Mr. Punch's Railway Book
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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.
PHIL MAY, GEORGE DU MAURIER, CHARLES KEENE, JOHN LEECH, SIR JOHN TENNIEL, E. T. REED, L. RAVENHILL, J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE, REGINALD CLEAVER, AND MANY OTHER HUMOROUS ARTISTS
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Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo, 192 pages fully illustrated LIFE IN LONDON COUNTRY LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS SCOTTISH HUMOUR IRISH HUMOUR COCKNEY HUMOUR IN SOCIETY AFTER DINNER STORIES IN BOHEMIA AT THE PLAY MR. PUNCH AT HOME ON THE CONTINONG RAILWAY BOOK AT THE SEASIDE MR. PUNCH AFLOAT IN THE HUNTING FIELD MR. PUNCH ON TOUR WITH ROD AND GUN MR. PUNCH AWHEEL BOOK OF SPORTS GOLF STORIES IN WIG AND GOWN ON THE WARPATH BOOK OF LOVE WITH THE CHILDREN
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE.
MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK
PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR
"READING BETWEEN THE LINES"
MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK
THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD.
Punch Library of Humour
A WORD AT STARTING
MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK
AN EXCITING TIME
A TRAGEDY ON THE GREAT NORTHERN
A REMINDER
NOTES OF TRAVEL
THE LEVEL CROSSING
THE MISSING SPINSTER
MOST OFFENSIVE
A RAILWAY COLLUSION—A HINT TO STATION-MASTERS
CHANGELINGS; OR, A STORY WITHOUT (POLITE) WORDS.
UNDERGROUND STUDIES
SMOKING COMPARTMENT
WAIT TILL THE TRAIN STOPS
THIRD CLASS. TO SEAT SIX
THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
REPARTEES FOR THE RAILWAY
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION—A PLEASANT STATE OF THINGS
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TYPES.
THE THIRD-CLASS TRAVELLER'S PETITION
A CAUTION
THE FIRST "BRADSHAW"
THE SLOW TRAIN
A BANK HOLIDAY SKETCH
RAILWAY LUXURIES
RAILWAY AND SOCIAL SYNONYMS
OUR COUNTRY COUSINS
THE TOURIST'S ALPHABET
STARTLING!
"THE MORE HASTE THE WORSE SPEED"
WHEN IN DOUBT—DON'T!
A DILEMMA
RISKS
TO MY "PUFF PUFF"
DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE
TO A RAILWAY FOOT-WARMER
"A LIBERAL MEASURE"
ZOOLOGY
LOGIC
"A MAN AND A PASSENGER!"
VOCES POPULI
I
NOT QUITE UP TO DATE
NOTES OF TRAVEL
IN THE UNDERGROUND
LA BELLE DAME SANS "MERCI"
"TOUT VIENT À QUI SAIT ATTENDRE"
A STATION ON THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE LINE
TRYING POSITION OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY LONG AFTER STERNE'S
A NON-SEQUITUR
THE TWOPENNY TUBE
HIGHLY ACCOMMODATING
SKYLIGHT VIEW—A RAILWAY STATION
IN A SLOW TRAIN
RAILWAY MAXIMS
"THERE BE LAND RATS"
AFTER AN EASTERTIDE FESTIVITY—ON THE INNER CIRCLE
RAILWAY SCALE OF MANNERS
EPITAPH ON A LOCOMOTIVE.
MUDDLEBY JUNCTION
TEA IN TEN MINUTES
BEHIND THE SCENES
A LUSUS MACHINER—Æ
RAILWAY COMPANIONS
I.
II.
À FORTIORI
"JUST OUT!"—(AT ALL THE LIBRARIES)
RATHER SUSPICIOUS
FROM THE GENERAL TO THE PARTICULAR
A NEW RACE IN AFRICA
A LITTLE FARCE AT A RAILWAY STATION
TWO VIEWS OF IT
INJURED INNOCENCE
"NEM. CON.!"
RECIPROCAL
RAILWAY LITERATURE
SATISFACTORY
AN UNDERGROUND SELL
QUITE UP TO DATE
VOCES POPULI
II.
THE BRANCH STATION
A COOL CARD
THAT IT SHOULD COME TO THIS!
ART!
PERMISSIVE SLAUGHTER
BEHIND TIME
"FORCE OF HABIT"
WHY TAKE A CHILL?
QUITE UNIMPORTANT.
IN THE HOT WEATHER TOO!
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID
A SCENE AT A RAILWAY STATION
A LUXURIOUS HABIT
"THE OTHER WAY ABOUT"
THE PORTER'S SLAM
MANNERS AND CVSTOMS OF YE ENGLYSHE IN 1849
MR. PIPS HIS DIARY
NARCISSUS
"COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON"
INOPPORTUNE
THE TYMPANUM
"THE BLOCK SYSTEM"
WONDERS OF MODERN TRAVEL
FOND DELUSION
FOR LADIES ONLY
A DISENCHANTMENT
PATENT FIRST-CLASS COSTUME FOR THE COLLISION SEASON
JUDGING BY APPEARANCES
COLD COMFORT
"THE NURSERY SALOON ON THE RAILWAY"
RAILWAY PUZZLE
VICARIOUS!
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
REGULAR IRREGULARITY
"'TIS BETTER NOT TO KNOW"
APPALLING DISCLOSURES OVERHEARD BY AN OLD LADY IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO RUFFIANS IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
NECESSITIES OF LIFE
A STRIKING ATTITUDE
THE RAILWAY JUGGERNAUT OF 1845
AFTER A DERBY-WINNER-DINNER
"THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM"
THE QUESTION SETTLED
THE OLD HALL
RULES FOR THE RAIL
ABOLITION OF SECOND-CLASS CARRIAGES
"TIME BY THE FORELOCK"!
APRIL 1
UNNECESSARY REMARKS
"OVERCAST"
A DELIGHTFUL REMINISCENCE OF THE BOAT-RACE
PRIVILEGES OF HIGH RANK
"THE NEWS"
A REAL GRIEVANCE
BLACKFRIARS TO SLOANE SQUARE
SO LIKELY!
A SPEEDY RETRIBUTION
A HINT TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS
SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE
ADJUSTMENT
THE LIMITED MALE.
A DEFINITION WANTED
MY SEASON TICKET
AN INQUIRING MIND
MASHONALAND RAILWAY
THE FLYING SCOTCHMAN
AT A RAILWAY STATION
SYMPATHY
THE ROUGH'S RAILWAY GUIDE
YE RAILWAY STATION DURING YE HOLIDAY TIME IN YE ROMAN PERIOD
"WAR'S ALARMS"
THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER
OBSTRUCTIONISTS IN A SMOKING CARRIAGE
TERMINUS TRIOLETS
