A RACE FOR THE COUNTRY. CLAIMING THE LAND.


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Advice Gratis, 291, 305

After Dinner—at the Close of the Year, 1

After the Event, 268

"Airy Fairy Lilly 'Un!" 125

"All's (Fairly) Well," 189

"And a good Judge, too," 87

Anglo-American French, 108

Another Rural Conference, 37

Another Shakspeare, 133

Any Man to any Woman, 227

April Showers, 198

Archdeacon Answered (The), 310

"Are you Hansard now?" 133

'Arry Examined, 15

'Arry on Wheels, 217

Ars Longa, 221

Art in the City, 232

Atrabilious Liverpool, 6

Aspirations, 262

At Mrs. Ram's, 42

Attack on the "Capital" (The), 66

Bachelor's Growl (A), 294

Berlin Citizen's Diary (A), 190

Better and Better, 268

"Beyond the Dreams of Avarice," 161

Bird of Prey (A), 230

Blizzard from the North, 278

Boat-Race Day, 169

Bogie Man (The), 138

Bones of Joseph (The), 313

Bos v. Boss, 9

Bounds of Science (The), 182

Boxing Imbroglio (The), 39

Brawling at Home and Abroad, 179

Breaking, 186

Brer Fox and Old Man Crow, 281

Bridal Wreath (The), 42

Broken Bonds, 182

Brother Brush, A.R.A., 65

Brown-Jones Incident (The), 197

Burial of the "Broad Gauge" (The), 266

Burning Words, 237

"Butchered to make ——," 147

Butter and Bosh, 138

By a Small Western, 93

By One of the Unemployed, 289

Capital! 25

"Call you this Backing your Friends?" 218

Cardinal Manning, 39

"Cave Kanem!" 315

Change of Name suggested, 42

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 73

"Charles, his Friends," 83

Chef's New Dish for Travellers (The), 124

Chimes (The), 2

Christmas in Germany, 24

Churlish Cabman (The), 157

City Men, 94

"Clerk me no Clerks," 153

Climatic Nomenclature for the New Year, 6

Cockney Classics, 179

"Combining Amusement with Instruction," 100

"Come hither, Hubert!" 69

Coming of Ninety-Two, 6

Complicated Case, 89

Confessions of a Duffer, 35, 45, 49, 76, 97, 125, 141, 169, 202, 229, 256, 285

Connected with the Press, 189

Considerate, 265

Couplet by a Cynic, 222

Courier of the Hague (The), 289

Court Cards, 233

Covent Garden Masque (The), 37

Cries without Wool, 48, 129

Criterion of Morals (A), 225

Crossed-Examination, 24

Cross-Examiner's Vade Mecum (The), 27

Cupid's Tennis-Courts, 81

Cursory Observation (A), 213

"Cuts!" 303

Dangerous Title (A), 72

Dawn of a New Era (The), 48

Day at Antwerp (A), 277

"Deadly Cigarette" (The), 252

Death in the Pop, 124

Dentist's Waiting-Room (A), 261

"De Profundis," 209

Destroying the Spider's Web, 159

Dialogue of the Future (A), 37

Dissolution—(as the Enemy of the London Season), 290

Dogs and Cats, 94

Doing the Old Masters, 121

Dreams, 131

Drinks and Dramas, 189

Duke of Devonshire (The), 1

Dynamite Dragon (The), 186

Dynamitical Arguments, 21

Earl's Court Idyl (An), 304

Early Spring, 229

Effectively Settling it, 172

Election Notes, 321

Empty Triumph (An), 172

Encounter, 124

Entêtement Britannique, 133

Episcopacy in Danger, 268

Essence of Parliament, 84, 90, 102, 114, 131, 143, 155, 166, 179, 190, 227, 238, 244, 264, 274, 286, 300, 310, 317

Fair Philosopher (A), 41

Fair Traders, 261

Fancy Ball (The), 106

Fête of Flora (The), 313

Fettered, 195

Fogged! 21

Force of Example (The), 135

Foreign and Home News, 73

"Foresters" (The), 161

Free and Easy Theatres, 36

"Frogs" at Oxford (The), 145

From a Lahore Paper, 298

From Parliamentary Exam. Paper, 99

From Robert, 174

From the Shades, 262

From the Theatres, &c., Commission, 198

Fudge Formula (A), 118

General's Little Fund (The), 242

Gifted Being (A), 310

Gifts for the New Year, 9

Girls of the Period, 305

Gladstonian Mem (A), 47

Good Grace-ious! 85

Good News indeed! 36

Great Loss to Everybody (A), 135

Greek meets Greek, 9

"Hair-Cutting, Singeing, and Shampooing," 136

Hamlet in half an hour, 281

Hamlet in the Haymarket (The), 185

Hamlet; or, Keeping it Dark, 225

"Hard to Beer!" 25

Haunted House (The), 250

"Heavens!" 69

High (Beerbohm) Treason! 65

History as she is Played! 273

Hero of the Summer Sale (The), 60

Honour of the Bar (The), 48

Horace in London, 93, 120, 137, 149, 269, 312

Horse-Educator (The), 316

Hospitality à la Mode, 145

How they bring the Good News, 214

How to Report the Practice of the Crews, 159

How to Save London, 113

Humpty-Dumpty up again! 17

Hyde Park Corner, 261

Imperial Jack-in-the-Box (The), 51

In Defence of the Great Paradoxist, 262

India for the Irish! 99

In Fancy Dress, 196

Influenza Song (An), 93

Inharmonious Colours, 306

"Innings declared Closed," 282

In Statu,—quo? 70

In the Seat of Wisdom, 94

In this style, Six-and-Eightpence, 81

"It will Wash!" 288

Jim's Jottings, 14, 85

Jokim's Latest Little Joke, 204

Judges in Council (The), 59

Justice for Justice, 108

Kensington Gardens, 297

Killing no Murder, 266

King and the Clown (The), 172

"Know all men by these Presents," 213

Lady Gay's Selections, 261, 273, 286, 300, 302, 313

"La Grippe," 61

La Justice pour Rire, 218

Last of the Guards (The), 75

Latterday Valentine (A), 89

Laying a Ghost, 201

Lay of the Analytic Novelist (The), 17

Lay of the Literary Autolycus (The), 213

Lay of the Litigant (The), 60

Lay Sermon (A), 246

Lays of Modern Home, 9

Legend of the Mutton Bone (The), 192

Letters to Abstractions, 5, 72, 112, 184

Liquor Question (A), 193

Limb and the Law (The), 262

"Little Holiday" (A), 126

Local Colour, 94

Lockwood the Lecturer, 145

Lord Bramwell, 258

Lord Wildermere's Mother-in-Law, 123

Lost Luggage, 265

"Marie, come up!" 57

"Married and Single," 273

Marvels of Modern Science (The), 157

Matinée Mania, 165

Matrimony Up to Date, 39

"Meeting of the Waters" (The), 118

Mems. of Theatres, &c., Commission, 244

Menu from Birmingham (A), 70

Menu from Hatfield (A), 54

Mixed, 245

Moan of the Music-Hall Muse (The), 278

Modern Alexander's Feast (The), 111

Modesty of Genius (The), 133

More Bones to Pick with the School-Board, 81

More than Satisfied, 241

Morning of the Derby (The), 273

Mr. Bayly's Coast-Spectre, 47

Mr. Goschen's Budget, 193

Mr. Punch's Agricultural Novel, 226

Mr. Punch's Boat-Race Novel, 177

Mr. Punch's Hebridean Salmon-Fly Book, 205

Mr. Punch's New-Year Honours, Gifts, Good Wishes, and Greetings, 23

Mr. Punch's Royal Academy Guide, 220

Mr. Punch's Up-to-Date Poetry for Children, 145, 213

Mr. Punch to the Illustrated London News, 242

Mr. Punch to the Life-boat Men, 74

Mrs. Ram on Current Politics, 69

"Murder in Jest," 237

"Music in Our Street" (The), 57

"Must it come to this?" 129

"My dear Eyes! What! See-usan!" 153

My Soap, 193

"Names and their Meaning," 171

Neo-Dramatic Nursery Rhyme, 193

"Ne Plus Ulster," 305

Newest Narcissus (The), 194

New Gallery (The), 227

New Learning (The), 249

New Monitor (The), 18

News about Bismarck, 317

New Songstress (A), 315

Night Lights, 57

"Not at Home!" 234

Ode to a Giraffe, 173

Odont.! 298

"Off his Feed," 123

Old Friend at the Criterion (An), 101

Old Song Revived (An), 294

On a New Yearling, 13

"One Touch of Nature," 262

Only Fancy! 12, 23, 29, 39

On my Lady's Poodle, 261

On Religious Cymbalism, 106

"On the Blazoned Scroll of Fame," 141

On the First Green Chair, 189

On the (Post) Cards, 209

On the Row among the Romancers, 240

"On the Sly," 83

On the Traill, 60

Opera-Goer's Diary (The), 257, 280

Operatic Notes, 269, 293, 305, 313

"Orme! Sweet Orme!" 242

Other "Westminster Stable" (The), 246

Our Booking-Office, 4, 21, 36, 41, 60, 94, 108, 109, 133, 149, 185, 197, 250, 257, 268

Our Cookery-Bookery, 249

Our Cricketers, 179

Our Humorous Composer, 25

Our Sal Volatile; or, A Wriggler Sarpint of Old Nile, 278

"Out in the Cold!" 63

Paddywhack and Dr. Birch, 105

Palmy Day at St. Raphael (A), 65

Paragon Frame (of Mind) (A), 69

Parliament à la Mode de Paris, 51

Parliament in Sport, 63

Personal Paragraphs, 181

Philosophic Stupidity, 118

Playful Sally (The), 304

Playing Old Harry at the Lyceum, 33

Plea for the Defence (A), 137

"Pleased as Punch," 65

"Pleasing the Pigs!" 73

Poet and the Songs (The), 173

Point of View (The), 206

Polite Literature, 59

Political Johnny Gilpin (The), 318

Political Lady-Cricketers (The), 254

Politics, 315

Ponsch, Prince of Ollendorff, 148

Popular Songs Re-sung, 13, 109, 143, 237

Poser for Mr. Weatherby (A), 126

Preserved Venice, 52

Preux Chevalier, 36

Private and the Public (The), 120

Private Reflections of the Public Orator at Cambridge, 297

"Probable Starters," 282

Prudes and Nudes, 174

Puzzler for a Costumier, 69

Queer Queries, 118

Query by a Depressed Convalescent, 89

Query by "Pen" (A), 94

Question of Politeness, 171

Quite Appropriate, 240

Quite Clear, 9

Quite in Keeping, 273

Rather Large Order (A), 184

Receipt against Influenza, 61

Reckoning without their Host, 223

Recollections of (Cockney) "Arabian" Days and Nights, 234

Reddie-turus Salutat, 218

"Regrets and Greaves," 246

Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, &c., 180

Reported Disappearance of the Broad Gauge, 258

Repulsing the Amazons, 216

"Resignation of an Alderman," 280

Respectability, 37

"Returned Empty" (The), 26

Rice and Prunes, 101

Rich v. Poor, 133

Riddle (A), 69, 227

"Ring and the Book" (The), 120

Robert in a Fog! 24

Robert on the Hartistic Copperashun, 206

Robert's Cure for the Hinfluenzy, 96

Royal Academy Banquet, 222

Saints or Sinners? 205

Sanitary Congress at Venice (The), 39

Scale with the False Weights (The), 124

Screwed up at Magdalen, 118

Seasonable (and Suitable) Good Wishes, 9

Seasonable Weather, 228

Settler for Mr. Woods (A), 121

Seven Ages of Woman (The), 230

Shady Valet (A), 195

"Signs" of the Times, 171

Simple Stories, 4

Singular Plurality, 262

Sly Old Socrates, 309

(Soldiers') Life we Live (The), 214

Something New in Soap, 65

Song for Lord Rosebery, 42

Sonnet on the South-Eastern, 218

Spring's Delights in London, 193

Spring Time in Leap Year, 150

St. John's Wood, 262

Strange but True, 87

Strange Charge against a Great Poet, 132

Studies in the New Poetry, 268, 292

Sunday Observance, 173

Syllogisms of the Stump, 297

Take Care! 83

Taking a Sight at Ringandknock, 201

Talk over the Tub (A), 54

"Ta-ra-ra" Boom (The), 149

Telephone Cinderella (The), 162

Telephonic Theatre-goers, 208

Tennysonian Fragment (A), 89

"Textuel," 282

Theatres and Music Halls Commission, 173

Theft v. Thrift, 23

"There's the Rub!" 30

"This Indenture witnesseth," 73

Times Change, 99

Tip from Our Own Booking-Office, 318

Tip-top Tipster (A), 280

"'Tis Merry in Hall," 157

To a Railway Foot-Warmer, 133

To be or Not to be—discovered, 278

To Justice, 9

To Lord Salisbury, 258

To my Cigarette, 53

To my Cook, 201

Too Conscientious, 240

Too Much of a Good Thing, 48

Tooting, 161

To Police-Constables Smeeth and Tappin, 81

To Queen Coal, 138

To the Future A.R.A., 72

To the Grand Old Tory, 237

To the New "Queen of the May," 210

To the Queen, 61

To the Young City Men, 147

Town Thoughts from the Country, 193

Tramways, 245

Travelling Companions (The), 11, 16, 23, 40, 64, 83

Trial in Novel Form (A), 12

True and Trusty, 70

True Modesty, 211

Truly and Reely, 84

Two Archers (The), 227

Two Dromios, 171

Two Shepherds (The), 87

Una and the British Lion, 314

Unasked, 30

Unobserved of One "Observer" (The), 106

Upon Julia's Coat, 189

Useful Cricketer (The), 297

Vans de Luxe, 252

Venice at Olympia, 36

Venice in London, 41

Venice Reserved, 253

"Versailles" in Leicester Square, 301

Very "Dark Horse" (A), 270

Very "French before Breakfast," 262

Very Natural Error, 288

Very Orchid! 168

Vigorous Vicar (The), 288

"Vive la Liberté!" 106

Volunteer Review at Dover (The), 172

Waiting Game (A), 174

Walt Whitman, 179

Want (A), 193

Water-Colour Room at the Academy (The), 227

Way they have in the Army (The), 292

Weather Reform, 96

Wellington Monument (The), 213

What do they Mean by it? 129

"When Greek meets Greek," 306

Whipped in Vain, 73

Wilde "Tage" to a Tame Play (A), 113

Wilful Wilhelm, 146

William the Whaler, 170

With the Easter Eggs, 185

World on the Wheels (The), 222

Wrestling with Whistlers, 181

Wright and Wrong, 85

Ye Moderates of London, 145

Young Girl's Companion (The), 204, 216, 225, 252