Category: Humour
SIR AUGUSTUS ANGLO-OPERATICUS has done well at Covent Garden, and will probably go one better. To Miss ALICE ESTY, as _Elsa_, in _Lohengrin_, we say "_Esty perpetua_." All are good: and the houses have been apparently as good as the company. A season of German-French-Italian O...
SIR AUGUSTUS ANGLO-OPERATICUS has done well at Covent Garden, and will probably go one better. To Miss ALICE ESTY, as _Elsa_, in _Lohengrin_, we say "_Esty perpetua_." All are g...
4. CHAPTER III.And so the plot was discovered just in time. The nefarious BROWN had kidnapped the Professor on his way to the hall, had stolen his robes, and disguised himself so as to play th...
5. CHAPTER I.--_The Recluse.Once upon a time there was a little goblin called KIPPER, who lived the life of a hermit in a hollow oak-tree in the New Forest. He never made merry with the elves, and had a po...
2. CHAPTER I.The great reform had been effected. Thanks to the Matrimonial Tripos Act, passed a few years previously, it was no longer left to blind chance to decide what women should receiv...
3. CHAPTER II.The great examination had begun. Ranged at the long rows of tables sat the fairest of England's maidenhood; some conning the paper with painful perplexity, while others scribble...