Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life
PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
Edited by J. A. Hammerton
Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to “Punch,” from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.
He. “By the bye, talking of old times, do you remember that occasion when I made such an awful ass of myself?”
She. “ Which? ”
MR. PUNCH IN SOCIETY
BEING THE HUMOURS OF SOCIAL LIFE
WITH 133 ILLUSTRATIONS
GEORGE DU MAURIER, CHARLES KEENE, PHIL MAY, L. RAVEN-HILL, C. E. BROCK, J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE, A. S. BOYD, REGINALD CLEAVER, LEWIS BAUMER, F. H. TOWNSEND AND OTHERS
PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE PROPRIETORS OF “PUNCH”
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MR. PUNCH IN SOCIETY
INTRODUCTION
MR. PUNCH IN SOCIETY
A SEASONABLE LETTER
THE “BOOK TEA”
THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID
THINGS ONE MIGHT HAVE EXPRESSED OTHERWISE
THE SOCIETY VOICE
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS
MAY FAIR NURSERY RHYMES
THE LATEST THING IN CRIME
“ANOTHER PAIR OF SLEEVES”
SERVICE AND SOCIETY NEWS
THE LAMENT OF THE LADIES’ MAN
“AWFUL” TASTE IN 1875!
DISTINGUISHED INVALIDS
A DANCE DIALOGUE
THE SOCIETY SWEAR
ROBERT’S ROMANCE
FOR CHARITY’S SAKE
UNLUCKY SPEECHES
SOME EMOTIONS BUT NO MORAL
THE GREAT KNEE-BREECHES QUESTION
THE LATEST CRAZE
THE LADIES’ COLUMN
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