The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities
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NOTICE.
The FIRST SERIES of THE COMIC ALMANACK , from 1835 to 1843, a nine years' gathering of the Best Humour, the Wittiest Sayings, the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things of Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A'Beckett, Robert Brough, with nearly one thousand Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by the inimitable Cruikshank, Hine, Landells—
May now be had of the Publishers, crown 8vo, 600 pp.,
price 7 s. 6 d.
☞ The First Series and the present (or Second Series) comprise
THE COMPLETE WORK, extending from 1835 to 1853 .
THE
COMIC ALMANACK,
2nd Series, 1844-1853.
Probable Effects of Over Female-Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting all our own to Australia!!!!!
William Makepeace Thackeray
Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
Henry Mayhew
Horace Mayhew
Albert Smith
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CONTENTS
HINTS ON ECONOMY.
HINTS TO EMIGRANTS.
PREDICTIONS FOR JANUARY.
THE GARDEN.
DECISIONS IN HILARY TERM.
MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS.
USEFUL REMARKS.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE WEATHER.
PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS.
PREDICTIONS FOR MARCH.
GARDENING OPERATIONS.
OBSERVATIONS.
THE MARCH OF INTELLECT.
THE WEATHER.
FARMING OPERATIONS.
PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS.
"ALL HAIL, MACBETH!"
WHO SHALL EDUCATE THE PRINCE OF WALES?
ELECTION CORRESPONDENCE.
THROWN OUT FOR THE CITY.
CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE PRIZE CARTOONS.
THE WATERING-PLACES OF ENGLAND.
DOMESTIC HINTS FOR THE FIRST OF APRIL.
POLITICAL PAS-DE-QUATRE.
THE FEAST OF THE GROTTOES.
ODE TO FATHER MATHEW.
POPULAR ERRORS.
REPORT ON PUBLIC HEALTH.
POLITICS ABROAD.
THE SINGING MOUSE.
OBSERVATIONS OF A NATURALIST.
THE DOGS' BILL.
FACTS WORTH REMEMBERING.
ROYAL PANTOMIME.
THE POLAR EXPEDITION.
THE LEGAL ART-UNION.
POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
CATECHISM OF POLITICS FOR THE FRENCH.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
THE OMNIBUS CONDUCTORS' LAMENT.
A SHORT TREATISE ON TIDES.
THE ECLIPSES FOR 1845.
"TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL."
SENTIMENTS FOR THE STAGE.
THE REASON FOR FUDDLING ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY,
LONDON IMPROVEMENTS.
OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
ODE TO FASHION.
QUARTER DAY.
SPRING: AFTER THOMSON.
GOING TO ST. PAUL'S.
A PANIC AT THE BANK.
FINE ART DISTRIBUTION.
THE HORTICULTURAL FATE.
GOLDEN RULES FOR MENDICANTS.
SUMMERY JUSTICE.
OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
THE CONTEST FOR AN ALDERMANIC GOWN.
ANTIPATHIES OF REMARKABLE CHARACTERS.
THE FALL OF THE LEAF.
A NEW TABLE TO CALCULATE WAGES.
DIRECTIONS FOR BREWING.
ASSESSED TAXES.
THE POLKA PLAGUE.
SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
OUR PRIZE PROPHECY.
ABOLITION OF DUELLING.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN JANUARY.
THE GIPSY'S PROPHECY.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN FEBRUARY.
FIRE ESCAPES.
BALLAD:
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN MARCH.
TO FIND OUT WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS
THE TRADE WIND GENERATOR.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN MAY.
"OUGHT OLIVER CROMWELL TO HAVE A STATUE?"
THE FARCE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN JUNE.
THE BOUQUET PROJECTOR, OR CERITO CATAPULT.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN JULY.
THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN AUGUST.
MARTYRS OF SCIENCE.
THE JURY'S GUIDE TO FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
THE REVELATIONS OF LONDON.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN SEPTEMBER.
THE NEW MAGAZINE MACHINE.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN NOVEMBER.
THE TRAFALGAR FOUNTAINS.
HINTS TO NOVELISTS, FOR 1846.
THE READ-UP, OR JAMESONIAN.
THE PSEUDO-GRAPHIC, OR WEAK BOZ-AND-WATER.
THE TOPOGRAPHICAL, OR TRANSATLANTIC.
THE ECLOGIC, OR GOREAN.
MOTTOES FOR CRACKER BONBONS.
THINGS TO BE BORNE IN MIND IN DECEMBER.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
MEETING OF THE DWARFS.
THE WOMAN OF MIND.
THE CLOUD.
A MONO-RHYME.
I DREAMT THAT I SLEPT AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S.
THE EDUCATION OF THE SOLDIER.
TO THE IDLE OF MY HEART.
TEMPUS EDAX RERUM.
ADVICE TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
DE BLACK DOLLIBUS.
PEOPLE ONE MEETS IN SOCIETY.
A NEW OPENING FOR VALENTINES.
PROBLEMS VERY EASY OF SOLUTION.
PROBLEMS RATHER DIFFICULT OF SOLUTION.
THE MOST DIFFICULT PROBLEM OF ALL.
THE STOCK MARKET.
FULL MOURNING AND HALF MOURNING.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF MR. BROOK GREEN.
THE DUTY OFF TEA.
ABSENTEES AND EMIGRANTS DURING 1847.
THE UNIVERSAL SMASHER.
THE RESPECTABLE MAN.
BEWARE.
THE GULL.
A PRIZE BAD JOKE.
MATERIALS FOR AN IRISH SPEECH.
SWEET ARE THE USES OF TEARS.
SEA-SIDE ENTOMOLOGY.
BACON'S NOVUM ORGANUM.
THE CHEMIST'S CAT.
HUNTING AN HEIR.
THE LANGUAGE OF VEGETABLES.
A MYSTERY OF LONDON.
A BUNDLE OF DEFINITIONS.
MOVEMENT OF THE FINE ARTS.
THE FIRST NIGHT OF A PANTOMIME.
CHANGE.
THE UNIVERSAL PHILANTHROPIST.
THE CITY "FAST MAN."
EXPRESSIVE CHINESE PROVERBS.
AN IMAGINARY RUN ON A TURKISH RAILWAY.
THE POTATO ITSELF AGAIN.
SHIRTICULTURE.
A LONDON INTERIOR.
POPULAR CONTINENTAL DELUSIONS RESPECTING ENGLAND.
NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.
QUESTION AND ANSWER.
FULL-FLAVOURED SIMILE.
FASHIONS FOR 1849.
A Little Difference between Them.
INCREDIBLE TESTIMONIAL.
HOW STARS ARE DISCOVERED.
ASTLEY'S HISTORICAL QUESTIONS.
APOLLO ARRESTED BY A WRIT.
CONSCIENCE MONEY.
THE GAME OF FRIGHT.
CAPITAL OFFENDERS
AN EXTENSIVE ORDER.
SQUIBS IN STATUES.
VALUABLE ADVICE.
PLAY-BILL DIALOGUES.
MAKE A WORSE ONE IF YOU CAN.
THE MILITARY GAME OF GOOSE.
TALES OF A LANDLORD.
AN AIRY LODGING.
TWO LITTLE CUTS THROWN IN.
BEFORE.
AFTER.
"ANY ONE FOR EGYPT?—EGYPT!"
"THE GOOD OLD TIMES."
ALL A-BLOWING! ALL A-GROWING!
THE LORD MAYOR IN IRELAND.
DREADFUL CASE OF AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.
COCKNEY ENIGMAS.
THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
"FEMALE EMIGRATION."
THE CENSUS OF 1851.
THE LION HUNTER'S MUSEUM.
A LEAF OUT OF LEDRU ROLLIN'S BOOK.
ALARMING SACRIFICE
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE COMIC ALMANACK."
OUR PET THIEF.
THE "WHAT IS IT?"
BLOOMERISM IN FULL BLOW.
THE BATTLE OF THE HARVEST FIELD.
THE BATTLE OF THE YATCHES.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KOH-I-NOOR.
MRS. BEAKEY'S TABLE (AND CHAIR) TALK.
IRISH AUCTIONS.
PROPHETIC AND MYSTERIOUS HINTS FOR 1852.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
ECLIPSES IN 1852.
THE NIGHTINGALE.
THE GOLDEN AGE COMING.
THE GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.
OUR OWN "NOTES AND QUERIES."
THE OPERA HABITUÉ.
MR. BULL'S GLASS OF WATER.
CURIOUS TRAIT OF NATIONAL MANNERS.
TABLE OF THE PROBABLE DURATION OF LIFE.
THE RIDDLER.
OUR ADVERTISING COLUMN.
OUR OWN PRESIDENT OF FRANCE.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
JANUARY.
ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON IN 1853.
FEBRUARY.
MARCH.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
MORE RAILWAY ASSURANCE,
AN AUSTRALIAN ECLOGUE.
THE CHANGE IN THE WEATHER.
THE MONSTER SWEEP.
FULL DRESS.
A GREAT MISTAKE.
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY;
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
