and a [lound aiul a hitlf of xalt ditto, for kitclieii, and 
a shilling's worth of eggM. In the evening, Cummwoh unex|ieclfdly 
dropped in to rIiow me a meerKchatmi ihih- he hiul won in a raffle in 
tlie City, and told me to handle it carelidly. us It woidd spoil the 
colouring if the luuid was iiioisL He snid lie wotdilii't stay, on lie 
didn't care inncb for the smell of tlie iiaitit, aiid fell i>ver the sciiiper 
as ha went out. Must get tlmt xciupei' removed, or eb>e I Rball got 
into a ncnij-K. I doti't often make jokes. 

April 5. — Two lega of nmtton arrived, CAniim iiaving arranged 

with another butcher without consulting me. Oowino called, and 

fell over s<Tnncr coniine in, Miitl get that scraper removed. 

A/iri/ fl.— Eggs for breakbtst simiilr shockini; ; sent tlieiu back lo 

. DoHHKT with my eoniplimentH, and ^ic neeilii't coll any more for 

oiilers. Couldn't find nmbrello, and, though it was pouring with 

iiun, hod to go witliout it. Kakaii Kaid Mr, Gowihu mtist liave look 

it by uitslake hut night, as there was a etick in (he '^Vll tlint didn't 

lielong to tiolxxly. In the evening, heating someone talking in a 

h)ud voice to the servant in the downstairs Hall, went out to xee. who 

it was, and was siirprised to tind It was Dokmet, the butterman, wlin 

was Iwtli drunk and offensive. Dofwm', on iieeing me, hoM, "He 

would lie lianged if he would ever serve City Clerks any uiore, the 

; game wasn't worth tlie candle." I itstiiiiiipil my feelings, and 

I ipiietly remarked " tliat I tbouglit it wa'i yoiaihlr for a City Clerk lo 

lie a Gttttleman." He reiilied, " He whs very [;lad lo liear it, and 

wanted to know whetlier I liod ever conio ocit^,.: one, for he liadn't.'' 

I He left the house, slamming the door after liiin. wbidi extingiiiKhed 

' the fan-ligbt, and I beard lum fall over the sciii|ier, ivhlcli nuide mc 

I feel glad 1 liadn't removed it. When he liad gone I thanght of u 

sjilendid answer I ought to have given liim, llnwever, t will koei) 

it for anotlier occasion. 





[Ill: IV. Jt.Thn^kenini 

HORRID TRAGEDY IN PRIVATE LIFEl 

tfftru/iriFH. 1H4;.-T"..1. 12. ik W.\ 

April 7.— li«ng Saturday, I looked forwani tu nettini; liomu early 
and inilling a few things straight ; but two \>i uiir [■[incijnil.-' at " " 
oltii'C were alwent through illness and I did iiui y,fl home till sev 
Found DoivfrT waiting. He bad l>ecn tlii-ee nme- during the iliy to 
ii[iologise for bis conduct Ust night. He said li<> miu. unable lo take 
Ins Itnnk Holiday buit Monday, and took it liist night iuslentl. tie 
liegged me to accejit his aimlogy. and a ponnd of fresh butler. Ho 
seems, after all, a decent sort of fellow, so I pive tiim lui oiilcr for 
some fresh eggs. 

Ajtril 8, A'uwrfny.— After church, the Cutnte canic Imck with iw. 
I sent Cakbir in to open front door, which we do not use exreiiton 
siiecial occasions. Phe could not get il open, and, ofter all my 
displnv, I bad to take the Curate (wliose nomf', by the bye, I did not 
rntih}' roun<l the Hide entrance. He canglit IiIk foot in the scraper 
and tore tlie liottom of his trousen. Most uniio.vinL', as Carhie could 
not well offer to rei»ir Uieiu on a Sunday. After dinner went to 
sleep. Took a walk round the ganlen, and disi-overed a Iwautifid 
s|iot for sowing niiutanl and crnm, and rodikhen. Went to Chunli 
again in the evening ; walked hock with the Ciimte. Carrie noticed 
he luul gill on the name \mt of troiiiers— only legnired. 




WHERE'S THE 
MYSTERY 7" 



Mr. Chaiitrey Coiboiilil's grasp of English coiinti7 lift: is that 
of the historian rather than that of tlie caricaturist. If he Wiiiitcd 
to hire a himfer and the jobmaster desired some assur- 
ance that the animal would he in safe hands, Mr. 
Corboiild would only need to sketch a rider in the ad 
of approaching a stiff leap, in order lo prove that he knows what 
knees and hands are made for. And the drawings on the opposite 
page show very conclusively that he knows the workaday side of 
country life as well as its sporting aspect. More than one land- 
owner who turns to the p.'ige of "The First Fifty Years of Punch," 
from which this design is reproduced, will feel that he knows only 
too well the force of the point Mr. Corbould makes. 



The verses reprinted on the opposite page may be ranked 
among the curiosities of literature with which "The Fii-st Fifty 
Years of Punch" abound. They were published under the 
pseudonym of " The Fat Contributor," who was no " THE CANE- 
Icss a person than William Makepeace Thackeray. BOTTOMED 
Other of his contributions to Punch were signed as liy CHAIR." 
"Our Stout Contributor," "Titmarsh," "Pleeceman X," and " I*aul 
Pindar." To the issue of Punch, March 6, 1847 (Vol. 12, jxige 101) 
Thackeray supplied an amusing parody of the average machine- 
made ballad, describing it as "a pretty fair specimen of the 
Genteel or May Fair Love Song." It w;is ciilled " What Makes 
my Heart to Thrill and Glow ? " song by Fitzroy Clarence. Four 
lines of the last verse ran as follows : — 

" Slie's home again ! away all care ! 

O, fairest form the world can show I 

O. beaming eyes ! O. golden hair ! 

O, lender voice, Ihat breathes so low ! " 
Three weeks later there appeared "The Cane- Bottomed Chair," 
and on Jime 5 of the same ye;ir (Vol. 12, page 337) some parodies 
of the Oriental Love Song, which were greatly in vogue at the 
time. The utter limpness of wliat Jerrold called "tiie false harem 
school of poetry" has never been more amusingly burlesqued. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAKl. 



WHERE'S THE MYSTERY? 





Farhehb coulb Live tubs. 
Valiu of Prodiiet .—Outs, 1 It. (W/. [mt qr. ; Iti«rlev, 23*. Od. p 
>Vhcat, 134. Utf. per bag ; Cheese, 4'2». Ikl. |>er (.tvt. 



[Bij A. C. C-<^al.L\ 

Faruers (.'An't Live how. 
Vii/ue o/Praiwce .■—(hits, Sftf. per qr.; Barley, 45«. per qr. ; Wieiit, 
24j, per big i Cheese, 80*. i>ev cwt. 



From "A DOMESTIC LOVE SONG." 

nreh V. 1847.-rui. 12. p. 12S.) [% IP. i(- T»fl. ((ra 

Long, lonf; through tlie hours, (inil the niglit, and the eliinie^ 
Here we talk of old books, mill old friends, and old times ; 
As we Ml in a fog niade of rich lAtakio 
This c-ham1>cr is pleasant to yuii, friend, and nic. 



For the finest of couches tliat's padded wltli luur 

1 never would cliange thee, my eane-hottoninl cliair. 

Tis a bandy-leggeiL liigli-slionldered, wonii^aten seat 

Witli a crei^inK old back, ami twisted old fwt : 

But since the fair niomlnK when Fankt Nit«- tJierc, 

1 bless thee nnd love thee, old cane-lioltotiK-d tliiiir. 

If diairB Itave but feeling in liolding sucli (-iiamis, 

A thrill must liiivc ixvised throngh ycmr witlu'ml old arms 

I !ookc<l, and I loni^l, and i wuiheil in disgiair ; 

] wiEtlicd niVRelf turned to a cane-bottoiiie<l chair. 

It was bnt a moment slie satr in this jilare, 

8he'd a suirf on tier iiei'k, ami a sinilc nn nei' face '. 

A sinile oil lier fai-e, anil a rose in hei' luur, 

And she sate Uiere, and blooriieil in my cane-bottonieil ehair. 

And so I liavo vahieii iny cliair ever since. 

Like the slirine of a sabt, or the thiTine of a prince ; 

Saint Kahnt, niy iiati-onesx sweet I ileelnre. 

The queen of my heart and inj iiiin-botlomeil i.'halr. 

When tlie candles hum low, and the eoinpany's ^ne, 

In the silence of night as 1 sit hero alone— 

I sit here alone, but we yet are a pair — 

My Fahni I sec in tuy eanc-l)Ottomed ehair. 




[Dram tvW.K. Tkaekovv.] 
She I'omes froni tlie past and revisits my moRi ; 
She looks as she then did, all lieaiity and bloom ; 
So Muilling and tender-, so fi-csh anil so fair, 
Anil yonder she sits in my rnne-hollomeil rhur. 



One of these is called " The Rocks," and begins as follows :— 
" I was a limid little antelope ; 
M>' home was in the rocks, the lanely rocks. 
I saw the hunter? scouring on the plains ; 
[ lived among the roclis, the lonely rucks. 
1 was a-lhirsly in the summer heal ; 
I venlured lo (he tents txneath the rocks." 

Another, "The Merry Bard," is a recitative : — 

" Zuleikah ! The young Aga^ in Hie bazaar are slim-waistcd and wear 
yellow slippers. 1 am old and hideous One of my eyes is oul, and the 
hain of my beard are moslly grey. Praise be (o Allah ! I am a merry 

"There is a bird upon (lie lerrace of the Emir's chief wife. Praise be lo 

Allah ! He has emeralds on his neck and a rjby tail. I am a merry 

bard. He deafens me with liis diabolical screaming." 

The "Cane-Bottomed Chair" was, like the others, intended to 

bo :i parody, but by one of those curious accidents which form the 

staple of hterary anecdotes, Thackeray, the sentimentaUst, got the 

upper hand of Thackeray, the humorist, and the two last verses 

icprinted here have been quoted again and again as instances of 

Thackeray's pathos. 




We arc told on excellent authority" that the Right Hon. Cecil 
KIukIcs " collects old furniture, with a preference for anything 
Dutch." His predilections, when he is not engaged in ^ 
ptircliasing furniture, hardly seem to be in favour of the 
Dutch, and Mr. Sambourne. in this cartoon, reminds readers 
of "The First Fifty Years of Punch" that the Portuguese are 
in 1 greater pets of the South African magnate. In one part or 
.inothLr of the Disputed Continent one Euro|>ean race or another 
seems always to be ready to obstruct the path of the British Lion, 
:iiid Mr. Punch, a slout Imperialist from lirst to last, never fails to 
iibscrvc and resent their little plots. The whole question of the 
pott of Beira and the Pungv^e river route to the interior was settled 
by treaty when, on June ii. 1S91. Lord Sahsbury laid upon the 
tabic a treaty demarking the sphere of influence of tlie two 
P..wcrs. 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVARI. 



1 



THE TRYST. 

"It in stMfd tlitit the rimfn'^ rtiulc to MmlionahDi] las been again (.-loKcd by tlu? Portuguese Authorities. '—iii-i((n', Maj 'H, 




Now then, yiiirp 0)iNtnii'l'*'f' "'''" I'l'^jini-' Ihi' 
Wlierc niiMy im,||s you W waU* or nioiinl 



Crcil r.kinlt*. " Yon cleah 
(juiirii ) I 



In the two rep "od net ions from " The First Fifty Years of Punch 
which apjitar on the ojiposile p:if;e, George du Nfaiirier and Mr. 
Clement Scott follow, each in his own characteristic _^ 
fashion, Mr. pHHt7/s constant policy of defending the BREAKFAST" 
gentler se.v Of the two occasions selected for settiiif; 
lance in rest, that chosen by George du Mauricr is much less 
grave, but perhaps small slights and discourtesies caiiiie all the 
more pain to women because (hey cannot resent such pin-pricks 
without being accused of peevish fnssiness. 

The cause which Mr. Clement Scott csponsei is as worthy as 

that lor which Hood's "Song of the Shirt" won so signal a 

victory. " Weary Womankind " was the first successful 

attempt to stir public opinion against the cruel practice 

of requiring shop-girls to stand when they are not 

serving. Another of Mr. Scott's important contributions to Punch 

was the "Cry of the Clerk!" the first subject upon which the 

Editor asked him to write. It was a strong appeal on behalf of 

over -worked and under-paid London clerks, and was quoted at 

full length in the columns of "The Times" the morning after its 

appearance in Punch. The last verse has often been quoted : — 

" Why did I in.irry ? In mercy's name, in Ihe form of my brother was I nol 

Arc wife and child lo tie given to him, and love to l>e taken from me with 

It is not for Ihem that 1 plead, Tor theirs are Itie only voices thai break my 



WEARY 
WOMANKIND.- 



Tlial liglitcn my pathway, make i 







i to-day and grim 
' joys like yours as }-on flit 
s the endless acres of purple 
lis for justice only I bid you 
c wounded cry of a London 



The Sun and tlic Sea are not given lo mc, 

Away lo the woods and the downs, and ^ 

heal her. 
Bui I've love, thank Heaven ! and mercv, li 

hark 
To the laie of a penniless man like me — t 
Clerk ! " 

In "The Children's Cry" Mr. Scott rendered good service to the 
children of the London poor, who so greatly need an occasional day's 
fresh air in the country. To his pen there are also lo be credited a 
number of Punch iMllads celebrating the brave deeds of policemen, 
coast-guardsnicn, engine drivers, and other inconspicuous heroes. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAKIVARI. 




[dprll a. 



CHIVALRY AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. 

! IiOOK AT THAT I'lBOE OK BaCOS I Vi: JUST 01VEN YOUR hll. 



»-1 



WEARY WOMANKIND. 

[tWufitf 2. IHSn.-I'o/. 70. ,). U7.J (C/y Clrmenl ,S 

Tlivw weary j'oiiiig women of Lcmilon lonn 

Kpiit lip tlicir tliou^'litH wlien they wpnt to i-cst : 
A filntlern wus one, in her (rreasy old (^wn, 

And n Motlicr nnother, wjiosc kindly hrmst 
J Iml sootlioi tin- wrrams of n friir'tiniis tliilil 

Tlint 1i:ul lient at lier lionrt nnd tier bmjns nl] dav, 
And ihL- third iviw ix 8«»nisti-pss, lonn nnd tntid 

Tlioiigh weary— tlicsc wuincii Itid sonit'tliiriK to say. 

Tlie SUttern kUc nwnol shn v:nn nraiy o( Jitck, 

Good fellow, no ilmilit ! hiit xtlwife L'lirtniui ytayn 
Wct« improisnl on hU xife liy souk- wpjiL* on Iht tiack 

Ami hy tnrilile bnilwtw— well, under her stays : 
And i^lin tlioiit-lit on tliU nifdit tviiatlcl slie crir ^et ri<l 

Of a iiinn wlio wlicn ilnniK iliitn'i invo lioiv ii/if fmL 
She 'd Iiern tnif to tlic fi'llnw, and did an he liiil. 

So the Fii'iut-hi'okeii ISialtern cri'iit into Iht li;d. 

■nic mother wn-: Henry, for half of ili:it d:iv 
Klie \{ l)wii Imkrin;: her Ininlen finm di.ir unto door ; 

No wonmn may rest oii I ler Majesly's v:i\\ 
"' "-VI her i")nr labi; wan ludei-p "' " 



Kott, would yon Iwlievo it 1 Wiien all meri' asleep 

Anil tlic woea of all wonic.nkirid sKnictl at an end. 
That a rry just as bittev and si;;hs iiiiit« hn dcc-p 

Went n|i to hunutnily, xeekinf; a friend 
F"i' tlie [iL'ettiest K>rl tliat the mind coidd <leiiirt, 

With tlie iimtest of ilresses and softest nf liair. 
Her ivaist it wax ulender, her eondiict was stiitt, 

lint Wneatli licr blue <^ye» was Uie block of deK[>uir. 

" I am weary '." she said ; " nn my honour it 's tnie, 
Thniigh 1 've s]ient all Ihi' ihiy amidst lihlNnis nnil Inca 

My sistern ! ymir teliNiim are jileasant to yon— 
They are torture to lis ! Tis a sin, a dis^mi« 

Thni ymi sit at tlie emiiitn all <lar and yon fuss. 
stiuid. yiiiir delidit is ti'i sIio|i, 



It 



Vm 



miily to divp- 



nv> siip siul 



Still she slept, 'ii 



I liet^Ti 



nil the 



The j«or little Sewing-Gill, wearv of course 

With the nliirl of ttio whiid, tlie iiia('liiiier\''s diet, 
8lin'd the strength of a nHni.se and tliiT work' of » horse, 

And the chihl wai so ijniet slie luuhi't a kiek : 
Hn »lic saiii, " It don't matter, fur iiuui.y, worse off, 

Cannot clin;; tn the wlii-el for Hii|i|iort, and niiist die." 
But iN'foiv she i-Oiild .-^leeii she rememk-nil the st-oft' 

Of girl« whose niii.irt fiutliers attmcteil lior eye. 



" ll wasn't our fanit that cmi' fntheis !i:iv.> tiiii-.! 

At ii.,nie. Ht the f-iiiii. or the fniKe. or the mill, 
lint villi 'vi' Kot ns all fa>t, at tlie miinier we 'n- iinikil, 

Like thi' diihkniH iiiiii tkat was savnl from the till. 
We aiv nimlest ! Who ilanw t'ldeny it? We try 

Unt we stand all the ilny, and iire ready Ui die, ' 
Till we di»t; to our i-est witli onr wiairy yoiin^' feet. 

'■'Ti* easy tn senll', hut innre te^lioiis far 

'i"o Miiile anil link nidTy troin eii;lit unto ten. 
And the .'.ihivil nf the >lio|i ami the eounliT anil liar 

Si. the Slattern, liii^M.-llier, llie SewinK-fiirl sli^'lit, 
IH"j.[K-il otTinlo dream* alxnit toil and the town; 

But the weariest woman who slei.t that niirlit 
Was ihe fiiir-haireil ^irl with the neat bW'k gown t 




Although the pages of " The First Fifty Years of Punch " are 
filled with the cheeriest of reading and the gayest of pictures, Mr. 
Punch does not hesitate to be serious — and even grimly >. VICTIMS 
serious — when it seems necessary to rouse opinion by OF 
stern tre;itment of public wrongs. The speed at uhicli HtGH SPEED." 
the ocean is crossed by the competing liners in the Transatlantic 
passenger trade involves but a bare minimum of danger to the 
passengers themselves, thanks to the skill of the officers and the 
admirable construction of the steamers. But all the ingenuity of 
their buiklers and all the vigilance of their Captains and crews can 
do nothing to avert the shocking loss of life among the Nevvfonnd- 
land fishermen, as long as the smacksmen are forced to ply tl.cir 
trade in the path of the racing steamers. The fogs which cloak 
the juncture of the Labrador current and the Gulf Stream make it 
impossible for the man on a steamer's Iraw either to see the fisher- 
man's small tight, or to hear the droning of his old-fashioned fog- 
horn. The men on the sinack may hear the shrill sound of the 
steam syren, or see the steamer's brilliant light ; but, before they 
can move, the huge sharp bow of steel may crush through the fishing- 
boat so easily that the liner's passengers arc not aware that another 
"unfortunate accident" has been added to the long records of 
disaster. The recent developments of wireless telegraphy give 
some faint hope that mechanical appliances may be so ai'ranged as 
to warn a steamer in time, hut for the present all that can be done 
is to persuade the steamship companies and the public that they 
might well lose a few hours in order to save a few li\ es. And 
Mr. Reed's vigorous drawing points this moral very sternly. 

Some of Piiiiiii's drollest conceits are based upon the eccentric 
conduct of the man who dines more ardently than -'SPECIMENS 
discreetly, and the opposite page shows a fantastic OF 
application of the "science" of graphology to the SIGNATURES." 
autographs which Mr. Punch might he supposed to perpetrate, if it 
were not his admirable rule always to drink just enough. 

Among all the artists who contributed to "The First Fifty Years 
of Punch," du Maurier was certainly the one who dreamt the 




THE VICTIMS OF HIGH SPEED. 

TiiK Drbasi nr an Axjiiot-s Caitain apteh TuAiiiNti ackoss f.ir. Fiaiiisu-GnocMDs of Newfouxoland. 

[Ociottr IS, 189(i.-n.(. 911. p. ifO.l 

SPECIMENS OF MR. PUN 3H'S SIGNATURES ! 

{Fae-sitnilea taken during the count vftht Ei'tniiuj.) 
[rfjirtl 30. imi.-Vol. n li. 3».) .lit) ilr. F. a BitrnnHdi 



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Tlip. Above luve bmn siibiuitt«d lo sa eniinent Expert, who ujb he 
could atiiuwt BtTMLT tbej' are the Mme haiul-writinu, bjl miul cooie 
ftnil dine with Mr. P., m order lo abioliitelj verify IbenL 




wildest dreams of what familiav animals miylit become, if the , 
process of modilication by selection could be indefinitely extended. 
His "Daclisliorse," " Doigiipine," "Crocodachshimd," "THEHORSi 
and " HippoiKitiimian Biilldof*" were wantonly gro- OF THE 
tesque, but this picture of the horse of the future was FUTURE." 
conceived in a sjiirit of the most purely realistic exaggeration. If 
liorscs could reaiiy be bred to stand forty or fifty hands in height, 
they would no doubt I'jok like the gigantic creatures on the page 
facing this, and perhaps lliey could follow hounds of proiwrtionate 
stature a hundred and lifly miles across country. 

Mr. Punch has alwaj-s delighted In jocose predictions of what 
applied science might sometimes do for the service of mankind. 
On more tlian one occasion these jesting predictions .. LAST NEW 
have been realised in sober truth. In 1848, he pro- RAILWAY 
posed the "Opera telakouphanon," remarking that, SCHEME." 
when tliis apparatus was perfected for conveying music from the 
opera to private houses, our " domestic establishments might be 
served with the liquid notes of Jenny Lind as easily as they are 
with soft water, and could be supplied with music as readily as they 
can with gas. Then at a soiree or evening party, if a desire were 
expressed for a little music, we should only have to turn on the 
Soiinambtiln or the Pari lain', as the case might be." 

To-day a large number of houses in London are supplied with 
instruments which do what the imaginary Telakouphanon was to 
<Io. Punch's slictch of a zebra harnessed to a carriage in the 
streets of London appeared just forty years before such a sight 
was actually seen, and tJie anticipation of the kinetoscope were 
published in the pages of Punch as early as 1865. "The Last 
New Railway Scheme," reproduced on the opposite page, waa 
hardly so striking an instance of Punch's prophetic power. It was 
published in 1846, and it was not until 1854 that Parliament 
granted the powers inider which work was commenced upon the 
underground railway in i860, and the first section of the Metropo- 
litan line, Paddington to Farringdon-street, was opened in 1863. 
.\% early, however, as 1837 the project had been seriously discussed. 




Conimviiiiiilire NnitTCfl (/•> 
HEE 'Mi[.k.-< fuoh Ciiippitiii'n 



THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE. 

(DKDICATER TO ADMinAI. noUS). 
,1 r>irl!/ t>i, Fiiliirf C-J,). "11, t^pitat, Kvk • Ki>x nHon 

K AUB ! .SpLKSUID FuX I -1)M 



THE LAST NEW RAILWAY SCHEME. 

ISrp/.:;ll, IfHU.-Ci,;. ll.p. IM.) IBv (llibtrt AtJ>i^tu ftvAWM 

■'in projiTlors IiHViiiK pxliniii'toi) 

llilZ'Ill llf inillVllJ'KIllHIVt!):!^!!))!!, 

i.iiti'<i n iii'w wWlilof nsiiliUn- 

Uiiil, ill wliiHi Uii>y ]>rn]KWP til 

" inilcr tltPiireKentirjilp, 

in'' TIlK K IL 




I line, lliis coiitinumw i-nlw is ft trrtiipnilims pijx', nlkh merely lips in 
tlie iiiiildlr' of till- line without tmng iikwI. 

The Sewers, l)y tlic way, w<mld, with a little cnkrjipnient, nimwer 
all tlie Tiiin<n'<e» of tlic jnTijeclorx of UiIh M-)ieiiie. It it Inie they ore 
liitif full (if wnt^r ; lint tliiK woiilil not invveiit tlKtrnrrint.'eri from iN-ing 
IHvliflleil, Aiul tlip wIhvIs iiil)^it Imi Hiiliii-imtly liigli tii kce|i the buliei 
llf tlu- ntninttPK nnil tho f«et «f Die jniwdiKinv (Hit of the wet 



irrt-ts (if liiiniloi 

lit notion fur vt^ieviiiK tlic 

iliil lltoi'oiicltfiirefi, iumI nt Ilie 

I' i-eiievitij; any inrtiuitlarly . 

. . . . ileil poi-kct from its njiprriwivn ] 

III hiinlen. TlicprosiiectiiKHtAtM tliat the 

^ t1iin(;"i:nn lienecoinplixlicdn'ithniit nn.v 

Ki-rioiis enpnpmiiK (liflinilties." The 

Hifficiiltiex, iiiHtenil of lieiiiK serioii'!, will, 

we ini|)[>iiKi% Ik- iiiOTrly lnii;iliahle. If any 

,„,.„.„ , gveat ililniiiiM nIuiiiM ftrise, it will of 

WniiriHg fttf n . w,M.wmi.] ,,^,,,j^ 1^ ovMVOiiiP liyft little jocularity. 

U'niinilerHljtndllint ft nnrrey luiHtilrnulylieeii DiMle.nnil tliat iiutiy 

of the inlialiitftiitsukiiiKtlie line linve e^]lrl'Iwe<l their I'endiiieKStoiiliU'e 

tlieir i-ool-i-ellnrH iit tlie (lisjHisnl of tlic i-oiii]iniiy. It In liellevnl ttutt 



- - -u tn tlw owners, l>y iiiiikinK» jt■<l■^iolwaml^{.1■- 
lllellt n( tlietime-titlile. Itwilli-erbtiiilylH'nwkwanrif ft family Hhdiilil 
In> woitinK for i> si'iittle of coaK ftnil KtiiniM imt tw nhic to pit it until 
after the train liiul linm- hv ; l>iit a little ilonie^tir foTesijclit, snundeil 
liy railway iHint-limlity, nili ohviiite all ftiiiKiyftnees of thin kind. 

An tlie iiiiilpiiiiibit^l railway nuL't in H>veral ]ilai*es he rurried 
tlioroiiuli the Hides anilcentreiif astn>et. ilHilH)eneres»«rytoarran^'e 
wjtl) tlit> tsoK nnil water nmiinntes, m> tli iL tlicy may ail co-oiierate in 
thin liTeiit natkiiuil work. If the ntinos|ilierif |>riiicij)le Hlmiild he 
ailcijited, arrant:empnt(i ronlil jkerluijis he enlernl intn tu obtain the use 
of the prinrijiai niain l)eloiiKm|: •" •' 
e ; for if wp 






p to jiKlie by tl 



1 the Croydon 



wanted," n 
Kiip)Mirt" 
we iiliiiidd not w 



mlly K 



mlvertiseiitent'i in the daily mprrK. : 
Those who ttre iIlxwHed to niiik a littli 
iiirv it nndrr tlie flletropolifi in the manner jimpased. 



£ tlie~i-oiii|jnnyi;eta! 
' perK. and a liifti 

ft little cniriml e, 



IS )ialf-&^oieii 
in Uic City. 
better tlion 





Sir John Millais's drawing, reproduced on the opposite page, 
from"Thu Fiisl Fiflv Years of Punch ," was his own 
parody upon his own style. Mr. Spichnann, m the 
" History of Punch," tells the story of the " Mokeanna" series : — 

" Mt. Burnanil had conceived a series of burlesque stories, salirising the 
sensational style of the day, to be accompanied by an equally burlesque 
imitation of the illustrations thai were to be seen in publications such as the 
'London Journal.' To his own daughter, as 'one of his oldest friends,' 
Mr. Burnand once confided the following facts and circumstances for 
publication : — 

"The astute proprietor of ' Fun,' in which I had achieved some success, 
observed that " Mokeanna " wouldn't do. 1 am not sure but that he was 
right ; but if he had been a literary editor he would have seen the idea in a 
rough copy, and would have suggested improvement. This good he did me, 
however — 1 read it to a friend, who thought some of it good and mo^t of it 
Ihc contrary, and so, in a temper, 1 burnt thi; entire manuscript, and, being 
quite sure of the humour of the idea, commenced rewriting it.' 
At this point Mr. Burnand may be permitted to take up the 
story with his own pen.* He called upon Mark Lemon, the Editor 
of Punch, and explained to him the stoiy. 

" He listened smilingly. 1 made an awful hash of it ; and felt I was 
utterly ruining the idea and throwing away the best chance 1 should ever 
have in my life. I apologised for mj*sdf, and for the idea. But, to my 
intense surprise and ecstatic delight, he professed himself immensely taken 

"'Yes,' he said, in answer toasuggeslionofminc,' we 'llliave it illustrated. 
You send it me, and 1 'II see how much it 'U make.' 

" ' It is written in burlesque of a storj' in the " London Journal " style,' I 
explained. 

" ' Capital 1 ' he c.iclaimed ; and then, as if struck suddenly by a very happy 
idea, he added, ' I see ) We 'II do it in " London Journal " style.' 

"'And,' I ventured, 'it an artist would imitate Mr. John Gillierl's draw- 
ings ■ 

'■ ■ No ! no r cried Mark Lemon, and I was afraid I liad made a mistake ; 
witen, after enjoying a hearty chuckle, he smacked his hand on his thigh 
and exclaimed enthusiastically, ' We 'II have the real men themselves I Each 
artist shall burlesque his own style 1 Let me see ! I '11 get John Gilbert, 
Hablnl Urowne [" Phir,'' yoa know), and — by Jove — yes — Millais I T 

"The authorship was kept a secret from all around the PKnch Table, except 
the proprietors ; and one of them, Mr. Bradbury, learnt it by an accident. 

"On receiving his proofs of the coming number, Mr. Bradbury, by whose 
firm (Bradbury & Evans) the " London Journal " was then printed, was 
horrified at seeing, as he thought, the Prst piage of the " London Journal " 
appearing as the first page of Punch. Although an invalid at the time, he left 
his bed, drove in hot haste up to London, summoned the printer, and then 
sent off to the Editor, who, on coming down to the office, with ereat ditiioilty 
succeeded ineetling his part proprietortorealise the humour of the situation. 

" It certainly was a startling, novel effect, but, it is satisfactory to record, 
eminently successful. No one enjoyed the joke more than Mark L.emon. 
and after him Thackeray, who was among the first, on my becoming a 
member of the staff, to compliment me most heartily, and most cordially to 
wish me luck as ' the new boy.' " 



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WUnl "*._ -^ Ih.' w. 
ry Lord • • • • 1 nni 
llEN SlIAK^PKARE'S 



Llher oopk. Sedas 



a THE OHAPEAU BLAKO, THE wiiiTB WITHEas."] IPrawing bv Sir John SlllaU. Bl. P.S.A.-\ 

for the effort, he sprang Into the air, k<»plD0 Mn 
loot flmily tOKBihcr, and preserving a pvr- 
prndloulnroitltudo. 
It iTiHndar1nKnIlempt.butBU«VB!<[iiL 
The prpMuro of tho utmoiinhoro bonea'ii him 
oppowtd hlfl dcHccDt, and as no hod calculatfld, 
Impotlsd mm with n fdartul velocity upward* 
laid nwce. but vllb no IticDnalion tnwanlt thu 
WBit.' Three Umea ho partlallr deuer ' ' 
on aach oocuton he vox ri^pulned by n d 



knot of ohubby yniiiitf voruon. wji^ ItBllewly 
"illlDj! on tho edim of ifif pulpll-dcak. di»cUB»ln« 
lo nUrrinir lopte of the dii'- 



Thef 



<0'l tc 



who stolH Uokrunna ?" ho hanrd one of 

;hom nsk. Before (ho rioin could nTily. Ihoy 
,umod toward* the Hunehbnrk. polotlOit- 

Tnull actively ho pat bin hnnd to his Head. 

lie hod foritottRa to remove hlx rAurintM Mann on 
mlorlnii the UHhedraL 

It wM now too late. They wore upon him. 

Htviftty bo (Ind. 

He reached Ihi> Whlspirlni 



rnllsr 



with 






iwtul OuMtlon. 



-Ho Is oswiptnu by tho Rail." -lioi 

the ctiaso rrom below. 

Thu Denn, rrooplotf M a rapid pnof 
Dome, nodded Intellizonlly to the Rnitn 
tbrowlngawnylili baDdH, prepan-d tor fro 



allowed 
diraellor 

Siidoni. lyln( 
ount PirJmr 



a decroMlag 

_.. .-bo thrown In n Hemlclrculnr 
id alighted oD one of the shliilaB 
~~ Wtwoon the btglioflt polnte of 



le plaJnii. 



Jl ildO" by volcanon, 






. ?1 argnn wfuiTie.illna [orlh Corcgirto'ilicniill- 
fDil f „n Cum. Ik thi> Ilunchlnck. pnlo bdJ I 
•-^ '-T^»ouBhHhollBrin01d8l.Pnufe. | 



"Surrender.nr 
l>]Ut tonpply n 



ilhtorBuptha psviag- 
rii-d the Dmn, who wan 



■This apporont pfarnomenon may bo owlly aod 
; aolODtiacally Diploinad. HnpposlngAtoboavory 
dense body, aay liody, on lbs apex of a pinnacle. 
I B, Ihnw million t<«t abava tho level (,f tlie C. U.. 
tho height of St. Poul'n. Suppone Iho prewure of 
ftir upwiinls lo ba as 1° in 10. or lii lo the pound. 
I small otzos. Lot D raprnwDt mimethlng oTh, aay 
teD, n reduction beinn of couno mode on laklna a 
oiiantlty. Then ns A : Jl :r C ; D It follown tliot 

I could be expected, i^e gravity or density of any 
t)0<ly con be easily asocrtalnod by working otit 

, the'abovn prolilom in all ltd dutatla, and thus it li 
.. .. *T_. — _ bonoflconlly ndaptn her mar- 



vcllou 



lotbem 



*t cnpadly of tho pockeL 





The fiii^^iia of 
"The First Fifty Years of 
' show us Mr. GlactslDiic in 
tmaginablt: characttr. He is depidec! as Hercules and 
Janus, Hamlet and Macbeth, a conjuror and a hen, a tl:m- 
cerand a jockey, Napoleon and Mr. Mic;iwbcr, a bilt-slickcr and a c;u)icnltr, an ncrobat 
and a circus rider, a hunter and a cobbler, a clown and a mailed kiiiyht, a Jesuit and a 
nigger minstrel, a dentist and an augur, Aladdin and a falconer, a g-ardener and a 
Highlander, ActaKin and Ca;sar; time after time he is represented with the 
woodman's axe, and his collars and his hat have been drawn from every 
IKissible point of view. 

But of all these conceptions none is more droll than that which presents him 
as Mrs. Gummidge. The diplomatic situation which gave rise to this 
cartoon included an approaching crisis with Russia' beamse of the a<lva[ice 
upon Penj-deh, in Afghanistan, by General Koinaroff, and an incident in 
Eg\'pt which also seriously disturbetl our foreign relations. Sir John 
Tenniel's cartoon, saj's Mr. Spiclmann in the " Historj- of Piiiicli," 
attracted general attention for its exquisite fooling : — 



G 

L 
A 
D 



"Mr. GUdslonc, as Mrs. Gummidge, sils in llic I'eggotty txalhouse by Uie fire, 
I which a pol o[ Kusaian slew is simmeiing, while her kniLliiig, marked 'Egypi,' 
has fallen from her weary hands, and, the very picture of misery, nKrans out : 'I 
ain't what I could wish myself lo be. My Iraubles has made me conlniiry. 1 (eel my 
troubles, and they make me conlrairy. I make the House uncomfoilable. I don't wonder 
at it 111' To which Mr. John l*eggotly-Bi;ll, pointing with his pipe-stem at Ihc 
• portrait of Beaconsticid on the wall, mutters (deeply sympathisiiig — aside), ' She's 
' ' — - .i.:„i.;nn -f ihs nM '.,„ 1 1 K \yjis proposed by Mr. uurnand." 



T 

N 
E, 

"THE 



been thinking □( ihe old 

Mr. Gl.idslone was never offended by Punch's cartoons, although he was 
a man of great sensitiveness. Once in speaking of the htnnoroiis press 
(referring more particularly to Punch), he said that he noted "a total 
absence of vulgarity, and a fairer treatment which made this department of 
warfare always pleasing." Punch did not ahva>-s agree with Mr. 
Gladstone, yet the statesman generously accorded to the iiaper the credit 
of having always treated him kindly. 

I n a communication which he wrote to Mr. Spielmann, he described the cartoon as 
" , , . a prosperous and nucceasful cKsrl not only to associale sjuiid art willi pcili 
humanise Ihe warjare connected with a trying mode of life. ' ' - ■ ■ 

its services in Ilic Libenl ciuse. Of course, it has somclimes I 
take into rcckonin)' Ihc opinions of Ihe passinj; momeni, bul v 
ilicsii have happened to be to my own personal disadvanlagt 
umembcr having admired the tact and skill with which 
jrjurnal steered Ihrouyh lis dlMicullici." 



POLITICAL 

■MRS, 
GUMMIDGE." 




HEADS OF MR. GLADSTONE IN "PUNCH." 

(BtJ.Lue^J. TinHiit. L. ^•mb.ofi,/. and II. Furaiii. RrJrnw.i . 




PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVAEI. 




THE POLITICAL "MRS. GLMMIDGE.' 



Mne. nivMMKiK-r.r.AnsTTOV:. "I AIN'T WHAT I CnULU WIST! MYSELF TO BE. MY TROUBLES HAS MADE 
ME CONTRAIRY. I FEEL MY TROUBLES, AND THEY MAKE ME CONTRAIRY. I MAKE THE HOUSE UNCOM- 
FORTABLE. I DON'T WONDER AT IT ! ! ! " 

John Prggotty-Bull {detphj >y «paUimi,g—asi<hi). " SHE 'S BEEN THINKING OF THE OLD 'UN ! "—David Cnpperfield. 

[ITni, 3. lS8n.-riiL 88. p. 211,] 




Punch's relation to the assthctic fad has alieady been so fully 
desciibcd • that the bride and bridegroom, jiossessed by the noble 
determination to " live up to their teapot," niay be left " the 
to speak for themselves. It may be remembered that SIX-MARK 
in this picture, as in some of his oilier hits at the TEAPOT." 
" intense " class, du Maurier was very geneially supposed to have 
'■* wilfully introduced the portrait of a person whose n;une was much 
before the public in connection with the lesthetic movement. He 
himself, however, emphatically denied the intention of caricaturing 
any individual, and the resemblance no doubt lay i[i the affected 
pose and peculiar dress rather than in the fe:!tures. 



The a Beckett family have played an important part in the 
history of Punch ever since its origin. Gilbert Abbott a Beckett 
contributed to the hrst number, and continued to write „ p^pEps 
for Piitich until his death in 1856. The prose and veisc FROM PUMP- 
from his pen which appeircd in the Punch columns HANDLE 
would, it is said,itall the columns were pasted toget hen COURT." 
make a strip over half a mile in length, and all his contributions 
showed tliat he was, as Douglas Jerrold, in the obituarj' notice 
published in Phhc/j, said, "endowed with a genial, manly spirit; 
gifted with subtlest powers of wit and humour," Eighteen years 
after Gilbert Abbott a Beckett's death, his son, Mr. Arthur W. a 
Beckett joined the staff of Punch, and was appointed Sub-Editor 
when Mr. Burnand became the Editor. His " Papers from Pump- 
Handle Court," one of which appears on the opposite page, were 
not less successful than his father's " Balbds of the Briefless," 
and were written from a not dissimilar point of \iew, although 
their subject-matter and mode of treatment were altogether distinct. 
His elder brother, the late Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, did not join 
the staff until five years later, and, although he wrote a number of 
brilliant parodies for Punch, he was a successful rather than a 
voluminous contributor until his death in 1891. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




THE SIX-MARK TEA-POT. 

/Eithetic Uriilnjroom. " It ih quite consumnatk, in it no 
Inleiue Bride. "It is, indeed! 0. 



MHtiUned ladder of Ramon I««, Real 
ProMrtj, Common Law, und Equity, which 

louls to tiint nroud [jiniiiide in tlie Temple 
of Forensir iuue knaun aa the degree of 
Utter Barriiit«r. To cany out this laudable, 
and 1 Itoped lucrative prc^nuiiiiie,it became 
necesmry for me to Imrn some Iftw myself. 

ni-lo a, variety of circimiKtMicefi, 1 liad 
not iiMulc tlio si-ience of my jirofeNiion m 
n u Ii my esM-ciiU stml.v nJ* it« iirattice, 
CO isci[iicntly 1 foLiii<! mysflf ii little " rusty." 
However, 1 linislieil iiji my svlieollioy ktiow' 
ledge of tlie Clun&iui, aiA liereely tackled 
tie Latin intricacies uf Jistimam, filling 
ui ike remainder of uiy time (except tlui£ 
of coiirM, devot«l to my strictly professionM 
duties) nitii |)ecps into Jobiiua Wiluahs' 

1 ttlc works upon Ileal and Personal 
Pro)M>rty, and glances at 8i<bi.l'ii excelleiil 
b ochure upon t^iuity. After two terms 
an I a long vacation^ unceasing work, I 
ve tureJ to te«l my knowledge by securing 
an I attempting to an.twcr (witliout the 
aiiEiHtAniie of my text-books) ttie papers set 
for exnminaUori in Lincoln's Inn HalL I 
allowed myself double the ordinary time to 
con pensalo for my lost youth. Having 
CO iileted the task, I checked mv replies 
« til the Bar Journal with the lollowing 
not ungratifyinK result. I found that in 
Roman Law I had answered one question 

Cy right and several incorrectly, m Real 
,eTty all the <[ue.stions incorrectly, in 
Common Law one qucKlion nearly right and 
>a y incorrectly, and in Eiiuily one whole 
q cstion entirely light and several incor- 
rectly. Having tliuK attained to w4iat I 
niay fairly claim to I'all without laying 
ni^elf open to the charge of ictsllectufU 
arrogance, a state o( high proficiBDcy, 
1 ventured to insert tlie following ad' 
vcrtisenient in some of our leading doily 

TO GENTLEMEN wishing to adopt the 
DAlt tw a PROFESSION, — An Utler 
BnrriiiLi^r of oni> of iho Inm of Courl. of mnny 

tmrH' htoncLJnhr, havloff a LtUle ^pare tlmu oD 
in liiuida, i-audcd by Oic occanlODaJ poumh Id 
llio proeccOings tncidentnl to a lifo cmnloyed 
tn a mott iHenfive I'mriice. In prepared lo 
impnrt Instruotion lo ii lew SluleDts dcHJroui 
of cllmbiD){ lo the loftirU hplshls of a aohte 

FuniP'Hatiillo Coun. Temple, E.<J. 



PAPERS FROM PUMP-HANDLE COURT. 

Ufiil! IB. 1(W5.- foL IS», p. IHI.) Bu ArthuT ir. <i Bi.-k.lt., 

MY I'lUZE PUPIL. 



annoyance, to tlic Iioud CiUNc>'.Lt/>K if I applied lo him for " Silli," 



I deteniiined tn iitili.se the privilege of a " Jiiiiioi" hy liecominK 
" Coach," Of course I did not for a moment expeit to rival in 
success so poimlar a "guide, philosopher, nnit frienil," as Mr, 
Shbabvtood, uie learned aiitlior of a number of ndiiiirable trratiiM^ 
bot 1 trusted that with (lilii^cnce and study I might |)erliap!i be able 
to help some faint-heartol iitid faltering student to climb up that 



being slock at the time, I waited 
in my Cliainbeni for dnys, in expectation of 
receiving some answer toiiiy announcement 
For a tinie I was diiapiiointed. Still, I 
continued sittinc with my wig, gown, and 
banihi artistically groiijied around me, to 
.'iiKgest that, although I took PujiiU, I was 
still actively engaged in tlic duties of my 
Profession ; nnd my {lersevemnce was at 
length rewanled by the entrance of a 
visitor. The person who stood before nie 
wore o long Newmarket t-caX, a very tight 
imir of trousers, a dinntond horse-shoe 
l)in, and a curly -hrimnicd hat He was 
smoking a very strong cigar (for which he 
I ntiologisetl), and earned o knotted-handloJ 

__ stick. 

" Perhaps you will allow me to explain 
scatinf; himself on a side-tablo, and iipsettine my 

hidden store of co-uj>crative luxuries. I bowed and 



myself," he 
brief \mv. am 
toyed with n , 

" The fact Is 1 have mode a bet tiiat I will pass the Bar Examina- 
tion within three inoiiths. I was dining a short time ago with a k>l 
of chappies, and on old stick of tiie name of Wioblook- 

" Do you mean tlie eminent Queen's Counsel V ' 

"Tlial 's tiie iJftTty. "" 



HI iiuiiic o HORSBLAUUK. Well, old WlO- 

itliing about law. I told him I knew aa 
mucli as he, — and backed iny opinion. Said 1 would pass the Uar 
Examination, more than he hod ever done, I took nim tliree to 
one that I would do the trick in diree montiis' time. All tlie otiiw 
chappies took me too. It looked too good a thine to miss. Well, 
as 1 am a bit sliort just now, I want to pull it ofli ii 1 can ; so^ sedng 




Charles Kcene illustrated so many o( Punch's jokes about Scot- 
land, and there is in his figures and faces so stronj! a suggestion 
of the Scottish type, that many readers of the "First 
Fifty Yeai-s of Punch" suppose him to have been a pRoVEN" 
Scotchman. As a matter of fact, his birthplace was no 
further north than Hornsey, and the only influence which Scotland 
c:m have been supposed to have exercised upon his early days is the 
far-fetched fact that he was apprenticed to an architect in Scot- 
land Yard. Mr. Austin Dobson, in a charming sketch of Keene's 
life," well says that the historian of the future will have to go to 
Keene's work in Punch in order to find what a Scotch gillie and a 
gamekeeper looked like. From the same sourca an admirable 
appreciation of Keene's work as a whole may l>e quoted : — 

"Wlii^ii Kccnc died Hie crilics 1<cg.-in 1o repeal— wIkiI artis|af!encr3l[y lind 
loii^ known, and what llie jury of (lie I'arU Exhibition recognised in itlQO by 
liiv ticKiowal oF a gold med.il — thai he \v;)s a most ctHisumntate arlist in black 
;iiid wliile. Perhaps his own countrymen are not bo much to he binmed for 
Iticir neglect in this inciter, since he never cnhibiled his I'liach u-oik at Ihe 
Roynl Academy. Uul liis absolute command of Hie medium liy which liis 
work was to be presented to Hie public ; his rigid suppression of the 
superfluous ; his unfaltering instinct where to slay his strokes ; these things, 
taken in connection with his iidetily lo nature, liis skill in composition, and 
his power of suggesting colour and seizing fugitive expression, made him 
an nlmo^il unique personality in humorous art. Like Fielding, he sought his 
subject by preference among the middle and lower classes, hoiding perhaps, 
with the father of the English novel, that high life was delicient in -humour 
and entertainment.' He did not invent types like Mr. Briggs or Robcil 
Macaire. Rather he drew life as he saw it, u-here he elected to look for it, 
humorously, but not unkindly. And he did this in a manner altogether 
inimitable, setting it always in its appropriate background, a tsackground 
which is often a shorthand lesson in landscape and alinospticric effect." 

Scotland has always been fertile of suggestions for Punch, and 
it is noteworthy that three-fourths of the contributions from 
unattached contributors of which Punch has made use have come 
from the North of the Tweed. Nfr. Spielmann, in his " History of 
Punch," remarks in this connection : — 

" Dr. Johnson, ponderous ciioiigh in his own humour, admitted that ' much 
may be made of a Scotchman if he In: caught ynuni;' ; and it is pnibablc 
that to him, as well as lo Walpolc— who suggested that proverbial surgical 
operation — is owing much of the false impression cnteitaincd in England as 
1t> Scottish appreciation of humour and ol ' wui.' Some may retort ihat it it 
iusl the preponderance of Scotch collaboration Ihat has rendered Piitidi 
ill times 3 Irillc dull. Certain it is that /'iiiich is keenly apprccialud in the 
North.'' 




TfHir AilviTtisoiiiMit, ftnil, tliinkiiiR ' A. H. J.' sonnJiil ratbci' cliirijy, 
I caiiii^ to link yon nii— iknil, lierc I niii." 

Fiirtlier iiii|iiirii-H liroiiclit out tluit my visitor nnd ivnii1il-I>e )nipil 
vnn a ]'()nii),i>r xon of tlio Kurl of ^TAnLKi'i^Tii. Ho areiueil iin encr- 
getir yoiiiiK Rpntlpnmn, li:i\iri^ nlrpncty 'jliUini>i1 cntmn™ to nn Inn 



'nolrnr't', ftssiiivliAiM iiirili tiv ilic I'iiiiiK'ror .Juhtum*.v," I 

" All ri-lit," NLiiUti^ "Iliil'ifviiudn, II miKt l« Jri liti Kitnsoiu. I 

I nm (liut lit TnttrrKtill'H in linlf-nii-liiinr, liiit if you like to ivtik' 

vrjtli niP, wo mii;1it I'lmt it iivnr in tin' nili." 
And tlii.s nii-^ iIil' •MitiiiiPncriiK'iit nf mir stiiaii'». Mr. II<iiihf:- 

ilrtcniiinnl iti .l : ■ ■ i i ■ ■■ i ■. . 

Tnie, liis ni]ii v. . ; i ;■; . ■ i ... , 

noble l'rofr,s..iipl in , ,i |>.,t:.i .r .^,,.i I r: I 

vnfrrrs iiiiwuu iii>i.i4 i>> iii.> C ; ' <i' n < i 

tltHWiir ; nml .vi-l lii>> iiuilLitlim >va^ i ' i ' i-. 

geniaTil wim tlicinipii^wiiiri tlint 111' ".i.i '■ i :■ i.:,: i 

tirciitT tiiniicn'iis oIK'ivil n;anii,tt liin^ :>' ' ' 

tlinliliil hcnttiiLii Kiu-it'-^ my ffLiiic :i~ .i "i"<<h ' it"iil<i l«' <.i.Ji- 

liRlinl. lliH fniiiily nciv iiiiist niixiiius U-r lii^ trhiiiii>li, Micvini; 

that hi,i cxpitionN wnf ilni- to Iiis inwrisi- ilwirc to pmcticc in tite 
y Uivisinn of CIil' IIirIi Uoiiri of Jiistiii-, Uur nnilint; hwl 



it'imwWk-- 



\\v 



iTip— tlmt I ^ 



reftHy KWirc tlio liHio Hi i: 

toteKtIiiiii in I'crsnniilti i r .. , r. 

thronKli liin ]iacra a.]n»u I. : i 

ronvivial Gnrrii'lc Cliih 1> i .nut 

Contmi.'U wlLciiliclinil"i-iit(iiil oi a r 
firiit tliifi cnuwil sonic slif^lil iiiiiiuyaiicc i> 



I torml bn 
i» irip timt he ninlcf niit 
" i'ui.'ii^'nnents,'' m 1 hiul 
>- ;it Saniliiwn, imt him 
liirine tin! imwai nf i\ 
:"n he nad I vogretwed in 
ihiT nt the Portlnnd. At 
iiij priv&l« miili^ni'P, nnil 



fgi^-r 




nAl-lD PIIOOflKH 



I was tried in tlic Court of my Heirili and Home for mminK in 
lulher Into one niuht, or cnrly niie tnortiinK, nniriiis sOHii'lunly e(w'» 
lint, anil I'lnsiuni; in tny jiAnd it Hnpiier-bill fnnn a well-known 
Iji'ii-«t4T Siiiwrc Itntn11mnt^ Howover, my drfunce, no far uh it 
went, WHH aeeiiird xatidaclory. I pxplainea tliat I luid Kpent lliu 
evpiiirii; in nttMIiptini! to lenrli Mr. Homklauuh tliB dutincliuu 
iK-Iwi-i'n It UoiilitiLfTit and a Vented reminder. 
At leiiKlh tliu hi>t Day of (Ixaniination nnivcd. Tlie Counril of 




Tlie weirdness of du Maurier's imagination was, as a rule, 
subjected to his love of beauty, but there arc to be found scattered 

throufjh the Punch vohuiies a dozen or more drawings 
of his, as grim and as startling as anything of Gustave T-HApErf* - 
Dore, Dreamland was peciiharly his own domain, and 
such nightmares as " In the Traffic " show his clear understanding 
of the strange phenomena of sleep. Another and not less fantastic 
study is the half-page di-awing [pubhshcd January i6, 1869, 
Vol. 56, page at] of " Old Nick-otin Stealing away the ' Brain ' of 
his Devotees," showing a circle of unhappy men whose heads are 
their own pipe-bowls, smokhig away their brains through long 
curved tubes which encircle their bodies like serpents. A 
fortnight later — Vol. 56, page 35 — du Maurier made his excuses 
to Tobacco, in the form of an exquisite full-page drawing, entitled 
" Sancta NicotJna Consolatrix, the Poor Man's Friend." Another 
wonderful nightmare drawing of du Maurier's will be foimd by 
the reader of "The First Fifty Years of Piiiuh" in the issue o( 
February 39, 1868 (Vol. 54, page 892), only three weeks after the 
appcanuicc of "In the Traflic," the sequel to the story of Jenkins 
and the cab horse. Jenkins is, on this occasion, supposed to have 
dreamt that he had joined the HippophagI, and sees himself with 
enonnous carving knife and fork preijared to cat the whilom 
monster, now reduced to the mildest of victims. Some lovers of 
Piiiiih thought such conceptions as these too "creepy" for the 
wholesome pages of the great weekly, and dn Maurier's own love 
for the graceful studies from the life of the drawing-room and the 
lawn no doubt tended to discourage excursions into the unreal. 

Skating is one of Mr. Piiinit's favourite pastimes, and the brief 
season of hard frost alw.-iys finds reflected in the pages of Punch the 
joys and sorrows of " rocking-turns " and tumliles. For 
the most part the skating pictures represent the fortunate paid nmi » 
persons who liave access to i]uict ponds in the coim- 
trj", but now and then, as in this case, Leech shows us a bit of the 
Serpentine bank with a Cockney skate-titter. This joke was based 
upon an actual experience of Mr. Arthur W. a Beckett's, 




PA98AQF. (UxfORP PtBEKt); 



IN THE TRAFFIC. 

■ ACOIDKUT IN THB HaKSOM t.'*Ft ht 



^.i-i 




1 (ioiibt m show tlifir 
>r ovriylliiii^' oiilMfli' 



.li(linil(> 






LiiKulii'.'. l].h, l.i;l li.iil iilu^iiJLli'lv >ureecJeil 
)\V K<'ttill^ liiiii t'l iHKk Ijijiiscif fur nluit 111' 
i-illnl the " Kxniiiiii»tioii Si'lliiij; Slukmi," foi' 
Iiirthi-r siiiiw tit iiioiH-y. 

(Jn llie iiiMiitimlilo nioriiiii;! I (ivcrsli-iil 
iiiVKcIf, anil, <iii I si<i[ 111711 tiv, iliil nut mu'li tlii' 
ir^Lll (if Unmln'N Ititi initil llic CimiliilnCrs 
luul tjiki'ti thdr plai-i-x uilliiii lluit lutiiilMiiiii' 
niitii'i". I nitlipi- rf-^TPttiil tttis ibt I sliniiM 
Imv,. likr.i t.. \mu- piv.i Mr, llox 






Tlir ftvliiii^of 



i. 1 ih'Ii 



ii>»l 



Stfiltr. "Hi!-ll0T.i,n!- 

Mkaie Projtrietor. " Si:vi 

{rOrmrv 21. U57.-r..f. Xi. ;, -ii ] 



t>> ii^Uk [II my IJImiiik'i'ri mill Iwk ti 
ihr iliiii' (if ujiiiiti^. (1)1 rpiu'liiiii; I'linigi- 
ll:iiiilli' I'luii't. my iiiliiiiriilil" iiimI i>xitIIiiiI 
<'k<ik IkiiiiIiiI ihi' ti tdi-^T.kiii. It iviix (roiii 
iiiv piiiril, will wfw ildtni "Kpsom"! llr 
liiiil iirrfwml tlw J>iThy tu tlu' Itnr, fur ii« 
ni'vpr iij,'am crileml for an p: — " "'' " 



A I 



I, Ju.TIDB. 




" We shall never forget the generosity which has given us food 
when we wanted it so much." These were the words of one of the 
starving peopl;; of Paris to whom the English sent "THE'BSUF 
provisions after the capitulation in January, 1871. In GRAS' FOR 
the course of thirty years most Parisians of the lower PARIS. 1B7I." 
cLisses seem to liave forgotten that England ever showed them 
kindness. Mr. Punch, had it been his practice to remind 
the ungrateful of benelits forgot, might have reprinted this 
cartoon liy way of reply to the scurrilities of the French press 
in igoo. "The Times," on February 23, 1871, published a letter 
from a special correspondent in Paris, from which we will quote : — 

" Tlie Ilritisb public nrc li> be cangralutjilcd on the generous impulse which 
prompted llitm to send hrRe supplies of provisions lo Iheir starving brclhren 
in Vans. I was preseiil ;it a scene last night wliich none of those who 
iinve subscribed lo IhnI fund could have supposed would have resulted from 
it, :iiu1 which all woukl h.ive been aslonislictl nnd gratified to witness. I 
had licard on ilie occasion of my previous visit lo the Rue des Petits Peres, 
Ihe scene of Mr. Moore's dislribulton, that the applicants took up their 
positions over night in a queue, so as to be among Ihe lirst served in Itie 
morning, and, determined to verify the fact, I accompanied Colonel Stuart 
Worlley at midnight 10 the locality in question. Passing through streets 
still dark and silent in Paris at this hour, we reached the Bourse, and alrc.idy 
Ihe hum, one might almost say, the subdued roar, of thousands of voices 
struck the ear. In a moment wc came upon the outskirts of what was 
apparently a mighty crowd, thougli it was too dark to see much until we 
found ourselves actually in the midst of a dense mass of women and 
children, heaped upon one nnolher in amicable confusion, and extending 
ilown ttie street as far as the eye could penetrate its gloom. Not that it 
was altoiicther dark, for numbers of candles flitted through the crowd, or 
(ormed the centre uf groups of sqtiatting or dozing figures. The scene 
was so unexpected and unique that for a moment It was diflkull to 
realise tliat here were at [east 10,000 liuman beings wlio were delil>eralcly 
bivouacking in the streets of the most bt'autiful and luxurious capital in 
Europe for the sole object of tjcing the lirst to receive some bread and 
cheese in the morning. The queue extended probably half a mite. The 
extreme end, composed of the lasl arrivals, were still standing in close nnd 
yeiTied ranks, as if they were awaiting an event which was immediately to 
cmne off. The row was four or live feet deep. Every woiruin had her 
ticket, and most of them a txii^kcl, and they were laughing and chatting 
merrily, although Itiey tiad already been standing in the same spot several 
hours, 1 asked otie of tlieni when she expected to arrive at the door of Ihe 
warehouse where she would receive her portion. ' The day after to-morrow 
morning, monsieur,' she replied, as calmly as if she was talking of a journey 
to St. Petersburg. 'What ! aic you prepared to pass two successive nighln 
in tlie street ? ' I asked. ' Pourquoi pas ? ' she suid ; ' all the others do it.' 
' Do you think what ynu receive at last will be worth waiting for for forty- 
eight hours ?' M don't mind wailing any more than my neighbours for 
what those good English send us. They tell me it is well worth while, and 
be assured, monsieur, we shall never forget the generosity which has given 
us food when wc wauled it so much." 



PUNCH, on THE LONDON CHAIUVARI. 




IBvStrJuhnT.nulel.i 



THE "BCEUF GRAS" FOR PARIS. 18T1. 

[Jfnc'fc4. ]R7].- r«r BO. f. PT,] 




Few among I^eech's drawings are droller than this of the 
envious cabby, aiid there will not be many among the readers 
of "The First Fifty Years of Punch" " too painfully „p,^„„. 
genteel" to appreciate the humour of the situation. 
The phrase "mops and brooms" has now almost disappeared 
from London slang, but " moppy " is still used in Southwark as 
an enthusiastic synonym for " inebriated' 

" 'Arry," the creation of the late E. ]. Milliken, is a far more impor- 

tanttypethaneitherCharlesKeene'sor Mr.Anstey'scon- ".'ARRY ON THE 

ception of the cad. " 'Arry " is, as Mr, Spiclmann saj-s— RIVER." 

" A most amusing personage — his lormi of speech, the qujiinl turns ot his 

vulgar thought, are in Ihemseivcs irpsistibly laughable — their groasness 

merged in Iheir genuine humour, and in the art so well concealed. 'Arry 

alotie has stamped Mr. Millilceii as a satirical iiumorisl of the front rank, and 

has gone far towards making the public forget his other phase — Ihe graceful 

and syinpalhelic poet. The philologists, loo, proclaim their debt of gratitude 

lo tlie author as Ihe most complete collector of modern English slang, with 

suitable context and situation. I have been fortunate in ascertaining Mr. 

^, Milliken's own estimate of 'Arry in a prirate letter to a friend. Although it 

was not written for publication, 1 liave received permission to quote the 

following sentences ; — 

"'Arry — as you say — the essential Cm/, is really appalling. He is not a 
creature to be laughed at or with. My main purpose was satirical — an 
analysis of an attack on the ifiirii ^ Caddishtaa, rampant in our days in 
many grades of life, coarse, corrupting, revolting in all. 1 might have 
confined myself to the ' Humours of 'Arry,' when my work would have 
been more genial, and, to many, more attradive. But then I should have 
missed my mark. On the other hand, 1 might have made tt a more realistic 
study, but then I should have got very few readers, and certainly no place 
in Ihe Punch pages. So it was a compromise ; not a consistent study of an 
individual Cad, but of the various characteristics of Caddishness. It has been 
said that an ordinary cad could not have done or said or known all that my 
'Arry did. Quite true, quite well known to me wtiile writing ; and, indeed, 

I forestalled the objection in Ihe preface of the l>ook As lo 'Arry's 

origin, and Ihe way in which I studied him, I have mingled much with 

working men, shop-lads, and would-be smarl and 'snide' clerks — whoplame 

lliemselves on their mastery of slang and ttieir general 'cuteness and 

' leariness.' 1 have watched, listened, and studied for years ' from Ihe life,' 

and [ fancy I 've a good memory for slang phrases of all sorts ; and iny 'Arry 

'slanff,' as I have said, is very varied, and not scientific, though most of it 1 

\aMe.lu<ird from the lips of street-boy, Bank Holiday youth, coster, cheap 

clerk, counter-jumper, bar-lounger, cheap excursionist, smoking-conceii 

devotee, lenth-rate suburban singer, music-hall ' pro ' or his admirer," &c. 

fferr C. Stoffel, of Nijmegen, has published* a philological study 

of the " '.\ny Letters " in Punch, ficim 1883 to 1 R89, examining the 

cant w(jrds with the ulmcist cLiboraticm, gra\ity, and knowledge, 

and [ii'iiduciiig a most valuable treatise on Cockney slang. 



' 111 T.ii. 



ejjr tU Slud 



jj. -v.-.Tf r.i.v 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




ENVY. 

{A very vutijnr snhjret indeal— to, i/ i/oit arc piiii'/nlly 'jtiUeel, i/ou had better pasa it n, 
r. "Ok, ain't im Mors *sd IIkoohs, skitiifb!" 



IKmtBibfr S, IWiO. 



CnlAu (eimti 
- Vnl. 37. p- mi 



. "IIk'mIU. POOR 

ptaantl.,). "HillK 



•ARRY ON THE RIVER. 1 

UuQutt 0. 1878. -IW. 77. 1.. 57.1 \B-j E. .1. H.Ilik. ;i I 

Dear Ckahlir, 

'Ot wnitliprat liuit ! Wot.i hlooiiiin' oUi sluiJipr it'.'i bin, 
Thin season ! Hut now it ih lookivitlioii^hSuiiiiiiprHosKran'tolK^n. 
Up to now it's l)in iinn-k and normir, fit only tor fishes nnd frop:, 
And lias not ),-ivf n rlinp arf ft i:linTi(« like of Kjiorting 'in 'oliilny tu^^ i 
8«vh B, Hwcct tiling' in ntiutanl itnd {liiik, ijnitc rethertfvtij 1 tell you, 

old man. I 

Two (|uiil 'a pooty stiff, but n bnstpr nnd lilow tlic cx|i(-nsd is my i>l;in ; i 
With ft itror 'ftt and jmg'jeree, Charlie, lim' slioes ftnd new niulliiTvy 

cloven, 
If I didri'tjest fpto'li mil- two gala, it's a pity ;— ftnd wasn't tliey lovra 1 
We 'd tliree HKi|m in tlii" lioiit licsidro nie, jest ft nice little piirty o'six. 
But tliey didn't j.-et aii ft look in long a inc ; they 'd no fonn, tlieni 

two sticks. 
Hyou'd necu ino a .'iOttin' and stccriii' with onft o' tlic slies on cadi 

Tou'd ft llioiLfTlit nie a Tiwk in tlietk ditterv, and looked on yoiii- | 
'ARBif with prido. 



If yon want a mcA sIait, yon ean always run into 'cm— aciiiletit qnitpl . 

Alio they earn t charge yer iintliink f'or IiKiking, nor put yon in i|nod I 

for the fright. ' 

It was On the Q. T., in a nook Bnuppeil away in a lot of old trees, 

I flat on a bust of A|)oller, with one of tlie giirls on my kni-eK '. 

Cheek, ehl Well, tlie fainly was out, and the sen-ants nsleep, I i 



;i> :- -/ (J.VJ- l|-/.i// / D GOT AltF HIS COVPLAIST! " 

We'll soon emptied our three-gallon buttle, and Tohhv he piilhil a 

hit wild. 
And wp blmidcreil slap into a skiff, and woa Jolly near drowndin^ ft 

l.>f i-onrse "-« huiiked oil' in tlic seurry, and shuued 'em a cleftn jmir 

o' hf-'s 
riillin' u]i at a wiilersidi: inn where we went in for fried '«ni and eggs. 
We kep that 'ere pub nll-idivc-oh, I lelt yer, with soiig arid with I'honx. 
I'o the (ii-fnl <li<^iiit of some prigs as ivon proggiiig two lahli-s afon' na. 
1 do 'XU' your bnslmbye sort-like, as [«its on Uie fie-fie at nrrise. 
'ijw on caiih din yer spree without shindy? It's jest wot a feller 

Quaker-meetings be jiggercil, I say ; if yi 



py, my Iwy, give it 



■ -siicli a lirk ! till, '(«>1 lot , ' 



Thei 



tliey clii-iked 
ijilit CiiKiilrihtmt'j, Tnimv \iuwa, who's ft bit of 
irt pair of swell "P|ioons" by sonic wiliers we 
close, and 



Tiiifl In sjilasll 

'ftpwnwl . , 
And the 'Poff kel.h.-.l the blade of Tou'a siill, dnit-swl 

jest landnl 'im «nf.' 
Artcr whic-li MiiNier I'om iiushccI his eye iiji, and secmeil rajtli 

of the fnn. 



■y flidn't 'e 



r, when I vhipi«d ofl' the hiiimgc's 



-■. the 



We 'd a ran- mrly lime of it, Cif AHLre, and oh for tliat younger gurl, 

1 11 eat iny old boots if she isn't dead-gone on 

Youn bloomiiu^y, 

"A BUT. 



The Exhibition at which tlie writer of the " Patent Pulpits " 
letter supposes this invention to have been displayed was the 
International Exhibition at Brompton, opened on •• PATENT 
May I, i86j, exactly eleven years after the great PULPITS." 
Exhibition in Hyde Park, which had lirst set the fashion of 
holding world's fairs. Although the show at Brompton was on a 
relatively small sailc, it attracted a number only alxiut half a million 
less than that attained by the far more important ExjTOsition of 
1 85 1. On the other hand, there were only about 6,000 foreign 
exhibitors in 1851, and over 16,000 in i86j. 




"GONE AWAYI" 



The late John Kiiskin thought that John Leecli's drawings of 
young girls on horseback were among tlic most exquisite things in 
the whole range of English art, and Raskin so hated horsiness 
that Leech's work must have possessed an almost 
inagica! influence for the introduction of the animal 
in such pictures as this to have been forgiven. Most readers 
of " The First Fifty Years of Punch " love horses as much as they 
love art, and to them Leech's sportsmanlike and sympathetic tre;it- 
ment of hunting subjects is one great secret of his charm. Leech 
drew his studies of the hunting field from actual obscr\'ation, 
following the hounds at a cost which he could ill afford, in order 
to keep in touch with the side of life which he depicted !«i 
skilfully, and he admired the hunting girl as well as her mount, 
endowing her always with delicate features and a round, sf)und, 
country-fed ligiire. It is true, as Mr. Spielmann reniarfch, that— 



■' Tlicy -. 


uencrirlv nlw.lvs llic wme pirl, llii< idcnl of Pun 


Ji's— sh I irl in 


Rlnliirt, sh 


iipio :iii(l poiiiinK and laiit-hmt'. u-itli hijj i-vl's mid 1 


r..niiilv»l iliiii. 


Willi bcwi 


(ditiiK iliiiip]i-< .111(1 prcdv riiiwlets : Inir llien tlii-^ ick 


Ml. lliis- little 




■ wai mint ..tluT limn Mn. U'cdi ! T!i<.' arM.I U:, 


.1 Sl.,.n iRT •.. 


till- HlltL-1 


ill lM4,l, linil f^Llltii l,f;.il nVLT c:n-. in l.nc wilh luT i 


i|i<.n IhL- spot, 


f,)ltOWC<l 1 


itrlii tier tioiin;, liK>lit-<l up IIil- (iircdorv In ;i'ttrl;i 


lin htr name. 


oli(:tinc<l :i 


m inlrtxluclion, niiil li.icl slraii;hl«;iv w««.-ti and w.)i 


1. hiT. ■ Now 


I 'II U-l W\ 


11 to one; he ivrnlc to IVri-ival Ui^'h. a* v^n as 


lit had been 


ni-«ptetl. 


'llinl vrtiir icvcn-iio! will Ihink mc Hit fxl.lL«l poi-s..n 


in lilt world. 


at a imwit 


■n{ tike the prcitent. I<> Ihtiik of wrilinfi Id a frk-ixl ; t>i 


itlcii'thelp 



sendini- yi>ii ,i line or Uvn to s:iv Hial 1 havi: liccn n 
Xtverlaii«!i a^iiin -it llie union of j suJ.'s |iV., iw. ilal:,] 
expect int In jiiin in Iht guff.iiv." 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDOX CHARIVARI. 




PATENT PULPITS. 



iDwC._ 

r tho man/ beautiful tliinga 
whii'li Itie ExhiliitJon miitains I am sur]rixal 
llmt none of Ilic crilii'x kIioiiIiI Imve tallM tlin 
attention of tijc Piihlio to an exiiiiUitelv 
iTirvwl I'tilirit. Tliis imiiitwneji» on Uieir - ' 
U more fHiiiiTisinc, Imuiiim! it >«eiu!i to I 
Ixvii rxjiremly LViiKlnit'teil in nnler to carry otit 
llie viPWH of tliuKo h'cnttetn^n who write to the 

Aliovc- it in sii«ieii(1e(I n F)nLiitifiilly formed 
extingiiixhii-. Now, i^tlwUfjU the Catalogiu) 
linen not My no (mtalogiieA am mi very niUKrc 
it) ilipir (Iwtcriijtioiiis I l">l"' '''* 
)-lll)lishf^l will iTBltin^iill tluil) I feel 
that thpii! muHt be iiuu-liiiiery iiixiilp, nhich 
will amse Ihc extin^nii-^lier to till nt tlic i»o]«r 
inunient ; tlmt is to Miy, whni tlie )iatietii:i^ of 
tlii< conKn^piition i* cximiinteil. n1thoii},-li :li('ir 
irlmui of |in>iiriety may (iimix'l Ch' 
tlicir scnlJi. 
•■I irnst that ynnr inM>itimi 

tile iiivt'iiliii' It liir^.'u iiiiinlirr of unlen 
I'onjtn'fc'iitionii before ha 




,, Thackeray loved to caricature himself and his friends, who were 

sk not always so well pleased. Tiie cut on the top of the opposite 
page will arrest th« attention of every reader who re- 
cognises the portraits of Thackeray and Jerrold. The ' t^I^^^i- 
two were always attacking one another, and perliaps 
not always without some sharpness of temper underlying their wit. 
In the " History of Punch," Mr. Spielmann says that Thackeray 

" was nol t>cst pleased when he entered the Punch dining-room a liltlc 
Inte, apotogisini; for his unpunctualily Ihrough having been clelained .1I a 
thrislening, at which he had stood sponsor to his friend's boy, to be met 
with Jerrold's pungent exclamation — 'Good Lord, Thackeray ! 1 hope you 
didn'l present the cliild with your own mug ! ' And still less was he flatlered 
when he heard thai, on its being reported tn the Punch office Ihal he was 
' turning Roman,' simply because he defended Doyle's secession, Jerrold 
t.irlty remarked that ' he 'd tiest begin with his nose. [Jerrold, by (he way, 
u-iHi the same conceit in a leller to Sir Charles DJIIte when repealing a 

rumour o( the attempted conversion of the novelisl, by 'Lady .") These 

and many more sardonic thrusts would amply account for Thackeray's 
dislike; ye! that the men's relations were not half so disagreeable -- ■ - 



specially to (own fr< 
nighl of his election at 
the result was known— 



■■ MAGNIFICENCE." 



Ihe Reform Club, and delightedly exctaiiniiig, when 
We 've go( the little man m ! ' " 

Sir Gorgius Midas was, as dii Maurier once confided to a friend, 
drawn from the life ; but it is to be hoped that the mode! never recog- 
nised his portrait, which is surely oneof the most unlovely 
in all the gallery of "The First Fifty Years of Piiiuli." 
Mr. Spielmann remarks, that " many of du Maurier's characters " 
"are often accepted, universally quoted as types, apart from any express 
reference to Punch or to its artist, is Ihe best icsliinony of Ihe Irulh o( his 
irony ; (or they are as reec^nisable in the real world as the Jacques, the 
Becky Sharps, and the Pecksniffs of other brains. And, besides these, there 
are the general characters so accuiately presented lo us — Ihe retined lady 
with the very old face and fronlal grey or white curls whom Mr. du Maurier 
used to draw, I twlieve, from the person of Mrs. Hamilton Aide ; Ihe charm- 
ing young tadie.t for whom, in succession, his wile and daughters have sat ; 
and Ihe delightful little ones to whom Professor Kuskin paid partial Iribule 
when he declared, a little cruelly, perhaps, thai the ' charm of his extremely 
inteltieenl,and often exquisitely pretty children, is dependent, for Ihe greater 
part, on Ihe dressing of their b.ick hair and Ihe fitting of their boots.' ' 
The admirable setting in which du Maurier framed his series of 
jokes was testimony to his genius. He followed Leech's plan of such 
series, but the quality of the thought and its presentation was as 
much more elaborate than Leech's as his method of draughtsman- 
ship was more complicated. These series or formula;, in their chief 
heads and subtle variations, displayed the quality of his mind. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




AUTHORS' MISERIES. 

N«. VL 

Old Gtnti man. illu Wlggrlt. 

Old OialltiHan. -t All SORIIT TO 
SBB Ton OCfTUPIED, UT DEAR 
UI8S WlOOBTS, irtTH THAT TRITIAl. 

pAPsn PuKcu.' A Kail VAT is 

lOKES. I KBVEIIJOEE— KB\-ZB." 

Jfl« IT. •So I SHOULD THINK, Sir." 

Old GryilliiH,w. -ami bXSIDES. 
AnB TOU AWADG WnO ABS THE 



TIIATIHEV ABE CHARrWT", DRinS. 
ATHBISTN AXARCIIiaT^AMlMxriAL- 
IStS, TO A MAX ? I HAVE IT FKOU 
THE HBST AUTHORITY. THAT THBV 



PTlhT. The CHIEF PART OF THEIB 
IXCOUE H DEniVED FROV THDBAT- 
EXISO LCTTEn* WHICH TIIET BEND 
TO THE XOBILITV ASD GB\rBV. 

ICT. TWO HAVE 
DEES TWEI) AT THE OLD BAILBV ; 




THE HEIGHT Or MAGNIFICENCE. 



Sir Gnrtfiiu. "''tunvai 

'jl^BNED TO BROUGHT 'OMB A I 
!. F. VfMiry 7, \JSO. - To'. TM. p. .W ] 



•*aT Two O'CLOCK, AKD WE DIDN'T KKOW 

H FOOTUES THOUOIIT THBT HrOHT 00 « Bf.I 

tET? A PRBTTT ^A,TS OF ThIKQB, IXDEEDI So 



CKIITAIH WHETHEE lOD 




Time after time, as one gbnces at the pages of " The First Fifty 
Years of Punch," one is reminded that history repeats itself, and 
no cartoon can be of more present interest than this. "THE SHADOW 
The Hills are still darkened by the shadow ; the ON THE 
vague bulk of the Bear still sways to and fro in the HILLS." 
background. The paths of the Pamir bear the imprint of his 
pads ; on his right he looks from the hilltops over the Kashmir 
Valley, sniffing the cattle and the honey, and in the morning he is 
back again on his own side of the ridge. 

The appearance of Russia as a factor in the Afghanistan 
question dates from 1878, when the British Government plainly 
saw that the Ameer's attitude of defiance towards Engbnd was 
based on his assurance of Russia's support. His refusal to permit 
the passage through his countrj- of the British troops precipitated 
a diplomatic crisis. Sir John Tenniel's cartoon, printed in Puiiclr 
on October 5, 1878, accurately expressed England's belief that 
Russia had more than an unselfish interest in Afghanistan, and was 
seeking to establish a footing there — a belief amply justified by 
subsequent events. 

" The Times," on September 27, expresses this feeling in a leader 
as follows : — 



a clear lield for the ; 



" In wlmlcver wny our qunrrel «-illi Ihe Amee 
terms upon whidi we stinll insist must be sudi 
ciilTicully for Llie future. We have to insure tliat 01 
shall be supreme. Wc cannot leave the country 1 
or llie diplcniacy of Russia. 

''The endeavour of Rusiui to push forward into Afghanistan ha< been a 
breach of good faith, but it will be punislied sufTicienlly by its bilun;. Her 
civil mis-iioti. if we may so term it, has as yel been imperfectly fulfilled. 
We seek to oppose it so far only as to make sure that it sliall not interfere 
with our own work in India. In its own sphere we wish it all success, but 
that sphere, we cinnot suffer Russia to furgcl it, does not include 
Afghanistan." 
Again on September 30, 1878, "The Times" said : — 

"Whether the insoleiit conduct of Shere AH has or h.is not been instigated 
bv Russia is more lliau ne can say certainly. We will forgive Iter freely it 
she has rendered us this service, u'hntever may liave been the motive Hint 
has prompted her lo it. Nor can we rouse ourselves even to the milde»l 
anger at any Russian exultation over the prospect of trouble to England. If 
Russia really thinks we shall break our teeth upon Arghanislan, she may be 
as jubilant as she pleases over the as yet uiiaccomplislied (act. But when 
Russian journals go on further lo talk of tlie help Shere Ali may eiepect from 
Russian subjects, they are on false ground." 



PUNCH, OE IHE LONDON CHABIVABI. 




THE SHADOW ON THE HILLS. 



aer(*(r5,lg78.-ro;. 76. ;i. ISM 



Here again we see our amiable friend Mr. Briggs, this lime 
with his foot upon " his nativt heath," engaged in shooting grouse 
and endangering the Hves of his companions, the latter ■< mr. brigGS 
a not uncommon accomplishment of Cockney sports- GROUSE 
men, who are not to t!ie manner born. Mr. Biiggs SHOOTING." 
is, ;is usual, facetious, and — for wliicli we may he thankful to him — 
the cause of facetiousness in others. 




A ■• runih ■ /Ilia. 



This " Request " will best be explained by a quota- "A REASONABLE 

tion from Mr, Spielmann's " History of Pitncli": — REQUEST." 

" At Ihc caily age of thirly-t-iyh; Gilbert Abbott it Beckett was appiiiutcd 

piilice-iii.igislrate, cliielly owiu;; lo the niaslerly repewl he drew up as I'i;or- 

L:iw Commissioner in fvspect lo Ihe nod r ous Andover L'nion \Voikhiiuse 

^iniidjls — 'one of the bent,' said ihe Hiiine Secrclary, 'ever presented lo 

I'arliainenl.' The appoinlmeiit was much discussed, for the general feeling 

liail been educated in the views of Lord Selborne, ivho asserted Ihal no 

'person' connected with the Press nor any ' gentleman in the wine trade' 

ould he pennitled lo altain to sudi an honour as the llench— an alwui dily 

which has long since t)een dismissed. On one occasion, il is said, when 

a Beckett lived at Xo. to. Hyde Park Gate South, Kensington Cure, he was 

instructed to hold himself In readiness, as magistrate, to answer a summons 

lo icad the Riot Act in Hyde Park to the unruly mob whose methods of 

pnilest againsf a popular grievance constituted Ihe ' Deer Bill Riots ' of 1855. 

That summons never came, luckily for him, for later in the day he 

discovered, lo liis ilismay, that liis t\T efnl and solicitous wife, willi greater 

respect lor her liusban<('s skin Ihaii fur ihe needs of Government, police, 

and I'rolelariat combined, had gone out early, after securely lockinp the 

unconscious magislralc in his library, and had prudently carried off the key." 

The " Reasonable Request " was sii]iposcd to come from the 

inmates of t :e workhouse, and was written by Percival Leigh, 

appearing in Punch in 1845. In it the petitioners begged that some of 

the kitchen refuse and pigs' -was!i, hitherto used to otrrfattcn swine, 

might be reser\ed for them. This petition had an aiJmirable effect. 

Most of us have been engaged in some such fray as that 
pictured on the opposite page, but few of us have such success in 
defeating the enemy. There are many unsohed riddles ■• a PASSAGE 
in life, one of the most insoluble is this — Why will OF 
hairdressers annoy those on whom they operate by dis- ARMS." 
cussing {x>litics, weather, and the latest odds ? Still more, why do 
they aggravate our spirits by endeavouring to force upon us hair- 
stuffs and dyes ? Who can s[iy ? 



PUNCH OR THE LONDON CH\EIV\RI 



CO RBE!lPo:^>B^x-c. 

(Mm acIuuUy piured 
') cxiLabrjLtod t-oiLu- 

Deati J . Pond mo o BhlUllnM. 

Toum, B . 

On nemnd (hDuglilB, mnkolKuv. 




A REASONABLE REQUEST. 

lAas. 30, 1815.- IV/. V, p. lUl.J [Bw F. rdn 

To the I'nnr Lrt": Commttiioiifri : Ttir lltimbU Pttii 
of the Inw'ilci of Iht Andotier Unim Workh. 

"WiiBKKAH tlic iirnlernlyTK.'rt, Viiiir PrtilJontT", rn^" 
Hriitvnco of iiiijniitoiiitiunt for Hicir jiDvi'it\ 
Anduvpr worklioiiHi', Iiutc licen co^.'•t^Hnl^ 
liiiiiuiT, to t^aw the Iwnos of \ianvs o.w\ o 
wlik'ti tlioy witre ciii|iIoyi-(l to cnuli, in tinl 
tliu xniiK- ; iinil wlicrcnw, »ui'h bom's In^iil' in 
for liiiiiiiin «iiu»iiii|itiun, yoiir wtitl Pt_... 
tlmt J\ fiirtlicr nvimiiic m' tlint fximlient 



i.a 1 



am [tiil.v 
ViTy^Ci 

.li?.vl. 
l'»*\ t<' 
tllf Mi 



, Ml liin sniil Pouiity ami elwivlu'ri', 
<pf ["itatn-im-liiijta anil liiniiij-i'iiids 
n niKl uist awiv, of wlii.-li tin ' 
u-ini'lings Y'liir ('ftiliuiuTH woiili 



< liitiiihly rpiiuvt tliiil y 
in KUt'h mrtimiT n* v>n 

.iiil Am of tlip I- 



! «niiiis III 



ity iif till' «iiwii-n iif 

tiiFiirc I'tmHiiiiiL-d l>y 

»].H nnil |>iH'liii|!!< I'lLst 

, - , i niid allrithil bi iliL' 

(if V.Mir 1'i'ljli.iiirrt, t4int tlipir bulii-N iiiiiv lift 
Mi'tiiiiKsl liy a 1i^ili-r Aii'l Iphk niixioiiH kind iif'i>tlH! 
tlinii wYvvt they tiiLVv bwn rtiliiri-il tn ili'vimi-. For 
Yuiir I'i'tilinnert ofmiire yoii thiit thi'y woiikl fnin 
jmiiiilii r.f ilin r-'f'iM' iif the kitrhi'ii, iiiul of the gnuii 
"III .'I iiii' v.:\,. .kliinvtnill llOFlU. 

ill ■■ I i! ■ I' I-, :i-< hy UiPir rhitnlnin liiiichl, and 

■ullmTiiniy, to'.'' 
■(.\ ./.ii','..r' ;/.c ••■■irU nii'l other t'"jnaturt» of the 




I- I liinuiimljli 



A PASSAGE OF ARMS. ^ 

Hnhiiit»*tr. " 'Air 'b tkri DKr, Sis !" 

ViDlotiirr {irhn kiwirii ••■hiil'ii rmiiin-jX "I UKK IT Dry;" 
l!-inlitufr {i<Jter mrh.lr, ifj<iui tidmouiimj to the iittoek). " 

PoiTHfv, Sm ." 
Cv»iotner {»Ul Mulioutly rriiriii'j). " Va-ar, I PRKrEK it P 

[V.:m.!.1ii:.— r«;.S3,ftl7.M AuailaHl <jife. 

t7 ^ 




The first wnrk Richard Doyle did for Punch ^vas a series of 
comic borders for the Christmas number of 1843, Hood's " Song 
of tlie Shirt "* was enclosed in one of these designs. "BROWN, 
His first cartoon appeared in March, 1844, and after JONES, AND 
that came his four great successes, "Brown, Jones, ROBrNSON." 
and fiobinson," " Mr. Pips his Diary," a specimen of which is given 
on page 71, "Bird's-eye Views of English Society," and "Ye 
Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe." Until 1849, Doyle \vas a 
constant contributor to Ptiiicli, and then, when the paper assumed 
an attitude of violent and contemptuous opposition to " Papal 
aggression," Doyle (who was a devout Roman Catholic) felt com- 
pelled to withdraw, Mr. Spielniami in his " History of Punch" 
gives a full account of the incident, which we cannot do better 
than quote : — 

"Anterior lo this, Etoylc liad remonstr.ilcd. but had been reminded 
tl1.1t liu liiinscK had b«cn permitted to caricature Exeter Halt and all its 
wayK,K<) Ihat lie could not cuinplaiii if Ihe tables were lurned upon his oivn 
p.irly. lerrold and Tliackcray, says Mr. Evcrilt, sought to dissuade liim, in 
vain. 'Look at "The Times,"' Ihey argued ; 'its language lias been most 
violent, but Itie Citholic ivrili-rs on its SlaS do not, for Ihat reason, resign. 
They understand, and the world at lar^e understands, that the individual 
contributor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by other 
(.-onlribulori in articles with which Ihcy have nothing lo do,' ' That is all 
very well in "The Times," "was Doyle's answer, 'but not in pHncft. For "The 
Times" is a monarchy [I believe these were his very words], whereas PHiirft 
is a republic' So. when a week or so iaier, an article, attributed lo Jerrotd 
himself, jecringly advised the Pope to 'feud his floch on the wafer of Ihc 
Vatican,' it was loo much for Doyle. ■ . . So he wrote lo resign his 
connection with Punch, staging his reasons plainly and simply.' 

"Bui when Doyle resigned, for reasons wltich earned him tlie respect o( 
all who beard of them, it was not realised liow strong was Ihe under- 
current of feeling within the Piiiick olTice. It is true that at the tx>ltnni of 
what I may call the ' Punch Aggression ' were Jenold and the proprietors ; 
and that the onslaught of Ilia one, with Ihe encouragement of the others, so 
profoundly wounded Doyle as lo foi'ce him into sacrificing lucrative employ- 
ment, and condemning him in the result to a life of toil. But for once in 
his career Uoyle was guilty of behaviour which, if not inexcusable in the 
circumstances, was certainly indefensible. He left the paper in Ihc lurch. 
His letter of resignation was sent in on November 17, lie having allowed 
the Editor In Ihink that Ihe blocks for the .\lmanac. already overdue, had all 
been complclcd ; and wlien it was discovered that they haid not t)een done, 
and that nothing was lorlhcoiniiig, conslcrnalion reigned in the oflicc. No 
<[oubt Ihe revenge wa^ sweet, but it was ill-judged ; for while no Catholic 
member of the Slaff lias ever raised his voice in its juslitication, Doyle's 
conduct served hut lo increase the biltemess of the anti-Catholic fc-eling in 
Pnnch's Cabinet, and perhaps to produce attacks more intemperate than any 
Ihat had gone l)cfore. And, moreover, it rendered more difficult the position 

oi iilhers of the Fiaine faith w ho became mcmhcrs of the Slaff." 

•iW :b .K*ri 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHAEIVARI. 



BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON.— THE RIOINChSCHOOL. 

_JL!!\ JRioiHcHouie 




E TnK gWP OF TIIB LESSON 

"Uu liltkam Aiilf.' I 




What traveller can help sviiipatiiisiiij; with the imlc Abcrtloriiaii 
of our piutiuc, whose ^,'■'""-'1 ■'' "'"-' ^™^ ^<^ another, many i)f us 
have (elt iiichnecUopUiy ? Who, also, can iiclp wishing «a GAME TWO 
to know whether or not his^ame proved a paying one ? TWO CAN 
Proluibly it did not, for niiKvay ofticials are neither PLAY AT. 
people with whom it is prolitahle to play, nor possessed of a keen 
sense of himionr when a joke is made against tlieni, which, after 
all, is but to siy that they are liiinian. 

If a man were asked to-day whether he wished to aviid being 
strangled, a polite stare of surprise would probably be the aiu'wer, 
bnt it was pertinent enough in 1S56, when the crime ot „ qq you WISH 
garrotting was by no means nnconimon, when it was TO AVOID 
not only nervous old ladies and womanly old gentlemen BEING 
who dreaded a walk home on a d;irk night, unaccom- STRANGLED?' 
panied and nngiiarded. At other periods this crime became so 
common that it might almost be said that London was under a rule 
of terror, and loud was the outcrj' against the |X)lice authorities, 
whose laxity permitted outrage to run rampant. Stern measures 
were taken, and criminals caught red-handed at their nefaiions 
work received heavy pimishment ; as soon as it was found that the 
g;ime was not worth the candle, the game was given u|i — and 
Mr. Piiiuii's Patent was not needed. The advent of the electric 
light and the general improvement in the police force have done 
much to lessen tlie number of what we mav call street crimes of 
brutality ; education, loo, lias probably done its share, lint even 
to-day the " hooligan " gangs, who make terrible the streets of some 
of the lower quarters of London, show that there is no little room 
for improvement. Possibly some d.'iy "blackguard'' will be an 
obsolete word." "The Centurv Dielionarv" gives a curious piece 
of information on this subject ;— 

'-TliUeriini.' is usu.illv vfu-ctiil l>v nirei: nccoitipliccs. c:in<-(l in l^ii^Liiid 
the /vi\-i!.ill. irc man wli.) w.ilka bvfijre tiiL- iiilciKlcd viuiini : Uie hMl;-!.,:!, 
wliu walks tidiind 1I11: npcrnt»r aiiil hHvielim; andllH'iiiis/i iimii. itiu ^icLiial 
pL-rpclratur I'l llic ciiuic. The jnirp'isu i^i the sL:ll]^i is lu •:oii<.v.il Ihu crliiii.-, 
HivL" alarm c)f ilaiigtr, cnrry iiff ilu luxily, an<l facililrne llic f-L^pu <jf ttii; 



PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. 




A GAME TWO CAN PLAY AT. 

fliumHto E.ve!tetl Paueayfr at the EdMaitjh Station, jutt ai the Train U Sttirtiwj). "Yb'rb too Latb, Sir. Ve 
Stalirart Abtnionlim. ''A' hadh !" GHard(holdinij kimback). "Ye can.na 1" 

AlrriiloiiiiiH. " TetA. YB a' maun — a' weel !" {Gripping Gii/rnL) "Ip a' hadnma, ye hamna ! ! ! " 

,/««f 111, 1N71.- T-„;, un, ji 23a.] 



filri Kant.] 
Emter." 



iAi.i 



T.] 



DO YOU WISH TO AVOID BEING 
STRANGLED ! I 

.7. ii-'A- y«L III, ).. ll'R) try '?J/ft(rt ^tMI -i Oiciill. 



WHITE, CHOKER, AND CO. 




Jy xo, U^ oil]' Piitcnt AntigiuDlle Collnr, wliidi cnn,bleK Gentlciiicn In 
walk llii' siiTPis of London in i>eif(^;l •^feiy iit nJl lionis i>( tlii; iliiy oi 

THESE UNIQUE ARTICLES OF DRESS 

Air iim-\r In incM-inc, lit tlie lianlcst slocl, anil are uiiiniiitol Id 



Elef^nntly Studded with the Sharpest Spikes, 

TliHs I (iiiiliiniiij; " riin.-'l wc^^rcAe nppeftinnee willi ])fr((\'t proUsA 





VISITING 
GRAND- 
MAMMA.'- 



Ol liirciKii rulci-s no one is infcicslinj; tor so many reasons to tiie 
British piruplc us thu Gcnnaii Emperor. Hi; is not only in himself 
a striking (igurc, a man uf boundless eneigy and of 
keen intellect, tiut he is lied by rekilionship o( an inti- 
mate character to our Sovereign, and the fortinies of 
Britain and Germany are in many parts of the world in intimate 
connection. The cartoon shows that Mr. Punch hkes the Empenn 
well enough to indulge in a friendly jest at Ihe naval linger of thu 
" mailed list." The following quotation from a leader in " The 
Times." of August 3, 1889, is of no little interest ; — 

'■ VotL-itlay llie Gentian Emjieror arrived at Spillicad, estoilcd I'y ;i 
t>qii:iJi'un of Ilia uwn war vessels. He Is now at Osborne, paying his luii^- 
prumi!i<Kl visil lo his grandmother, Queuii Vicloria, and to-day, ycLonipaim:U 
by Ihe Prinec uf Wales, he will inapect the innst powerful Heel that lias ovci 
been brought tt^clhcr. The uiTaiiiinous wish ot llie country a to offer our 
Irapcrial gucal a respectful and ;i hearty welcome. We regret Ihat his vibit 
IS lo be short and mi partial, and that, not to speak of the great homes ot i>ur 
niduslry in the Noith :ind in the Midlands, the Emperor is not lo visit etun 
London. However, there are obvious reasuuswhyat the fag end of Ihe 
season such a visit should not tx: paid, and we must content ourselves with 
the i-elktlioii lltnt Iterliii is not far away, and tliat there will be plenty of 
other opportunities for Ihe iiihabilantK of thiscapitat to welcome theQuet.-nV 
f!miid»on Intu llieir midst. It is naturally as the Queen's grandHiii thai we 
tliiiik of hiiii first of all— as Ihe Queen's grandson, and as the son of llic 
heroic l£mpcror Frederick and of our own Princess Koyal. In this |iersiiiial 
aspcd we consider him in a large measure to belong lo us, and England 
claims to take a special interest in Ihe head of the German race. But. at 
the same time, this pcnonal and sentimenlal aspect of the matter is, of 
eoui>e,m:condai'y. Wc receive the Emperor not only as the kinsman of oui 
own Kiiyal House, but as tlie ruler of the most powerful o( Continental 
Empires, and as tlte head of a kindred race. To what destiny he may he 
called, and Germany with hini, no man ean say ; but assuredly there is 
siimetiiing mil less than tremendous in the positioii whieh he octupies. The 
fealuie of it which strikes all the world, and which is si) prominent that it 
i- ihilieuli to see (lermaiiy in any other light, i» its enormous niiliiary 
-! luii^'lh. and the dilVicully of wielding that strength with wisdom and sueecr-.i 
l.iiiit Sali.-ilinrv has lately s)Miben i[i grave and iniprciisive languagL- cil 
tiiis aspect of the Conlinenlal situaliim, and has cnlarKed upon the feinlut 
rcspoiisiMlitv which ill these davs of universal iinn.iments lie.s upon tiu- 
ruk-rs of Continental SLites. Of these rulers it is the Emperor William 1 1 
whci holds the most diflicull positiiMi ; geogiaphieally he is the very eeture 
oi Kurope, with (;reat nations on either side Of him inspired hy mi friendlv 
leelings towards him or lowaixts his jieople. A false step, as he and ln> 
advisers well kciow, might bring at>out a coalition iil these>two nations 
against him, and to meet Iliis contingency he has at all hazards to preserve 
that league •>{ [H.'.'ive wliidi has licen Ihe crowning achievement of Princi; 
,li-inarck I'lie hope of every lover of peace — that is to say, of everj'une 
who has an understanding of what a European war :it tlie present lime 
would really mean— is tli.ll Ihe limperor may succeed in huldinj; liis alliLS 
tngclher ; for on Ihi-. depends the piuifress of EiiiupL-- may we \wl ^av (Im- 
.-aieiv of huiiiaiiity ' -for this gcnciali-.u." 



PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHAllIVAEI. 




VISITING GRANDMAMMA. 



[Sir Sir John Tanlil, 



Gbaxiima Victoria. "NOW, WILLIF, IJKAR, YOU'VE PLKNTY OF SOLDI KHS AT HOME; LOOK AT THESE 
PRETTY Sllirs.-l-Hi SURE YOU'LL BE PLEASED WITH THEM!' 

{Avgunl X ims.- Vol. ^7. p. r.f^ 1 




■■ HORSEY." 



TuacliiiiR the yomif; idea how lo ride is a favourite occupation 

willi country fathers, and not ficUlimi tlm ymini^ idea li;is :i very 

considerable opinion of his own knowledge of things 

horsey, which opinion is not always jtistiliable. Charles 

Kecne, in the picture on the opposite [xige, nuikes jiood fun of 

snclt yonngslers, and, what is more important, makes a very pretty 

piLtnre of the little gentleman on his new horse. 



This is rij^htly one of the most popular of all llie jokes liy 
George dn Manrier, who was evei' ready to poke inn at Edwin and 
Angelina, his own children, so to speak ; his awn and 
cverj'tredy's feelings were wrought to a high state of _-,->. .-u ■ 
anmsement at the imaginary billings and cooings of this 
fund and foolish couple. Fond and foolish, strange that the wortls 
should so often Iw coupjed ; but the fondness of lo\ers has evei" 
seemed foolish to those not themselves in love. It may be doubted 
if llie bilious old gentleman in our picture ever were in love ! 

(lilbert Arthur a Beckett did much good work for Pu/n/f. "he 
was," says Mr. Spiehnann, "a happy parodist, and a very iieiit and 
smart versifier .... imequalled in the wildly absurd 
yet laughable vein of his bogus advertisements." A 
portion of one of these is given on the opposite and 
following pages, and will be acknowledged as a capital skit on the 
quack medicine advertisements of the day, with their abmidiuit 
promises, their exlravagant testimonials. If only those promises 
we e fulfilled, doctoi^s would quickly retire to the workhouse, and all 
the world would become a happy land wftere illness would be un- 
known. But "Sell Universalis" not only cures every ill that weak 
ilesh is heir to, but kilts a number of other troubles, even being 
useful for such domestic purpos.s as polishing the furniture and 
brightening up the lire-irons. Doubtless the startling statemenis of 
this advertisenient are as truthful as those of — many another. 

Of Gilbert Arthur a Beckett's other contributions to Punch all 
were clever and >mart, (hough he did very few "series," and must 
be considered rather as a general handy man, ever ready with a 



OUR 

ADVERTISERS.- 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHAItlVAltl. 




Littk AljW-l \ 

TOO TUIOK IN Till 



OUR aOVERTISERS. 
THEIR LATEST BOON. 

SELL CNIVEKSALI^ in a. Kturtlinj;, 
t^lecintyJiiM, llin-h-luruiinu. piialypliiK. 
--lupillfiDL' nn^l ■porkUni' Inlailrnnl. 

<KLL UNIVKIttiALIS nmy 1» Ukcn 

~ i™;lym.™-.wjt_bTX..fL.otiii,|.iinlry«Jlko 



mcLi. 



IMHilU^.aif. - I'rufiWr 

[■Eii UJWHU.S., At, I'libliu 
Mid Uiilluna I'.itcntii rufllOK Ah-i>- 
rit*Bi- 1 1iBV« mailt ii mtrlul 
KTVurikl SHI lad liolllca ot tlila UDt>|Uo 



';oDtuin In bvlty mnKlo teiupiHiDfuJ 'nli Hie 

imgne. Ovu pouiuU ot pork cbop^ n (ilnl of 
IraiD oil. >L iioDtil lobator: a pat at bonn' 
UituHi nnii VJuciivDt.artha best bml-Uwk- 
IT1II and 'ioit'bi-i-uir ' le -ulvtiiDtlkllv correct. 

oTD [iatH'n'1, bul II I llnil my pradtrB Inuoa- 

SELL UfrfVEBSALlSlmitBnlly tiirei 
luinhejo tooihntlii-. Uoyfoicr, nattle- 
msh BlnuKcrH i'leiihai]lia«;i.unil many ottior 
ardln«.rv autv^ty ilfsoriliTrt. 

ELL UNTVERSALIS.^"A"fHUOT- 

FUi (JOUNTBy l.'LEririy)iAN"«rilini-— 
"1 hiLVflalIi>n hiul one lox m IhoiinLve. on Ihi} 
oocti-rtDDa 00 wblrb I liovi- bi'sn aubject la (uc- 
cesilve altnrkii ol lumbnifo. toothonbe, hky- 
tcvor. OEtllunuh, itnKKvrii. elopluDtiuii, nad 
Dinny othiT ordiurf nuni-ry ilt«rden,but I 

abolllp uf Ki 

fonlilrd-lnwly to<li 




Edlrili i^lll/'Ulllil, 



FOND AND FOOLISH. 

■i/ViT a hug pauM) " Darlimo ! " A 

1. Dahliho. Ouhr Da H una, Darlifco!" 



bright pamKrapIi, a smail verse, or a good idea (or a cartoon, 
Amon^ otlitr suggi;slioiis--an(l the most useful — was that for 
the cartoon "Dropping the Pilot."" "The subject, it may be 
stated, was not a suggestion made at tiie Table," we read in Mr. 
Spielmanii's " History of Punch," "but it was handed in (lom llie 
lale Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, wlio wa.s too ill to attend the Dinner 
— (he died very soon after) — and who thus, as so many other I'liiuh 
cunlrihiitors have done — Thomas Hoofl, Artenuis Ward, Leech, 
(iilbert Abbott a Beckett, Charles Bennett, and others — sent in 
one of the most valuable of all his suggestions just as his career 
was drawing to its close." 




The pleasures of housekeeping are almost innumerable : paying 
rent, paying rates, paying bills, or leaving them unpaid, having the 
drains " looked to," engaging servants and wishing - PLEASURES 
they were not a neccss;iry nuisance, spring-cleaning, OF 
makingboth ends nieet,havingan "at home "day, having HOUSEKEEPING." 
the boys home for the hoHdays — tins list is incomplete, but sugges- 
tive, and will perhaps incite some philosopher in search of a subject 
for his philosophy to devote his Liboiir hours to a work {it would have 
to be in several volumes) upon the " Pleasures of Housekeeping," 
The writer's chief dilliculty will be to make a judicious selection 
from llie vast amount of material at his disposal, and it will be no 
easy task for him to separate fact from fiction. However, if he 
will hut turn to the [xiges of " The First Fifty Yeai-s oi I'uiuii." he 
will obtain valuable assistance. He will find in Mr. Briggs a 
character worthy of the most serious study, and in his misfortunes 
aiscl misliajis food for endless reflection. At first sight the 
particular event depleted upon the opposite jiage calls up a smile 
at Mr. Briggs' expense, but second sight chases away that smile, a 
sigh rises to the lips, and one cannot but remember with a shudder 
the days when one's roof had it.s loose slates put in order, and 
the distracting noise of the eager British workman drove us to such 
frenzy that we feared that we, too, would soon have a tile loose. 





FLL UNIVEIl!<AI,iS, adiiii 



^KLL UNIVKKSALIS.- 



.>; Kit. ... 

neli--. ntMl ni 



-Havii 



„ lincl ~ 
jHlrli 






n wonderful Itmin iiml NiTve To 



'limiH vith a 

ilb thD pinvrul inliinrlinn that 

_„-.-tl>oyiTOu(dl(v.-.' Bylhi'lnh 

wlioluuiirhlDf thcT 
L-II3.I inti yini run of Ihii : but, for 
nnd ndilriHH." 

UNIVEKSALFK .-. .. »»».».... ....... .«». .,.:..<: .....», 

v\y rcvlvlCylni; the ■■lintliTi'd ikjviT" iiC Ibc cli-^hrarlmrd uiil 
rnir-iiiieil niiTory ninn. ^ 

Ukl-L I'NIVBHSALIS;— "A Cumiso Siiakbfbai,k" writw:- 

O "FoTyrara I Iiii\i> hivn wriiinit Cliri'lmiw I'nDioinlinc. lill. wiiT 
.i.u.itnir vfth liny Mnniuii-incnl wtlllnB to iirmluro ilirni. I fuuiiA iit 

.. ...i_.._ . — iio w:ittliiH pnnliirtiiHi. I thPD (oiik 

(HALIS, wnk'h miiM hnvcpli^riiliny 

torlhr CInimanil irinHiniwtcr of n 

fttuly onvptHl: iind Ihouitli I bwte 

not ypt Ih'i'D paiil [or tt, itnil, iivlnii to ihc fvl that thr Inivrlllnft roni- 

Iinny.lietniiuliriiyion l1iomim>.Ui'<>nlinuanyrhnii|(lnull<iwIdn>«.ver>' 

[irolKiWy orviT Hhall In-, 'till, im I iim lold 'It tniou witli ii tikit" i-very 



turlwro 



-thirty li 



litiht. 1 






KLLCNlVKRfJALIS. if II 



KL[- UNIVKRSALI.S 



•> till- li«ii<l will, ill twi'Tity- 



CKLI, IINIVKHSAMS nmy Ik- niwl ...i lliciuvHJii! Caimrj-. 

SEIJi" liNlVKRSALIS nuiy U- h'IjihI hi. hs » i/,..,;„-jhhi rlfiv- 
ii>, r.,rmi.,.. i:..-h;.n,r 
(i ELL UNIVERMALIH nHbuN a. nrfrrvliin^ Ix-vtijimi in (lii.< liist 

ELL rMVEHSALlS will in ^ilTpi'obalHUly give u lustre to 




■■ PROXY." 



Tlic |iictiirt tin the riL-xl pajic yivcs nit 

i)f the lllu^t cliiU-niiiiK "f tlio cliildici 

wliaiii (hi Miiiiricr drcv, witli the 

sitiiic lidclily and felicity which 

char;icterii!cd his woiiicii. I'crhaps dii 

Miiiiiier's only offence against tlic f;iii- sex 

Il.1% i)ei.'ii pointed out by Mr. Spiehnann : — 

Hut, in spilf of all this btauly, surely liis misrepresent 

l.iUiiii iif lll;it divimly — (lie Amcricaii Uiil — is twyoiid nil lin|K' 

»f p^ii'dijii, iKyiiiul cnnlritioii, beyond .ill |M:nan(M:. He (Iocs full 

iniliLT In lier I'ci'iiiL.'d nml splendid loveliness and her mngniliixiil 

; hilt he seems In regard litr, if one may say so, as a sort nf 

V--»-n ll;ill-Subieripli(in-Danc(: younj; lady, a little more aulrcc 

■ — ■ ine bjll-ruom Ihal Englrsli 



" prelly 



iiunLl."(nii.x bouquets); 

without a sense of ititvard salUf action, that she ii 
y " ; '•be lias :i deep though entirely a tourist's in 
[iiins, ruins, and eelcbrilio ; she has little reverence else 
... (he lieavcns above <ir the earth t>encalh ; and she dearly 
• ivcii a ioiti— or she u-iHild, if by any honourable means she i-an obtain tlie 
:hnnc«;. His AiiK-riciui H'ltli,, too, at! eoine from one and the same place ; 
all Imrn fimn iincund llii: !<amc mot lie r ; their natural eteverness 
tluriil iKiu>r:nice arc compounded in the same proportions, and, 
altogether, they are the most cbanninK and delightful libels on AmeriL-an 
y oung- woman hiH>d that well eoutd be. But is his representation of tlie 
American girl any li-ss pleasant tiiaii the common linmc-m.ide American 
view of an Ifnt^lish jleutk-man-at least. <>F an English "swell " > Not at all. 
On (Ik- tonli-ary, she is, as 1 said before, a divinity." 



Kngl.sh 



iIkv a 



Why Khiiiiltl one not eat the wrony end of a |>ieee ol asp;mi,mis, 
il one does ■■ pi-iulliir-i-r't," ;in(l c;in digest it. There 

.1 I t. I I . , " TEACH VEER 

>. ,.o ixtrt.clar teason why one shonid not. yet ,t granDMITHER.' 
leqiiires a hiavc iniiii, and llie Scots aic brave men — 
biave enoii^'h to biave a d.mHcr, luit not brave etiottyh lo own Iho 
iyniiraiiee lliat niadc them brave it. 



Anytiei;, Wellerisins in French. Which makes one wonder 
how anyone ever translated "Pickwick" iiitt) French! ■■ des 
Can one imagine Pickwick, and Winkle, and the WeHers, IDIOTiSMES 
and StiM,i;iiiS and ali tlie otlier wonderful old friends FRANCAIS." 
in a French yarb ? No. not even if they spoke with ■.neli aimising 
'■ idiotismes " a^ fhoac whicii we Itnd on (he opposite p:tt;e. 



PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




PROXY. i^v'^,". 

1 Maud PtEi?FiiFVTio\ I'm ao i>BKADPirLr,r Tired I can't bat irnn: to-Nioht, mi 

B RE Tl m, I TO-MORHOW !" 




DES IDIOTISMES FRANCAIS, 

Trrtfluitt fii A ngl'iif, j^u- mi Hive ilf 
MoH»iri(r Ftiitriek '/•■ /'••/■■/h-'', •} la li-irieair 



Baullp ^.1 who imv^-.! hi 
Aravlp. 


lif, 


ir'i Hiii'linh'luti 


/.( 


rt>r./c"-ns the 


Ulii-c'U>lhi-.nL;iii .-aiLil to .hi 
"fV,( hie,, pi,/,'""!" 


kl 


H.U. 

h" (Vltl1l!lf.T 


Kaid u'lii'ii thcvmii :l |ii'i 




;ii 111- t.ii!. 








Nntive siii<l to tl v^K'i- 


.-.I, 








till' Siiini-li- 




st.^. 






</-- 




tlin Sfinits sniil to ihi' Iwl 




11 HillinK«Riit.-. 








—Its thr iiickp'wki'l siiiil of c1u- 


Ititiki-f'^CIri'k. 






. <l ru piff'h-" 


,;,„r"-,i>tlivSiiil..i .^ii.1 








,l.f 


•l,-"-a»)t,.r\\K 


Ml.l.^f llicnr,.i,.i.!i- Ami 







"TEACH YEER GRAN'MITHER," &c. t«'( 

En'jli^man (Jo Highland frifnsl, irhn it ox i ri»it SokII,, and "_/ii--r»t nei/un!i<l" v 

AmarariNf. "Mao! Mao !'— (!*« n irAin/K-r)— "t '- -" «■„„-.. i.'>.„ 

Mae(ici/r -' ' '— '- .. ■ - 

mHKA KEN: 

lSri,lfmbrr S\ \fm.~Tol 01, p. l.H.] 



c 



■hflll ■ I 



■ Ih.- 



!•. iiini^ i akca/ ; \^i it if iri,,K/irri — I "IP HI", Kft lii*^* 11 rt I 

'lO it not for learn, mj ani/fhimj from a "-javh of a S<i.>-o 
\, Mak, Ah PR-RtrpcDR-H-R'T ! ! * ' 



__ .. ._ ... . If, It fat* iiii',itUret ••/!•' ■■ 
— ns tlH> Tnx-rollpTtor said to tiie Tenant. 

" (."r^ uvr maimn oA jr tie mettTtii* ji. 
niah le itieil "— ns Sir Ktlwmni Ljrtton Biil«i 
Slid of tin- lloiiiwof Coiuiiions. 



100 





Mr Disraeli, or, as \vc now know liim l>ellcr, Lord Beaconsfield, 
was the ntaker of niiiny famous phrases ; but of all of them t!ie 
ht'st known and most intimately associated with his 



1 which he described the result of iiis 



' 'the pas de 
deux; '■ 



work at the Berlin Conference in 1878 — "Peace with 

In the clever cirtoon on the opposi'.e page. Sir John 

funniel has very happily hit off the situation which the appfuded 
|iiolation from "The Times," July 29, 1S78, fully dc-scrilK-s, 
iting on the banquet given to Lord Beaconsfield and Li>rd 
ailisbury by their party : — 



\Vli. 



m Itntis ot [hesellle- 

<:>Llioii of iiieHjcciihte 
been aitaiiMwl wiihoui 



;imoij)> Ihc pissibil>lii-:s 

had been wrilleii oul I 

No slarllliig iiuhicvt: 

u Umu and terribly dcilruclin ■ .1 i ninist^ wiulm h ivmim 

not have been ea\v in define. !'' .. .<'s l':>'iiL:i^r i' u I. '^ii.it 

the sober part o( the n^ilion iv^iiiv 1 ". ]' 1 ' ^ 1 nl 

said, Ihey broughi wilh il Ji"li !■ i , . . !■■ . :i,ivt 

Ijain, nor woald il be a bad in"!: .1 i.i.'ii' ' li 1 k'>.ijiiri 1 n ilio 

happii^l passage of his speech L<ii(l tK'-LLnFisnLitl ri.'li:r[cil In tlii: j^ciivnius 
siippiiii which he bad receivird truni liU liillutvei> during his laii^ pcri'iil 
fi( L-iiinniaiid, He modestly said that liu had comiuitlcd ininy iiii^iLike^, 
.ind thai lie was indebted 'for his position less lo his pei-sonal qualilies 
ihjii Id tlic kindness and the indulgence iif hit parly. That ii not snob a 
rcailin^i oi his career .i^i tvill CLiininend ilH.-tl lu uny calm onlooker. That 
ihe counlrv };cnt1cTiK-ii cif |'^i[;l,inil h.tvi^ Iil'l'ii khid and indul|rei]| m^v h^ 
taken f<ir (jninltd, l>ijt .Mi, Disr.it-li inMiltl L.ivi.' sron ceased lo he iheir 
:i;:nlt-r, and lie would mwr li.ivc l'fL.-.->itio t."!".! IkMcnn^t^eld, if lie had mil 
ilb soni 



I.SU nptil. 
uIl- oul li 



-II the 



:nllL-.iau.-. 



L-d 



had I 



1 lh.11 ha:i lalleii Iron) hnii thri)iigni)ut hii laicci. 
Bui Lord Beaconsfield has ilisplayed oilier muI greater ijualilies even iti.iu 
public generosity. He has evinced Ihe patience under dcfe.-it whiili iv.n 
indispensable to Ihe leader o( the Conservative p;irly in ils dreary year-. r,i 
wailing, the sagacity which anticipated the liesi means of reviv.il, llie 
t>aldiiess which seized such vveapons as were supposed lu be Ihe esvlusive 
property of Ihe Liberals, the readiness of rcloil, Ihe wit, Ihe humour, and 
Ihe eluquence which inade liiin no unworthy competitor of consummate 
debaters and orators." 




LORD BEACONSFIELD IN "PUNCH." 

(A> Sir JthH Tnniil. R. DmIi. J. Jjah. C. K^«r. I~ Samieiiriii: an, 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. 



■Vn^\%^^ 



%Vav^- 




[Sil Sir John Tmilt. ] 



THE "PAS DE DEUX!* 



{From the "Scem: iin Triomphe" in the Gkand Anulo-Tl-bkish Ballet d'Actios.) 
*«s.ieft.-rt:.TO,p.a] 



One citniiot but syiiijialhisu witli tlit; irrilahiiily of llii; siiort- 
tumpercd old lady, foi' tmdcsci'vud niisfui'tunes arc apt to iiiakt: iis 
look round for soiiicoiiu on wliuin to vt;iit our ill-temper, ■■ THAT NASTY 
even — i( fute so decrees it — upon the good Siiniaritaa ORANGE- 
wlio comes to our aid. And good S;miaritans sometimes PEEL! 
have a» extremely iiifclieitoiis \iaj' of expressing themselves, as in 
tlie instance we are discussing ; for it is faiily obvious that the old 
lady has had a fall, the pain of which will not Ix; assuaged by the: 
deliglit of the urchins iji tht: background. London is full of pit- 
falls, not the least danger. ms made by the thoughtless who scatter 
orange-peel abroad, but who, alas, seldom slip on it themselves. 




Tht Ynj Ra. Dtan RtjHulii U -It 

{Frim a fkflo. h Ljildtll Samyi' . 

Jjo, Ritntl Slrtfl, W.} 



cciiunt of Dean Hole's 



li diiU 



Here is Mr. Spielniann's 
with Punch : — 

" The Very Rev. RcyiwUls Il..Ii; I)c;in -if Koclieatcr, always a sj". 
of I'liiicli's.and the inliinale friend iil Leech, tvna more iif :i rumi iii 
most contributors, as he was one of the very few oulsideis nhu were evei 
enlenained at llie Wednesday Dinner. 'Some si\.and- thirty years ami,' he 
informed ine, ' Mark Lemon wrote to me, " I'limli is proud of ^uct) a contri- 
butor," and I Ii3ve tiis letter. I wrote a few short paraKraphn about Oxfuril. 
and some longer articles in verse, entitled '-.V Sportsman's Dream in 
September " and " My Butler." Leech (old me, " You arc an honorary 
, member of oui- weekly ineelings. and will t>e always welcome."' His 

(.harming book, 'A Little Tuui in Ireland,' written 'by an O.\oninn.' had 
the advantage of Leech's pencil, and by his friendship with llial ariiM, a> 
well as with Thackeray and others of the St^ff, be ivas for a time idcniiiicd 
in some measure wilti I'uucli ilself." 
Dean Hole has himself recoided in his "Memories" his 
impressiot)s of that famous dinner of February 15, i860. To Mi. 
Spielinann, also, he gave an idi^a of the effect wrought upon hhn 
by the frolic of the meal — where, if not at a Punch dinner, should 
wits highly frolic ? — an inipressicm certainly not dimmed by lime 
or faded iu his imagination. He says ; — 

"There W3« sncii .\ LlLi.h aiul Klillei ul sharp-cd)Jcd swordi.. cir.linn 
humour, and pointed nil llo ^.iiy imlhinj; of Ihc knives and forks), the sidliea 
iif the cunibaliiiils \» ere so ini.L-.aant and intermixed, the field of liattic m> 
cnvel'ipeil in stH.it.. (hit MiL-rt- w;i. nnlv a kaleidoseiipic confusiiin of 



Tite Dean's verses, "A Sportsman's 
for themselves 011 the opposite page. 




"THAT NASTY ORANGE-PEEL 1" 

( Did HeiitUaiaii. {i-Kthiimtoher anxataHce). "I'H akraib, Ma'am, You'vk 



ijiertil Old Latly (jtiuippiMi)). 



, ._„ Old Stop I" 

[lit hflpi her v,]i, uitd m/ites off'hatiily. 



A SPORTSMAN'S DREAM IN SEPTEMBER. 

Ififirmi'cr.-st. la.-^.-ruy. ;i,-i. ,,. il''j.] [Bh D,mi im- i 

T/if Ih-fiiiifr If IS h'ld a bi'j d-iti nmniiij the Piirtriihjet, hnn aid,- 

aei/neiilfi/ 'iiaiifttl at a tUliiflil/iil Jliiiiier-jxirtji Qiet, *he ivav 

lhrre\ •iiid vllitoiite/i/ eoiicliulnl leil/i " mthfr-ii-lniije-nnr' 

ilw''ijli-l'!/-Joet-old-feiliiiF," and Kinaiian')* LI,, i'l the Siuatf- 

All, Ihnsi- iipiii:liw." Royal Geoi'gi>s,''Iiow tin- jiiii-enmsilown my tliiii I— 
Ker[K'v, kif|)ei', oil I'niifnuiiil itj H'liUtlo timl iiiml Juno in ! — 
! " iiii-oiisUiiil," 1 '■ ili-ceitdil," — nay, then, Knmi, lirar nic swcnr, 
Tliiit, if ever man sjaiku tiul^— I 'in uonvii)ml I liit tliftt Iiiliy?. 
"Dante witli Alice," "flirt with Julia." Woll, (inliftn-s y"i' H Ifi 

Wlivyoii itniUhi't, wJicii i OKkodynii— just tpt tliat rolricvcr^o.-- 
U'il) yuii iilwitys misinterpret? will yoii never, never learn 
To iisseiit, nhen 1 cntrcnt yon— luoli at Saiiclio'M linul ami stern ! 
Yi.'K, tluit ven'soii enriiod the brn'son, nhii-li the good An-h<li-a<^oii >:u<l : 
Qranil the fat, and liot the French Imvns— I felt Niirctlinthinl w.isilcad, 
For I saw tin- second liarrel stiike, iw o'ei' the fence lie Hiiv— 
And njy heart, my hairt is hreakini^, Kdith, dirliii^', nil frir ymi. 
WIhi 's tliat fi^ of a. Jiistiie, with tlie ivjnp-jn;,'s at liis Mr, 
JjnviiiK down tJie law o( tri"s|Biss /mm Ukk'n MtiffUlftid Ihiid. - 
Tliat 'x ri;rht, Keejier, jihi miul litk liiin. W'ai-e hiire, I'onl*j ! 1 '-inw, lir : 
And give me to drink, TlTI.vIU^<, for Tin most ninnzin}; dry '. 
"The Laiiii-s !" ny, with nil my liern-t, and luiiv tlioy ever find — 
Thi«e runners in the tmiii])s ivc iilwavs leave liehiiid — 
May tlicir )iat]| lie lliroiij^h deep stiibfilei, may they neVr \f paii^-Iit 

hy siiaivK, 
Nor led iiway lij kirks, iHit make llieir ileven".t iimnts nt Ht'in*. 
" Clari't !" No, llionk yon ! just one class of sherry, and no more, 
For I heaiil " Ah,efif in Morlr," when thcbitller oiicd the cloor, j 

And I love tlinse sinein^ daniseis. Wliat a covey '. how we 'U try 
To get round tlieiii, if we i-an, Iwys, tlio' ttiey 're very wild and sliy. 



I.ivt, tlip Ajititmii of Bertkovbn— (steady. Carlo !) cUima a tear, 
; Kor it t*'lls of bisiiity nei'tsheil, and of Kamens rlank and sere, 
' { If Miinruer days de|'nrt«l, of death ainonR Uie flowers— 

.Mark him, iiniymiirk him, Kce|>er, for I '11 bet live pound* he towers. 
' Now, who 's that lienxt wjtli hiaek iiioiistaclies, tuid wliat has he to say 
i To KmTH, 1 shouki like to know, in tliat obnoxious vray ) 

SlieHiniles! Ali,ven^'eani'e! 1 'II l)ln3f wliiatallnit,'ht,andnoverwed— 
' This sbootint; hird" is skiffiHti work, / II alioot at men, instead. 
No, 1 won't |ilav whist, 1 11 flirt witli Kate, and let that false one see 
What n most rt'ii<liv-ioiis i-niel thorn has nin into my knee— 
And I 'II laiiKli my very linHiest, for I do not tare a pin— 
, There, Ke<'i>er, senit tliat Juno boiiie ; she '.s always running in. 
" IVA«i'« llif tantter?" Sintplv, Edith, that I wiiili tliat I was dead t 
" yV;wi/ / ■' I st-orii siitli iion«eni.e ; I decline to " go to bed." 
And iis for tliat Skye terriei' vou 've mode so creat a pot— 
t), Ponto, when I CTitch yon, what a licking yon will cet ! 
What Klorinus weeils ! bow sweetiv. Ion, that dear old kettle sings, 
"Come brew yonr Irish iiitueli. l«d«, a li<iiHH- fit for Kinpt ! 
Give me a tnillun ! Iiow I thirst ; what can the matter be?" 



line I awnkc. ii 



I'll, for 






lUtpUmbtr. VUV—Vai 




Much bus alreidy bccci siiid liere of George du Maurier's work 
in "Tlie First Fifty Yciirs of Punch" but \vc cannot refrain fiimi 
quoting Mr. Spiel man ii's line appreciation of one side " MANNERS.' 
of bis work : — 

" But Mr. <tu Mauriur is ciiipli.ilii.u1ly n<rt ivli;il is lominoiily umtci>.liH>cI 
by ' a funny man,' for all liia subllcty and love of liiniioiir ; lie is u combiiia- 
lion of tlie artistic, witli a dislinci and clear sense uf beauty, and »[ lliv 
scienliRc. with speculations and theories of race and heredity — who would 
OS lief draw East-end types for llie sake of their ' character,' and would iiMik 
at a queer face more for llic interest Itiat is in it than for its coniicalily. If 
Mr. du Maurier's sense of bciiuty ii siiong, so is liis appreciation <>f 
ugliness ; and if you take down any of the volumes of Pnncli — that shine in 
their shelves like the teeth in the threat laughin)' mouth of Humour itself— 
you will find no faces or forms more hideous or grotesque Ihati ttiosu wliicli 
the artist has chOM:n to put there. 

" But if there iii one thing to justify the opinion of his admirers. I liat he is 
the 'Thackeray of the pencil,' it is primarily to be found, not so much in the 
keen satire of his drawin}< and legends, but in tiis startling, liis strikingly 
truthful creations. Creations we have had from Leech, Kecnc, and others — 
from Leech's pure sense of fun and jollity ; From Keene's unerring 
observation of men and women, and Heeling einulion — but those of Mr. du 
Uaurier go deeper into vices, virtues, habits, and motives, and are at the 
root of his pictorial iximnienlaries. He has given us true pictures of the 
manners of his time ; ;>nd those m iiiiuts he h.is satirised wilh more politi; 
ness and Irony, perhaps, than broad liumour. He worked well with Iveeiie 
iii double harness, and his pictures are at once a foil and a coinplimcat >A 
ttiat genius's work and point de viiir. He has satirised everything, and his 
art has been admirably adapted to the depth of the civilisation he probes and 
dissects. His sense of beauty and tenderness apart, he is to art much what 
Corney Grain was to the stage, though his hand is not so heavy ; and while 
you laugh with Leech, you smile wilh Mr. du .Mauricr — lovingly at his chil- 
dren, replied fully ,it his preliy woineu, and saidjiiically at liis social puppets.' 



These few woitls upon words rcqitiie no further words to 
explain thein. But wc niay just say tliis much, tiiat, il •' WORDS UPON 
everybody used his words lo such good pur]>ose as WORDS." 
Mr. Piiiuli does, the world woitld be a brij,'htef. happier phice. 




In the ijitrlicrvulttnies ol "The First Fifty Years of I'liii 
Siven the never-to-be-forgotten "Curtain Lectures "of Mrs 
and liere in 1878 we have another rich joke upon the 
sainc subject. Mrs. Caudle is evidently not yet dead, 
though she hxs changed her name to Brown, and we 
can well imagine something of what will be the character of her 
discoin-sc this night. Imagine, yes ; Heaven forbid that a cnrtaii> 
lecture should ever lor its be a reality I 



" PAUCA 
VERBA.- 



PUNCH, OK THE LONDON CHABIVARI. 




Ifii' -jllv liini for i'MiinR from its iii'ttk'- 
ili|.|niiy liill— till- KOiind teeiiiiiig niUi terrar 
fiuiii till! forest'K sliiiij- rnve '. In fine, ciHild 
II ijuoie ever liavc lH*n mllpil n terjteM f at n 
»frpfnt a ijootef wc my wn'li i« tlie titneiOi uf 
the names — 111 ul it be:u so, wttli liad ever 
liiiii iiiUljik^n (i>i- thf otiier. 



THE VEHICULAR OVENS. 





:; in ihi'slihrif 






> ■■ UonveiniiKV Vo 




Init should I* ins.' 


iW. "BftkinKK 


ittteuikil to." Any 


jiie pjttinK intu 


11^' miitiivMnrpi i« 


lirrttT fiiw nf 



PAUOA VERBA. 



MANNERS. 

Mfuler Geonje (« very nawjhtij boy, la New French Nane). 

"Cakomhk, COHI'KKKNT-VUUH L'UNi;l.it]" 

Cnroline. "Now, MoNBiKtrit Gbokoeh." 
Mmla- Ceurtje. "(Juet, Dhmmaoe ■ \'\n nx Mut?" 
Caroline. "pAa UN Mot, Mobsikub Oboiwbs," 
Maiter George. " Alors iw-oBtv-uoi kks Bottes. si voiw 
PLAY, ri)u 01.11 Bbamt ! " 



iH..r. 



„. ILtl-l 



A FEVi/ WORDS UPON A FEW WORDS. 



It h 



■i. IKIZ- 



121 



. , ..—, oEtcn stnivk us tliat sai\w piirtii^iilai' wortU Ijilvc in 
tlinti' Aiund niorc iliKidcil unvent of mnvryini; to niir Houses the 
iiwnniiii; and identity of tlio thing;, for wnirti tliuv itand titan 
tuiLny oth(l^ 

Take for insrAnic tin nvoiil " iKPKAOTtaABLE — spaik it na 
yoi] will— does it not linnR in tlie rti'oni.wtl nuuiacr ila iin 
jileasant iiiranniKivitli it? n tlieiv not a Imllmnnp oninliratlnn 
in the thri" I ' ill H — ^ i Mi i t\\ I n vir Lf 

yoii conid i I I I i" ki-n 

teoamt; tl 1 

deftvoiir t I in 

tick hobUr • 1 III fi II k ( I I II I n t h II' on 
the otlier liunil dwell luu loiih md yiiii unvttv ■uuiLtluii^ of 
iinplentniit i)ednntr( to ilip e«r« of yjiir audienM it i-. a 
ffnnl well rli vten foi its iiiiriKBp— it la— it m— it la— lian^, it 1 

it IK tHPRAI^K AKI E " 

''Hii'tNT ifiiii iminir* iiioit ailnnnibh ti denote the 
wih Mil iii< 1 liitile— Ui< <S jinnmin in;., in il In-"!! ). wiind 
— theirn iittiruKPof tin riislinj; thin^ n''<'l '"^ " f'T the 
creiitnn silf hki. iiii iidmoriHirv n t t i r i f tin 
coniint, lui'tiliik ' H stmiij; inikii i \ H I ^ '^ 

hearing thatair iptitting roiui J ll ' 

tongiied monster whoso vervbn ul 
air— ftini is n coid shuketi adven I ' 

soiuid lpt UiH " Amu ° follow as t 1 I ' 

like 1 |ift"t danger how we I uith \t it— I '<^ii i i > k n uii 




Thesf bnlhids ;ire oniony Tliacki-iay's most amusing contribu- 
tions to 7'«;ji/f. It is wonderful that wliik- lie wrote -ABOWSTREET 
so uiulIi lie usually wrote so well, but evidence is here BALLAD," 
and tliere to be found that the harness yalled sometimes :— 

irof produfini' his I'limli wmk w:n nflfii iiksoiiii; ici liiu) in 
HisiDiy oi /'«M.'/i," '-uiid many a 



I. Mr. Si»c 
liiin; would In; put Miiik Lemon ojt— ii.iw, liL-L-iiiist 
Mviin vvirh liis novel t|icii in lianil lli.il lie bt-i^^L-d li. 
^tjiiiin, hei.'^iiisi: thii Mu-ic was i.i>y, and would ivi nn 
On one iKcaaion lie wrote cxplainiii;- Willi wtiut m 
■ - in liis 



well in llic 
I lo be let nff ; and, 
y aeeoinil he wooed. 
e liad been 



baltenin^ rhymes lur llirev Iioiirs in liis head, and euuld jjcl nutliini; o 
' I iniisl be^ you tn excuse me,' he iii;te[iiiiuslv added, ' for I've worked just 
.IS iiiiich fiiryouas lli<iut;h I had done somcthini;. At other limes lie would 
lueak away from Ilie company he was in, in order lo complete his regulation 
number of" cohLiiiiis. His Rodsoii, ii (norwards ihe Kev Francis Thackeray, 
has told us how Ihu ^reat man once Inok him to a conjurinj; enlertaiiimenl, 
aixl, liavihK secured him a giNKl place, explaine<l, ' Now I must leave you 
awhile, and go and make :i live-piiiuid note' And in such a tnaimer, in 
haste and with disinclination, was iitlen produced what James llannay calls 
■Ihe iiiimilaMe, wise, easy, playful, worldly, social sketch of Tliackeray.'" 
Anil surely it suddens one to recall tluit, when Thackeray had 
attained his ambition of being able to leave his children comfort- 
ably ptovlded for, the end came, and the longed-for days of leisure 



When a man is loved as well as admired by those who work 
under his commands, he is usually given a nick-name. No tiien 
are fonder than soldiers and sailors of giving fancy "'PUNCH'S' 
names to things and people, very often names of witty FANCY 
application, sometimes strikingly siitinc;il. "Bobs" PORTRAITS." 
may not be an altogether rcverenlial name to give to so exalted 
a person as a Field- Marshal, but expresses very well the kindly 
feeling of friendship and trust with which Lord Hoberts inspiies 
his troops. When time permits, and Mr. Sambourne requires a 
special uniform, he begs the War Ofticc— not uiisnccessfuliy — to 
lend him one ; perhaps p ociires Ihe loan nf the CommaHder-in- 
Chief's own raiment ! Fcir his types, tun, he lakes pains not less 
Ihoroiigh. For Britannia's helmet, he made working drawings of 
the unique Greek piece in the British Mnsenni, and from that had 
a replica constructed— one Mf Ihe nn.sl nctable items in a notable 
'■ property " roiim. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 



A BOW-STREET BALLAD; 




He nwnieil ymi at Bath's fair Hfthby, 
Paikt Bart lie li-eated like a son- 
Anil naan't it iiiicciniiiion sliabby 
To do wliat jou liave ivent & done 1 

Mv ti-einblirg And nniost rrfeww 

To wiite the dviryf, wliidi Siii Johk swore, 

Uf wJiiili the CousTiwa Im ei'iww. 
Hot' diiigi^Iittn' and lin- son in Unv. 

Mr NFeivy qiiitB lihislies ah she wngM of 
riie fiitit! clinrge ivhicli now I ijiiote: 

He .'aivM Mii« took liis two bwt nngK oil; 
And pniviieil 'ein for a teniiim note. 

" Is thli the eliild o( honest parinre, 
To inakc nwjiy with folk's best things ! 

Ir this, pray, like the ivives of Barrinn, 
To go ivnd |irig n gentletiuui's iini;!i /° 

ThiiH thought Sir John, by nriger nronght on, 
And to renenge his injured eiu\fe, 

He lu'oiiKht tliein hup to Mb. llRnuaHTON, 
Lust VcnBd»y veek ax ever waw.«. 

If L'liiltless, how filie liivve been slindei'd ! 

1( guilty, wenL-eiint* will not full ; 
Meftnwliilp, the Indy is renundprd 

And gcv tlirec hundred potins ui linil. 



Hi.'' iind waH free, his means wa.s easy, 

A nobler, finer gent tlisn be 
Ne'er drove nlxiut the Sliona-EIccsy, 

Ov |'iii;ed the Boo de Rivolce. 

oiichani and pair Sir Joi 
_ . whirh abroad be loved ti 
But nr ! be niost of all enjyed it, 
When some one hclse was sittjn' in^ide I 

Tbnt " some one helse " a lovely ihuiic was, 
Vila ladies, you will hensy tell — 

CouNTMS Gk&browhki her sweet nnnic nas 
A noble title, ard to si>cll. 

This fnynius ComiTEsa ad a (laughter 

Of lovely fonn and tender art ; 
A noblpuian in nmrridge sought her, 

By nujne the Barun op Saint Bart. 

ThHr |>:iHhn touched thi' iioblr Sir Jons, 

It was so pewor and in-ofiHuul ; 
LAnv Grabrowbki be did iir^c <in. 

With Hyining's wreeth their loves to orownd 

" f) come to IJftth, to Lansdowne Civscent," 
Siivs kind Sm .Ions, " and live with iiic ; 

Tint living lime 's iiiK-oiiinioti |ilnu<iuit— 
1 'ni sure j'ou'Il find the luiir iigrec. 

t), cnino to Bath, niy fair QHAnKonski, 
iVnd bring yoiir cliann I nL' girl," sezeo; 
rbe It.iiiKiKu here shall hnvo tlw on ^c-key, 

Vlth breakfast, dinner, lunch, and Ie:i. 

And when tliey 've passed an nppy winter, 
Tlieir oj>rs and loves no more well hiT : 
I he HHivncign-vow tliev'll enter inter. 
Anil I ut Cliurvh will be tbcir Pur.'' 

To Batli they went to Lanstlowne Cres«;n'. 

Wlieve f-iKHl Sir Jims he did piovide 
Ko end of leas, iind IkiIIs incesMint, 

And bosses Iwth to drive luid ride. 

He was so OsfdtaUy busy. 

When Miss was lale, be 'd make so bold 
Illistair.i to call out, " Miwy, Missy, 

Cotne down, ^e colly's getting eoid !" 




OENEIIAL SJIl K. ROBKKTS, H.A. 

SkK tub CO.ItHTERISO HeRO— QOBB. A I'iCTURB OF A Roi.I> 
AND A VKkr VALUAUU! SpBOtHEK OP A KoBKHTS, K.A. 

[n«iiil.f 11, ISMk-ro/ TO, p. 371.] 




Considering that there are over 1,000,000,000 passengers carried 
by the railways of the United Kingdom every year, it is astonishing 
not that so many but that so few are " returned as ■■ jhe PATENT 
killed or wounded." So much so do we feel this that, SAFETY 
as has been pointed out before now, it is not the RAILWAY 
passenger, seated at ease in his carriage, secure but not BUFFER, 
safe, who shrinks baciv as tlie express teal's through the station, but 
those waiting upon the platform. Yet, ever and again, the country 
is startled by some terrible catastrojihe, some appalling railway 
accident, which shatters life and limb, and brings mourning to 
many households. At such n time it is natuially asked : " Cannot 
such accidents be avoided ? " and " Have those in authority done- 
their utmost (o avnaid them ? " At such a time Mr, Punch produced 
the cartoon reproduced upon the opposite page, as he has so often 
done, asking a serious question in a form which catches the 
attention of every man who has a sense of humour, ft is an old- 
time saying, thai it will be well with us when travelling by rail, if 
only we can secuie that a director be in the same train as our- 
selves, for then, indeed, everything will be done by those in 
charge of it to attain to punctuality. Mr. Punch went further ; hc- 
jestingl>- jiroposed that the safety of the public should be guaran- 
teed by providing on the front of each engine a comforUible seat 
to be occupied by a "Travelling Director," even hinting that 
probably he will be an old " buffer," but conveying the stinging 
reproof to those who manage our lines, that, if they would but 
take as much care of others as they do of themselves, it would b& 
belter. The reproof, of course, was not meant to be taken 
literally, for no one for a moment imagines that real carelessness 
is shown by railway directors and managers, but only that a course 
of continual prosperity and easy running is apt to lead lo slack- 
ness, and slackness of management and discipline to disasters. 

That the dangers of railway travelling are not realised by those 
in the train reminds one rather of the old song of the sailor man, 
who, when the wind was blowing high, pitied the poor folk ashore 
amid the tumbling tiles and chimney-pots. 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHABIVAEI. 




tBn S Jolm nnnMi ] 



THE PATENT SAFETY RAILWAY BUFFER. 



IJali la. tm—rui 33 R ail 




" RESIGNATION." 



Many and great arc the joys of travelling. With what delight 
one rises on the lirst morning of the holidays, no train to catch, 
unless one wishes, no office to attend, no business to 
transact, no worrying letters to answer ; only to pack 
up one's [TOrtmanteau, put on one's summer suit and one's summer's 
;piicty, hail a cab, and be off to "fresh woods and pastures new." 
But — and was there ever any cnjoymen without a " but " ? But — 
it is our determination to go abroad, to join the noble army of 
pilgrims who desert their native knd, seeking rest and refresh- 
UK nt in foreign climes, to reach which the sea must be crossed. 
Alas, what tips and downs there are in life, worst of all arc lliosc 
with which we meet when upon the ocean. Each time we cross, 
at leiist some of us, who can make no pretence of being good 
sailors, vow by all our gods that never no more will we leave our 
own hospitable shores, yet year after ye;ir we do so, suffering 
badly at times; but not, let ns hope, quite so overcome as the poor 
man of Charles Keene's pictme. 

The two boys in this sketch are said" to be burlesques of Sir 
Robert Peel and Mr. Disraeli. As observed by Leech's best 
biographer, " his favourite method of treating official 
persons — statesmen, senators, and public characters in 
general — was to represent them as child en, as naughty 
troys or good boys with lessons to learn, and school-work to yet 
through. Some of the very best of the political cartoons of the day 
were these juvenile personations of Leech's." 

A number of really useful inventions and innovations have been 
forestaLed by Punch's pen.f In December, 1848, much 
IS made of a proposed "opera telakouplianon " — a fore- 
cast of the telephone, phonograph, and theatrophone 
combined — a thirty yeai^s' prophecy. The following year he repre- 
sented a lady listening to music by telegraph ; and the kinetoscope 
is •nly now waiting to fultil Mr. dn Manrier's forecast of many 
years ago. If Mr. Edison has not yet done quite ail that Mr. 
I'inuli foretold, is not that rather Mr. Edison's than Punch's fault ? 



THE RISING 
GENERATION.- 



THE OPERA 
TELAKOUPHANON." 




THE 

OPERA TELAKOUPHANON. 

[iV,. TO. HH.-I-..,'. l:^. y,.!T:-|.l IDiiT.wi T.'Hi.r] 
DiTH iittentioii has been direitwl ti nil 
urticU' iibiili- of Oiicta Percha, callvU tlie 
Tdnkoiiiiliikiioti, or Speaking Tniiiiiict i ton 
trivaiH'f l>i wlnrli it is stAteil, tliaC n cleipf 
iitiin linvin^ tliree livinKs iiiiglit preaLli Uil 
iinitiF wmHHi in tliree diflerentchimhesnttlie 
same tiiiw. TIuik also it woulil he in tlic 
lK>werii(MR. I.uui.Er,rlurinL;theiLppr(KuliinK 
iH^iikv liiiir,to bring lionie the Open to eviij 
Udj-"?. ilm nine- room in Lou'lon. Let hLiii 
nmsf to In- ronstnicted, at tlie Iwwk of llu 
Moiivty-- Tlientre, nn apinmtiis on tin iiii 
cijife of the Ear of DiONVSiirs, care liniiii^ 
been taken to render it a good enr for niiisir 
Next, liavin;; obtained an Act of Piilii 
rnent for tlu' piiqwse, let hin) Uiy domi ntter 
llie manner of inpes, n nnniber of TeLikoii 
pliana, eon necteil— tlie reader will pxorise tlie 
apinreiit vnluarisui — witli tliL" Eiir, and 
exlemled to theilu'diinirH of nil siii-li ns nt-iy 
In- ntliiii<; to pny for tlie lUTninnioilatioii. In 
tliin Kiiy iiur iloniestie ostAMiKJiinentii luiulit 
JK' siTviil nitli the liijuLd iioti-s of Jennv 
I.rsti ii» ensily ns they aie with sofl water, and 
ecnhl liesnpiHicd wilh music as readily a-' tliey 
eiui with giw. Then, at a mnr/e of evening 
inrtj, if A desire were expressed for a littlo 
initHH', we fihould only have to tiini on the 
Sanvtvilivla or the Pvritnm, an (he case 
misht lie ; an arrangement whirh wonid pro- 
vide lis with n delightful substitute (or a deal 
of exeerabh singing, besides being in general 
hi^'lily rondiriiT to the lutnnnny of private I 
families. 





fe Ttr. Drfuly BBtferi. 
K J. SUiukam.) 



•' ROBERT." 



" Robert, the City waiter," made his bow in 1880. " Robert's '' 
literary father is the late Mr. Deputy John T. Bedford, whose oppor- 
tunities for studying the ways of the City waiter were 
many and excellent. " My introduction to Punch," Mr. 
Bedford says, " arose from the quite accidental circumstance that 
Mr Burnand and myself were introduced at the same time, by 
Mr. F. Gordon, on the directorship of the ' Grand Hotel ' at 
Charing Cross ; and very shortly afterwards ... on the appoint- 
ment of Mr, Burnand as Mr. Tom Taylor's successor, 1 ventured 
to congratulate him, when he said to me, ' If any fun is to be found 
in the City, I shall expect you to bring it to me.' I replied that I 
bad sometimes thought that there was some to be got out of a 
City waiter, as waiters were not quite so deaf as was generally 
considered, I tried my hand, and my first attempt was very kindly 
received. . . . There is no truth in the statement that Robert was 
based upon a certain waiter. He is certainly imaginary" — a 
statement which disposes of the assertion that the celebrated old 
"Cock Tavern" has t>een famous latterly for the original of " Robert' 
in the person of its head waiter. Deputy Bedford is to be credited 
with a Large number of contributions to Punch, of ^^hich, how- 
ever, only a proportion belong to the " Rot>ert " series. " You 
will find some of them," says Mr. Bedford, " signed J. Litgue, a tiom 
lie plume that puzzled Mr. Burnand himself, until I revealed the 
secret that it was French for ' Bed-ford ' ; and he, with his 
excellent knowledge of French, was thoroughly sold." 



There is something very delightful in Keene's fancy of the old 

gentleman, who has indulged in the vagary of vegetarianism, 

1 eproaching the bull for attacking one who has ever leen 

his friend, in so far, at least, that he has not devoured ,.„„___ 

' ' ' FORGOT." 

ox-Hesh. However, no vegetarian is likely to become 

a meat-eater, even to avenge himself for benefits forgot ; benefitF, 

not unusuiUy, are forgotten, but the benefactor would be but a 

|ioor-hearted person if he ceased to pay because he was not paid 

in return. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAKI. 



NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A CITY 
WAITER. 

[Spt i. ]m>- ful. ?>, /. IPS ] 1 Bu il: nr,,ul-j J. T. Bi.lfi<riL) 




Uiat's unly 
a siixinil Iiu 



foi- 111. _ . . 

itniritliti, liiiil 110 
wi I rider, nrn one 
tliiiikH wot tliny 

llIUiIO}rOtIlI1)llL'll. 

itill Browk Nijs tliov Ijikcn tlieir Curidges witli 



11 Lont' Aker, lliat Iiis i 



ordet to poinl up A old RhpritTa Coach with lotH d red niid blue ami 
yold anil silver, and sijrawlin linns nnd thinfs, and to iniike two 
woodin bosses iw largu lat lile, ntrinin on furc wheelx, aii<l pointed 
iiite natterel, nnil thi'y wm all wilt to Afriua ao & prestmnt to one of 
lie Chirfs, who \u*d to bikvp Vtn taggrn tied to the houea to puU 
the CtMt-h nlmii;, iLnd bu iiwd to Mt on llie Box and flog 'em all the 
wuy '. 1 Kliuuun't have likMl tu linve had to wAte ou Hit Royal 

To my mind the liite of IniniAri dimiety is it fiill-hlown Matter 
Free Mawn witli his arii-on iin, and all tlir cnHinPN of his oflii'i' ! 

Many and many ;v [tite Honnorebble Qent liave 1 had the honner 
of assisting down-^Mii's wen leaving the hospitibble Board : nnd once 
a Royal PiiEsunidgc, who was liueerlileKii mth eniohliiiTii i^i'o.spnl my 
band, and shook it ! I made all my faniUy go tliiu' till: .s^iait: scrre- 
mony befoi'e 1 wosbed that uiierd hand. 

I ant sorry to see that a lot of Korren Mii!iM?nnei'ies San iiiiii over 
from France and Genitiiany to take tlir bread out of the moiitha of 
I the tine old English Waiter, tho' jireshiiN little of tliat 'Imiiiiioii M^iff 
they'd lind in mine. I wander where tliia here Frei! Tnule is a 

f' >in to take m to ? Who ever thought of Free Trndo in Wiiitern I 
he thing's lidikluii. A line set tlicse Mussennerin are, M be 
' mire l They nisli about hei*, there, and everywere, inakiny ilieir- 
I itelvcN IVY the^ laik' It jinnilly iisefool, Ic, alendiii); to iiiivlHiily as 
vnts anythink, the Ijota ! No qiiiet digneti', nu orty ilcmcener, 
stJekin in one plare, whether yonVe wanteil or not, niiil, above 
. all, no iTDnveeneenl Defness ! Ah I if this sort of thing toes on, it 
, will caiii« a nice sort of change, this will i Why at least liarf on ns 
' won't lie wanted at idl, ai^ the rest will liave to iiitiit-ly Imlier 
' their old siHtiitn, All weiT7 well for bof s ; bot how about iih aji 
j luw Ki'owri fmy in the !:uvviw< ] My Wiskers, wliitli is wot is tiilled 
Mutton t,'hD|i inttiin, liaa begun to change colour, and wen I :uked 
BaowN how It wru, that n- -'■'-' — 




"BENEFITS FORGOT 1" 



Old lleutlemaa (A< knd been ehated .. 
breath). " Yoo 

[.JnJtf 12. IWM. ■ Tul. HT, p. 1D,1 



Of Mr, du Maurier's "Aesthetes " we have already spoken.* One 
can only hope that this unhappy race did not really run to quite 
sucli extremes, though it is difficult to know what not "an fSTHETrC 
to bcheve ; for, when society does go mad over a craze, MIDDAY 
it goes very niad indeed. But there is one matter on MEAL." 
whicli an Englishman retains, and ever will retain, his sense and 
self-respect ; he is not one who for a very small reason will go 
without his " rations," and he does not usually procuie a glass of 
water to put a Uly in it, 




Punch and London Tavern Life are at any rate in sound 
connected, and his weekly "dinner," of which we quote "THE CASTLES 
a notice by Mr. Sj^ielmann, has ever been a pleasant AND ABBEYS 
function, and the first took place in a famous O"^ ENGLAND." 
London Inn, almost as famous as "The Elephant and Castle." 

"The weekly Dinner was evolved from the eatherings thai were lirld 
ne:irly every evaning, as well as Saturday- nightly, in the anxious days thai 
prei,i:ded — and immediately succeeded, loo — (he laboured birth o( PuiKh. 
The first of these— the very first " Punch Dinner," strictly 9o.^:alled — was 
held at " La Belle Sauvage," Ludgate Hill, on the spot now occupied by the 
publishing Rrni of Cassell and Company. Hine was one of those present 
at this historic feast, having been already impressed by Landells into tlie 
service of the paper. . . . These tavern repasts were soon divided up 
between those who wished to work and those who wished to play ; and 
the Punch Dinner and the " Punch Club " were in due course established 
as separate institutions. For all that the meetings of both were held in Ihe 
" Crown Inn " in Vinegar Yard, just trff Drury Lone, and the " Club " was 
not long after (1843) celebrated in the pages of Punch itself by the 
" Professor," Percival Leigh, in his choicest dog-Latin— his most elegant 
latin dt cuisine — or, as he himself called it, " Anglo-Graeco-Canino-Latinum." 
The lines, a parody of Goldsmith's " Retaliation," begin thus ^- 
" Sunt quidam jolly dogs, Salurdiy qui nocte Irequentant 
Antiqui Jrifavov qui stat prope mcenia Dniri, 
IlouXo/iivai saccos cum prog distendere rather, 
Indulgere jocis, necnon Baccho alque tobacco . . ." 



A very favourite picture still is " Cherry Ripe," and even those 
who love it best, whose memories of childhood's days <■ CHERRY 
recall this picture on the nursery wall, cinnot but UN-RIPE." 
laugh outright at Mr. Stow.:rs' amusing fancy — the only drawing 
he contributed to Punch. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI 




{!!<, nnr^f ihi Utiurlirr.] 

AN AESTHETIC MIDDAY MEAL. 

At the LiLiichfO:, hnuy, Jeilaby I'o/tletlaraiu enUn a Paitn/- 
eook'M and call* for a glass of Water, into lehich kt pntd u 
frtsMy-evt Lily, and Ioki hivuel/in contetaplatioa thertqf, 
Wnitei: "Sualj, I bhikg tou iKTTiirso kme, Sir!" 
JtUnb'i Pogihih''ii'Ut. "Tbanks, Noi I uati all I beqcire, 



[Juitf n 



(/. 7a, u- 



3.1 



THE CASTLES AND ABBEYS OF ENGLAND. 



[tur. 17. IW.'.- 



(Br. .■ 



TliK KLKPHAN'l' ANI* CASTLh 

KhOLAND 1m1- ., . , I,. ; , . ! ! 

nietropolin iv 111 

tobntsl of, li |..i ■ , ■ . 1 

must beBll|K'nui ■,.. il! i.ll.i ; i ,i-;m-. m -mi"'! Ian.-.' 
The Oiistle to ivIiJi'U v,i- nrc ;tl>r.iit lo inti-olm e c 
^ned tlie naxnt of tlie E[e{di 
bon nliich none of our ili '' 
When Jolm [>il!n;.'Pil tli 



W.iit In intii>li»'e our rrauiirs Im.s 
it, but wliy or vlierefore is it qnes- 

r>i'ii» liavp evpr mtuifiu-'torily arttlcil. 
rnns, niift rwiiie willi lih diit/'liiii^ 



llU ' ■ . ■. ■ . Il: . 

coMilile III ilic :iii- 111 JiiiKi: Imi ihi' "liv nioii.iii'h iuimiK ntti'i-eii 
him A brilie, iit \<wv nun liiiii ovut. Thc'Klnpluiiit iuv\ Ciintlc, of 
which de tiiig^'ins Itiul bwD ikppoiiited keeper, thus M\ into tlip 
nmrpor's gnis]j, nri<l it was deiuolinliei], among Uie otiior Iwronial 
edifices that ffll a [iri'v at nlwnt tluil tinin to tlie wvcraijcn'K vin- 
dicUvcnoBJ*. It was ifbnilt nt ft kte jwriixi, and tiiui nl length 
talcMi the fonii In wliicli np now find it Tlie principoi ajmrtiiient 
in the Ca«tlc is llie donjon keep, now converted into the liar, and 
the melol helniete of the old retninors Iavc been prob»blv inelt«d 
down into pota for modern inirposeR. The only relic of lendolinn 
now leninininK in tliiv apartment in a hluoderbuwi under the clock. 



,dTu 



CHERRY UN-RIPE. 

Sdooebtion bt a Youno Artist (*t Koiiz 





i^y H^rry furnut^ 



Louis Philippe makes no heroic figure in history, and cuts but a 
sorry figure in the pages of Mr. Punch. " Many a time," says Mr. 
Spielmann, "has Phhc/i been excluded from France — "THE 
beginning as early as February ii, 1843 — byreason of NAPOLEON 
his political cuts. In the first half volume for that ^^ PEACE." 
year a cartoon entitled "Punch Turned out of France" — showing 
a very sea-sick puppet received on Boulogne quay at the point of a 
bayonet — first made public the severity of his struggle with Louis 
Philippe." "The Times," too, spoke freely enough in an article on 
the Italian question, Septemtier 2, 1847 : — 

"We speak freely lo the French people. We do so the more earnestly 
because (here is not a shadow ol ground for any traditional or popular 
jealousies on the present occasion. There is no contest between ua (or 
ascendency on the Tiber. The only emulation which Italy should suggest to 
Vrance and Britain is the emulation of politic generosity. There need be 
[io conflict of rival influences, for there are no separate interests or distinct 
aims to be fallowed or devised. The one common object of the two liberal 
and enlightened nations of the West should be the protection of helpless 
liberty against a^iessive absoluti^im. 

" There is no disguising the (act thit on this, as on every other point, the 
national and dynastic policies of France are at variance. What surprises 
Europe is that the latter should so lummarily and perpL-tually command 
the sacrifice of the former. No surrender of national interests, lioivever 
great, is deemed exiravaEant as a mere collateral security for dynastic 
advancement, however small. The Napoleon of war would have carried 
the bonndane< oi France to the Vistula and the Danube with less odium 
than is incurred by the Napoleon of ptace in securing a i>io- 
spective provision for his fouilh son. For the grand national object 
of quartering a cadet of the House of Orleans on a first floor of the 
Escurial, the cordial understanding of two States, which should combine 
their influence for the preservation of continental peace and the formation 
of universal civilisation, has been rudely set aside. For this England and 
France have been pitted against each oiher in the Peninsula. For this the 
happiness of a helpless Queen and the independence of a noble nation have 
been unheedingty sacriliced. To secure an additional guarantee for this 
great Pragmatic Sanction of Neuilly, a poor, pitablc republic was surrendered 
to ils gigantic oppressors. To m^ the assurance doubly sure, Italy is to 
be offered up on ihe same altar, and the gates of thv Eiemal City arc to be 
opened to Ihe descendants of the Huns. A most magnanimous devotion 
indeed of a nation lo a Monarch ! The avowals of a Minister are falsified, 
the promises to a Chamber are broken, Ihe policy of a free people is 
abai^oned, and the character of a country is lo be forfeited, in order that an 
adverse sentence may, perhaps, not be pronounced upon a stealthy 
stratagem of Royalty executed last autumn for the benefit of a younger son. 
If France has bought her prize at its worth, she ought to have a dynasty 
as precious as the Antontnes and as long as Ihe Plantagenels, under 
whose salutary and elevating influence the excesses of the great should be 
corrected, Ihe corruptions of Courts abolished, the sentiments and interests 
of all classes reconciled and harmonised, and the renown and influence 
of (he nation exalted for admiration and example amongst all surrounding 
people." 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVABI. 




lBvfl'rA'"rfO<i((lf.) 



THE NAPOLEON OF PEACE. 



lOcM-r a. 11M7.- l\,l. JS, p. i;^.) 



" RAMSGATE- 



Ramsgatc has flourislied long, long will flourish as a popular 
watering-place with tlie good folk who hke a resort of that descrip- 
tion, and to the artist und the literary man the busy 
seaside resort lias given many subjects tor pen and 
l>encil. Many happy memories hnger around summer liohda>-s 
spent at the seaside, paddling, tishing, building sand castles which 
lasted just about as long as the aistles in the air built in later days, 
rides upon lazy and much-suffering donkeys, the capture and tor- 
ture of hannless crabs, and, alack, with all these tender memories 
are mixed recollections of many such fights as that depicted on the 
opposite page. " No ! N'ot we ! " No inducement held out by 
the red-faced, portly bathing woman would ever induce us to 
admit that being plunged under the cold waters, said to be ruled 
by Britannia, was a form of pleasure. 



Yes, indeed, what does become of all the pins? M. Zola, we 
know, accuses our countrywomen of sowing the pavements thickly 
with their hairpins, and some few of us have painfully 



'PHILOSOPHICAL 
tNQUlRY." 



discovered that stray and erring pins are apt to lurk in the 
seemingly comfortable cushions of armchairs. But still, 
where do all the others go ? Echo mockingly answers " Where ? " 
How quaintly some of this paragraph on the opposite page reads to- 
day : few people realise that Hungerford and Charing Cross Bridges 
are one and the same ; Cleopatra's Needle no longer re|ioses in the 
sand at Alexandria, but stands proudly on the banks of Thames ; 
and no longer do " fourpenny steamboats " ply between Vauxhall 
and London Bridge. 




■' NEMESIS." 



The policeman, the cox, the stage manager (especially of 
amateur theatricals), the private secretary, the lots of all of these 
are unhappy ; what words can express the miserable 
portion of the umpire, whether at football, cricket, or 
— most of all — at a ladies' lawn tennis tournament ! Whatever 
decision an umpire may give, of one thing he can be quite sure, 
that cause of annoyance will also have been given to someone. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAlilVARI. 




PHILOSOPHICAL 

INQUIRY. 

[B„ IV. H. WUU.J 

l}rci:X.mi-r.,l 3,;..22;.] 

What b«coiiica of ttll tlie Piiuf 
HAys A pajicr involving Kuiue ain- 
giilur points of iiiikiiufactiiring 
ei.'oiioniy. It a[i])eai's from Pro- 
fesssor ParringtoH tlmt twenty 
millions of pins me daily luium- 
factured in tliU country. These 
get into ^iieral circulation, iui<l, 
after a tinie, entirelr diaappear ; 
but tlic reinarknble met Ib, tliat, 
like tlic snrallon's, nobody knows 
where Uk^ go to. It ix proved 
tlut, were it ]io&sible to reval theee 
lost artides, a quantity niiuht bo 
iN)lIei.ted suftidi'Lit lo builJ tlie 
iirojectedfoot-hridgeat Hungeiford 
Market, azid tlie residue iiiight ' 






IS I'ir 



which 



slioiild be crcctcil an a column ri_ 
aiy part of London bexl suited for 
its elevation ; and lo be mlled 
Victoria'B Pin, in opiiosition to 
Cleopatra's Needle at Alexin id liu. 
There would be a nindiii)' staircase 

iiead ; and it might nerve as a 
liindmark, in stormy weathei', for 
the lourpenny tjteaiu- boats plying 
between VauxluiJl and London 
Bridge. 




I»'/ii;*:rhie Old Oeatlemm. "Who's Won?" 
IniliiiiiUivt Old GeiUteman. " What have iod 

niftcr 23. WBD.- Tut 37. P. :Mll.l 




Mr. "Anstey" — Anstey Guthrie in real life — was no unknown 
writer, when, on November 4, 1885, he made his appearance in 
the pages of Punch, since which time he has been a •< MODEL 
copious contributor. Among the most popular and MUSIC-HALL 
successful of his Punch work, his " Model Music-Hall SONGS." 
Songs" take a high place, and rightly so, for seldom, if ever, have 
such effective parodies been written. So true to their originals are 
thej that at first the reader is apt to forget that they are parodies, 
and not only are the songs themselves made matter for banter and 
good humoured laughter, but the singers of them as well are hit 
off to the life. Mr. Spielniann in the " History of Punch " very 
justlj dnws attention to the possible connection of these admirable 
<t. iM.iSkits with the almost simultaneous change in the style of the songs 
at some of the present music halls. It is a notable fact that songs 
of this sort were driven off the better-class music-hall stage about 
this time, and there is little doubt that Mr. Anstey, to whom Mr. 
Bernard Partridge afterwards rendered artistic help, took yeoman's 
share in the campaign. The burlesques in the " Model Music-Hall 
Songs " are often as good as their originals — ^just as some of the 
Rejected Addresses by the Smiths were as good as the genuine 
poems they parodied ; and the representation of them is 
placed before the reader with more then photographic truth, 
in " So Shy ! " we see the lady " of a mature age and 
inclined to a comfortable embonpoint." who comes forward- and 
sings — 

" [ 'm a dynely lillle dysy of Ihe dingle, 
So retirini! and so limid and so coy— 
If you nsk tne ivliy so long I have lived single, 
I wilt Icll you— "I is bccau.se I am so shoy." 



Who will deny the truth of tliis adage ? Who will discover a 
London urchin who. if he have not knowledge where- ■■ KNOWLEDGE 
with to s.atisfy a questioner, will not manufacture a IS POWER." 
reasonable and sometimes witty answer ? No one has ever yet 
done so. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAKIVABI. 



MR. PUNCH'S MODEL MUSIC-HALL SONGS. 

(Ah-j. s. \m».- r-ai. D7. |i. w.] iBtt y A-ittv.i 

Thr Pranklv C'amaii.j.k. 

Asr ditty wliidi jiminit«ly reflett-i llir linbiU anil aniiisementji of 

tlie people ia n valiiable liutimii domineiit— a fnct tlinC iii-obably 
aciinunts fi)r llie welcome wliicli Konun 
in llie folldwinp Rtyla iiivarinhly 
receive fiimi Miwii--liiill niidiemiw 
gem'mlly. It— ^/r. Punch iircsiiiMi'^ 
— tliey conceived wich [lictui-es nf 
tlifir manner of sjiendinj; n liolidny 
to lie mijiistly or incorrectly drawn 
in tiny way, tliey would protest 
strmi;;lv n^Tiinst Iwinj; so groftily 
im-ri'i'i' -I'lifi'il. As tliey do notliinu 
'pf ill' -. ii, :ii. ^ijxilngy can be neodwl 
111 Ml.' ["■Slowini; effusion, which 
si'HTitl livlii-s now Hdormng tlic 
MiiMC'liall stiige coidd Ite tni^ted to 
render with ininien-sc cSect. The 
Singer xlmidl Ije young and cluwni- 
ing, and attired as iiini|)Iy as po^tihli'. 
Simplicity of attire iin partis nddi- 
tioiuJ pjininncy to tlio worda ; — 
We 'ad a little otitlng larst Sunday 

artcnioon ; 
And sccli ajiilly lark it wok, I simn't 

Wc borrered an excnmon van to take 

us down to Kew, 
And — oh, we did enjoy ourselves ! I 

don't mind telhnc ynil. 



ere a little xpoken iiiterliidt it eutlamanj. Mr. P. doet not vtutiire 
to do more Ihiii indiailt thit bii a njiiioptit, the delttilt entt be 
Jilled III amorrliwj to the taste anil fiiiiey of the fair artiite :— 
" yen, ire di-l 'lire a lime, I can auiire iiti-y 3'he partii ; "J/# 
and JmKr 'i >pki\8 ;" old "Pa PtAPMiii. Atktd beeaute he lent 
of hit tubtequeiit condiiet. "Annt 
'^- " -fy-ailourtd 




Hiulppkb, i" her impotin^ i^rpenmnte in her 
frtmt." BrcT. Blazer ^ hit ''girl," mill hi» 



A&DtcK (of the fried-fUh etajK 



" mvch the way h 
1 mitii trnvnition to — 
—For we -id to stop o" cmirsc, 
Je>t W bftitthe bloouiin' 'orae, 
So we'd pot« of nil" anil portor 
(Or It drop o' sonielliinK slmrtsr), 
Wliile he drunk liis ihui o' water, 
lie was sech a wlinle on wali'r I 

Was Hie |-x>r oU! 'o 



accordion. 

roHfit^ the corner); her 

teitt, anil alaays the ladi/, 

taken." From (Am work 



el 



At Kin 



Thhil Sf'TH^n. 
sincton wc' 'alted, 'AmiuerNiuitli, and Tunthatn Oreen, 
I nc oiNc 'lul nech a tliiut on him, ibi liko wna never KCcn > 
Witli every 'arf a mile or w, that animal fiot blown ; 
And wo was far too well lirou|{ht-up to let 'ini drink alone ! 
CAorus— As we 'n't to stop, o' i-unrf«.', to. 
Fourth Strima. 
We stopped agnin at ChLswitk. till at IahI we got 'o Kcir. 
Hut wlieii we rnu'liel Uic Qardings— well, there w 



ISgm^iii Iff ntokeH iiitaintie.: — Spirited juimije-ol-aniii brtirern 
Mr. Ww. Ulaxer aud the Keeper; m'uijvl'ir action of P,i 
PuPPER ; " I vnitt to tee yer I'o'io'ler—liriii-j out tier old 
Pngoilrr irn yani're to proud on.'" Mr>.. AnDiCK'i* dimtpj'oiiil- 
meiit at not beinn able to vx the " liitem/ieni/e I'hntt," ti-d Ihe 
" Pitcher Shnil.^ ovce mm-e. Her oiil^-i-li-aee in le-iri. on the_Hior 
of the win. Keeper eoncliuiei the di'dn-iiir bii iw(iiiriny vhij Ihe 
ptirly did not iirrive tootur. An' we mi, "Weil, it was like 
tills, ole cock roliin— il'yer see?'' 

CAonn.— We've 'od to stop, o' course, Uz. 

Fifth Stanza. 

"Don't fret," I ser, "about it, for tliey ain't got much to see 

Inahle tlimr preciouD Gordings — let 's go and uve sonic tea 1 

A cup I Hcein to Fancy now— I feel tliat faint and liui[i — 

With a slice of bread-and-butter, ami some crease, and a s'rimp ! " 

[Detcriptiou of the ttn;—"And the §'rimpi—v<ell, I don't iraM to 

tail ani/thiivf wjaiiut the irimja—but it did Urike me ihev 

were feet ill' the 'eat a little— t'riiHp* mill do thiiLymi earn I 

premiU 'em." The propetiU to ttart—'nhereitpOH, " Mn. Addicr, 



vho tmt n'-nettin' on the gernnintns in the vineUr, tmilin' at 
her booti, which elue'djtut took qff because $he »aid they stopped 
her fron\ breathinrj,'' protetted thut thiere inat no hurry, con- 
sidering that— 

Chome, ae b^ore—yfe 've got to stop, o' course, &C, 
aixlh StaHm. 
But when the Tan was ordered, we found— what do yer tliink ? 

[To the Chef d'Orchestre, mho arill affect complete i-jnoranet. 
Tliat miserable 'otse 'ad lieen on took too much to drink ! 
He ke|i' n reeling round iw, like a circiu, workal by steoni, 
And, 'stead o' keegring Hingular, he 'd turned into a team ! 
[Disgiiit of the party : Pa Plafpeu propoiei to go back to the inn 
for more r^eihment, vrging^ 

Chorus— Vie iinist wait awhile o' course, 

Till they 've sobered down llie 'orse. 
Let our good laudhidy's daugliter 
Take him out some Mda-water. 
For lie \ 'ad more tlian be oui;liter, 

'As tlio poor old 'orse ! 
Seventh Stoma. 
So, when Ibw brought the 'orse round, ne started on onr way : 
Twos 'orful ow the animal from side to side would away I 
YouRjg 'Opeins took the reins, but soon in slumlier he was sunk — 
{Indignantly) When a interfering Copper ran lu in for lieing drunk ! 
[Attit-nde of various memltem of the party. Vn-aarrttntable pro- 
ceeding on Ihe ]mt of the Constable. Jiemonstranee by Pa 
Flaffer and the eotnpa:7iy generally in 
CAurwj— WJiy, can't jer shee 1 o' courih 
Ti&hn't ua— It iah the 'orsh ! 
You le'mme go, you shnorter '. 
Don' you tush nie till you oughier. 
Jus' look 'ere — to cut it shorter- 
Take the poor old 'orsii ! 
[General adjournment to the Poliee-itntion. Interview irith the 
Magiatratfl on the following morning. Mr. Hopkins, called 
upon to state his defence, replies in — 

CAonw— Wlij, your wushup sevs, o' course. 
It was all the bkninin' 'orse I 
He itwi/d 'ave a pail o' water 
Every 'arf a mile (or quarter), 
Wliicli is what he didn't aughtcr ! 
I 'in uiy family's supporter- 
Fine tlie poor oUI 'orse ! 




CFrfranrv 12, Wfil-r.-f. 34. n. BL] 

KKOWI.EDOB 18 POWEIL 
Tom. "Jack' W'liRiEAiMun n Ahbtid-akI" 

Jack. WELI^IcAN'TRATEUOKlXI.r, Birr I SHOW IT 

NBAR Axpstid-Eatii '. " 



ARTFUL 
-VERY I" 



This may fairly be called one of Keene's most charminj; (.otintry 
views, for it need hardly be pointed out that this artist was gifted 
with an eye for landscape as well as for tigures. 
We could hardly imagine a more typical English field, 
with its pictnrcsque hedges and its distant trees. 
In no other country could we see two such figures, the man not 
beautiful in his costume, bnt the girl quaintly attired, especially 
aK to the shady old-fashioned snii-bonnet. The old English 
stiles, too, how many rustic Komeos and Juliets have met at 
them, anti indulged in counlrj'-side love-making, which is some- 
limes " Artful — very ! " Technically considered, this is one of 
Keene's happiest drawings with the pencil. 



The novelist who sees lit to write in the first person, to make the 
narrator one of the draiiiatis persoii(r, must begin by creating a 
mythical Ijcing who is supposed to tell the tale, "THE SECRETS 
and it is only natural that the lady novelist should be OF LITERARY 
tempted to make the " I " of her stor^- as attractive as COMPOSITION.' 
possible. Punch suggests, in this cut, that the mirror in which 
she regards herself may sometimes tell her a loo flattering tale. 
" Passionate Pauline " might, no doubt, retort with the ohservii- 
fion that ^fr, Punch endows himself with almost superhuman 
talent and geniality, but she has no chance to " talk l)ack." 




Apart from the date given with this " Ballad," ■' internal 
evidence," as the learned would say, at once points it nut lo be 
an "antique," (or no longer do the briefless ones "BALLADS 
haunt Westminster Hall, "quizzing the judges in very OF THE 
poor wit.'' Their haunts are now nearer the Fleet BRIEFLESS 
Street, from which so many of the briefless dniw the means 
necessary for sustenance, and when they cease to be bricHcss, il;en — 
as legislators — many of them lind their way to Westminster H::!! 
and its neigh liourhood. Concerning the writer of llii-^ i,;ipilal 
series of Ballads some notes will be found on p. iC6 iiijni. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHABIVARI. 




[Scptcmbtr 88, l8tn,-rol. SS. p. 1!2.] 



ARTFUL-VERY I 

Marif. "PoN'r beep a iScHBrmuiu' o' me, Jonul" 

.TbAn. " Wh'oc bt\i't a '- ueiuhin on vek I " 

Maty {>ngrniiBiial<ij 'Wfu, y can r' t' i.mn. .Tonit !' 



[Si/ Ckarlet SeeiuZ 




THE SECRETS OF LITERARY 
COMPOSITION. 

(Dtf G/oriK ilu Vawtcr.] 
2^ fair AuthoTtu qf " PauioiuiU Pauline,' gaiiftg 
fofuUs at her men r^ctiim, rurltet lu/ollota:— 
" I took into Uie Glass, Reader. Wluit do I Me ! 
" I BPc o puir of laueliing, eipiiijltj forfrct-nie-not blue 
eyes, Jsiiicj nnd duliiuit ; a muliiu little rose-bud of a 
rnoutli, with ita evcr-tiiockin^ mmie ; n tiny sliell-like mr, 
trying to niajr hide-an J-seek in a tn]i{;l»l luuze of rebellioua 
russet cokl ; while, froni undernnttli the mtin folds of a 
riMf-Mtf dnxrang-Kown, a ilnJnty foot pc^ coylr forth in its 
exiiuisitely-poinl^ gold morocco slipper, &c., ic. 

( ViiU " Pawinwite J'.tiiliiir;" l,ij Parbttii.) 



BALLADS OF THE BRIEFLESS. 

No, in. 

THE HUTIUN OF COURSR, 

or three bi-m*!im in Wesliiiinsti 

\Vhcre niiiti'ly nnil iiionriifiil (Ik> brirlleHs um 



THaU 



Tii; 

_.n iintd four diang noUiiii); nl 

Knt qiiiznnii; tlm jiiilf!(« iii very [loor wit ; 
'Tis licre, whi-n tlicir lordKld[M bnve rixm to go, 

Tn Ket on my leg" I '■"'"^ miwterM the forte, 
And in faltering tones, conlidentinllj' bw. 

Have iiiiulc in n niiinniir my iiiulton uf course. 
ISnl when Uiey Imve seen I liail sonieUiinK to more, 

Tliey've paused for nn instant In-fore tlii-y went out. 
And bid nie speak up : "lien, nij vij;oHr lo prove, 

A dintringru I've Bought in stentorkn slioiit. 
Anil when amiiiMcence their kirdiiliim iiuvn bow'd, 

I've Klirii>k'u for the uslier my brief to endoni«. 
And Iripp'd out of iwirt liKhUoine-heartwl and proud 

That BuccQU huB attvmli.il my motion of count. 




How many times lias Grcnt Britain been taught the lesson " not 
to despise an enemy " ? By the Boers, by the Zulus, by the 
M;ioiis, by the hill tribes uf Western India ; and yet one __ FccnN 
may seriously ask, " has tlie lesson ever been thoroughly 
learnt, and will it ever be?" While at i^aee, we are too apt 
to ne,t;lcct the preparations that not only make wars short, sharp, and 
succLssfiii, but which also do so much to make war so dreaded that it 
is avoided. Bitter, indeed, was the lesson given to us in our contest 
with the Zulus in 1879. "They are mere savages," we said, 
" therefore a weakly foe, who cannot cause us any grave trouble." 
But it was we, not they, who were weak ; and the severe lesson 
the Zulus gave us was well pointed by Sir John Tenniel's cartoon, 
and by a striking article in "The Times" of February 3i, 1879, 
from which we quote : — 

"\Vc h.ivc Jic-vcr before u-urrcd ng.iinst Ilic Iribc wliich Chaka mised to 
lliu rank of 3 iialion half a century a^o. The Uulch settlers in Suutli Africa 
ti:ive encountered (lie Zulus, and have been more llian once worsted ; but 
»itice tilt: reij;n uf Diiigaaii, Cetywayo's unete, Ihc Zulu kings have been uii 
fi'icndly terms with the British, or rattier, the Natal Government. 
Unfortunately, the military nrfjarijaatinn established by Cliaka has been 
devL-lo|ied by (Jetyivayci. am) has ticcn stimulated by a passion to use and 
display its strength. II lias lung been predicted by those who understand 
Soulli African affairs, thai a sliuggle would come iKxiner or later. . . . 
Theie can be iii> doubt Ihat the system introduced by Cetywnyo's 
predecessors, and carried to a high pitch of perfection by hitnself, lias placed 
us face to (ace with a veiy different sort of enemy from any lliat we have 
yet encountered in Suuth Africa. In other Cillir Wars we have tiad to 
<lcal. f<jr many years past, only ' with broken-up tribes without a 
(}ovcniiiieiit,nnd withiHit a cuuutry to lose, an undisciplined mob of Callin), 
s > ti) rpcak, without any cohesion, patriotism, or military prestige to bind 
Itiein logutlier.' ... If we were to undertake the Quixolic enterprise of 
(ivei'ihrrjwin;; every (<<>veriiinent which was founded on 'brute force and 
bloodslieddin^,' we slicmld have more than enough to do in lliis wicked 
worlit. , . , Cetywayo's cruellies may be, therefore, put out of ihe 
([uestion. The Zulus are lieyond all controversy subject to a detestable 
tyranny, but, tike all iilhcrs in Die same strait, Ihey light manfully for 
liieir tyrant, and for the fame whicli Ihey identify witli his triumph. ' Lithe 
and active as iKinthcr.-i, lougli as wolves, and able to conceal ttiemselves by 
liiousaiKls like serpeiiLs,' they would be no despicable foe aiiyu here, but in 
llicir own countiT ihcy are tfiniWy dangcnnis. They know every stone and 
every lliicket ul' that tiari-cn bu^h. as tlie Highkinders or Kurderers of 
iicilLmd two hundred yeai's ago knew their nati\'c heath and hills. We 
inu'^t nut a^'iiii make tlie mistake of undervaluing such an enemy Of 
course the Zulus are no nialcl) in llie open fiekl fur Knfilisli troops, and the 
rtitii.invmi.'Mt*ii.)w lithig despatched to Nat;il will, as we c-onfidently hupe, 
1 li.i^ ilie war .''pecdily to an end. Bui it HuulU be idle tu iiiuigine th^it llu: 
victuiy will be easy or bloodless-" 

Have we really learnt the lesson ? 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAEI. 




[Bii sir JoltH TiBHlen 



A LESSON. 



Ulareh 1, ISTB-FvI. TB, |l SLI 





Harry Fumits, 

iJFront a sktUh by Himulf.) 



"GETTING 



Of all Mr. Furniss' happy conceits the most popular was 

certainly his conception of Mr. Gladstone's collars. Even those "^ 

among Punch readers who daily saw Mr. Gladstone 

in the House of Commons, and who knew quite well _. ._^^^^.«^ 

GLADSTONE'S 
that his collars were in fact no more than of ordinary COLLAR UP " 

size, learned unconsciously to regard these mythical 
ornaments as part of the stateman's personality. The huge flaps 
seemed to harmonise with the rugged earnestness of his appear- 
ance and his manner, and it may even be conjectured that these 
caricatures increased his popularity, yielding the public fancy 
some such convenient holding ground as a droll nickname. This 
is a very good example of the value of Punch not only as a social 
but as a political history, for in days to come it will not unlikely 
be asked who invented Mr. Gladstone's collar. And not only is 
Punch an interesting history, but he has one, also, as is well 
pointed out by a writer in " The Graphic," April 14, 1900 : — 

" It is the lot of few papers to have a more interesting history than Pinich, 
As much a national institution as 'The Times/ a valued commentator on public 
events, and a shrewd chronicler of popular feeling anent all the political 
crises, fashions, fads, and fancies of the hour, Putich occupies a unique 
position. The historian may gather almost as much from its pages as the 
see :.T after mirth ; while to run over a list of the names of contributors is 
to be brought in contact with a considerable number of the best-known 
names in literature and art during the past half-century. These are all 
reasons which commend the handsome re-issue of the first fifty years of the 
paper (1841-1891), which, reprinted by the proprietors from the original 
plates, is now being issued to the public by * The Times' on the same principle 
as found such favour in the case of the * Encyclopaedia Britannica,' while to 
make the Punch library the more complete, the publishers have very 
handsomely added to the series a fine reprint of Mr. M. H. Spielmann's 
' History of Punch* at once a monument of research, and a fascinating 
glimpse behind the scenes into the working, personnel^ and growth of the 
ever popular and ever green journal. Mr. Spielmann clears away the mists 
surrounding the origin and birth of Punchy and establishes its parentage 
once and for all time. He reproduces in facsimile the original Punch 
prospectus (in Mark Lemon's handwriting) and some of the early covers. 
He details the chilly reception which the new paper met with, and descril^es 
the uphill of the first little band of workers to make it go when the circulation 
stuck at six thousand, and ten thousand was the minimum at which it would 
pay. It was the 'Almanac' that worked the change ; the circulation rose in 
one week from si.\ thousand to ninety thousand, and from that time there 
was never any looking back. One has not time or space to follow Mr. 
Spielmann through all the interesting matter which he has brought together : 
chat about famous contributors, descriptions of the dinners, biographical 
notes on the present staff, details about suppressed pages and rejected con- 
tributions, and gossip about those circumstances in the history of the paper 
which have most excited comment.' 



133 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHAUIVAKI. 




DOG FASHIONS FOR 1889. 



DOKUUPINE, CmHWDAPFianOND, Poi 
yonmJfi/lO.lSBft— ruf.im.f,. 12.] 



amoral Eraccrioiifli 

OR, PUNCH'S PETIT LACON. 

Itlanh 2B, lg43.-r^. 1. 7.. 120.] [Bv nonue ilu»fifn'.^ 

What ft riorioua tiling to be an witlior ! To write— to have one's 
tliouglitRimftaltotlipfoiirqimrUrHottlic^'lobc—todiiLstcn the dinne- 
rs teBDirit of tl[(«elicfnti(iii,4tiiiieH,— anil, in reforininfiftliiwra.toftnielio- 
riite the condition of one's fellow -iiipn ! But how fiiint nnd insignifieant 
those pleasurti DoTripured with thu luxury, nii one walks Bloriji, of seein),' 
one's own porlmit to be sold for one shillinj; pliun in every Klioji-wiinlow I 
LiTea there tJie man who c(tnl[iyhiBlianJ«ponlusbriivit,andmy ho 
has ever paid a tailor' ii l>il] I 

"Too nnith fauiilittrity breeds contwiipt," snys the nndcnt proverb ; 
BJid how many married men have been lunrlyrs to the Inith of it ! 



Some men wrii* for fume, —titliera for money ! We never lliinkof tliia 
without invohmtftrily drawing a comparison Detween Slia](H|jenro and 
Cnoljtira ! 

A fa.slLionHbb baronet ha» said vdtb no less feeling than bifb 
moral sense, "Hnppy ! thiira liappy tiie man who liaa tlie means 
to keep n servant to Btretfli his tjglit boots liefore ho wears them 






■ liiii- nr immortfti hard, " are the iisea of ailversity." 

1 1 ' I Ill's to lis at the sight of a birt-h-Lrce, 

li niiKiiish of bcinf! eau^t in asliower of rain 

niiii'l ii.pii:ii.-.L ~i>.>, " 'I'berc is nothing more iinpleftRant than to be 
■lysi :l iKiily of jounji; liulios, and m pulling out jour jmcket- 
Ikcrchicf to drop a hirtt comb iiiwn llie Hixr." 




Upri! 8. 1883.- Tof. a;- *■ '*») 



GETTING GLADSTONE'S COLLAR UP. 




LION'S 

VENGEANCE 
ON THE 
BENGAI. 
TIGER." 



This very striking cartoon, by Sir John TennicI, was suggested by 
Shirley Brooks, and gave fitting expression to the feeling of horror 
and anger that thrilled through the people of Great ., ^he BRITISH 
Britain when news came of (he cruel massacres com- 
mitted by the mutinous Sepoys in 1857. Many of us 
in 1900 felt that a somewhat forceful and firm policy 
must be pursued with the South African Republics, 
and so it was felt of the Indian Mutiny that, as " The Times" said in 
their issue of June 29, 1857, " force must be put down by force " ; — 

" The firsi Ihinj', of course, is lo put tlown force bv force. Wlialcver be 
Ihc moml causus u( nn insurredion, tlie only safe remedy lies in a rc;idy 
appeal lo arms. On Ibis point we are liappy to say that (here are im 
{•rounds for despoculcncy. \Vc can only hope Ihat Ibe suppression of Ihe 
Mutiny will be speedy and decisive. As for the expression of a wisb that it 
may not be accompanied with bloodshed, we feci thai i! would be an 
unworthy alfcctalion ; justice, Immanily, the safely of our countrymen, and 
Ihc honour of Ihc country demand thai the slaughter 01 Delhi shall be 
punislied with unsparin); severity. Asiatics arc not tbe people to whom 
rulers can safely (■''^nl impunity for crime. The native amiy must be made 
to feel Ihat treason, mutiny, and murder must bring a memorable retribution. 
When eiiiht rcciinenis stationed over a Ion); line of country-, and witliout 
any commnii grievance, burst out into open insurrection, when Ibe ancient 
capital of India falls into Ihc hands «[ tbe rebel soldiery, and the descendant 
of a dethroned monarch is actually set up as a rival to British authority, 
it is too late lo talk of mildness and negotiation. 
" Ilul, though the immediate work be rough and terrible, yet it ought lo be 
, only the prelude to a more thorough organisation. Now Ihat we hiive 
conquered India from the Indus to the frontiers of Siam, it is our interest to 
usiablisli in it a liomoRcneity which it has never before possessed. All its 
former moiiarchs have been weak, because they ruled over a chaos of races, 
sometimes servile, sometimes insurgent, but always troublesome and 
faithlest. There is no reason why the British Government should not 
attempt lo fuse into a solid mass the conglomeration of provinces which is 
called India. Why, for instance, should there be a Mogul at Delhi whose 
verv existence, as we see it in the present case, preserves the meaning of 
what we should endeavour lo obliterate. We would even hope that the 
death of the N'izam may be the occasion of the Deccan being brought more 
completely under Kritish sovereignty. We cannot now refuse our part or 
change our destiny. To retain power In India we must svveep awav every 
political establishment and every social usage which may prevent our 
inllutnce from t>ciiig universal and complete." 

So in 1857 ; and in 1900 Indian Princesoffered their troops to aid 
their Empress in South Africa, and gave their money to buy com- 
fort and succour for her troops ! No blotter testimony could surely 
be given of the beneficence of British rule in our vast Indian 
Empire, where the Queen and Empicss is as popular and as 
honoured as she is here at home. 



"RECIPE." 




Everybody can find something in "The First Fifty Years of 
Punch" to suit his taste; even the overworked novelist, who has 
been thoughtfully provided witli a recipe, which, how- 
ever, had better be made up witli a very large pinch of 
salt. One of the charms of Punch is that, old in years, he is ever young 
in spirits, and his jokes are full of the zest of youth, good as ever. 

As a writer in " The Leeds Mercury," of April 4, 1900, remarks : — 

" In spile of the lady who remarked to a distinguished member of tiie 
Slaft Ihal slie did not think PuHci was as good as it usctt In be, and received 
(he retort courteous, 'Madam, it never was!' Ihoae who may t<liare the 
opinion oF that lady critic as to Ihe merits of PHticA at the present 
time have now an admirable opportunity of obtaining ' the It-adiiig 
journal ' in its own line at its very best. They may have the first 
tilty years ol Punci, and it is with that journal as with most 
of us— it will be very difTicutt indeed to surpass llic achievements 
of the first fifty years ol its existence. Those first fifty years of 
Putich, covering aslhcydo almost the second luilf of (bis marvellous 
century, liave been most eventful years in ihc history of this 
nation and of other nations, and Ihcy have been brilliani years in 
Ihe history of Punch. We are probably sale in predicting that 
another fifty years will pass away before Putich is able lo biraat of 
such a combination of talent as Ihal of (he artists and writers 
who with pencil and pen illuminated its pages during the first fifty 
years of its existence from 1H41 onwards. There have been many 
changes during those fifty years in the circle thai gathers round 
'the mahogany tree' at the weekly Punch dinner, but of the 
notables some remain unto this day, the most notable being Sir 
John Tenniel, the great cartoonist, whose work from week In 
week in tlie pages of Ptmck is a pictorial political history of 
the country. Though we have ' A Comic History of England,' 
yet the best comic history is that to Ik found in tiiesc twenty-five 
volumes embracing Ihe first fifty years of Punch. But Punch 
las not been content merely to write comic history. Punch was 
(itarted ivith a mission more serious than that of making people 
laugh over sitlc-splilting jolfcs, and there arc limes, as we all 
know, when Mr. Punch can put his hands under liis coal (ails and 
be very serious, very solemn and very indignant. Those, how- 
ever, who desire to read the history of the Victorian Era, polilical 
and social, national and international, in Ihc must fascinating forcn 
in which history can be written witl find it written and engraven 
in tlie pages of Punch. We have only to recall some crisis in our 
nnats, whether due to domestic or to foreign complications, and 
g lo one of these volumes of Punch we shall find that the stirring 
of the period live again in one of John Leech's or John Tenniel's 
IS. The critical events of the Crimean VVar and of the Indian Mutiny, 
to mention two conspicuous examples, Ihc great Free Trade and Reform 
movements in our domestic history, are set t>eforc us with a vividness and 
an actuality to which Itie most accomplished historian cannot att.-iin. For in 
lliesc cartoons is embodied something of the spirit of Ihc lime which cannot 
be extracted from the records contained in the pages cif ordinary journals. 
Miircover, those who do not care lo go lo the pages of Puath for 
llieir history, but rather for their jokes, ought not lo find the quest 
altogether barren." 







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RECIPE. 

[-VuP. 19 1H3.- ral. 3, p. 2W.] [ On Alh rl Smltb 

iH Stohv.— Lft? your wetic princiiia)ly in 

clianu'U'i-s hn tlie oHiccru nf n r^mciit o( 

III !us lialiiliiul ilnjiikiirilK.it' rliwIlislM, and Iks 

.- .Ill- t.i !■'. iiiili' Ml. Ill tlii'ir triclCH oveiy- 



HOW TO HAK 

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pnictiBiI ii>k>i. 
thing liki' m: 



introduce— "A rmh t now, Tinnoj, lie lii 

sure, and ilUln't I) " " Is it nraties ., 

".Vuiilui/" "Savouniten!" nniJ the like jiliras»*(liaving the inteijec- 

tinnal oncK printitd in italirs, tlint Ilieir )ioint niay liu the nu>re obvious), 

wliich you will find excellent suliHtitiiics for wit. Your tale, tliiis 

preiiaml, take it to Rome iiulilislier, und let him sirve it up monthly 

to llip iiiiinttlliKcnt |iciition of t)ie imlilic with I'ufT Sauce. 



intnt Htick 111 Inn lillu'l, < 

tliu lKitlile.-t mA kI'lsm'.s tl 
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ruiindinK I'uiiilMitiiiits ; n 
luiuic chikrlLcti'i ; fiil' iiiili 
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thifw intiOlet-tiKilly 1 

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irmtionivl, nnfi'dint;. ii;i,?y blockliEvuls ; raily not luivinj^ sniw enini-^li 
to be scltisli, lis lavish luid |ir<Hli;,itl in llic- cxtifuie. Never uiinil 
your plot, but strint! luivcnliliv ujHiii nilvnitiin<, witlHiut sciiueiut! iii 
connexion ; just renii-nihi-rint: to nriml ii|i nilli n nmiTiiu^'c. Fur v\- 
ample, your hero iiiiiy sluiol liocw! ohi K>'ntleninn thiiiiiKli tlic liend— 
or hat— and rim away with Ids nteee, lui heiresn, Wljetiever yon nri 
at a loei for fun— thilt U, wjien you lind it inipractiukJilc to tunililc 
or knock one niiotlier down— throw yourself on your hingtic, a.u<\ 



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CONUN'DHIi.MS. 



\Bii Thomai QmL] 

Because it take* a 



miffh -X; 1S13.- I'.;, i.p. 131.] 

^Miy in tlie rrainp like a, licnrty dinner 
fftn\ twist uf vinir rnlf. 

W)iy wa* little Tom Tlinmb like a j,TeHt weaknew !— Because he 
wjis in-liniiity. 
I Wliat is the slowest post on the road ?~The hand-poKt. 



Why is a coiijicr like a bnd n 



-Itn-aiise it's licnten hollow 



14fi 




Never, perhaps, have utility and art come into more fatal contact 
than in the proud City of Venice, which rides the waters of the 
Adriatic like some beautiful mirage of those by-gone « THE STEAM 
ages when outv\'ardly at any rate life was so much LAUNCH IN 
more lovely than at present. The canals of Venice VENICE." 
were indeed silent highways, disturbed only by the ripples of 
passing gondolas, or at night time by the heavy plunge of some 
secret crime ; the air was filled with the sound of music, fair ladies 
and gallant men whispered talcs of love — romantic and unroniantic 
— marble palaces looked down in admii*ation at tlicir beautiful 
second selves in the water below. Venice was and is unique. 
and should surely have remained untouched and untainted by 
the hands of the vand;d utilitarian, who now rules our days ; 
though hoped for this could not be expected, and has not been so. 
The sound of the steam whistle has been heard in the laud, 
and the unmelodious voice of 'Arry has echoed over the 
waters of the Grand Canal. Piindi, as usual, noted this 
crime, and endeavoured to kill it with ridicule, but, powerful 
as he is, even he cannot stay the destroying touch of com- 
merce; just as some of the most lovely reaches of our own 
Thames have been desecrated by blatant steam-launches, so the 
Siinie dreadful vessels plough the canals of Venice, blackening with 
their smoke the ancient walls of her palaces, undermining her 
very foundations with the turmoil they create, shortening the lives 
of her gondolas, which were wont to glide over silent ways, and 
iilliug with anger and disgust the souls of all those wh^ love 
Venice. Kead the pages of Ruskin, of Byron, of Howells, of 
many another, talk to those, alas ! d;iily giowing fewer, who c;iu 
recall the days when Venice stood, as it were, ajiart from the 
world, silent, shy, and learn that Venice to-day is not the Venice of 
yesterday ; and then look at the picture on the opposite page, and 
there you will see a typical reason for the change. Cheap and 
quick travelling has many advantages, but the price which we pay 
for it is heavy, and there are still some among the readers of " The 
First Fifty Years of Piituh " who sigh for the " good old days." 




u/m™.*/«- 18821 THE STEAM LAUNCH IN VENICE. 

C-BIC TRANSrr QLOKIA MUND1."> 
Am'Mmt ■Arrlrl " OW SIT t IF tT TUT THAT BLOOXW OLD TkuPLE Bak. as tHBt nro *Wt wirn O 
Jlr. DflinTllfetrrffiTtWiKnUiiWr-ftuo*!. "Now. it VNT I It'h TUB fTKoira DridoK O' Siaiin As Brjio.'r W 
Son maKNOwr •dHOnme ■ArrliL " WKu, i .vsria' It'inT wwn of AS(M,*«rowf A 



[Cti a«. 




PLAIN 
ENGLISH." 



The " Unhnppy Land " might well be the title which British 
diplomatists would choose to give to Africa. No sooner is one 
trouble there at an end, one aLirm calmed, than another 
arises. The quaint cartoon on the opposite page refers 
to the serious quarrel between this country and Portugal, 
which is described in a quotntion from a letter by Mr. F. C. Selous, 
the famous hunter of big game, in " The Times," January 6, 1890:— 
" Before (his ktler reaches England news will douhllcss have been 
received from Mr. Koss, the Uritish Vice-Cunsul al QuilJijiiaiie, concerning 
the serious omp ileal ions Ihat have lately nrisen on the Shire, owing lo the 
invasion, by Colonel Serpa Pinto's band of Zulu mei cenarics, of the M.iko- 
lolo country, a territory whith was last August proclaimed to be under 
British protection by Consul H. H. Johnston. The Makololo chiefs unani- 
mously placed themselves under British proleclion, and were informed by 
Her Majesly'a Consul Ihat Ihey tnighl rcsl assured thai Hie Furluguese 
expedilion under Colonel Serpa Pinto, Ihen encamped on the Lower Shiri, 
would never dare to cross (lie River Buo and invade Iheir country. What 
has been Hie rcsuK ? The Kuo river has been crossed by some portion of 
Colonel Serpa PJnlo's force, some Makololo have been killed, and sotnc 
villages have been burnl. The Matolslo have now, not unnaturally, lo use 
a homely phrase, ' rounded ' on the British. ' What sort of people are you 
English ? ' they say. ' One of your hc.idnien (Consul H. H. Johnston) came 
to us, telling us he bore Ihe words of your great Queen's chief adviser from 
across the seas. We listened to him, and we believed what he told us ; we 
accepted the British Hag, and put ourselves under the protection of Great 
Britain, and thought thai, as your Consul told us, we had no longer reason 
to fear invasion. And what has happened I Your Consul has left us, and 
the Portuguese have invaded our lerrilory, killed our people, and burnt our 
villages. You have played with us. You boast of a power you do not 
possess. We now l>elievc you lo be al heart our enemies as much as the 
Portuguese.' That is their line of argument." 

And " The Times " comments thus : — 

"The Makololo have seen this country oficnly insulled and defied ; they 
must see her honour as openly and clearly vindicated. They have had the 
most valid reasons to doubt our word and distrust our promises • they must 
have equally valid reasons for again giving us Iheir confidence. They have 
seen Iheir friends shot down and their homes burnt ; they must see tilling 
punishment inflicted for these outi'ages. They have seen their properly 
destroyed and their harvest endangered ; and lor these things Ihey must 
have compensation. Otherwise we may bid farewell to any chance of doing 
good in this country for )-ears to come, and may also look out, in spile of all 
Mr. Johnston's exertions, for more trouble on the Stevenson ro.-id, and for 
the sullen contempt of every tribe we come in con l.ict with. This is a matter 
of nati0n.1l honour, and it is also a matter of solid business. Things have 
to be put back where they were before M.ijor Pinto started his surveying, or 
else, whatever fine attitude we take in Europe, we shall remain damafcd 
and discredited in Africa." 

Noi^h and South, East and West, Great Britain has found Africa 
a country pregnant with difficulties, which are not likely to cease 
yet awhile. 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON OHABIVAEI. 




PLAIN ENGLISH! 



JoilK Boll. "LOOK HEEE, MT LITTLE FRIEND, I DON'T WANT TO HURT TOUR LITTLE FEELDTGS,- 
DOT, CO.VE OFF THAT FLAG///" 

tJanuarv 18, ISMl- ToL D8, p, 31.] 




Here we meet our old friend Mr. Briggs ngain, and who ever 

could regret meeting him ? We even have a sneaking liking for 

him, donkey as he is, for one cannot but have a friendly 

" MR BRIQQS'S 

feeling for a man who has caused us so many hours of match " 
innocent merriment. But a still greater debt do we 
owe to Mr. Briggs's originator, John Leech, who by this wonderful 
series of drawings immortalised himself and this delightful 
Cockney sportsman. Leech was fully qualified to deal with the 
subject of sport, upon which it is easy for the ignorant to come a 
■'; " cropper." In an interesting article in " The Field," of March 31, 
1900, this is well pointed out, as a quotation will show ; — 

" Leech look for one of his sporlttiE heroes Mr. Briggs, who in lum 
hutilcd. shot, and fished, and, in conneclion vilh the last-named sport, 
nothing lieltiir was ever sketcticd than Mr. Briggs being detained for tliree- 
quarters of nn hour while the salmon sulked at the bottom alter lie had run 
3\-7ay with his captor over a mile and a half of ' rather diHicuit country.' 
The fresh start, too, is replete with humour, and Ihe triumphant landing of 
Ihe lish in Ihe arms of Mr. Brigga, who has been gaffed in his clothing by 
Ihe gillie, is extremely good. Of a different nature is the crowd which has 
collected on a bridge over the river Seine, where Alphonse has caught a 
gudgeon. The enthusiast who finds his compaiiion a disagreeable ptrson 
because on a pouring wet day he wants to cut his fishing short is well 
portrayed, and sea fishing is not left out of account : witness the man in 
a boat while there is a lop on, and the professional fisherman in attendance 
asks, 'Don't yer feel anything, sir? Won't you try another worm?' a 
suggestion which hardly commended itself to one palpably suffering from 
mal dc mer. The fast bowling in Ihe days of Tarrtmt and Jackson caused 
Leech lo represent tiatamcn in armour and padding, and to suggest (he 
substitution of a ship's gun for a bowler. Quite in Ihe first days of Piiucb 
the driving of four horses received notice, and in the early volumes are 
some clever drawings ot the driving of the day, while John I«ecli had an 
illustration of the driver of a hearse whose hat was decorated, after the 
/asbion of the time, with a crape scarf, presenting himself to one who had 
just started a team, and asking whether he did not want a young man who 
could bring the coach up to the door in proper style." 

In the pages of " The First Fifty Years of Punch " can be 
studied, not only art, but literature ; it is one of Punch's many 
charms tliat into his pages, as into an inexhaustible lucky bag, old 
and young, men and women, can dip with certainty of finding 

something to their tiste : — 

" To the bookman," as " The Pall Mall Gazette " has Iruly said, " the turn- 
ing over of these blue-covered magazines of wit and caricature is a delight 
and a never-failing resource in an idle hour ; to ' spot ' a couplet by Henry 
Mayhew, a song by Gilbert a Beckett, a joke liy Shirley Brooks, or a cut by 
Hichard Doyle : these arc the joys of Ihe tiookworm. A greater education 
is to study the progress of the art of illustration, which is nowhere to be 
studied more usefully than in these pages : or the evolution of such a one as 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHABIVABI. 



MR. BRIGGS S MATCH. 




^5:?-=5^'^''^' t 5l"JC ' 



'" [0>-J,'hu Lrieh-I 

MR- BRIGQS HAS BACKED HIMSELF TO RIDE A STEEPLE CHASE AGAINST HIS FRIEND MUFFIUa, 
OF THE ST— K EXCH— NGE. HE IS GOING ROUND THE COURSE JUST TO LOOK AT THE JUMPS. 



! liio Onb. The Bia One is after too get t 






Uprii 1(1, ia''>i.-ru(. 2(1, fip, is:', lai. ir.i.i 



MR. BRIGGS RIDES HIS MATCH. 




Mit, BrigusisWi 



Stakt, Mit. ItnraoB 

SriiB OP THE FtAO, 

to nACk. w 

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OF Uld ItLUinRRUUa a 



nniicrD t 




the ene[ncer-3rlist, Mr. Sainbourne, from the conlributor of modest ' iniliala 
or ' taiTpieces ' to the draughtsman of the most virile cartoons o( the day." 
And, as " Truth " rightly remarks : — 

"Learned dissertations on such subjects as the difTercnlial calculus or 
Bcientitic iJluslrations of the anatomy of the human tMdy appeal only to a 
studious minority, while cveryljody can appreciate the wit and humour, 

fiiclorial and literary, of Leech, Doyle, and Keene, Thacker.iy, Hood, and 
errold, and Ihe rest of Ihe famous band of artists and writers whose 
work is enshrined in the pages of Piiiicb. With these volumes at hand 
nobody need ever be at a loss how to whHe away an hour or so of his own 
lime, or, for that mailer, olhcr people's. There is, indeed, nol only an 
inexliaualible fund of enlerlainment lo be obtained from "The First Fifty 
Years of Puucb" but much instruction also, for it supplies what is, in many 
respects, an incomparable political and social history of the half-century." 

Punch has undoubtedly discovered the Elixir of Youth, for who 
dare say that he grows old ; his jests have not lost their pungency 
by keeping, or has his satire become blunted, which was acutely 
pointed out in an interesting article in "The Daily Mail : — 

"Punch, like good wine, loses none of its excellence wilh kecpinff. 
Indeed, the back pages of the world's most famous satirical jouinal acquiie 
with age a certain charm, which can, perhaps, be Ijesl likened lo the 
tneeling again after a lapse of years of an old and esleetncd friend. 

" To dip into the handsome volumes of 'The First Fifty Yeara of Punch, 
1841-1891,' is to renew acquaintance with a host of men who were the 
cheery companions of one's youth and early manhood. Leech, Keene. 
Tliackeray, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, 'Poni' May hew— christened 
'Poni' by his colleagues as a punishmeni for persistently infiictinc upon 
Ihem a song he had written called ' Poniatowaki's Banner' — Gilbert a 
Becked, ' Dicky ' Doyle, George du Maurier, and the other units in that 
congregation of great wits are all gathered together in these volumes, their 
penoiliings seeming none the less clever, their Jests none Ihe less bright, than 
when they were first made. In fact, there is a percniii:il youth alMut Punch." 

The work of this " congregation of great wits" will be found 
a very friend in need, ready to drive away dull care, ready to 
instruct and amuse, ready to charm us info forgetfulness of the 
many petty cares that liesli is heir to. In former times it was 
customary for every monarch and gieat noble to have attached to 
his retinue a jester, who was a chartered libertine in the way of 
wit, being permitted by his master to express what others hardly 
dared to think. Punch holds a somewhat similar position with 
regard to his readers, and in his kindly, witty way may tell us Hiat 
whicit from others we would rather not hear. Yes — for more 
than fifty years Mr. Punch has been the Court jester of the 
United Ivingdom, poking fun at our foibles and follies, telling us 
with t>ointed wit when we were wrong, warning us if our ways were 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVAHI. 



MR. BRIGGS'S MATOH— continued. 





dangerous, giving us wholesome advice, while in such a merry guise 

that not even those whom he hit the hardest could take offence or 

bear malice ; and from his pages many of the wisest have learnt 

lessons of wisdom. During the earlier months of the year 1900 

considerable attention was given to " The First Fifty Years of 

Punch " by most of the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, 

it becoming generally recognised how valuable are the volumes 

to all students of history, to all admirers of wit, to all lovers of art 

and literLtture, Punch gives us something more than humour. 

" Tlie Standard " of April 19 says : — 

The strength of (he paper from the start was that mere fun by ilielf 
vrai seen to tie insufTicient ; and, brilliant as have t>een the contribulionit 
made by its Staff la English humour, it was, after all, to its work in social 
satire and political caricature that it owed its real distinction. 11 is true (hat 
a fiood jolte never dies ; but not often doea a jest, however pointed, how- 
ever perfect in form, or however timely in its publication, affect the current 
of national thought or express to a nicety the ideas or opinions of millions 
of ordinary people. For that, snmetliiJi)! more than mere humour — whidi 
U not so very uncommon a quality— is needed. There must be an under, 
current of somethiii)' more human than either — irony merging into scorn, 
or 3 )<ravity touching to sadness, or even to pathos. In the great days of 
Jerrold and Leech, Thackeray and Hood, there was, no doubt, abundance 
of sprightly fun in Punch, and Jerrold was, perhaps, a humourist pure and 
simple. Hut Leecti's work was remarkable both as art and as satire, and 
his "jokes" were soi^etimcs extremely grim, touching now and again upon 
social conditions which do not commonly lend them^elvea to humorous 
treatment, even of the sardonic kicid. 



This delightful joke is a capital pendant to the famous story of 
the awc-strickcn page-boy, who, knocking for the first 

... u- , . . . J .. , ■ "NATURAL 

tmie at the bishops bedroom door with his morning oci inoN " 

hot water, in answer to the question, " Whs's there ?" 

promptly rcplie ', "The lord, my boy." A joke about or against 

so dignitied a dignitary as a bishop is always piquant. 

Nothing is ever so welcome to the heart of the weary housewife 
in search of new dishes, wherewith to delight the heart 
of her lord and master, as a few good recipes, and here 
Punch, always eager to please, provides a few such, not 
only for the lords and masters though, but also for the juveniles, 
who are, if possible, even more exacting, and whose appetites are 
generally insatiable. Read, mark, and carry into practice I 



DOMESTIC 
COOKERY." 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 



MR. BRIGGS'S MATCH— continued. 




UlT OP TUE Urook. 




Portrait of Ma. Brioos Winniko 



DOMESTIC COOKERY. 




Get a hrge jutclier. Wipe it well out with a disticloiit. Take n 
quartern loaf, bthI ctiI verv carehilly a slice of nbnut ten inilics tliirlc 
fitiiti the cnisty side. Having done tliis, piit away the loaf, and 
Iwvint; releosrd voiiraelf of the kiiifr, tnko tlic inn-c of bn»d in one 
luuici, anil with the other take hold of the toasting-fork— or any otlier 
fork, if yoii liave not a toaster Imiiily, Extend yotir 
anus aliL'litly, and tlicn hrinj; the point of fork clone up 
tu the Brend with a Jerk, so ns to Icnve tlie jnece of 
lirend on the pron);^. Now look at your Rr^ nnd liold 
your bread as near as yon can, takiiif; earo if it Khonid 
net into o blaze (o hlow' it ont irnnicdiatoly. After IIiIh 
lias l>een repented seieial tinios, examine your breatt 
closely.and it ntll |irolialily liavc assumed a rich blackish 
colour. If it liaH, it is fit for use. Yon will now nni to 
your pitcher, and li-l your bread fall into it, by holding 
vour fork periiendifulnrlj-, with the inTincs downnanis. 
Vour water over your hrciul, and Htir with a table-R|)oon 
if the jug be not too large, In which case you nioy use 
the handle of a lianinier or .1 rolling-pin. Keej) utirring 
as long OK you can, nnd serve in bluc-aml-uhitc mugs, 

ttheu j-oiir jiivonilea '"■" *■ — - ' "' -' 

beverage. 

HOASTED c 

Uny a few chesuuts, liring thcin home, sit down, and 
witli a snuil] knife kixit on nilting slits in the skin tJll 
you cut your (iuners. When you luive ]ire|iare<l enougli, 
iiut llic chesnuts on the ton I'au; and ki'cp oil until you 
liave iHinil j-oiir hand. Take 11 sent i>|i|Nniita tl>e nru, 
and In a few minutes tlie delicious fniit will bqpn to 
|)o[i out with great viuleiKv into tlio fiu-t<H of tlio coiii- 
jnny, and alt over the iiioui. Hicy an- now done ; and 
if you I'nn tind theju, which may {n-rluiiM l>r acconi- 
plislied by grojiing nlHiut the Hour, you will liave au 
excellent dL-di of luastcl chesnuts. 

Take a chair o|ii>ositi' a blazing fire. I'Lire ymir feet 
oil the I'lp b:ii', or, in'rlutp^ a iiui'krr method is to 
iihii'f thein mross nil the \f\Ta tii;.'i-thcr. )n a fen 
niitiiites viur s.,l.-< will W done llH>i'..u^hly. — A'.yJ. 
{U^'vU may lji> •'.K'kol in like jnaiuicr. 



NATURAL RELIGION. 

Hiiliop {i-fprivino iMi)i//nf}it Piigr). "Wi 
j I'li'je. " TiiK Misau)), »tr Lord I " 

j [Aajuil 14. lM).-ru(. 73, n. 03.J 



will have a iiiatt whokwnue 



Li- 



the rii|ijii'r-fli-c, nnd iv 




Without doubt this is one of the most successful cartoons Leech 
ever drew, and the most humorous portrait of Brougham, repre- 
senting him as a clown at Astley's, going up to "A SCENE IN 
the ring-master, the Duke of Wellington (as Mr. WESTMINSTER 
Widdicomb of Astley's Amphitheatre), and sayingi CIRCUS." 
" Well, Mr. Wellington, is there anything I can run for to fetch 
— foi to conic — for to go — for to bring — for to take ? " &c., &c., 
&.C As Ljrd Brougham was suspected of undue complaisance 
towards the Duke, the neatness of the political allusion was 
received with extraordinary favour by the public. Anyone familiar 
with Lord Brougham's history and appearance will realise how 
readily his features and manner lent themselves to caricature. 
Nor was Punch Lord Brougham's only critic, as we see by this 
quotation from "The Times," August 12, 1843 : — 

" The House of Lords on Thursday and yesterday evening presenled 

Lord Brougham in anollier of Ibosc peculiar eccentric allilttdes in wliich 

lie has so Rood -nalu redly exhibited of lale. On Thursday his Lordship 

surprised Ihe House by suddenly assuming the post of Government . . . 

Wlial is Lord Brougham ? we ask. Is he a Minisler, or is he not ? . . . 

He la upon Ihe borderland, in a kind of Ministerial Iwilighl : dates dance 

before his eyes ; and one easy Imnsposiiion makes all right. 

" Or is Lord Brougtuiin really and truly an amphibious animal— half 

Minister and half not ? 



Is he occasionally allowed (o put his nose through the Cabinet doors, or 
to look through the key-hole ? Is he admitted at limes to sit under the 
table, and every noiv and then to emer^ from the subterranean department 
and the collision of toes .ind heels, and actually rear his chin above the 
polished mahogany f There were reports very recently Ibal he wanted 
very sadly to be — how shall we delicately express it ? — in some post of 
usefulness anyhow ; and would go through a good deal for a regular 
place. At present he seems to regard himself as a kind of supernumerary 
Inoseiv attached 10 Ihe Ministerial van, to drag Ihem along rough roads 
or up-hill in unicorn faahion when occasion requires ; an extra engine 
put on when the train is lu'avy. . , . Lord llrougham, touching upon the 
darker side, presented Ihe House with an alarming picture of the progress 
of military disaffection [in Ireland], descending from the sergeant lo the 
c )rporal, 'from the corporal lo the private, Sliould agilalion succeed in 
realising this, Ihe country ca^ts a suppliant look towards liis Lordship. He 
lias tried, and he has excelled in, most departments ; he is a lawyer, an 
orator, a statesman, a scholar, and, we believe, a pnet ; but he has not >'ct 
appeared as a military man. He niusi be this before he has done — that 
tender and rehncd sympathy niih Dritish sergeants must have its issue ; he 
lias a call in this direction. Should the descried army unhappily wani his 
services, he [uust leally turn recruiting sergeant ; and we doubt not his 
persuasive tongue will soon till up the Ibinned ranks ; and many a forsaken 
wife and forlorn and blubbering family will rue Ihe hour when his Lordship 
first devoted his efforts to the cause." 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAEIVAEI. 




A SCENE IN WESTMINSTEU CIRCUS. 



iBl/ Jnhn iMCkJ 



Clows to the Bikg (IujO— "Kow, Mr. Wellisgtok, is thereanjthinK I can run for to letoh— lor to come— for to 
eo— for to cury— foe to briag— for to Uke," kc &c. &C. 

i»iitemier2. 1643.— FuJ. G. p. 00] 



Mr. Spielmann in his History of Punch gives the "THE 
following interesting account of Mr. Briton Riviere's FOOL AND 
work for that journal :— H'S FOLLY.' 

" Mr. Brilon Riviere, R.A., made his appearance in Vittich in January, 1868. 
Few who have followed his career as painter wo'ild delect in him ihe 
inveterate humorist ; yet it was in that direction that liis bent led him whilu 
he was still a tioy. When at Oxford he had amused himself o( an evening 
with making humorous illustrations in pen-and-ink, and a book which he 
then so drew was shown by him in llt68 to his friend, Mr. G. L. Craik, one 
of the partners in the house of MacmilJans, and the husband of John Halifax. 
Gentlewoman. This Ijook Mrs. Craik sent to Mark Lemon, who invited the 
young graduate to the Punch oflice, and adopting the grotesque illustrations 
to ' Hazeppa ' al once, gave him a sort of running commission to do inci- 
dental work, to which Mr. Kiviere gladly responded by a total of the twenty- 
three cuts— chiefly of wild animal subjects — contributed by him through 
1868 and i86q. But directly his pictures began to make way, he dropped 
illustration, whicti had made inroads upon his health and had permanently 
injured his left eye through the strain of the artificial light. So Mr. Rivieri: 
c^tsed his Punch connection, the proprietors, moreover, consenting to 
suppress those blocks which had not yet appeared, as the painter feared that 
they would do harm to himself professionally, and no particular good to the 
paper. Yet he has always expressed his pride that he should have been 
one of the outside ' Punch Staff,' and he has proved it by elaborating a cut 
which was published in itJ69 \a' Punch's Derby Sporting Piophecy.' into 
his picture 'Of a Fool and His Folly there is no End,' exhibited at the 
Royal Academy in 1890." 



The social strata of Society are here clearly and precisely 
marked out and described for us, and though our knowledge to-day 
of most things is vastly in advance of the dark ages of ■■ ■y\^z 
1841, Society has really changed but little ; it still has GEOLOGY OF 
its social strata, though some have now t>een a little SOCIETY." 
warped, and the lines between them are not perhaps quite so 
decisively delincd as they used to be. 




It is difficult, in spite of the Geological Table given on the same 
page, to decide to what rank of life belongs the finely disposed 
gentleman of Leech's picture. Judged by his 
behaviour and its results, he must jiertain to the tribe nicposiTiON " 
of the " Boundeirs," being a very complete specimen. 
From the amount and value of his household goods he is apparently 
a man of means : whatever he may be, the unfortunate little Polly 
will presumably have a fairly exciting existence. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




THE GEOLOGY OF SOCIETY. 



IBd JuSn CUtiif-irJ.1 



Tre atudfof Geclog: 

eileniltid niirniGcalioii. it 
ooietj, fts they 
flocictf i-i divklpd into three Rrent Btrato,. called Oi 
Life. tAuli of these Ktrata ouncuii ' ' 

followintr order, daiuemlitijt troi 



of Si. Jul 



iw acx«|>tation ol tho word, ib conflnsd to the 
which coiniiosa this tecreHcHal i;]obe; — in 
t. ulau. to the examination of the different layers o 



Life— Middle Life — ruid Low 
:h have boon rnnirHl in i.'.. 
lowest— that ia, from the 



.0 the collar at St. Gile'B. 

--, SEttlES. 

Peoido w 

Pea])la hnvioff no coronet, but nhn expect to a^t 01 
Pco])1e who talk of their Brand fathers, and keep a 
corriftire. 

SECONDABV. 

, ti-ll-iiH-n-r-iru.,.. 

Fea|de who kee\i a corriajcu, but aru iiilcnt respecting 

their irran<lfui.hors. 

People who give dlDncrs ta tho superiOL 

People who lalkof the four pet cents, and are suspected 

of bein^ mixed u[i ia a grocery concern in the City. 

{Clap/ian, gn-l-li.) 

People who "oonfesB the Cope," and Fay, that thou^'h 

pHamoBe* himself in the dry-sal terline inFenchurch' 

street, he needn't do it if he didn't like. 
People who keeji a shop " concorn " niiJ a one-horse 

»hay. and go to Ba[us;;ikto for three iveeks in the 

■Jojc-doya, 

jople wlio kopji a "concern." but no shay, do the 

cent^^l with the light porter in livery on »oleiuD 




George du Maurier became known to all the world as a writer 
of no little ability, but it is not usually a matter of 
knowledge that with pen as well as with pencil he 
contributed to Punch. It \v;is in 1877 that 

" Mr. du Maurier wrole his admirable ' Vera Nonscnsiques,' " says Mr. 
Spielinann, "and proved ihe literary talent which he afler wards displayed 
in so striking a manner in his lecture on ' Social Satire ' and in his novels. 
But, as has already been pointed out in several other cases, he is not by any 
means alone in having used both pen and pencil in the paper. Thackeray 
is the principal ex.iinple of Ihe twiii-Uilent ; bul others, in various degrees, 
are Cuthberl Bedc, Watts Phillips, Tliomas Hood (a single cut, and a 
wonderful one, too), Richard Doyle (;i single contribution). John MacGregor, 
with Sir John Tenniel, and Messrs. Alfred Thompson, Ashby-Sterry, W. S, 
Gilbert, W, Halston (one literary cftorl], J. Priestman Atkinson, J. H. Hoberts 
(one poem), Harry Furniss (a dramatic criticism), and Arthur A. Sykes. As 
a rule, however, ariist and author has kept strictly within his own field, 
although a bold experiment of a curious kind was once proposed. On that 
occasion Ihe literary Staff had been complaining, with malicious frankness, 
that the drawings in a certain issue — (it 'is not necessary to particularise) — 
were not up to the mark. They were ai once challciised by Ihe artists, who 
declared that they would strike — that tlicy would do the tc.tt, and allow the 
literary men to do the pictures. Tlic idea was seized upon ; Ihe result, 
they thought, would be screamingly funny. But the Editor would not hear 



VERS 
NONSENSIQUES." 



" What shall he have who ventures to parody Shakespeare ? " 
A most unfortunate e.tperience probably, for of all poets the "divine 
Williams" is the most difficult of whom to make fun. "THE 
However, our author on page 161 has done by no means POACHER'S 
badly, and his verses are just as likely to have been GLEE." 
sung by a poaching sportsman as Shakespeare's by outlawed 
gentlemen of the past. They were no realists in those days. 
Percival Leigh was one of the best Shakespearcans Punch ever had. 



Politics of any kind had better be avoided as subject- matter for 
conversation, unless the conversers are quite sure that they will 
agree u)ion whatever topic may crop up. General __ QPFOSfTION » 
politics lead to arguments sufliciently heated to make 
the conversational atmosphere too warm, but the heat they 
t;enerate is as nothing compared with that which accompanies a 
divergence of opinion upon a question of local politics. Of this 
fact Charles Kcene makes very good fiui, insinuating that even in 
so watery a subject as a " gondola " there may be latent fire. 



PUNCH, OB THE LONDON CHABIVABI. 



VERS NONSENSIQUES A L'USAGE DES FAMILLES ANGLAISES. 

{Par AN.iTnr.E pe Lestkr-bcoubrb.) 




[D'l Ofo. da a 
Iii rxistfl line Espinstfcrc a Toura, 
Un pBii vitp, ct ijiii iiortetou jours 
Vn ulsteiir peftu-de-phociiic, 



THE POACHER'S GLEE: 

IBuPerctall 

■\Y[[AT Blinll he Imvo tlmt killM the linre? 
Thrpp iiionllii ; llint '» nil— anil fi.>iiiiil in fare 

ThcTi sena liliii hnmc. 
T.iko no rp|n-i>.ii:li ihf i^viiiip to rireirli, 
Ur emi.tY i-jibirt of oiii. ami n.a.lj ; 



lort.ii.mc-ro'. n.pno.] 



"OPPOSITION." 

Firrt Totim ConnciUor {whn hmt recently hetii In Venioe). " Not» 

THAT UK 'VK A 1'lUiri.K'a i'AIlK, AND A LaKK IN IT, 1 BIIOVLD SVOatm 
THAT &AI.I> A DOZBH UuNIWLAS HtOHT BE FDSCaABED, AS TDKT 'd 

*'«M«i/ ili/Co (vnlravetM). " On, I hom't ser tub good op 
havin' asymoreo'tickm FoHEioNliiiuis ! Wb'vk I'LENTY o' Docks 

A.t' OKKSR ALHKADF : 'T ANY UATK A PAIR VIOVCH BE EHOUOH TO 
DRr.f.U PHUH. As TO 'aLV A DDZtUI, 1 CONSFDER IT 'd KB A WASTE o' 
I'UULIC MOXET, ah' 1 'l,t- OPPOSE IT ToOTH ANII " 

IThei/ doii'C pare frieiiffi. 




tJu'v S,I8ffi-ruiM.HlI.l 



inu Ci"tln Kmu.] 




Throughout " The First Fifty Years of Punch" both the authors 
and artists of that journal have found ample material for good- 
natured fun in the novel writers of the times. „ qur THREE- 
Thackeray's " Prize Novelists," and Mr. Burnand's VOLUME 
" Mokeanna " and " Strapmore " are notable examples MOVEL AT A 
by masters of the pen of the gentle art of parody, and GLANCE. 
on the opposite page we have a pretty piece of fooling by a master 
of the pencil. We all know that long-suffering heroine and that 
(Icep-dyed villain. They are not dead yet, for there are some 
people, both in and out of the pages of fiction, that ridicule can- 
not kill. Yet one would think that such fun as this would 
at any rate make a writer chary of using ancient and crusted 
phrases, which, if ever meaning anjihing, now mean worse than 
nothing. No longer, we would think, could a heroine sit with 
"a cloud hanging on her fair brow," or anpvhere else save 
round her neck of an evening ; no longer can she afford, if desirous 
of being taken seriously, to be seen " tossing her head in the atr," 
or sweeping past the discomfited villain of the piece. Yes, the 
three-volume novel of the good old-fashioned sort is in more 
senses than one quite dead as literature, or at any rate those who 
read of the sorrows of Edwin and .Angelina, of bold bad barons and 
ill-used ladies, will not boast of their occupation. It may not 
necessarily follow that because fun can be made of a particular 
class of writers their work should be wished a speedy death ; but 
in this case few can really desire that the class of writers of which 
fun is here made should prolong their existence. 

Novels have changed with the times, and it may be hoped for 
the better. But, however great the change and the advance may be, 
it is doubtful if ever a time will arrive when the novelist will give 
no opening to the satirist, and when the gentle parodist will fjc 
without food for his laliours. At any rate the time is not yet ; there 
are writers of fiction — who dare name them ? — whose style might be 
chastened and whose popularity might be seriously affected by a 
judicious dose of parody. Such a dose is here prescribed by 
" Dumb Crambo Junior." 



»r. rHHih in Blaiti. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAKI. 



OUR THREE-VOLUME NOVEL AT A GLANCE. 




VOL. I,— She sat iijMirl, a. 
('bud hanging on lici' iiwi' bron, 
and licr street eyen Jonncost. 




Bhv liiniPil a liitio palo- 







Foiled ! ° ho cried. 




Then, bending his browR, while 
it curious sniilp purl«i Ilie 
' of liLs li|>, 






Uclmldi-aincd llip bitter 
tup to tlie dipg^. 
[Alnwm.-kfar IHSTi] 





And, in a foniga climb, ~ Vanislit^ from these pages for 
lEu Prleilman .tlUnrnn. " Dviiib Cramte Jit<ilor."i 




Sir John Tenniel's humorous cartoon is Punch's happy comment 
on the purchase of the Kliedive's Suez Canal shares by ■. mOSE IN 
Lord Beaconsfield's Government, one of the most EGlTTOlll* 
successful investments ever made. "The Times," in a leading 
article of November 27, 1875, made some comments whicli we 
cannot do better than quote : — 

"All act BO prninpl .mil opportune ns the purcliase of Ihc KlicdJve's 
inlercal in the Suez Canal wilt gr.ilify Itic country, not only on account of 
thi; ullimate m.ilerial adv.inlagcs promised, but because it gives assurance 
that wc have a Government of spirit and initiative. StatL-sinen have Iheir 
iriiosyncrasies, aiid though both the lale and the present Cabinet liave been 
presided over by men of whom courage and a vigorous will are 
characlerrstics, yet we cannot imagine the laic Government taking such a 
resolution as the present. The courage of Mr. Gladstone was directed to the 
achievement, which had the first place in his Ihouglils — the renovation o( 
our institutions by great domestic changes. In all that related to foreign 
a^airs the Government which he inspired was reserved and inactive, as if 
foreign policy was another name for mischief making, and danger lay in the 
temptation which the dramatic events of the outer world offer to weak 
politicians and a thoughtless people. The courage of Mr. Disraeli has also 
been shown in home politics, for he believed in the Conservatism uf the 
mass, and by infinite skill brought his folloners and the nation at large to 
hou-ehold suffiage. But the traditions of his Party and the present 
sentiment of the public do not permit any t>oid strokes of domestic policy. 
At the same time, the state of the Empire for which we have shed our blood 
anil spent our treasure is such as to force upon us the consideration of our 
foreign relations. It is well that in this particular phase of our history we 
should liave a Ministry in oflice to which the dealing with important 
subjects of foreign policy, and the forming of decisive resolutions, are more 
congenial than to the earnest champions of domestic reform. 

"The possible results of this national investment are so large and 
indetiiiite th.it it would be vain to speculate upon them, and yet they jreient 
t h em jeives persistently to the imagination. It is plain that we acquire an 
interest in ligypl and its administration, which will compel the constant 
attention of the Queen's Government. We have purchased nearly half the 
shares of the Suez Canal. We are the largest proprietors, and it need not 
be ?aid that thi: others will look to us for the management of Ihe property, 
the protection of the common interehts, and Ihe maintenance of satisfactory 
relations with !lic local Government and with the other Powers of Ihe 
world. . . ■ The possession of the Suei: Canal is now a great political power 
which must he consiilered in all discussions of Ihc ICastern question. . . . 
We have now an abiding stake in tlie security and welfare of Eg>pl." 

This cartoon very aptly shows how tJie pages of " The First Fifty 
Vears of Punch " reflect Die general feeling on any important public 
transaction, and how valuable his pages are to the sttident of histoiy. 
When this imrcliasewas made known, il was generally felt that Mr, 
Disraeli had made a very clever, shrewd bargain, and this feeling has 
been conlirmcd as year by year thevalue of the shares and the im- 
portance of the influence accruing to their possessors have increased. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




IDeetmbir It, Vm.-rol 69, p. 21B.) 



"MOSE IN EGITTO!!!" 



lS*3lrJ»linTmi>UlJ 




GObitl AKtU i BaUU- 



The Seedy have always been made gentle fun of by J'ttiicli, 
notably ill the Songs, from which we quote a good "SONGS OF 
example on the opposite page. We are told by THE SEEDY." 
Mr. Spielnnann :— 

" Gilbert Abbotl h Becketl's popular ' Songs of the Seedy,' a suni.»i of 
eight poeins, were published in this year in Punch, as well ^i ' Songs o( 
the Flowers ' and soon his ' Balladi of the Briefless ' made i considerubJe 
stir in Puiichs circle A BcLbetl had been called to the Bar some tiine 
before so that his ballads as well as the arlides from his hand ivhidi 
appeared — and from lime to lime continued — over the signature of ' Mr. 
Briefless had a toui.)i of \erisimilitude which went straight to Ihe soft 

E laces n the hearts and imagination of Ihe Great Unbrrefed Mr. Brief- 
ss became an msdlution in the paper as in other journils Mr O.l'.Q. 
Philander Smiil and again in a lower social scale Mr Alfred Sloper, 
became recognised by a later generation This unfortunate genlleinaii of 
the Bar— a gentleman always in sp te of his weakness of intellect and 
character — waa shown in all the diflicuUies germane to his barren profes- 
sion and in all the ludicrous situations that came natural to the man Many 
•f his quaint aphonsms are si II remembered such as that elsewhere 
recorded — As my laundress makes my bed so I must lie upon il and ' The 
clerk brings down his master a grey horsehair wig m sorrow to the Court.' 
Yet he was not without self respei.! not to say vanity for on Ibe occasion of 
a great political unsis when Ihe ret f,nat on of ttie Ministry n js impending, 
Mr Briefless somewhat injudiciously left his retreat at Gr-i\csciid, and 
came up to London, in order to be on the spot should he b>e called upon to 
form or to join the future Cabiiiet. The only summons he receivi^l, however, 
wan from his tailor, and, with the unfailing judgment and good sense that 
characterised him, he withdrew once more into the country. ' Mt. Briefless' 
and ' Mr. Dunup,' his friend, were creations that iveie at once recognised, 
and were welcomed during the lif teen years of their occasional appearance." 
"In 1843 his 'Punch's Heathen Mythology' followed Wills' cliapters on 
the same subject, and in the following year his ■ Comic Blacksloiic '^iie of 
the cleverest burlesques of its kind in the language— served another purpose 
than to amuse his readers ; it forced him to study the Commenlai ies — for 
the first time, it was facetiously said — and so made a belter lawyer of hiin, 
and helped to lit him for the magisterial t)ench, to which he was soon to be 
summoned. His 'Comic Brndsliaw' was another success, which Mr, 
Burnand repeated and improved upon years after in his inimitable 'Out 
of Town.' Mr. Arthur a lieckett, speaking of his father's work, tells me : 
' I remember on one occasion when my father had written a drama 
descriptive of Ihe mysteries of Bradshaw, Leech, to whom it was sent for 
illusl ration, introduced a series of portraits of the iiulhor. Lemon, noticing 
this, suggested that Hie drama should end by the hero getting his head 
shaved, more clearly to understand the intricacies of railway Iraflic My 
father adopted the suggestion, and Leech followed the " copy." ' 

" Though his conversation was bright, he preferred to keup his witticisms 
'" '-'--'-■- private wrilings, as when, in sending in a parcel of ' copy' 



1, he u 



Iside :— 



■Dear Maik— 1 do hcrewilh enclose 
Slime "copy" both in verse and prose. 
Tis neither very bright nor terse — 
The verse id bad — the prose is worse. 
Bui you, of course, will read and check it 
Yours ever, G. etcefra Beckcll.' ' 



The jx)or and the seedy are always with us. mid so is Mr. Punch. 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHABIVAEI. 



SONGS OF THE SEEDY. 
No. XXI. 

tg.-Jl.imS— Vol.3. p-OH] iBi/GUbiil.: 

BK[,it:Tii 

Nor ti „ _.j n , 

Kilt tnist me, ilearSiie, there U niiuiy n swell 

WoiiliI be knoek'il down for notliinj; by auction if sulil, 
Tlioiigli the purse may lie fill'il witli wiiiK noUai by llie store, 

Oh think not the {■W>«>* tlie eriibleni of chkIi ; 
Oil tlic poor Bank of Fiuliion 'tia eiuty to draw,— 

Reiiicuibei', Hwcct love, tlitit tiie notes may lie Hash. 

I've ivntcli'd the vile temiJtcr, I've seen him walk in 

To the shop where tiiosaiu and tinsel Abound ; 
Then I've seen liiiii emerge witli a tliiinderiiig pin, 

Made of nothing but biBss witli a «hain jewel croirn'd. 
Oh tlien I've observed liim k»k round with an air 

Ab if he would say '• Don't you tliink it will do I " 
Tiie villain ha» vcntiirol to smile on tlic fiiir— 

OL let not such vilUiTis look kindl; on you 1 

', look Ro Kcdate ; 
toid, wltat you mean : 
lU would saj tliAt thoueh drexa you would not ovcr-rutc, 
A lover oiiKht still to be lit to be seen. 
Then adieu, haughty Susan— ay, sneer itt my Itnt — 

"fia a gosKomer — well— aJi ! you smile at my shoes. 

They oi'e strong eight-iiiid-si.Tpennies— well, what of thatl 

Sneer again, at my stout slx-and-eight[)enny bloiue. 

Farewell 1— it ia over ! I henectorth am unite. 

For ever, thou proud one, for ever we [Biit ; 
1 did not believe tliat in urt,'ing my suit. 

You thought of my i-lotlies and neglected my heoi'L 
lint oh, when tlic gilt from Uio brass ht all rubb'd 

From tlie trmketa of liim thou |nreferrest to me. 
You will tliiiik of the one thou hast tiuelly sniibb il. 

And the sijiht of \i hlonii" sluill be lEifldno.is to (liM. 



PUNCH'S POLITICAL DICTIONARY. 

[Juui; 30, IHfl,- I'd/. 10. p. ■in.'] I Be rtraii'oi iMffK] 

LiBBRTf, We can ncarcely trust ourselves to define the tDroiuog 
of this niuf^ificeiit word— which is derived from Libertia, freedom. 
it is tlie air we breutlie, and the article for tvhidi melodramatic 
lierocs sometimes rant till thdr breath is exhausted. Liberty is a 
very good tiling when genuine, but like every otlier ^ood tiling, it is 
vciy bad when abused, and it ii an article of winch there u an 
enonnoiiK number of counterfeits. It is generally pulTed up by foli- 
tical qtmclos ns a I'einedy for every diseoae known to iJie Constitution. 
Each quack luis, however, almost always a model recipt of tiiji own, 
according to nliiuli Liberty must bo coucoct«d ; and one of tlie chief 
conditions attached to it is, tliat no one sliaJI take the bbeity of 
scttini; up an opnosiljori article. When people dared not open theii' 
moutlis diirini' tlie Frencli lUvolution, vrhen the prisoim were tuD of 
victinin,and'uLegiuilotineinconKtant use— it wasol! for the advance- 
ment of Liberty. Civil and Religious Liberty, according to the nolio 
of many who cry out for it, is no civility at iill to anybody, and a 
litter abolition of all religion. Political liberty in its krgest sense i; , 
ilmC all should be engaged in the business ol Rovcmmeiit ; no that 
every one is conimanaing and no one obeying, like the regiment in 
whicli there were no men, but all oHlccrs. The declonition of Araeri- 
(nn Independence lusumes tluit all men arc eiiiial, and tliat they are 
all entitled to life, liberty, and tlie pui-suil of liappiness. Among the 
i-e^ults of tliis tlieorv are Slavery, Lynch Law, and a disagreeo hie habit 
of making one another as uncomfortftblc as possible. Notwitlistand- 
ing an ocoLsional request from conventions sittini; in pubUc-liouse 
tarlours, asking the people to throw olf tliat invisible article, tlio 
yoke, and trample those very inaccessible folks, our trmnta, in .!... 
diLst, we think we may say, without a clap-trap, that England is the 
hind of Liberty, or nt loai-t of as much liberty an it is convenient b 
the {.generality tluit individual!! should be allowed to exeruise. 

SAYINGS AND DOINOS. 

iJanmrs 38. 1*13 -T'ul. 2. p. 50.1 IBo il,irk ienioa, 

"How vory liol younn;." na Iho ronsl bcfl ami lo tliu liorMS radiih, 
~ Mind your eye." ok tbo Ibrcod bqecI to the Dcodk'. 




OUR NOBLE VOLUNTEERS. 

XiiTTui CjPTAn OF VoLUHnoRts (whom no AsUdes ran daunt). " lluijo ! H.iU .'- Uia.—Ut n 

{Jaw i^ IWV- rvt.3t.li. 380.1 .Slaiuling—Prr-pare to-Jaiiip I " 




One can well imagine that George du Mauricr would have licen 
almost seriously indif'iiant Lit the proiwsed abolition of fables and 
fairy tales, and the substitution for them of the facts of <• a LITTLE 
science. At any rate the picture on the opposite Jiage CHRISTMAS 
very well sums up the situation. This was by no means DREAM." 
du Maurier's only niglitniaic picture, concerning which we will 
quote Mr. Spielmann r — 

" More llinii once Mr. du Mauricr has broken away from his liglit 
comedy role, and, besides giving vent to his faitlastic power in liis wonder' 
ful ' Nighl -mares,' has given its something with serious thought, and, 
now and agntn, witli Imgedy in it— liaa offered us, indeed, a taste of 
tlie deepest poetic quality llial he has shown in his novels of ' Peter 
Ibbelson' and 'Trilby.' You may see a touch of it in Tenniel's great 
cartoon at the outbrcat of liostilllics helween France and Germany, in which 
the great Napoleon stands warninilly in tlie path of the infatuated Bmperor ; 
tliat was du Maurier's suggeslirin." 

And again : — 

" Professor Ruskiii, after dui.larin)< that the ' terrific force ' of Mr. da 
Maurier's satire of cliaractci in face and tigure consists in the absence 
of caricature, describes as 'cruelly true' the design 'representing the 
London mechanic with his family when Mr. Todeion is asked to amuse "the 
dear creatures" at Lady Clara's garden lea ' ; and proclaims the artist more 
exemplary than either John I^ech or John Tenniel (' the real founders of 
I'liiicli, and by far the greatest of its illustrators both in force of art and 
range of thought ' ) 'in the precision of the use of his means, and the suhtle 
boldness to which he has educated the interpreter of his design.' " * 

Even more than his Im'ely cliild (often drawn from his little 
grandson), his superb youth, and his splendid gentleman, du 
Maurier's pretty woman is the pedestal upon which he has erected 
bis reputation— at least, so far as Punch is concerned. His pretty 
woman, he declares, is the granddaughter of Leech's, and he 
beseeches the pubhc to love her, j^aternally at least, as he does, 
"for her grandmother's sake.'" 
One more quotation : — 

" In common with Kecne and others, Mr. du Maurier has suffered from 
time to lime from printers' errors. One of the most curious, perhaps, is 
that in which three little boys are shown in a drawing playing upon a sofa, 
evidently very much in the way o( their elder sister, who is receiving a 
visit from an admirer. The sister asks her brothers with pardonable point 
if they will not go and play downstairs. No, the oldest replies. Mamma 
has sent them up 'to play forfeits.' The joke, utterly pointless as printed, 
becomes intelligible wtien it is explained that 'forfeits' is an error for 
'propriety.'" 



n ■il KagUnd : The Kimlde." 



MiDn 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 




A LITTLE CHRISTMAS OREAM, 

Work 



Jf'AI 



Mb. L. Figvirr, is thk THrais wh; 

PKAOTimi or AWAKKXINO THK YoDTHFUL MlHB TO AdUIRATION 1 

TH^uor, THE Studv Or THR Natubai, Hirtorv op the World 

EXPBUHENT OK ODR RtnRHT. AM DUO I N AT [V I! BoT OK SiT. Wk 

FraunE'a Book. 

Tb* poor Bo» hab .iot had a drcetit Kioht'h Rkmt ever si-ii 

[DtamttT % 18S8. - t'ul. !», p. r;.1 



World brpobb thr Flood, condemns tub 
AND Fairt Tales, and HRooHnnw, ik lied 

FiRRD DT THIN AdVICR, WR HATE TRIED THR 
"OlMDRBELLA " AND HM " I'lltt IN BoOTa," 

World, as thrt appear Resiwed in Mr. 



Mr. Spidmann in his Hislory 
capital aLLOiml 111' tilt; jourtKils 
F^U'lunu'iit ; — 



PARLIAMENT." 



" Tht I'jrliaincnlary pliasc ol Piim': is llic one wliicti Iw rtm.iitii'd con^ 
(roiii Ihc b«(!iiming of tlie paper. All else iias tuxn Mihjcvl lu tliM 
— llie quality of its satire, (lie diameter iif its tilcri(ui-e, (he iiilctilion t 
tut, xm\ till: class of Us humour. Bui in liis .-iltcndani-e iipnn I^l^ti:ll1 
/'nn k Via» been peraislrntlv assiduous and iMnsi^tciillv tnink, nei'lKra 
l>y lI^ majesty ii.ir si(.-kiMu.tt hy its (ollii.-s. l>nrtiainL-nt lias always I 
ivs^rilcU in liis i>aiws in ilic spirii of bcnev«Ictil paimnaKC and cim 
wliidi, thixijlh uiiquvslioiiatily pc<laj>u^'. Ins ahva>-> bci-ii jusi 
sytniMtlK'tii: intone. It na-- in urUiT inciuiliiniuthediatnturj'L-dbv Shirlev 



BriHik> and Tom Tayliir 



I lliui^ 



■ES.S, 



iif Parliament, u-ilhoul the 




doall). His attenliiin. like iliatoi nianv olliei?. hail l»n^ bet:n allractul to 
the hrillianl ix-evkly urtielea in 'Tliu bhscn-er,' inlitl.-d ' Kroin the C^<»^ 
IWiithi.-^ ' — |icipi:r> that dealt with the week's Parliamentary proceedings 
uHtli siiijiuUtr l.'ll.'^'t■mes'<. humixir. and origin:ilttv — and at the prcpei 
iii,mi.iit lie souitlit ..lit tlie auLl...r ,.f ilicm. Mr. Heiin- W. I.uev. .>f -Vlie 
Uaily .\c«;.' 

■Ml t.iitv li.iJ .ilieailv simdualeJ as the Pepvs of Par I lain en I : for ie 
liad Ixcii kn'.iwii in ^'.illfrv and lobtiv of Ihc Housi- for (he past ten rta;^, 
.nid \\.i,-aaiiis-is>.!iiei i>i Kii: Pari i-'micn lair Stall i".>r liis paper. He w;i>. 
tliirif.>re, >.vn>iaen.-U paititutariy well lined for the new post on PiiikIi. aii.t 
he leadili, aixeptej the invitation. His brst contnliuuon was a sun of 
pri'-ixvtii'' irf Tiibys Diary, whieli was published on Janu:iry S. i.-vSi. 
T^ieiKtMonvard Mr, Lui-y i<e\.'aiiie known as "Toby. SE.P.' : atid wlien a 
piiz/leit Member of Parliament, faniiiiar wHh his (ace. would oeeasioiially 
a'L him in the lobby, * ily the way. where are you member fur ?' tie uoultl 
answvr -Rrrfe,' and pst^s "n. It is niil uneo'mmon lo lind unregetierate 
member' tabin;: lii tl)em«el\-cs the credit uf the wittitism'* which Tobv pul< 
in!) their ;t^Iullls : sii that there i-i peritaiw exctise itir the biographer of 
Liid SherL'r.vike-Kotvrt Liiu'ci. \\!i« a'.Iribulcd to liis subject the capital 
e\^':anu'.;\>n \vi:h w'.ijeh Mr. I.ni.y eiKKiivcd him. When he saw a deaf 
iTiember };e< his ear-trumpet in:o position in order to listen to a inlious 
I'l.riT. he reiiuriced i-uvi'rdin; lo Tobyi : • What a pity it is to see a i:Tan 
tluis wastirii; his lutura: .U\.»iuai"es : ' .\nd Uiiue has' had IW credit i-; i' 

■■X.> i*:"e m i::c Hojm.- knows i:* members s.. «ell as Mr, Lucy : i:o .lie 

time tie rciuo.iiitlv filler* tdv- <.\*i:orial cli.uv -i ■ Tiie Oailv New*.' lit v:i- 
uiili.ippv tiil lie ^vi: back ;■' Tn'.'x - ■ kennel" in :iie );.ii;ery of liiv Hiiu.-e oi 

TIio ^\-:;:ri:-i::i.'i: L-y \i'.ik-|; S:;i;:.-v [iro >k> will ciTtairUy K- 
Iv^t ;uk! iiK'?: :;nitctV.!;y i cmfiiuv:-(.>.t is his " K-M-u.-e of I'.ivlia- 
iitcti: ■■ — .1 work \vliii.-h was c:;:uety liis mvu i.-v'ni.eplion, and 
which \\,i^ cviitiiiucd tor Uvoaty y^urs troui wook to week whilc 
l\ir!i,iinc:'.; was S!t;uit;, wi:h t.!fvvr:'.v'>.s rctiiiemcnl. tr-,ith. ,md 
h.;:m.n:r th.it ,irv ir.valuaMc !j i\w his:,';ia:i .tiul lithiihttitl to the 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON CHAEIVABI. 




my, siaX[ u^joum nn Cliii^I 
Old Morautv lierp l.iki 
Looks plump iinil ]ilivisii 
headings, a fVw i-t]|1c'iI jimi 

"AlitUpnioreHiiwfiy V, 
T leaves of sUiiit iinli'-l i 

"Hcai-lvwi ttw.-ii,,t ■■■ 

■u'ii^"i'i"": 



Qlttd to Iioir lliin, Oi.ii MniiAUTTn(iHi.i lirillianHis DiraT.noras 
eloquent, an Olawtonk. Uiit ovcrjlmdy likes hiiu, aiul y/hhts him 
■ucK in the nvw SenHiun. 

Biuina* done.^Qam'£ !□ lii';:in. 




"WHAT NEXT?" 



During; the first lifly years of his career, Mr. Punch's comments with 
pLii and pencil on French politics have not always been accepted by 
France with a f^ood jinice, but even the most sensitive 
Frenchin:in could not but smile at and admit the truth of 
Sir John Teiiniel's drnwiiij.; of M:idame L»-i France stiidyiiiji her 
i'hrytiiaii cap of liberty, and askiiif^ herself if it were not time for a 
Lli:inf.;e, aiid, if so, •■ What Next ? " When this cartoon appeiired 
Fiance ;iik1 Europe wore agitated by the tjnestion as to whether 
or not (ieneral Bonlanger would overturn the Republic, and, if he 
did so, what he would substitute for it. That I'utich did not lake 
a ton serious view of the situation is shown by two ijuolationa 
fr<nu '■ The Times," the lirst before, the second after the election, 
■it which the General's decline and fall began : — 

'' In Fninic lliurv is a yi-ni/ral fc:cling llial importanl events nrc preparing, 
;iiul iliji tlity will be duvelopLil no iiing lime afler next Sunday's eloction. 
l-:t-iTy lino believes Hint Genei-al Uoulniicer will more Ihan repe.il in Ihe 
Niiril liis Iriumpli uf the Uunlii^ne. There he was not lonnaUya candiilate, 
Ihon^l). of cunrse, Ilis cunimiltce was not inactive; but in the Nord the 
i-'iiilesi is hvinK waned on llie most approved prindptes, though General 
ll'iulanfjer himself is mil personally canvassing;. He has ilic tact to know 
lii.it a future Dknalur must not make himself loo common. He will prani-e 
.ihiinl on a line horse, and n'ritc Imperial rescripts ; bul for Ilic fightint; woik 
<<l piiliiics he must be replaced by M. Lagucrre and other clever henclmien, 
}:ii(hI orKniiiKcrs and K"od !>|>eakers. His programme is about as vague as 
niiKlit l>e expected Innn a man who is supported by the Bonaparlists and by 
1 leiiri Ifoehefort, tl is a purely iritical programme. ' The present slate Jf 
tilings is Milolerahlu ; tel us mend or end it ! ' General Uoulangei appeals, 
in fad, lo Ihc va.il body of Ihe dissatisiied ; to those wlio have to complain 
"f Ilie wasteful linaiice, Ihe jobbery, Ihe mismanagement nf successive 
Opporlunisl Mhiistries ; and also — and here is the chief danger lo l>e [cared 
from his success — lollntse who look forward to a in^at tvnr,and wish logive 
IHiiver lo a capable and reforming soldier." (April JZ, l8Ht(.) 
Then ai^ain on August 2, 1888 ; — 

" Meantime P.-iris is in full enjoyment of its ECxhibilion, of a season of high 
prices, swarming provincials, and abundant foreigners. To these the capital 
III civilisation is rejoicing (o show ' hospitality ' — at Ihirty francs per tied per 
night. One must not be too severe, however, on Itic little weaknesses of our 
neighbours. If Ihey like lo call the very expensive cnteriainments which 
iliey offer to forci-nicrs by llie name of hospitality, one niust be cuntenl lo 
put it down lo iiaiional character, ... It is but another instance of the 
inveterate love of France for display, for a momentary gralificalion of the 
national vanity, and for attracting the allention of the world. That is why 
(icncral Houlanger reflects them so well and is for Ihe moment so papular. 
I'erhapx the chedi of Sunday means that he is already feeling his country's 
nclileiiess. He has tK'cn out of si^ht, an exile, for a few months, and Paris 
has fol a rival attraction in the Shah," 
The licpublic is not yet beyond attack, and there are still pre- 
tcntlers lo the throne of France ; and again and again as trouble 
arises, the question conies up, "What next ? " 



PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHAKIVABI. 




WHAT NEXT? 



[Aiirtt 11. l6te.-Fol. M. p. 175.] 



[Sv SC JoAn Tnmld.1 




Whalcvcr niav lie the cause of distress the Briton can never be 
without a safety valve for his feehngs, and the hospitable pages o! 
** The Times " are open to liim to ventilate his n y^^ TIME- 
gi'ievance, it only it be just. So, too, in Punch many a HONOURED 
comic discomfort has been made the subject of comic BRITISH 
complaint. The French in one way or another have THREAT. 
ever been food for jests to the writers and artists of "The First 
Fifty Years of Pitiuli " : one generation after another of " jokers " 
have poked fiui at Moosoo — one generation after another, for 
faithful as is the Public to Mr. Punch, so are those who contribute 
to his pages, as the very interesting Tree on page 176 shows at 
a glance. In fact, the workers for Punch seem to be not only 
kindred spirits, but kindred often by birth. 

Leech loved to watch the sons of his colleague, Gilbert Abbott 
a Beckett — both of them in due time called to the Table — and to 
base upon the mischievous adventures and the characteristic 
invention of the young pi .kles many a laughable drawing. They 
were the originals of the boys who, with a ten-and-sixpenny box of 
tools and a sufficiency of nails, in the absence of the parents, put 
{By charhi Kccnc.) tlic fiu'uiture of the house in a stale of thorough repair ! ! And 

from a skating experience of one of them — Mr. Arthur W. a 
Beckett — comes the suggestion for that well-known design of a 
youth at the mercy of a skate-tout at the ice-edge. " Look out ! " he 
cries ; " you are running the gimlet into my heel I " " Never mind, 
sir," responds the man, persuasively ; " better \jvc 'cm on firm .'"* 

Similarly, towards Irishmen and Frenchmen Punch has showed 
the same hearty prejudice, not untinged, perhaps, with patriotism ; 
and of that Thackemy was led to write : " We trace in his work 
a prejudice against the Hebrew nation, against the natives of an 
island much celebrated for its verdure and its wrongs. These are 
lamentable prejudices, indeed ; but what man is without his own ? " 
Yet they were honestly entertained, and are as honestly enter- 
tained by the British public, of whom Mr. Punch is a faithful and 
truthful spokesman, as we hope, and in fact know, he ever will be. 



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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVAUI. 




A FORTIORI. 

TicLft Colleetor. "Now, then, hakr Haste! Where's took TicketC 
Hnwhinan (refrtiktd). " Au 'vk Lost it ! " 
Ticlft Collector. "NoNSBXSP, ! Fkkl in voor P 
Iktitdsnian. "Aw cannot? ! Why, Man, au Vi 



IBw Chas. Kicnti 



THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE LONDON 
MEDICAL STUDENT. 



-OF THE EXAMINATION AT A POTHECAHIES' HALL. 

I) B loHt tAHk that ilevolvts upon 
Olir strident before lie |;oes ii|> to 
ttic Halt m to liiint iiii his tmti- 
nionialsofftttentlancetolpi'turi-. 
iiiid ffnA iiioral roniliiut in lii^ 
apprenticealiii), togHlitT ivitli his 

Imrorliinl CPrtilii-iitF of ofp an<l 
HiptlHiii. T)i(- lirxt of tlituc is 
tlic ciiicf point to nbtAJii ; tlii' 
two Inst he generally writer hiiii- 
i^ self, ill tlie style lirat conHonaiit 

T-^ witli his onn feeliiijjs and thi' 

^ diitti of liis indentnre. Hi-. 

"morality ticket" is as fol- 

~ (Copy.) 

" I bereby certify, tiiot during the period Mr. Jowph Muff serveii 
)iii time witli me he es|ici:iiilly r««niniendcd lilmnetf to my noliiT 
lis hiti Btudioua and attentive lialiits, highlv moral nnit genUuiiianly 
Li'nduet, and excellent di(i|>oiiitioii. He alwnyH nv»ile<l himself of 
(■*«■/ opportunity to improve his profMnoiuU kTiowleiltje." 
(ffigne,!) 
An.'ording to tlie name on llic indenture. 
The certificate of attcndam'C upon Icctutei is only uhtiuned in its 
mMt approved Rtate by much clever manceuvring. It is imi>ortant 




: to bmr in mind tltat a lo'tiirer hhonid never be asked whilnt he ia 
bitering abo<it tlio >» hool fur his si|,'nature of the student's diligence. 
He rnav then have time to recallttl bin ignomnee of liis pu|nI'h face 
at liis di»coiiriieK. He nlioiilil nlwayi l>e eauglit (lying — either imtie- 
dintely l>efore or after his Itrliire— in onler tlmt'the wbole biuiness 
nuiy lie too hnrrieil to ivimit of inventiKation. In the K|nre left for 
llie (legi-ee nf attention wbir'li llip student Itas shown, it i« better that 
be siilMcrilies iiotbirii.' nt nil tlian an iiidiflerent iqiort ; liecnuHe, in the 
fiirtiier case, the student can till it up to his onn Natisfaction. He 
usually prefers ilie pbra.*'— " witli unremitting diligence.' 

And baviti^' arrived at thlt iiii]iortiiiit iiection of our PhjrKioloKy, it 
Wliovoi lis to jiublisli, fur the iH-iieflt of medical students in general, 
and tliosc about to ^> up in piirlieular, tlie fdlowing 

CODE OK 1KSTRLTTI0N8 



TJIO.IK PMRI>ltRIMl van. EXAKINATION AT 

I. Previously to e"i'>i; up, take noiiie jiilln and get your liaircut. 
This not only cieBr< \\>\\i fiicultieK, Init iniiirovcj. your appearance. 
Tlie Court of ExaniiiKT.i di.ilikc lon^ liair. 

i. IK) not drink Un; niiiili stout liefore you |ro in, nitli the idea that 
it will ^\Q yini plurk. It renden- you very valiant for liolf on hour 
and then iniiildles yfnii iintionH with indescriliablr mnfuskin. 

.1. Havim; arrivoil iit the Hall, init your ritigsand cjiaiiisin your 
IKH'ket, nnil, if |irartiiiible, piililiiiii a i»ii' of s|)a.-laclca. This will 
endow you with a gm\p look. 

4. oil taking your nlitce at the talde, if yon wish to sain tiaie, 
fngn to l>e intciisely fnghtcnnl. One of tlie exaiiiitiani will Men rise 
to give yini a tumbler uf water, which you iiiny, with (ood effect, 
mttle tremulously ai;ainst your tectli when drinking. Thu may poe- 
»My leoil tiiom to eKcu-sc bad answen on tlie score of estntoenerroui 
tre|iidation. 




AlbcrtSmith's"Ascciitof MountBliinc"isbetterfcnown " PHVSIOUOQY 
perhaps now thmi his contributions to Punch, clever as ^^ TM^ LONDON 
Tt, . t.u ■ MEDICAL 

these were, and many of them very amusmg : — STUDENT," 

" Sinilh's c»nnei:lion wilh I'ltnch was through his encasement for Ihe 
' CosmoraiiiH,' on which Londclls and LasI cammilted iii»n(ici<lc at the 
starling of I'liiicb," siO we arc told by -Mr. Spiuhnann in liis History. " He 
sent his tirst paper from his temporary rooms at Chertscy ; Jt was the 
burlesque, 'Tnin''adioii3 and Yearly Report of the Hookham-cum-Snivcy 
Literary, Scienlilic, and Mechanics' Institute ' (September 13,1841). This 
was succeeded in the following iiioiilh with the opening of his ' Pliysiology 
of the London Medical Student,' wlucli was rather laughable in itself, while 
displaying a wonderlul intimacy tvilh Itie rough and noisy world wilh 
which it dealt. The idea, however, had already been sketched by Pcrdval 
Leigh in ■'The Heads of the I'eoplc.' Smith was now living at 14, Percy- 
street, Tottenham Court-road, in an unpalatiat lodging, where he nominally 
carried on the profession of surgeon-dentist ; but his best energies were 
thrown into his literary work, and there is no doubt (hat that woik was to 
the taste of the Pniicit readers. Mr. Widton Henning has told me how his 
father, .i. S. Hcnning, calling upon Smith concerning his wor1<, found Iiim 
tike a typical Bob Sawyer, with his heels upon the table, playing the cornet 
ai a Krand tinale to his breakfast. Then he would don his French work- 
nians blouse and scribble for dear lite. The ' Physioli^y of London 
Kvcning Parlies,' which \vas originally written by him in 1839 for the 
'Literary World,' was illustrated by Newman, who was still a far more 
important man on Punch than Leech ; aiid the series was followed by 
•Curiosities 01 .Medical Experiences,' the less sticcessful 'side-scenes of Every- 
(kiy Society,' and ' Physiology ol a London Idler ' — which, taken together, 
were vnted the most entertaining descriptions of social life that Punch was 
publishing, even at a time when Punch was declared to be vastly enter- 
taining. \'cr^e, epigram, j<ikelels, niid articles on current events canie from 
Albert Smiih's pen before the strained relations between the parties and 
thu irresislibk- hostilily of Jerrold hove him down . . . ami on January 7, 
il'44. his l.iAt CDiiii ibuiion ^ippearcd — ' Important and Telegraphic' " 
It was after Smith's retirement from Punch that, in conjunction 
with A. B. Kcacli, lie started "The Man in the Moon," witit the 
f.tpress jmrpose of maktii}^ liimself obnoxious to Punch in (general 
;Liid Jerriild in [larticular, in which laudable desire he in part, at 
least, succeeded ; while at the s;tme time he turned his attention 
to the pitbhshers by brinj;in;; out a little Christmas volume entitled 
"A Bowl 111' Pnuiii," in which he included many of his shorter Punch 
pieces. IJiit in time all bitterness disippcared ; Albert the Great, 
:is Smith wascalled, had "discovered" Mont Blanc and Chainonix, 
and peace prevailed, thotij;h to Ihe end he had no furlher access 
to Pniuh\ paj;es. 

.■iitertainnicnl," wilh pictures, siin;;s, aiu! jokes, was foi 
irs most popular, not only wilh Londoners, but with 
oiisins up (or a liolitiay, and deservedly so, for it w;is 



PUNCH, OE THE LONDON OHABIVAEI. 



5. Should tiuaip ajipmr U) be (p^in^' ogaiiut you, t^t up a hectic ' 
cough, which ih eaiidly iiiiitutcd, uiicl louK ociilely iiiLHei'uble^ wliidi you i 
will probublj ilo witliuul Irjicuj. 

6. Endoivour to ossunie lui olf-lifuid iiiatinrr of aniivrcriag ; aiul 
whan you huve sUl«l any jutliologitiil fiict— iiglil or wrong— «i<rA i 
Kit; il tliey want u casu lur L'\,kijiiil<?, invent one, "that luinxnicd 
whmi you vere aa atJiJitiutiue in the country." Thin osiimiiuu con- : 
fidencc will nojuctJuies buUicr Uiuiii. Wi^ kiifw a student nlio once 
aworc lA the lloU tlint lie gave u]>iuni in ii chhc oI concussion of tlic 
brain, uiid that the patient neviu' re<iuiri.il unytliing ei»e. It was 



-hem 



■y did. 



7, Hhouliljou be fortunate enough to iia»sj;'"*y*»"'''™P'^*'"S'^l 
(lay nnd repoit yuur eKWiiiiiation, describing it as tJic niosl cxtra- 
ordinai-y orileaJ of deep-sairchin^ qucstioru ever uiulcn^rie. Tliis 
will inuke the pcofeaiorii think well of you, nnd the new men deem 
you little lew Uuui a nientul Uolussus, Sny, uUu, "yoii were voiujili- 
inented by the Uourt," Tliis advice is, lioivever, scarcely neccKsury, 
AH we never knew a student pii!>a who was not iLuH honouicd— accord- 
ing to hk uwti account. 

Ml 1 up lie R -m, cd to I ia fiwtion, ho drnosits his jmitprs 
II ( \I 8a. ad itassex tlic interval Icforc tlie liitnl 

I I tatc f d t ft condeinneil criniiiuil. At 

II 1 t J te to four, iiiiy person wlw Uiken 
1 la If 1 'ornrr o£ Uniun-stiwt will see 

I ft d f y iiig luen wending ttieir way 

I I 1 Aiwtlecanes Mali, consiatJnK of Ktiideuts 

I I ncco pa ed by friends who come down with 

I to ke)-[ 1 I I ts rh y pj)rDai:h tlic <loor, luid slmko 

luk 1 dstl yf, 1 erei w I en of success. Tlie wicket doses 

IJ cand lates, d 1 fn ds adjourn to the " Ilebiil Esttblinli- 

t jiiios te to g Ih mi I 7na id niedgn theii iinxious eoin- 

|n I sccto d (hI k— alg balf-aiul-lutK. 

Lea 1,1 t tl 1 ball % follow oiu- old friend Mr. Jo- 

ph M li H ses tl in cd CO t-yanl with the air of ft man 



wlio liad kwt liall-a-crown and found a halfpenny ; and liirough the 
wiiitkiWH sees tlic asKistunts dispeniiiiig plums, jieptier, urS prescrip- 
tions, with provoking indiHeiencc 'turning to tl» left, he aseenda a 
Milciiui-lookiJig stiurcsije, ftdoi'ned wiili itevei-e hUick tigurei in nidics 
wlio Hupjnrt laui|js. Uii tlie top of the gtahvase he ent&'s ft room' 
wherein the (urtncrs of hia miseiy ore collected. It in a king narrow 
jipartiuent, conniionly known as "the funking-rooni," ornamented 
witli a Kftvoge-louking lii'cpkace at one end, nnd a hugs mirly L'ltcjt at 
tlio otiici-; with Bloomy iirewuM o^nst tlie woIIjl contnitiiag dry 
nioiddy books in iioriih, repulsive bindingB. The windows look into 
the cDin't i and the ghuis is scored by diamond rings, and the shutters 
iiwicillcil with niunen niul sentences, wlucli Mr, Muff rwards with 
feelings similar to Uiase lie noidd exjieiience in contouploSng the in- 
seriiitions on the walk of a condemned celL The very cl^Urs in the 
I'ooui look overbcarinij and luijileswant ; and tlie wliole lowdity is in- 
vented with an ovcrallislmeas of umuiswciablc qucstmiis and intricate 
botlieration. Some of tlie students are nuuxlung up and down the 
room in feverish restlessness ; otlieni, ami in arm, are worrying each 
other to death witli questions ; and tlic rest ai-e giindii^ away to llie 
lust minute at a nuHiual, or ti'ying to write iiiinulc ntoinic Dunibera on 
their Uiuuib-naiL 

The clock strikes live, and Mr. Saycr enters tlie room, csclainiing 
— "Mr. Mftnhug, Mr. Jones, Mr. Sa.'(by, nnd Mr. ColUna. ' Tlie four 
de|)art to the elmuiher of examination, where the medical inijiiisiUon 
ftwaita tlieni, with every si)ecies of mental tortui-e to sci-ew Iheu' biwins 
iiLStcod of tlieir ihunilvi, and rack tlidr intellects jiistend of Llinr limlis, 
^the cltnir on which the imfoitnnate student is placed being far more 
uncusy tlion tlie tightest fitting " Scavengei-'s dauglitei' " in the Tower 
of London. After an anxious Ikhu', Mr. Jones relnnis, mlJi u light 
Innnding step to n joyous exteniiMi-e air of his own coniMwine : ho 
ha.« posSed. In anotlier twenty minutes Mr. Saxby walks hercely 
in, calls for his hat, mndenuiK the cxaininei-s ml iii/eroi, swfars lie slioll 
(lit the profession, and maiches away. He liiu liren iihickeil ; mid 
Mr. MutI; who .'<taiiiL'< ^\tli on the list, is ceiIIciI on to uiake bis appcar- 
niKC before the awful tribumil. 




ixarch e, ma-Foi, ee. p. at.) 



A WHISPERED APPEAL. 
" Mauu I Makiu 1 DotfT Sooi.li irm aht iiore 1 It hakbs the Koom ao Dark I ' 




Tlic cm loon on llic opiTOsitc page pictures clearly the feeling of 
the couiitiy when the public learned that our troops had 
been shot dnwri by opponents whom the thoughtless ■■ THE SCHOOL 
had looked on as a "lot of farmers." Farmers they OF 
were and arc, but also dangerous foeinen in the field. MUSKETRY." 
Wu miay, however, fittingly quote a passage from " The Times " 
article of April 21, 1881, on " Shooting in the Infantry " : — 

" Mntiy com rove rsics have been raised by the great wars which have sini.-e 
iJt06 taused a revival of military iirl. The comparative power of arliUcry 
aiKl infantry lire, Ihc best ineltiod al attacking a position, llie taclii-s of 
attack and defence, and the protection of troops in the field, are all 
questions stilt open lo argumenl. But there are no two opinions as lu the 
vast increase which has lalely taken place in the power of the infantry rifle 
when ivelt used, or the fact thai whatever be the relative positions of the 
Itirec arms, the final decision of battles musl rest with the infantry. 
Artillery ma^ prepare the way by crushin); the masses 0/ the enemy, and 
ought to assist in the final slnigglc. more than is generally recc^niscd by 
the English system of tactics. Cavalry may protect at hrst, use opp<ir- 
Innities during the action for hampering and conCusi.ig the enemy, and join 
in the filial ci.ai ;;e. But only infantry can at the critical moment drive tlie 
enemy from his position, put him In roul. and occupy the ground left free 
by his retreat. It is, moreover, agreed that this important work must t>e 
chiefly done by fire. The vast increase of power occasioned by extended 
nngeandrapidityof shooting has had no corresponding increase in Ihe power 
01 the tiayonet, and the progress of riHe-fire may Ik expected lo continue 
while Ihc use of the l>ayonel remains slaliotiary. But. in order lo develop 
the value of the rifle to its fullest extent, it is necessary that the individual 
soldier should be a marksman. A thousand arguments might tie arrayed in 
support of this assertion, but none of theni would have the force of the 
practical example given latr-lv in South Africa, where our soldiers were 
literally overpowered and their courage quelled solely by the superior 
sliooting of the Boers. All the accounts of the engagements there show that 
hand-to-hand fighting was impossible, .simply because the men could not 
advance lo close quarters with Iheir enemy and live. Yet when the Boers 
attacked the English position on Majuba Hill, the &re of our infantry was bi> 
little effective, that the enemy were able to assemble gradually in large masses, 
and finally carry the position by assaull, because, even in defence, the men 
could not use tho bayonet in face of the accurale fire of the Boers. The same 
lesson was given to all armies in the late Bulgarian campaign. The British 
soldier is the most expensive in the world, and there are few of his kind. He 
is carefully preserved in health and sickness, he ia carried thousands of miles 
to the work which he has to do ; and yet when he has arrived at the end of 
his training and his journey, he is found lo fail simply because he is not expert 
in the use of his weapon. He is perpetually drilled to movements which are 
never made in close proximity to an enemy. The polish of his bidtons and 
his arms is the object of intense solicitude by day and night, but he does 
not team to shool well. Can it be possible that this is right or satitfactorv ? 
History repeats itself in this connection to a certain extent, and 
«ne cannot but think that Mr. Piiuch's cartoon was not only a 
lesson for that time but for latei* days, and that, like Cassandra, be 
prophesied to deaf ears. 



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Sidney Colvin, Koopor of 

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Sir Walter Besant, F.S.A. 
Sir J. Norman Lockyer, C.B., 

F.R.S. 
Geor(;e Saintsbury, Professor 
Rhetoric and English 
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The Very Rev. Georue Gran- 
ville Bradley, D.D., 
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ster, Dean of the Order of 
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R. C. Jebh, Litt.D., D.C.L., 
LL.D., M.P., Regius Pro- 
fo^sor Greek, Cambridge. 
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The Rt. Hon. Fimkhkicii Max MOm.kii, P.O., K.M., M.A.. 

LL.D., D.C.Ii., Corpus IVnf. Comparjitivo PliiJoloLry, Oxford. 
The Ver}' Rev. F. W. Fakkak, D.O.. F.R S., Doan of Cant<Tl>urv. 
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Lord Raylkhjh, D.C.L.. LL.D., F.R.S., Hon. C.E., S(.I)., 

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(ii:<>R(;i: Ro.manks. 

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(iKANT Allk.v. 

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Rev. H. R. Hawk IS. 
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Pr.>fcsMor St. (;e<>r(h: Mivart, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. 
John AnniNCiTON Symonhs. 
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