"Pauper Song," 301

"Pauvre Malheureux," The, 191

Paxton, Sir Joseph, the Punch Dinner, and the Crystal Palace, 84; 185, 480

Payn, Mr. James, 277, 406

Peake, R. B., 330

"Peccavi" dispatch, 361

"Pecksniff Papers," 289, 290

Peel, Sir Robert, 108, 109, 153, 198;
Leech's drawing of, 202, 203;
and "Pecksniff," 290;
and Hood's pension, 336;
"The Modern Sisyphus," 455

Pegram, Mr. Fred, 570

Pennington, Mr. Harper, 559

"Penny Satirist," 188, 293

Phillips, John, and Staff of Punch, 19; 412

Phillips, Watts, and the "Journal for Laughter," 56; 342, 372, 458, 459

"Phiz," see Browne, Hablôt Knight

Photography, Caricature illustrations of, 491

"Phrenological Manipulation of the Head of Punch," 240

"Physiology of a London Medical Student," 305

"Pictures of Life and Character," 422

"Pictures from Punch," 52

Pigott, Mr., 558

"Pin Money" cartoon, 334

Pincott, Mr., 242

Pinwell, George, 520

"Pips hys Diary, Mr.," 455

Piracy, 151-157

Pius IX., 102

Plagiarisms and repetitions, 150-167, 480

"Plea for Plush, A," 343

Plunkett, H. P., see "Grattan," H. P.

"Pocket-Book, Punch's," 349, 369, 406, 432, 464, 471, 497, 498, 500, 501, 525, 527

"Pocket Ibsen," 399

Poe's "Bells," 166

Poirée, M. Emmanuel, 570

Poland, 106, 120

"Political Pas de Quatre, The," 153

Politics of Punch, 78, 80, 99-121, 169, 189, 197

Poor, the, Representations of, 3, 187, 189

"Poor Man's Friend, The," 174

Pope, The, 102, 109, 120

Portch, Julian, 501

Portraits of Punch, 8, 9

Postans, R. B., and the origin of Punch, 12, 17, 19; 283

Practical jokes at the Punch Club, 94

"Prehistoric Peeps," 562, 563

Prehn, Mr., 528

"Prendergast, Paul," see Leigh, Percival

Pre-Raphaelite movement, 111, 126

Press, The, opinions of Punch, 30, 33, 41, 212, 213;
Punch's attacks on, 209-213

Pretty woman, Mr. du Maurier's, 509, 510

Pritchett, Mr. R. T., 410, 423, 483, 520, 521

"Prize Novelists," 320, 337

"Process" block system, 253

"Proser, The," 321

Prospectus of Punch, 19-23

Protection and Free Trade, 118

Prowse, Jeff, 232, 364

Prussia, King of, 119

Public executions, 428

"Puck," 459

"Punch, His Origin and Career, Mr.," 12

"Punch to an eminent personage, Mr.," 321

"Punch in the East," 317

"Punch," Statuette of, 62

Punch Club, 52, 55, 93-98, 452

Punch Dinner, The, 40, 53-87, 168

Punch dinners, Special, 87-92

"Punch in London," Jerrold's, 25, 226, 273

"Punch's Complete Letter-Writer," 294

"Punch's Holidays," 50

"Punch's Letters to her Daughter, Mrs.," 11

"Punch's Letters to his Son," 288, 450

"Punch's Mazurka," 52

Puns, Supply of, 151;
Mr. Burnand's, 366, 367;
"Crowquill's," 450

"Puppet-Show," The, 156, 173, 231, 239, 354, 414

Purity of Punch, 5, 6, 8, 242, 243

Puseyism, 102, 103, 111

"Puzzle-heads," 555


"Q Papers," The, 285-287

Queen, see Victoria, Queen

"Queer Queries," 384


Rackham, Peter, and the Punch Dinners, 85

Railway mania, 116, 315, 317

Ralston, Mr. W., 166, 251, 372, 392, 410, 543

"Ramsbotham, Mrs.," 236-238

Reach, Angus, 132, 280, 281, 306;
friendship with Shirley Brooks, 357

"Real Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The," 366

"Records of the Great Exhibition, extracted from Punch," 51

Rede, Leman, 283

Reed, Alfred, 532

Reed, Mr. Edward J., 391

Reed, Mr. E. T., 67;
politics, 80;
the Two Pins Club, 98; 151; 560-563

"Reflections on New Year's Day," 335

Reform, 118, 179

Religionist, Punch as a, 102-105

"Restored skeleton of a bicyclist," 561

Reunion Club (afterwards the Savage Club), 56

Rigby, J., 342

Ritchie, Mrs. Thackeray, 442

Riviere, R.A., Mr. Briton, 126, 539, 540

"Robert, the City Waiter," 385, 386

Roberts, Mr. J. H., 372, 404, 566

Robertson, Tom, 232

Robinson, H. R., 523

Robley, Major-General H. G., 546, 547

Rodwell, G. H. B., 283

Roebuck, Mr., 232

Rogat, Mr., 523

Rogers, Rev. W., and Lord John Russell, 196

Romer, Mr. Justice, 38

Romer, Mrs., 529 note, 541

Rosebery, Lord, 170, 180, 205

Rothschild, Baron de, and the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill, 105; 161

Royal Academy and the Punch artists, 126-128

"Royal Patent," Punch's, 62

Rusden, Mr. Athelstan, 549

Ruskin, Professor, on Punch's representations of the poor, 3;
on Punch Staff as citizens, 111;
on "General Février," 176;
on Punch's politics, 197;
on "John Bull," 206;
on the "Song of the Shirt," 334;
a remonstrance with Punch, 408;
on a drawing by Leech, 426;
on Mr. du Maurier's drawings of children, 507;
on Mr. du Maurier's satire, 512, 513

Russell of Killowen, Lord, 98

Russell, Lord John, and the heading of the Punch prospectus, 23;
as David attacking Goliath, 102;
and the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill, 105;
the New Reform Bill, 118;
the "Political Pas de Quatre," 153;
"No Popery" cartoon, 196;
and Leech, 196, 348;
"Story of the Mhow Court Martial," 343;
and the "Modern Sisyphus," 455;
"Lord Jack the Giant-killer," 470;
Punch's sobriquet, 473

Russell, Sir W. H., and the Punch Dinners, 86; 298

Russia, exclusion of Punch from, 105;
destruction of Punch cartoons, 194;
Alexander III. and Lord Augustus Loftus, 194, 195;
typical representations, 206

Russian Bear, 119, 120, 192, 208


"S," 454

Sala, Mr. George Augustus, speech at the "Albion" dinner, 88; 135;
and "A Word with Punch," 227; 243, 277;
on Horace Mayhew, 328;
contributions, 387, 388;
and A. S. Henning, 411;
on W. McConnell, 460;
on C. H. Bennett, 527

Salisbury, Lord, and the "Pas de Deux," 179

Sambourne, Mr. L.: his portraits of Punch, 9;
caricature by Mr. Furniss, 61; 67, 79;
politics, 80;
and the "cartoon junior," 82, 170;
drawing of the "Mahogany Tree," 89, 180; 536;
the Two Pins Club, 98;
"He won't be happy till he gets it," 160;
cartoons, 171 and note;
and difficulties in the production of cartoons, 183;
"The Modern Alexander's Feast," 192;
and treatment of cartoons in Russia, 194;
an attempt at blank verse, 373; 455; 531-537

Sambourne, Miss Maud, 566

Sands, Mr. J., 410, 542, 543

"Satirist," 234

Saunderson, Mr., 499

Savage Club, 56, 527

Scott, Mr. Clement, 232, 388, 389

Scottish jokes, 139-141, 161

Scottish testimonial to Thackeray, 320

Scudamore, F. I., 361

Seaman, Mr. Owen, 405

Seccombe, Colonel, 523

Sergeant-at-Arms as a beetle, 145, 146

Serle, T. J., 259, 336, 337

Seymour, Robert, 158, 186, 188, 273

Shakespeare Club, 447

Shakespeare Dinner, 87

Shakespeare "Tercentenary Number," 50

Shepherd, Mr. J. A., 567

Sherbrooke, Lord, and Mr. Lucy's joke, 390

Shields, Mr. Frederic, on C. H. Bennett, 527; 530

"Ship," Greenwich, Jubilee Dinner at the, 89

Sibthorpe, Colonel, 232

Sichel, Mr. Walter, 406

"Side Scenes of Everyday Society," 305

Signatures of Punch's artists (Appendix I.), 573, 574

Silver, Mr. Henry, 66;
extract from diary of proceedings at a Punch Dinner, 68-73; 79, 196;
contributions, etc., 347, 348;
on Leech, 433, 442;
friendship with Charles Keene, 479, 480

"Singular Letter from the Regent of Spain," 315, 316

Sketchley, Arthur, 317, 407

Sketchley, Mr. R. F., 61, 67, 368, 369

Slavery, 165

Smalley, Mr., 180

Smith, Albert, and "Visit to the Watering-Places," 49;
victim of a practical joke, 94;
withdrawal from Punch, 94, 306, 315;
a repartee to Mark Lemon, 95;
his lectures, 128, 304;
and "A Word with Punch," 228; 281;
and the benefit for Jerrold's widow, 298;
relations with the Staff, 303, 304;
biographical summary, 303-306

Smith, Horace, 259, 346

Smith, Mr. J. Moyr, 540, 541

Smith, Orrin, 12;
and the "London Charivari," 15; 248

Smith, Mr. W. G., 549

Smith, Mr. W. H., portraits in Punch, 204

"Snobs of England," 74, 318

"Social Evil, The," 428

"Social Miseries," 187, 416

Social reformer, Punch as a, 124, 126, 185, 397

Socialists, and Punch's "summary justice," 235

"Song of the Shirt," 146, 176, 331-334

Sothern, Mr., adventure with a policeman, 351;
and "Lord Dundreary," 424

"Spec's Remonstrance, Mr.," 316

Spelling reform, and Thackeray, 317

Spielmann, M. H., 407

Spurgeon, Mr., and Punch cartoons, 199

"Squeers, Mr.," Original of, 451

"Squib," The, 274, 275, 412, 414

Staff of Punch, relative contributions, 258-260, 263;
their love of children, 294, 295;
artists challenge the literary members, 372;
"Family Trees," 382

Stafford, Mr., 570

Stage, The, and Punch's support, 128, 129

"Stags: a Drama of To-day, The," 315

"Standard," The, 50;
and "Mrs. Gamp" and "Mrs. Harris," 211;
attack on Punch, 212, 213

Stanfield, Clarkson, and the Punch Club, 93;
relations between Dickens and Lemon, 353

Stephens, Mr. Henry Pottinger, 402, 403

Stewart, General Sir Henry, 183

Stone, Mr. Frank, and the Punch Club, 93

Storey, A.R.A., Mr. G. A., 41, 126, 557

"Storicules," 402

"Story of a Feather," 290

"Story of the Mhow Court Martial," 343

Stowers, Mr., 556

"Stranger, A," Contributions from, 501

Strasynski, L., 537

"Street-sweeping Machines," 155, 479

Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 64, 98

Sullivan, Mr. J. F., 567

Sunday opening of museums, 102

Sussex Hotel, Punch Dinner at, 64

Swain, Mr. Joseph, 82, 247-253, 498

Sweaters, 104

Sykes, Mr. Arthur A., 122, 372, 404, 566


Table-turning, 424

Tanner, M.P., Dr., 554

Taylor, Tom, 60, 61, 68, 69;
politics, 99, 367;