Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, by Rogers & Larminie,
in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
Here, O Public! here they are! You have been clamoring in the most importunate and flattering fashion for a re-issue of the Cartoons of Grip, and out of pure good humour, I have gone to work and re-drawn them for you, because, you must know, these destiny-shaping pictures were not originally engraved upon wood, but were produced by lithography, and in due time each was utterly erased from the stone to make way for bill-heads and cigar labels. This has been no light task, but of course my good will towards men, together with the anticipation of being an author and writing an “introduction,” made it a labour of love. Now, the fact of the public request aforesaid will spare me the usual editorial humiliation of an introductory apology; and I need say nothing here about the subject matter of the sketches, as I have written an explanatory note (comprehensive and lucid enough I hope) opposite to each, and, therefore, my prefatory remarks are complete—with, by the way, a word to the Critics. Dear Critics, I defy you to do your worst. This work, as you know in your heart of hearts, is above criticism. There are no errata to be found in the text, and no false perspective or other defects in the drawings. If you hit upon anything that may persuade you to the contrary pray don’t write it. Come and see me personally at No. 2 Toronto Street, where I have hung my basket, and every Saturday croak “Never Say Die” to an ever increasing circle of patrons. But what an ungrateful rook I am to be sure, thus impudently chattering to those who have shown me nothing but generosity during my career, and to be thus boring the generous Canadian Public who have, with unexampled goodness, bestowed their favours on
Their humble Raven,
Grip.
CONTENTS.
| Canada’s Farewell to Punshon, | [1] |
| After the Session; or, The Situation, | [2] |
| The New Mother Hubbard, | [3] |
| Law and Justice, | [4] |
| The Huntington Business, | [5] |
| An Overworked Mayor, | [6] |
| Canada’s “Laocoon,” | [7] |
| Will he come to Grief? | [8] |
| Dufferin’s Tormentors, or “Per vias Rectas,” | [9] |
| Isn’t that a Dainty Dish to set before a King? | [ 10] |
| Whither are we Drifting? | [11] |
| The Beauties of a Royal Commission, | [12] |
| Waiting for Huntington, | [13] |
| Wanted, a Good Stout Boy, | [14] |
| The Irrepressible Showman, | [15] |
| Blackwash and Whitewash, | [16] |
| “We in Canada seem to have lost all idea of Justice, Honour and Integrity,” | [17] |
| “Progressing Favourably,” | [18] |
| Rehearsing for the 23rd instant, | [19] |
| “Will he get through?” | [20] |
| A case of Riel Distress, | [21] |
| “Of comfort no man speak. Let’s talk of graves, and worms and epitaphs,” | [22] |
| Miss Canada’s School, | [23] |
| The Political Mother Hubbard, | [24] |
| The Irrepressible Jack, | [25] |
| The Premier’s Model, | [26] |
| The Liberal Programme, or the Era of Purification, | [27] |
| The Political Giant Killer, | [28] |
| The West Toronto Run | [29] |
| “Christmas Pie,” | [30] |
| Johnny’s “Turn,” or New Year’s Joy, | [31] |
| The Cruel Object of “Dissolution,” | [32] |
| “Never Out,” | [33] |
| The New “Heathen Chinee,” | [34] |
| Political Pastimes, | [35] |
| Pity the Dominie! or Johnny’s Return, | [36] |
| Grip’s Valentine to Canada, | [37] |
| The New Departure, | [38] |
| The Curse of Canada, | [39] |
| The Opposition Quartette, | [40] |
| The Political Handy Andy, | [41] |
| A Question for Pay Day, | [42] |
| Grip’s Perpetual Comedy, | [43] |
| The Vacant Chair, | [44] |
| The Science of Cheek, | [45] |
| A Touching Appeal, | [46] |
| Protestantism at Ottawa, | [47] |
| Mrs. Gamp’s Home-Thrust, | [48] |
| The Political Atlas, | [49] |
| Pacific Pastimes; or, “The Hard Road to Travel,” | [50] |
| “Dignity” without “Impudence,” | [51] |
| Ambition’s Thorny Path, | [52] |