Punch, August 23, 1890
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About this eBook
- Author
- Various
- Title
- Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 23, 1890
- Credits
- Produced by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- AP: General Works: Periodicals
- Subject
- English wit and humor -- Periodicals
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 12392
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12392
- Release Date
- May 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
- 2.Vol. 99.
- 3.August 23, 1890.
- 4.NOVELTY UP TO DATE. — ACT I. — Act II.— Interior of the Palace of Elsinore, near Edinburgh, arranged for Private Theatricals. MACCLAUDIUS, MACGERTRUDE and Court seated, with TELMAH acting as Prompter. — ACT III.— The Military Tournament at the Agricultural Hall, Elsinore, near Edinburgh , TELMAH, and MACLAERTES, discovered fencing.
- 5.PROS AND CONS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. — ( By a Hesitating Trippist. ) — AN OBJECT OF COMPASSION.
- 6.VOCES POPULI. — COCKNEY COQUETRY: A STUDY IN REGENT'S PARK. — SCENE— Near the Band-Stand. TIME—7 P.M. on a Sunday in August. — CHARACTERS.
- 7.THE GROAN OF THE "GROWLER." — A CONTENTED MIND.
- 8.TO A FEATHER-HEADED POET.
- 9.A VERY SHORT HOLIDAY. — ( By One who enjoyed it. )
- 10.IN THE KNOW. — ( By Mr. Punch's Own Prophet. ) — (I.) Buenos Ayres, Monday. — (II.) Buenos Ayres, Monday. — (III.) Guatemala, Sunday. — (IV.) San Salvador, Sunday.
- 11.THE REAL GRIEVANCE OFFICE. — ( Before Mr. Commissioner Punch.) — An Engineer Officer, R.N., introduced. — DIGNITY IN DISTRESS.
- 12.MIGHT BE BETTER!
- 13.LITTERÆ INHUMANIORES. — ( Selected from the Projected International Schoolboy Correspondence. ) — From TOMMY, Eton, to JULES, Lycée Henri IV. — From JULES, Lycée Henri IV., to TOMMY, Eton. — MIGHT BE BETTER!
- 14.TO CANADA.
- 15.A NATIONAL APPEAL.
- 16.MR. JOSKINS BUYS A BOOK ON HORSEBREAKING, AND TRIES HIS HAND.
- 17.THE LESSON OF THE SEASON. — IMITATION THE SINCEREST FLATTERY.
- 18.JOHN HENRY NEWMAN. — BORN, FEBRUARY 21, 1801. DIED AUGUST 11, 1890.
- 19.FEE VERY SIMPLE. — A PLEASANT PROSPECT!
- 20.THE JACKDAW. — ( Imitated from Edgar Poe, by an Indignant "Obstructive." )
- 21.ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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