DOI issue:
December 3, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0231
December 3, 1864.1
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
225
A FLOURISH BY OUR FLORIST.
Now men November chill benumbs,
In bloom are the Chrysanthemums;
Now while its gloom the town beglums,
How bright are the Chrysanthemums !
So to the Temple Garden comes
The world to the Chrysanthemums:
By omnibuses, cabs, and “ brums,”
All flock to the Chrysanthemums.
From splendid squares and squalid slums
They crush to the Chrysanthemums.
Hear how the crowd, admiring, hums
Its praise of the Chrysanthemums !
See how the children suck their thumbs
While viewing the Chrysanthemums !
Miss Laura her piano strums,
Then hies to the Chrysanthemums ;
And Master Charles invites his chums
To see the famed Chrysanthemums.
Some white as snow, some red as plums,
Ne’er grew such grand Chrysanthemum.-.
In India there are no Begums
So gay as the Chrysanthemums.
Now sound the trumpets, beat the drums,
Let off your loudest a-la-rums.
For lo ! great Punch the Conqueror comes
To visit the Chrysanthemums !
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
The following works will be published, in the course of
the Season, by the annexed eminent Eirms :—
A History of Giants (Longmans).
The Manufacture of Port-wine (Smith & Elder).
The Court of King Arthur (Yirtue & Co.).
A Manual of Heraldry (Griffins).
The Undertaker’s Vade-Mecum (Hurst & Blackett).
A Treatise on the Skeleton (Bohn’s Series).
The Philistine’s Captive (Sampson Low). .
A CAUTION
to young- ladies waiting for an omnibus.
Motto for the late Toll-keeprr of Southwark
Bridge.—■“ Non toll me Tang ere.” Ereely translated: “I
touch no more Toll.”
The Saxon “ Punch.”—The Wittynagemot.
APOLOGY FOR THE GERMAN SOCIETY.
BY HERR VON SCHWEPENBIER.
The spectacle of Germans loving one another out-and-out, and stick-
ing fast to one another through thick and thin, notwithstanding aught
that one another may have done to anybody else, dumfounds English-
men with angry bewilderment. A clear explanation of this mystery
shall therefore be offered to the beef-headed ones.
The common sonship of Fatherland unites all Germans in the para-
mount bond of a brotherhood of transcendental holiness. Every German
individual unit is as one of the molecules of a mass of matter united
with the cohesiveness of wax. Hence the homogeneity of the German
people.
Every German has an inner subjective self, of divine essence, and an
outer objectivity into which the subjective occasionally passes, and
having there awhile submitted itself to the appetites and the impulses,
returns into its pure Ipseity, none the worse for having perhaps been
engaged in picking pockets or cutting throats in the meantime.
It is in the state of objective consciousness that the great German
nation, as one man, actuated by an acquisitive enthusiasm, rushes in
overwhelming force on a neighbouring State, and dismembers it of two
provinces necessary to complete the idea of German unity, and realise a
German fleet. What if, in the execution of that exploit, they kill and
mutilate any number of the antagonists who offer them resistance ?
For when Germany has returned from the objective into serene subjec-
tiveness, what has been has ceased to be in the thought of Germans,
and is not any more, so they innocently wonder to hear themselves
accused of robbery and murder.
So when, in a momentary excursion from the Inner of Moral Con-
sciousness, the German mind, rendered for the time objective by the
attraction of a watch and chain, or a portemonnaie, impels the German
hand to grab those articles, and to knock their owner on the head for
brevity and precaution, the German, having satisfied his objective
craving, retires into his subjective tranquillity, and resumes his habitu-
ally mild and gentle demeanour. The assassination and robbery which
his objective personality has committed, are a mere episode of his essen-
tial life. They are dismissed from his subjective mind, and he goes
about as light-hearted as though nothing had happened. He and his
countrymen regard those acts as the work of a past entity, and not his
present own. They, therefore, think it monstrously cruel to hang him
on the ground that he is guilty of them. The inner I of the German
ever retains its essential purity unsullied, under all circumstances, and,
consequently, his brothers use their utmost endeavours to prevent
brutal foreigners from putting out his I, as if he were a. common objec-
tive ruffian, by the capital punishment of stretching his neck, for the
trifling offence of cracking an old gentleman’s skull, by the way.
It is hoped that this elucidation of a sentiment which has been
blindly mistaken for the mutual sympathy of rascals, may prove satis-
factory. __
Note on Dress.
In an article that appeared lately in the Times on “ Left-off Clothes,”
there was an omission of some moment. No mention was made of the
fancy Watchmakers have for second-hand things. They were also the
last to leave off wearing clocks on their stockings.
A VEXED AND VERY VEXATIOUS QUESTION.
There is a question of another Italian loan of three millions. This
seems destined to be the perpetual great difficulty that Italy, as an
united kingdom, will have to contend with, viz., the settlement of its
Capital. _____
One Way of Rising in the Navy.—Being mast-headed.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
225
A FLOURISH BY OUR FLORIST.
Now men November chill benumbs,
In bloom are the Chrysanthemums;
Now while its gloom the town beglums,
How bright are the Chrysanthemums !
So to the Temple Garden comes
The world to the Chrysanthemums:
By omnibuses, cabs, and “ brums,”
All flock to the Chrysanthemums.
From splendid squares and squalid slums
They crush to the Chrysanthemums.
Hear how the crowd, admiring, hums
Its praise of the Chrysanthemums !
See how the children suck their thumbs
While viewing the Chrysanthemums !
Miss Laura her piano strums,
Then hies to the Chrysanthemums ;
And Master Charles invites his chums
To see the famed Chrysanthemums.
Some white as snow, some red as plums,
Ne’er grew such grand Chrysanthemum.-.
In India there are no Begums
So gay as the Chrysanthemums.
Now sound the trumpets, beat the drums,
Let off your loudest a-la-rums.
For lo ! great Punch the Conqueror comes
To visit the Chrysanthemums !
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
The following works will be published, in the course of
the Season, by the annexed eminent Eirms :—
A History of Giants (Longmans).
The Manufacture of Port-wine (Smith & Elder).
The Court of King Arthur (Yirtue & Co.).
A Manual of Heraldry (Griffins).
The Undertaker’s Vade-Mecum (Hurst & Blackett).
A Treatise on the Skeleton (Bohn’s Series).
The Philistine’s Captive (Sampson Low). .
A CAUTION
to young- ladies waiting for an omnibus.
Motto for the late Toll-keeprr of Southwark
Bridge.—■“ Non toll me Tang ere.” Ereely translated: “I
touch no more Toll.”
The Saxon “ Punch.”—The Wittynagemot.
APOLOGY FOR THE GERMAN SOCIETY.
BY HERR VON SCHWEPENBIER.
The spectacle of Germans loving one another out-and-out, and stick-
ing fast to one another through thick and thin, notwithstanding aught
that one another may have done to anybody else, dumfounds English-
men with angry bewilderment. A clear explanation of this mystery
shall therefore be offered to the beef-headed ones.
The common sonship of Fatherland unites all Germans in the para-
mount bond of a brotherhood of transcendental holiness. Every German
individual unit is as one of the molecules of a mass of matter united
with the cohesiveness of wax. Hence the homogeneity of the German
people.
Every German has an inner subjective self, of divine essence, and an
outer objectivity into which the subjective occasionally passes, and
having there awhile submitted itself to the appetites and the impulses,
returns into its pure Ipseity, none the worse for having perhaps been
engaged in picking pockets or cutting throats in the meantime.
It is in the state of objective consciousness that the great German
nation, as one man, actuated by an acquisitive enthusiasm, rushes in
overwhelming force on a neighbouring State, and dismembers it of two
provinces necessary to complete the idea of German unity, and realise a
German fleet. What if, in the execution of that exploit, they kill and
mutilate any number of the antagonists who offer them resistance ?
For when Germany has returned from the objective into serene subjec-
tiveness, what has been has ceased to be in the thought of Germans,
and is not any more, so they innocently wonder to hear themselves
accused of robbery and murder.
So when, in a momentary excursion from the Inner of Moral Con-
sciousness, the German mind, rendered for the time objective by the
attraction of a watch and chain, or a portemonnaie, impels the German
hand to grab those articles, and to knock their owner on the head for
brevity and precaution, the German, having satisfied his objective
craving, retires into his subjective tranquillity, and resumes his habitu-
ally mild and gentle demeanour. The assassination and robbery which
his objective personality has committed, are a mere episode of his essen-
tial life. They are dismissed from his subjective mind, and he goes
about as light-hearted as though nothing had happened. He and his
countrymen regard those acts as the work of a past entity, and not his
present own. They, therefore, think it monstrously cruel to hang him
on the ground that he is guilty of them. The inner I of the German
ever retains its essential purity unsullied, under all circumstances, and,
consequently, his brothers use their utmost endeavours to prevent
brutal foreigners from putting out his I, as if he were a. common objec-
tive ruffian, by the capital punishment of stretching his neck, for the
trifling offence of cracking an old gentleman’s skull, by the way.
It is hoped that this elucidation of a sentiment which has been
blindly mistaken for the mutual sympathy of rascals, may prove satis-
factory. __
Note on Dress.
In an article that appeared lately in the Times on “ Left-off Clothes,”
there was an omission of some moment. No mention was made of the
fancy Watchmakers have for second-hand things. They were also the
last to leave off wearing clocks on their stockings.
A VEXED AND VERY VEXATIOUS QUESTION.
There is a question of another Italian loan of three millions. This
seems destined to be the perpetual great difficulty that Italy, as an
united kingdom, will have to contend with, viz., the settlement of its
Capital. _____
One Way of Rising in the Navy.—Being mast-headed.