Showell’s Comic Guide to the Inventories. London, 1885.
The Story of the Life of Napoleon III., as told by Popular Caricaturists of the last Thirty Years. London: John Camden Hotten, 1871.
Tom Treddlehoyle’s Peep at t’ Manchister Art Treasures Exhebishan e 1857, an uther wunderful things beside at cum in hiz way i t’ city of Manchister. 1857.
Transactions of the Loggerville Literary Society. London: Printed for Private Circulation by J. R. Smith, 36, Soho Square, 1867. Illustrated. This singular work contains a “Concise History of England,” in 61 verses, a burlesque examination paper, and “Dandyados,” a Tragedy, which is a parody of “Bombastes Furioso.”
The Tutor’s Assistant; or Comic Figures of Arithmetic; slightly altered and elucidated from Walking-Game. By Alfred Crowquill, i.e. A. H. Forrester. London, 1843.
The World Turned inside out; or Comic Geography, and Comic History of England. With Illustrations. London: Diprose and Bateman (originally published in 1844).
A Mathematical Problem.
If you take the mean of an isosceles triangle, bisect it at one and an eighth, giving a centrifugal force of three to one; then describe a gradient on its periphery of ¾ to the square inch, throwing off the right angles from the previously ascertained square root, you form a rhomboid whose base is equal to the circumference of a circle of twice its own cubic contents. These premisses being granted it stands to reason that it is impossible for a steam engine of 40 H.P. nominal to go through a tunnel of the same dimensions, without tearing the piston cock off the main boiler, even with the rotation derived from a double stuffing box, high pressure steam, and a vacuum of 43°. Q. E. D.
