Category: Humour
Transition and growth, change and decay and reconstruction marked the half-century covered in the previous three volumes. In the twenty-two years that divide the return of the Liberals in 1892 from the "Grand Smash" (as Mr. Page has called it) of 1914, these features are inten...
Our relations with the United States were bettered at the opening of 1897 by the signing of the Arbitration Treaty adjusting the Venezuelan question. In Europe events did not co...
5. PART IIIn a period of change and transition, in which the decline of the influence of the old "governing classes" was attended by the rise of a new type of statesman, the stability of...
6. ACT IIIrving had met with various vicissitudes of criticism at _Punch's_ hands during his career. But latterly admiration prevailed, and, when the end came, real affection shines thro...
3. PART ITransition and growth, change and decay and reconstruction marked the half-century covered in the previous three volumes. In the twenty-two years that divide the return of the L...
11. iv. 205, 206Crystal Palace: name coined by Douglas Jerrold, i. 40; moved to Sydenham, i. 44; Queen Victoria opens, i. 47; humorous handbooks to, _ibid._; concerts, ii. 308 _seq._, 311; exhi...
16. iii. 395;Reade, Charles, iii. 317; _Foul Play_, ii. 273; _Never Too Late to Mend_, ii. 288; and "the Menken," ii. 289; _The Wandering Heir_, ii. 292; letter on condition of servants, iii...
12. iv. 160Journalism, Victorian, i. 237; ii. 145 _seq._, 172; and letters, iii. 317-28; children in, iv. 293; altered status of, _ibid._; censorship of war correspondents by Japan, _ibid....
7. iii. 24;waning prestige, iii. 24 _seq._; and Afghan war, iii. 26; death of, iii. 30; quoted, iii. 139; and Public Worship Regulation Bill, iii. 158; on visit of Prince of Wales to India...
10. iii. 160;"Mitred Misery," iii. 172; doctrinal opportunism, _ibid._; disestablishment scare in 1885, iii. 173; trial of Bishop King of Lincoln, iii. 174; Bishop Jayne commended, _ibid._;...
15. i. 138, 206Peel, Sir Robert, and Tom Hood, i. 15; dismisses Rowland Hill, i. 36; _P.'s_ monument to, i. 53 _ill._; tribute to, i. 85; and Colonel Fawcett's widow, i. 114, 115 _ill._; enter...
17. iii. 225Wellington, 1st Duke of: on the poor, i. 6; criticized, i. 18; appoints special constables, i. 54; duel with Lord Winchilsea, i. 114, 115 _ill._; letter to _Times_, i. 117; on i...
9. iv. 103-35Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, ii. 192; the "Brummagem Lion," _ill._, ii. 193; iii. 6, 85; and Home Rule in 1886, iii. 44 _seq._; Unionist, iii. 57; Leader of the Liberal-Unionis...
13. iv. 341-4Napoleon III, a special constable, i. 54; ally of England, i. 124; as modern Damocles, i. 195 _ill._; _P.'s_ hostility to, i. 122, 306; friction with, ii. 3, 10, 17; as porcupin...
8. iii. 143;Burnand, Sir Frank: _Cox and Box_, i. 155; ii. 235, 273; iii. 363; editor of _P._, iii. 150, 171; as a parodist, iii. 325; as playwright, iii. 343; resigns editorship of _P._, i...
14. iii. 226;Opera, i. 276 _seq._; "Jenkins" on, i. 278; ii. 282-319; iii. 356-66; opera bouffe, ii. 285; English opera houses, fate of, iii. 181 _seq._; German, French, Italian and English,...
18. iv. 1842. PART II1. PART I