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The Punster's Pocket-bookThe Punster's Pocket-book - or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert CruikshankI may with great propriety contend, that under such merry designation, I am addressing a very large portion of the British public. If, beneath...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 16, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 16, 1893As They Liked It.We read of the recent success at Palmer's Theatre, New York, of As You Like It, with all the parts played by women. Of course, everybody knows that this was a complete...
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Joe Miller's Jests, or The Wits Vade-MecumJoe Miller's Jests, or The Wits Vade-Mecum First carefully collected in the Company, and many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman, whose Name they bear; and now set forth and published by his lamentable Friend and former Companion, Elijah Jenkins,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 9, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 9, 1893A perusal of Captain Lugard's Rise of our East African Empire fills one with a thrill of pride at being also an Englishman. Captain Lugard is a Soldier of Fortune, of the type of Quentin...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, October 20, 1894Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, October 20, 1894A pretty little volume is Mr. Anthony C. Deane's Holiday Rhymes (Henry & Co). That its merits are high may be safely inferred from the fact that the largest instalment of its verses came from...
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Lancashire HumourLancashire HumourIn the present volume I have included a number of Anecdotes and Sketches which I had previously introduced into my History of the Forest of Rossendale, and also a subsequent book of mine, entitled Lancashire Characters and Places. I felt that it was...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107 July 7, 1894, by VariousPunch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107 July 7, 1894, by Various"I know my Spectator by heart," replied Mr. Punch. "Nor," added he, turning to the quaint, black-vestured, bob-wigged figure at Sir Roger's elbow, "are Dr. Syntax's Tours unfamiliar to my memory. Like yourself,...
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Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 17 1916Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 17 1916"We can never talk of the theatre without harking back to the play itself," says "The Matine Girl" in The Evening News. Funny how these irrelevant trifles will obtrude themselves into the most facile critic's...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, July 21st 1894Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, July 21st 1894"For a modest dish of camp-pie, suited to barracks and youth militant, commend me," quoth one of the Baron's Baronites, "to Only a Drummer-Boy, a maiden effort, and unpretentious, like its author, who calls himself...
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BurlesquesBurlesquesMr. H. M. Bateman possesses in remarkable degree that[ v] rare gift, a real power of comic draughtsmanship. He is capable not only of comic vision, but of comic expression. His "line" is an instinctive expression of the comic: it reveals an innate feeling...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, July 14th 1894Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, July 14th 1894Dear Mr. Punch,What a charming little theatre that is at Burlington House! I missed you at the matines there a few days ago. Of course you know the Travelling Provincial Company of the Universities' Guild...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, December 2, 1893Don Pedro d'Alcantara le Comte d'Eu is eighteen. He is pursuing his studies at a Military Academy, speaks German fairly well, and in his leisure hours is, we are informed, "studying Polish." The latter being acquired, he...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 [The authors of the various versions of this "popular song" will not, Mr. Punch is sure, object to its refrain being used in a far wider sensebeing applied, so to speak, to a more extensive spherethan...
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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887The address from which I write to you is familiar in the public ear in connection with a long series which, such is the ignorance of mankind, I have heard described as petulant, querulous, self-adulatory...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893Chief Sub. Well, yes, Sir; a little. But I gave it to one of our subs. who has made black letter a study, and between them they have turned out a very decent leader. Sorry...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893["Lord Brassey never goes on a cruise, however short, without taking with him a very costly barrel-organ. He plays on it regularly for some time every evening, as he finds it a congenial form of...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893Monday.Am sick of paying all these doctor's bills. Have just seen an advertisement of The Domestic Doctor, a Dictionary of Medicine, issued in monthly parts. The very thing for a man like me, somewhat delicate. Hasten to...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, October 28th 1893Mrs. R. says she always understood you must "catch your hare before you cook it;" so she cannot for the life of her make out what a friend of hers meant by telling her that "when their...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893I hope you will not believe all you hear. I am told that the messages are tampered with, but this I trust to get through the lines without difficulty. It is being carried by a professional brigand...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893On Shore in Lulworth Cove.Odd names on this Southern coast. The "Tilly Winn Caves,?" for example; likewise "Durdle Dhor," or "Durdle Door." Who was Matilda Winn; familiarly styled. "Tilly"? An old fisherman mending his nets,he...
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