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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890I had often been told that St. Margaret's Bay, between Deal and Dover, was lovely beyond compare. Seen from the Channel, I had heard it described as "magnificent," and evidence of its charms nearer at...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890The race of daughters is large, but their characteristics, vocations, and aptitudes, are but little understood by the general public. It is expected of them by their mothers that they should be a comfort, by...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890The originality of the plot of The English Rose (the new play at the Adelphi) having been questioned, the following Scotch Drama is published with a view of ascertaining if it has been done before....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890SIR,Capital subject recently started Daily Telegraph, with the above title. Just what I've been saying to my wife for years past. "Why don't you and the family live out of London," I have asked. And...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890My akwaintance among eminent selebraties seems to be rapidly encreasing. Within what Amlet calls a week, a little week, after my larst intervue with the emenent young Swell as amost lost his art to the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890This age has been called an Age of Progress, an Age of Reform, an Age of Intellect, an Age of Shams; everything in fact except an Age of Prizes. And yet, it is perhaps as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890There is in sport, as in Society, a class of men who aspire perpetually towards something as perpetually elusive, which appears to them, rightly or wrongly, to be higher and nobler than their actual selves....
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 7, 1914Daniel Mrital. My father is a wonderful man. Leader of the Social Party in the Chamber of Deputies, noted among his colleagues for his absolute integrity, supported by the millionaire newspaper proprietor, Frpeau, whose motives,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890It is not so easy as it might appear to define the Hurlingham Girl with complete accuracy. To say of her that she is one whose spirits are higher than her aspirations, would be true...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 27, 1890The Servant of Society is one who, having in early life abdicated every claim to independent thought or action, is content to attach himself to the skirts and coat-tails of the great, and to exist...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 28, 1919A Miners' Association in the North has decided not to establish a weekly newspaper. Pending other arrangements they will do a little light mining, but it must not be taken as a precedent. As the...
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Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American JokersWill Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American JokersMurine is compounded in the Laboratory of the Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, by Oculists, as used for years in Private Practice, and is Safe and Pleasant in its Application to the most Sensitive Eye, or to the...
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Imperfectly ProperImperfectly ProperIt is with extreme diffidence that the author presentsbut then is any healthy author ever really as modest as he makes himself out in his foreword? Probably not, or there wouldn't be any book. The author, however, is quite conscious of the many...
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That Reminds Me: A Collection of Tales Worth TellingThat Reminds Me: A Collection of Tales Worth TellingIf nonsense is to wisdom near allied and truth is often spoken in a jest, which are facts known to very casual observers, there is much more than the passing laugh to be derived from such...
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Bill Nye's Red BookBill Nye's Red Book - New Edition This is the fourth book that I have published in response to the clamorous appeals of the public. I had long hoped to publish a larger, better, and if possible a redder book than the first; one...
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Bill Nye's SparksBill Nye's Sparks THE interchange of letters of introduction between old friends, by which valuable acquaintances are added to the list, is a great blessing, and in good hands these letters have, no doubt, been the beginning of many a warm friendship; but, like...
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Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and NewBill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New Why Bill favors the Claims of Bill ShakespeareHis Handwriting skillfully touched uponIts Likeness to Horace Greeley'sDifference between Shakespeare and BaconA kind Lift for the Yeomanry. Trusting that it will not in any way impair the sale of Mr....
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Bill Nye and BoomerangBill Nye and Boomerang - Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems Whose bright smile haunts me still, and whose low, mellow notes are ever sounding in my ears, to whom I owe all that I am as a...
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The Old Soak, and Hail And FarewellThe Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell The author thanks the Publishers of the New York Sun, in which the following sketches and verses originally appeared, for permission to reissue them in book form. OUR friend, the Old Soak, came in from his home...
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Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass"Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass" Who has courteously and heroically laughed at my feeble and emaciated jokes, even when she did not feel like it; who has again and again started up and agitated successfully the flagging and...
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