MORAL.—So, British Public, take my lay,
And if you find no moral there,
Then Mr. Punch must sadly say
His ministry is fruitless care.
Nay! To good uses you will put
The Legend Punch doth thus transpose.
Your pockets sure you will not shut,
Your hearts to his appealings close!
For e'en the man who runs may read
The lesson with this lay entwined.
(If Topsey-turvey thus succeed,
The noble Laureate will not mind!)
And liberal applications lie
In this quaint Legend, good my friend.
So, put the song and picture by,
And hook it—to some useful end!
If you're anxious to eat without any repining,
Read THEODORE CHILD upon "Delicate Dining."
This sage gastronomic full soothly doth say,
That no mortal can dine more than once in the day;
Then he quotes LOUIS QUINZE, that the art of the cook
Must be learnt most from practice, and not from a book;
While you also will find in the readable proem,
Doctor KING said a dinner resembled a poem.
We shall next see a cook can have only the dimmest
Of notions of art, if he isn't a chemist.
So we learn here the names and the separate uses
Of muscular fibre, albumen and juices.
We are shown the right methods of roasting and boiling,
Of frying and stewing, decocting and broiling;
While our author in words there can be no mistaking,
Is dead against "roasting" in ovens—or baking.
Our asparagus then we are heedfully told,
Ιοστεφανος should be like Athens of old:
With a violet head and a stalk very white
While this CHILD thinks that tepid it yields most delight.
On the artichoke too with affection he lingers,
And also advises you eat with your fingers,
Petits pois à la Française are here, the receipt
That he gives is a good one but haply too sweet.
Our author is great upon salads and sauces,
To cool our hot palates, or tittivate fauces;
Here is all you need learn about GOUFFÉ'S Béarnaise,
And a charming receipt for the Sauce Hollandaise.
In England we know that in sauces we're weak,
And we've never attained to the cuisine classique;
But French Seigneurs of old gave full rein to their wishes,
And live on immortal in delicate dishes.
We are told how to give and receive invitations,
And eke how a table may need decorations.
We agree with the author who says when you dine,
It is very much better to stick to one wine,
Be it ruddy Bordeaux or the driest Champagne,
Let the latter be cool but your ice is no gain.
While on coffee and tea he is sound as a bell,
With all dexterous dodges for making them well.
No man ever escaped—to a cook who did wrong,
For his art ranks so high, said MENANDER's old song.
And the ancients we know loved both oysters and pullets,
When the οινος κεκραμενος slipped down their gullets.
While here is a man to have joined them when roses,
In classical fashion, were cocked o'er their noses.
So we'll take leave of CHILD and his capital book,
With a "Bon appetit" to the gourmet and cook.
When rustic woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that Curates flirt;
It pains, ah! sharper than the holly
Whose spikes her pretty fingers hurt.
Pleasant is pulpit-decoration,
And altar-ornamenting's sweet,
When girls get lost in contemplation
Of parson-whiskers, trim and neat.
Most pleasant too the cheery chatter
Of woodland parties, in the snow,
When gathering—well, well, no matter!
No more I'll hunt for mistletoe.
No more I'll stand and hold the ladder
For reverend gentlemen to mount.
Ah me! Few memories make me madder,
Though merrier ones I may not count.
Goose! How about those steps I'd linger!
Muff! How I bound my handkerchief
Last Christmas Eve, about his finger,
Pierced by that cruel holly-leaf!
And now he's going to marry MINNIE,
The wealthy farmer's freckled frump,
A little narrow-chested ninny!
Into Pound's pond I'll go and jump!
Yet no, Miss MIGGS and he might chuckle,
I know a trick worth two of that;
I'll up and take that fool, BOB BUCKLE,
I hate him, but his farm is fat.
When rustic woman stoops to folly,
And finds e'en Curates can betray,
What act can aggravate the "dolly"
Whose wealth has won his heart away?
The only art her grief to cover,
Enable her to lift her head,
And show her false white-chokered lover
She won't sing "Willow," is—to wed!
There is one line in our Mr. DU MAURIER's fascinating and fantastic novel, Peter Ibbetson, which every author should frame and hang up before his eyes in his study. 'Tis this, and 'tis to be found at page 217, Vol. ii.:—
"Write anyhow! Write for the greatest need and the greatest number."
"This is business," quoth the Baron, "and Peter who passed so much of his life asleep seems, when not dreaming, to be uncommonly wide awake."
A dainty book indeed for a Christmas present is The Vision of Sir Launfal, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, published by GAY AND BIRD—lively names these—but ought to have been GAY AND LARK. There is an interesting portrait of the Author as he was in 1842.
"My 'CO.,'" quoth the Baron, "deponeth thusly, as to Calendars generally,—not, however, including the one-eyed Kalendar of the Arabian Nights,—that MARCUS WARD, mark us well, comes out uncommonly strong, specially in the 'Boudoir' and also in the 'Shakspeare' Calendar, which latter hath for every day in the year 'a motto for every man.' Methinks this pretty well wipes off the Christmas score, which includes New Year gifts.
"Now as to books,"—continues the Baron, "here let me say that my favourite pocket-books, not specially for Christmas, but for all times and seasons, are those excellent travelling companions provided by CASSELL's National Library, BRADBURY AND AGNEW's Handy Volume Scott and Shakspeare, and ROUTLEDGE's Pocket Library, all really portable, and printed in the clearest type. These be welcome presents to 'constant readers.'" The Baron presents his "many grateful thanks," to quote our worthy ROBSON ROOSTUM PASHA, to a kind friend, poet, scholar and judicious critic, who, from the North, sends the Baron a seasonable present of a small volume of poems, published by HOLDEN, of St. Andrew's, N.B. (Quoth Mr. WAGG, "quite a new 'un, published by a hold 'un"—passons), entitled The Scarlet Gown, written by Mr. R.F. MURRAY. His verses are in the Calverley vein, the rhyming and rhythm easy, the jingle pleasant, the lines witty, and the subjects fresh. The local hits will be specially appreciated by St. Andrew's men. Everyone will enjoy "The City of Golf, the Adventures of a Poet." Cantabs especially will sympathise with the humour of "The Delights of Mathematics." "So here's to the poet in the wassail bowl; a Happy New Year and a Murray Christmas to him," says
NOTICE.—Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception.
Adscriptus Glebæ, 203
Advertisement Extraordinary, 195
After Lunch, 70
After the Season, 61
"After You!" 198
Alice in Thunderland, 27
All Berry Well, 255
Ancient Milliner (The), 241
"Angels and Ministers of Grace!" 135
"Annals of a Very Quiet Family," 161
Annals of a Watering-Place, 131, 141, 192
Another Strike threatened, 145
Answers to Correspondents, 57, 72, 253, 268
Anti-Hiss-trionic Bird (An), 301
Apparently Hard Case (An), 234
Appropriate Location, 138
Armada from the Spanish (The), 159
Arming the Amazons, 270
'Arry in Rome and London, 293
'Arry on a 'Ouse-Boat, 76
'Arry on Arrius, 302
"As Good as a Better," 133
"As he'd Like it," 162
Atropos and the Anthropoids, 169
At St. James's Hall, 2
At the Close of the Summer, 168
At the Door; or, Paterfamilias and the Young Spark, 90
At the Italian Opera, 209
"Audi Alteram Partem!" 185
Auld-(er)-man Gray, 72
Aunt at Will (An), 281
Author! Author! 25
Automatic Physiognomist (The), 181
Awakening of Father Christmas (The), 306
Bacon and a Mouthful, 61
Balder the Fair, 245
Ballade of Evening Newspapers (A), 23
Bard v. Bard, 213
Beggar's Petition (A), 165
"Below the Belt!" 227
Between the Acts, 219
"Big Big D" encored (The), 293
Birds of a Feather, 193
Bishop and the Sea-Serpent (The), 303
Bitter Cry of the British Bookmaker (The), 155
Bitter Cry of the Outcast Choir-Boy (The), 141
Blackfriars to Sloane Square, 57
Blendimus! 215
Board on Both Sides (The), 263
Board-School Christmas (A), 287
"Book of Burlesque" (A), 16
Bouillabaisse, 174
Boulanger, 179
Boy the Father of the Man (The), 192
British Association (The), 106
Broadly Speaking, 17
Browning Society Verses, 201
Bumble brought to Book, 110
Bumbledom's Big Opening, 170
Busy Bisley (The), 35
By George! 300
"By Jingo!" 249
Canadian "Search-Light" (The), 114
Cancel, or Recall, 241
Canine Sagacity, 108
Capless Maid (The), 63
Carmen Culinarium, 309
Caught by the Classics, 215
Chantrey Bequest à la Mode de Lisle (The), 1
Charlemagne and I, 161, 185
Chili Pickle (A), 219
Christmas Carol (A), 309
Christmas Numbers, 291
Civil Service Exhibition, 257
Common Complaint (A), 21
Compulsory Greek, 117
Conquered "Worth" (The), 153
Contribution towards Nursery Rhymes, 225
Coquette of the Period (The), 117
"Correct Cards, Gents!" 205
Creditable Incident in the Next War (A), 117
Cricket Paradox (A), 133
Cutting Remarks, 231
Defeat—or Something Near it, 21
Demographic Vade Mecum (The), 95
"Dick" Power, 279
Difference (The), 63
"Dilemma" (The), 6
"Disappointment of December" (The), 180
Doctor Laurie, 165
Doggerel by a "Disher," 147
Domestic Cookery, 168
Drawing the Badger, 230
Dwarfs in and about London, 155
Echoes from the Labour Commission, 240
"Egyptian Pet" (The), 246
Election Echo (An), 258
Elevating Exhibition (An), 251
"England, Home, and Beauty!" 294
English as she is Sung, 288
English Opera as she isn't Sung, 257
"Entertainment," 120
Enthusiasm à la Russe, 50
Essay in Reviewing (An), 189
Essence of Parliament, 11, 23, 35, 47, 59, 70
Evolution of Tommy's Private School Report, 204
Exit la Claque, 84
Extremes Meet, 153
Fallen Leader (A), 191
Family Ties, 186
Father and Son, 153
Fire King's Abdication (The), 14
"First-Class" Travelling, 111
Follow the Baron! 269
For the Benefit of Zoilus, 60
Frederick the Great at Burlington House, 293
Free and Independent, 203
"French as she is Spoke," 89
French as she is "Writ," 231
Friendly Tip to the Fighting Factions, 276
From a Very Occasional Correspondent, 93
From Bright to Dull, 179
From Darkest Africa, 119
From Grandolph the Explorer, 61
From Mashonaland, 239
Garrick School (The), 167
Genuine Regret (A), 108
Georgian Era at the Alhambra (The), 255
German Emperor going Nap (The), 159
Gilbert à Beckett, 195
Glory at the Lowest Price, 261
"Good-bye, Grandmamma!" 30
Good New "Times" (The), 269
G.P. and the G.P.O. (The), 191
"Gray's Elegy" Amended, 198
"Great Scot!" 61
Great Twin Brethren (The), 177
Grouse that Jack Shot (The), 147
Guzzling Cure (The), 131
Hanwellian Prize Competition, 41
"Hanging Theology," 150
Hard Lines for Him, 233
Harrying Our Hakims, 201
"Have we forgotten Gordon?" 78
"Helps" and Whelps, 93
Henley Regatta, 21
Her Violets! 57
Hide and Seek, 171
His Greatest Pleasure, 303
Hit and Miss, 48
Holiday Fare in Cornwall, 149
Home, Sweet Home! 193
Honours Divided, 156
"Hotel me, gentle Stranger!" 159
How it's Done, 264
How to be Popular, 84
How to Spend a Holiday on Scientific Principles, 77
Hygeia Off the Scent, 126
Hyjinks and Hygiene, 89
Hypnotised Lobster (The), 289
Iberian-Hibernian, 78
Idle and the Industrious Apprentice (The), 222
If the Fashion Spreads, 228
Ignorant Bliss, 131
Illegal Fictions, 291
Ill-luminants! 57
Imperial and Operatic, 33
Imperial Impressions, 35
Imperial Stage-Manager (An), 251
"In Cellar Deep," 159
International Nursery-Tale Congress, 173
In the Name of Charles Dibdin, 61
Io Triumphe! 237
James Russell Lowell, 93
Jawful News! 169
Jeames's Summary, 42
Jolly July, 27
Journal of a Rolling Stone, 156, 168, 180
Jubilee Greeting (A), 234
Just Caught the Post! 182
Kathleen and Petruchio, 282
Keep Watch! 177
King of the Beasts (The), 141
"Knot"-ical Story of Drury Lane (A), 125
Kurds and Away! 65
Laissez Faire, 193
Larks for Londoners, 61
Last of the Canterbury Tales (The), 156
Latest from Bobby (The), 228
Latest Weather-wise Doggerel (The), 153
"Latiné Doctes," 75
Leaves from a Candidate's Diary, 4, 39, 73
Le Roi (en Garçon) en Voyage, s'amuse, 89
Lesson from the R.N.E. (A), 81
Letters to Abstractions, 17, 25, 136, 184, 216, 229, 253, 277
Liberty and Licence, 16
Light Conduct in Heavenly Bodies, 239
Lines by a Lewisham Witler, 114
Literary Intelligence, 239
Little Germania Magnate (The), 258
Little Stranger (A), 213
London's Dilemma, 194
"Long Distance Swim" (A), 66
Lord Lytton, 267
Lost Opportunity (A), 291
Lover's Complaint (A), 81
Lullaby of an Infant Speculator, 221
Manners of Our Children (The), 108
Many Happy Returns! 126
Marlowe at Canterbury, 145
"Masher's Answer" (The), 241
Mask on a Mask (A), 24
Matter of Course (A), 129
Mayor and an Old Hunter (A), 289
Medicinal Music, 11
Memory of Milton (The), 231
Mems from Monkey-land, 252
Men of the Past, 167
Meredithomania, 49
Metropolitan Minotaur (The), 38
Miss Decima-Helyett-Smithson-Jackson, 84
Miss Nomer, 12
Modern "Bed of Procrustes" (The), 138
Modern Cagliostro (The), 155
Modern Traveller (The), 78
Modern Types, 5
Money makes the Man, 177
Monti the Matador, 48
More Excitement in Paris, 149
More Messages from the Mahatma, 123
Moth-eaten, 53
Motto for the Moment, 191
Mr. Clip's Appeal, 101
Mr. Punch Explains, 2
Mr. Punch's Anti-Labour Congress, 102
Mr. Punch's Naval Novel, 160
Mr. Punch's Quotation-Book, 2
Muscovite Version of a Music-Hall Chorus, 153
Musical Suggestion (A), 147
Music of the Spheres (The), 177
Naked Truth (The), 276
Name Wanted, 305
Naval Note, 137
Neptune's "At Home;" or, Neighbours United, 90
New Crusaders (The), 2
New Election "Lay" (A), 45
New Evangel (The), 179
New Leader (A), 51
New Name, 267
New Tory Nursery Rhyme, 61
New Way out of a Wager (A), 165
Night-Mailing, 229
Note (A), 81
Note and Query (A), 147
"Nothing but the Truth," 126
"Nothing in the Papers!" 106
Nothing like Labour, 239
Nothing New, 171
"Nothing succeeds like"—Succession? 6
Not Quite Polite, 87
"Now you're Quite the Gentleman!" 266
Ode to a Barometer, 106
Off-Portsmouth Phrase-Book (The), 231
Off to Masherland, 3, 15, 29, 41, 83
Old Doggerel Re-dressed, 114
Old Joe and the New (The), 210
Old School Buoy (An), 93
Old Times Revived, 240
Omitted from Portrait Gallery at the Royal Naval Exhibition, 63
Only Fancy! 201, 209, 217, 240, 245, 264, 273, 279, 305
Only One (The), 27
On the Bridge! 54
"On the Hyp"-notist, 275
On the Marlowe Memorial, 156
Operatic Birds, 66
Operatic Notes, 37
Opportunity (An), 277
Our Booking-Office, 84, 95, 99, 144, 145, 179, 189, 213, 225, 252, 257, 265, 281, 289, 309
"Our Children's Ears," 77
Our Real Desideratum, 155
Our Own Financial Column, 217, 233, 249, 261, 275, 288
Oysterless, 205
Oysters (not) for Ever! 169
Pannick in Gildhall (A), 293
Passionate Shepherd to his Love (The), 290
Paul Pry in the Purple, 285
Penny French—Twopence British, 96
Playgoer's "Last Word" (A), 186
Politesse, 88
Popular Songs Re-Sung, 167, 204, 276, 297
Possible Explanation, 267
Pretty Simpleton (The), 225
Prince (The), 49
"Prodigy Son" (The), 216
Programme of the Cyclopædic Circus, 285
Protected Female (The), 218
"Pugs" and "Mugs," 99
Purchase Officer's Guide to the Army (The), 12
Queer Christmas Party (A), 301
Queer Queries, 4, 5, 36, 49, 87, 106, 285
Quelching Quelch, 24
Queries for Cambridge Exam. Paper, 298
Queries for Candidates (L.C.C.), 225
Quite a Libel'y Prospect! 251
Quite a Little Novelty, 89
Quite a New Spec, 231
Quite Fabulous, 265
Rather Vague, 243
Raven (The), 206
Real Burning Question (A), 197
Real Treat (A), 13
Reflection by a General Reader, 191
Remonstrance (A), 193
Resignation, 63
"Revolted Mortimer," 153
Rhyme at Rhyl, 195
Riding the Pig, 60
Robert on the Coming Sho, 219
Robert on the Hemperer's Visit to the City, 5, 16
Robert on the Lord Mare's Sho, 243
Robert Sees the Photograff taken, 65
Robert's Future, 113
Robert's Romance, 129
Romance in Numbers (A), 183
Rule of Three (The), 59
Rusticus Expectans, 279
Safe Novel (A), 297
"Save me from my Friends!" 169
Scott (anything but) Free, 30
Seaside Asides, 108
"Semper Eadem," 73
Setting their Caps at him, 62
Shakspeare and North, not Christopher, 2
Shilling in the Pound Wise (A), 45
Silence and Sleep, 133
Smoked Off! 45
Solomon Pell in all his Glory, 119
Some Circular Notes, 88, 105, 109, 121, 143, 148
Some London "Fiends," 197
Song in Season (A), 113
Songs of the Unsentimentalist, 24
Song that Broke my Heart (The), 75
Sonnet of Vain Desire (A), 165
Sphinx and the Stick (The), 273
Stolen Pictures (The), 39
Storicules, 97, 120, 132, 135, 149, 173, 228
Story Out of Season (A), 101
Straight Tip to Canadian "Cross Coves," 179
Suggestion (A), 213
Suitor Resartus, 267
Supplementary and Corrective, 37
Surrey ABC (The), 108
"Sweet little Cherub that sits up aloft" (The), 254
Talk for Travellers, 177
Tea in Ten Minutes, 171
Telling the Wasps, 141
Terrible Tale (A), 73
Theory and Practice, 273
Theosophic Tools, 203
Thinning of the Thatch (The), 300
Timely Suggestion (A), 276
Tip by a Tory, 114
Tippling Sally, 189
To Amanda, 37
To Araminta, 189
To a Too-Engaging Maiden, 132
"To Err is Human," 168
To Evangeline, 281
Told in Tags, 298
To Lord Tennyson, 75
To my Lord Addington, 213
Too-Engaging Maiden's Reply (A), 197
Too Free to be Easy, 96
To the Grand Old Cricketer, 155
To the Shelved Sex, 93
Tran-slated, 287
Travelling Companions (The), 40, 52, 85, 100, 112, 124, 134, 146, 157, 172, 196, 208, 220, 232, 244, 256, 268, 280, 292, 304
Triple Alliance (A), 18
True Tennyson (The), 165
Truly Rooral Opera (A), 289
Trying it on, 210
Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy Up to Date, 207
Turning the Tables, 150
Two Emperors, 87
Two Graces (The), 219
Twopence Plain—a Penny Coloured, 294
Two Views of the next Invasion, 51
Two Winds (The), 122
Two Words in Season, 145
"Typical Developments," 233
'Umble Correction (An), 70
Unattractive Combination, 114
Under-Lyne'd, 165
Under the Screw, 96
Unhygienic Householder, 87
Upon a Glove, 63
Urbi et Orbi, 1
Vain Vaunt (A), 159
Very Near, 246
Voces Populi, 9, 13, 28, 69
Voices of the Night, 181
Vox et Præterea Nihil! 144
Waiters' Strike (The), 145
Wanted, a Word-Slayer, 97
War in a Fog, 221
Warlike Tale from the Pacific (A), 264
Waterloo to Weybridge, 39
Welcome, little Stranger! 289
Well done, Dear! 59
"Wells, I never!" 237
What hoe! Raikes! 75
What is a "Demographer"? 75
What's in a Title? 145
"What will he Do with it?" 174
Where are our Dairymaids? 129
"Where is dat Barty now?" 171
"Whether" and the Parks (The), 12
"Who Breaks Pays," 132
Why should Merit wait? 145
"Whys"—Wise and Otherwise, 225
William Henry Smith, 183
"Williams on Wheels," 305
"Will you, won't you?" 242
Without the Compliments of the Season, 297
With the B.M.A. at Bournemouth, 64
"Won't Work!" 74
Worth Noticing, 84
Wrong of Search (The), 53
Young Grandolph's Barty, 205
"After You!" 199
Arming the Amazons, 271
"As he'd Like it," 163
Awakening of Father Christmas; or, A Call to Alms (The), 307
Canadian "Search-Light" (The), 115
"Dilemma" (The), 7
"Egyptian Pet" (The), 247
"England, Home, and Beauty!" 295
Family Ties, 187
"Good-bye, Grandmamma!" 31
"Have we forgotten Gordon?" 79
Idle and Industrious Apprentice (The), 223
Jeames's Summary, 43
Jubilee Greeting (A), 235
Kathleen and Petruchio, 283
Little Germania Magnate (The), 259
"Long Distance Swim" (A), 67
Modern "Bed of Procrustes" (The), 139
Mr. Punch's Anti-Labour Congress, 103
Neptune's "At Home;" or, Neighbours United, 91
"Nothing but the Truth," 127
On the Bridge! 55
Triple Alliance (A), 19
Trying it on! 211
"Turning the Tables," 151
"What will he Do with it?"
Advertisements in Church, 63
Alice in Thunderland, 26
'Arry on Arrius, 302
Aunt Jane on Family Weddings, 207
Balfour on the Irish Pig, 50
Barristers Sketching in Court, 303
Blue-Ribbonite for Once only, 90
Blue-Ribbonite's Glass of Champagne, 27
Boiling the Porcelain Nest-Egg, 165
"Breezy Brighton," 262
Bumble Kicks the Drainage Petition, 170
"Burying the (Railway) Hatchet," 81
Butler's Opinion of Sir Pompey's Champagne, 174
Buying a Tie for a Wedding, 183
Captain Shaw, the Fire King, 14
Cave of the Winds (The), 122
Chamberlain and the Primrose Lady, 266
Chappie and Old Deer-Stalker, 267
Christian Czar and the Heathen Chinee, 86
Clergyman and a Bereaved Mother, 138
Cockney Sportsman and the Starlings, 215
Combat between Water and Wine, 201
Comic Amateur in a Country House, 114
Contralto Singer and Music Publisher, 219
Country Hostess and French Baron, 198
County Council and the Minotaur, 38
Cricket at Lord's, 46
Cyclist Centaur of the Future (The), 160
Daily Graphic's Weather-Young-Woman (The), 133
Dentist's Patient in Operating-Chair, 195
Devoting Swiss Tour to Lawn-Tennis, 186
Disappointed and Successful Artists, 39
Doctor and Nurse, 258
Drawing-Room Smelling of Tobacco-Smoke, 222
Drawing the Goschen Badger, 230
Election Fever—Victim's Vicissitudes, 286
Electric Light and the Householder, 98
Equestrian Clasping his Horse, 237
Ethel "Not at Home" to Governess, 294
Fancy Portrait of Sir W.V. Harcourt, 177
Father reading Son's School Report, 23
Fergusson Catching the Post, 182
Floods (The), 250
Garden Party on a Wet Day (A), 54
Gentleman on a Conjuror's Platform, 155
Gent's Reason for not admiring Browning, 171
German Emperor and Dogs of War, 158
German Emperor's Visit (The), 34
German Exhibition Hero (A), 192
Goddess of the Bathing Machine, 162
G.O.M. and East Dorset Election, 285
Grandmamma and Literary Grandson, 210
"Grandolph ad Leones," 202
Grandolph's Suggestion for Parliament, 94
Grandpapa and the Fortune-teller, 42
Greek Protected Female (The), 218
Hands versus Ears, 123
Hunting Man in a Pond, 213
Inebriated Old Gent and British Association, 106
Irish Sportsman's Rebellious Dogs, 74
John Bull Prospero and Electric Ariel, 254
Jones "Marking" the Game, 261
Ladies in the House of Commons, 58
Ladies v. Boys at Cricket, 126
Lady Covets Old Gent's Dog, 78
Lady Godiva and Fair Frenchwoman, 135
Lady inviting Swell to Shoot Geese, 246
Lady Visitor and Mrs. Jones's Concert, 30
Lady wanting to learn Zenana Stitch, 111
Lady wearing a Gentleman's Coat, 147
Lancashire Watering-Place (A), 166
Lightly-Stepping Horse (A), 227
Little Maid and a Toyshopman, 150
Lord Chancellor and Burglar Witness, 242
Mature Siren and Lady Friend, 87
Middle-Aged Ladies' Amenities, 275
Miss Parliamentina puts her House in Order, 82
Mr. and Mrs. Jones on Matrimony, 102
Mr. Punch at the Potteries, 238
Mr. Punch Drinks to the Old Year, 310
Mr. Punch in Ireland, 142
Mr. Punch in Wales, 154
Mr. Punch on Board the Irish Mail, 130
Mr. Punch on Tour in Yorkshire, 274
Mr. Punch Thanking the World, 47
Mr. Punch visits Scarborough Spa, 178
Mrs. Blunderby's "Chef-d'oeuvres," 239
Newspaper Difficulties, 75
Old Cyclist and Roughs, 6
Old Tabby of a Mother-in-law, 306
Old Lady and the Cricket Club, 159
Only One Young Lady at Home, 287
Optical Illusion in Lady's Orchestra, 95
Parliamentary Bees on the Wing, 71
Parliamentary Night-Birds, 10
Parliamentary Official's Holiday (The), 118
Paterfamilias Starting for the Meet, 282
Patient's Vision of Dentist's Forceps, 70
Peer and the Salmon (The), 133
Percy and Miss Fitzogre's Nose, 284
Plain Country Gentleman and Son, 203
Poster for the next German Exhibition, 190
Promising Four-Year-Old Hunter (A), 298
Punch and the Prince of Naples, 49
Quick Change Chancellor (The), 299
Ratepayers' Revolt against County Council, 263
Raven at the War-Office (The), 206
Rector's Wife and Aspiring Buttons, 243
Reminiscence of the Ryde Season (A), 226
Ritchie's Work for Bumble, 110
Royal (Olympic) Divorce (A), 137
Russian Emperor and Republics, 62
Rustic Voter and Party River, 278
Sailors in the Back-yards, 2
Senior and Junior Counsel, 279
Sentry "coming out of his Kennel," 255
Shepherd Gladstone Piping to Agriculture, 290
Sir Augustus Harris, Knight, 59
Sir Richard Temple's Farewell, 107
Slipping down a Road-Car Staircase, 191
Society at the Botanical Gardens, 22
Swell's Difficulty with a Hatband, 99
Sporting Major and Laconic Waiter, 179
Street Ballad-Singer and Harpist, 45
Swell's Idea of seeing "L'Enfant Prodigue," 18
Thames Embankment as it Might be, 214
Tiff between Two Bards (A), 51
Torture by a Circular Hair-Brush, 265
Traveller who has Lost his Purse, 291
Undergraduates discussing Dante, 231
Vocalist and Talking Friends, 11
Wagnerian, but not a Musician (A), 251
Welsh Cars for Lord Mayor's Show, 241
Witch Monopoly and Fair London, 104
Young Bride and "Tom Jones," 270
Young Lady Boating with no Chaperon, 66