Author of "A Handbook of Literary Curiosities," "Curiosities of
Popular Customs," "Faust, the Legend and the Poem," etc.
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1909
Copyright 1909, by
WILLIAM S. WALSH
New York
Published March 1909
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The American Juggernaut | [Frontispiece] |
| [All illustrations are at end of text] | PAGE |
| Divorce A Vinculo | [114] |
| The American Difficulty | [115] |
| The American Gladiators | [116] |
| Naughty Jonathan | [117] |
| How they went to take Canada | [118] |
| A Family Quarrel | [119] |
| King Cotton Bound | [120] |
| The Genu-ine Othello | [121] |
| Over the Way | [122] |
| The Wilful Boy | [123] |
| Look out for Squalls | [124] |
| A Bad Case of Throwing Stones | [125] |
| Waiting for an Answer | [126] |
| A Likely Story | [127] |
| Columbia's Fix | [128] |
| Boxing Day | [129] |
| "Up a Tree" | [130] |
| Naughty Jonathan | [131] |
| Oberon and Titania | [132] |
| Peace | [133] |
| The New Orleans Plume | [134] |
| The "Sensation" Struggle in America | [135] |
| The Latest from America | [136] |
| One Good Turn Deserves Another | [137] |
| Lincoln's Two Dificulties | [138] |
| "Not up to Time" | [139] |
| The Overdue Bill | [140] |
| More Free than Welcome | [141] |
| Abe Lincoln's Last Card | [142] |
| Latest from Spirit-Land | [143] |
| Scene from the American "Tempest" | [144] |
| "Beware" | [145] |
| The Great "Cannon Game" | [146] |
| "Rowdy" Notions of Emancipation | [147] |
| Brutus and Cæsar | [148] |
| The Black Conscription | [149] |
| John Bull's Neutrality | [150] |
| Scylla and Charybdis | [151] |
| The Storm-Signal | [152] |
| Extremes Meet | [153] |
| "Beecher's American Soothing Syrup" | [154] |
| "Holding a Candle to the ****" | [155] |
| Neutrality | [156] |
| Something for Paddy | [157] |
| Very Probable | [158] |
| Mrs. North and her Attorney | [159] |
| Columbia's Sewing-Machine | [160] |
| The Black Draft | [161] |
| The Federal Phœnix | [162] |
| Grand Transformation Scene | [163] |
| The Threatening Notice | [164] |
| Vulcan in the Sulks | [165] |
| The American Gladiators—Habet! | [166] |
| Brittania Sympathises with Columbia | [167] |