DOI Heft:
September 21, 1867
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16880#0128
116
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
[September 21, 1867.
THE HAY OF CONGRESSES.
’Tis a wonderful world, aud more wondrous will be,
Now liberty everywhere loosens each tether,
Solidaire, if not solid, now men boast to be,
Their heads—if too oft, by the ears—laid together.
The chaff out of fallacies ought to be threshed,
And the back-bone of truth be made notably stiffer,
Now theories of all sorts are fearlessly clashed,
Creeds and crafts, all in Congress, agreeing to differ.
In Dundee the philosophers, cosmic and collegy,
Have swept through all nature, from od to ozone,
Electro-, Zoo,- Meteor-, Ge-, and Bi-ology,
Flint knives, koeken-middens, and breccia of bone.
Pro Darwin or contra, for man or for monkey.
Each school ’gainst the ot her loud sounding the charge,
While Lubbock to man makes induction the one key,
And takes all the orthodox points in his targe.
And if seekers of truth have to loggerheads gotten,
On the past and the future of nature and man,
No wonder the workers for bread should not cotton
Exactly, in Congress when met at Lausanne.
If in French, German, English, a Babel have grown
Round amalgamate logs and humanity’s right,
’Twixt ideas and tongues each to other unknown,
Till the gath’ring of brothers dissolved in a fight.
Nor, if toilers for wages and searchers for reason,
Fmd Congress means meetings to differ all round,
Reed it cause Punch amaze, if, considering the breeze oti,
The Pan-Anglican Synod should stormy be found.
For the Bishops’ whole Bench if Natal prove too many,
If Close clinch S. Oxon, and Gloucester McNeile,
If Record and Ghuardian, like cats of Kilkenny,
To the tail eat each other, in proof of their zeal.
’Twill be but to follow the striking example
The Genevan Peace Congress the Church has just set,
Where each on his neighbour’s toes made free to trample,
And his neighbour with interest paid off the debt.
Till the preachers of peace, in a general quarrel,
Broke up, after choosing Italia’s Mars,
Garibaldi, for chairman, to point peace’s moral,
As, the leisure to make preparation for wars.
MUSIC OF THE VERY FUTURE.
The New York Times (cited by the bra) supports a good cause by
an argument of which we fail to see the overwhelming force. The
cause is the right of a dramatic author to be protected from theft. In
proof that such theft is easy, the New York Tims says,
“ Mozart is said to have written out the whole of one of Mendelssohn's over-
tures after a single hearing.”
There may be concealed and latent power in this statement, and we
simply own our ignorance of its value. We scorn to adduce against it
so Philistine and churchwardenly an answer as is implied in mentioning
the received belief that Mozart died in 1791, whereas the composer
whose overtures he wrote out was not born until 1809 _ Let Art be
discussed on higher grounds. Will the N. Y. Tims explain ?
The Greatest Achievement on Record.—Colonel Pearson’s.
RAMSGATE SANDS.-No. 1
It is Low Water—tiie Weather is most inviting. The Titwillow Nursemaids have Gone to Bathe. The Titwillow
Twins, who are of an inventive turn, have discovered the Art of Making Cheeses in the Water, and much prefer the
article to Cheeses on Dry Land. Mrs. T. feels like a Hen who has hatched a Brood of Ducklings.
N.B. The Fiendish-looking, Black-bearded Individual who is Rushing to the Rescue of the nearest Twin is one
of Mr. T.’s many Bosom Friends. His name is Mr. Pip. The other Rusher to the Rescue is, of course, Mr. Titwillow
himself. (Tide page, 120.)
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI
[September 21, 1867.
THE HAY OF CONGRESSES.
’Tis a wonderful world, aud more wondrous will be,
Now liberty everywhere loosens each tether,
Solidaire, if not solid, now men boast to be,
Their heads—if too oft, by the ears—laid together.
The chaff out of fallacies ought to be threshed,
And the back-bone of truth be made notably stiffer,
Now theories of all sorts are fearlessly clashed,
Creeds and crafts, all in Congress, agreeing to differ.
In Dundee the philosophers, cosmic and collegy,
Have swept through all nature, from od to ozone,
Electro-, Zoo,- Meteor-, Ge-, and Bi-ology,
Flint knives, koeken-middens, and breccia of bone.
Pro Darwin or contra, for man or for monkey.
Each school ’gainst the ot her loud sounding the charge,
While Lubbock to man makes induction the one key,
And takes all the orthodox points in his targe.
And if seekers of truth have to loggerheads gotten,
On the past and the future of nature and man,
No wonder the workers for bread should not cotton
Exactly, in Congress when met at Lausanne.
If in French, German, English, a Babel have grown
Round amalgamate logs and humanity’s right,
’Twixt ideas and tongues each to other unknown,
Till the gath’ring of brothers dissolved in a fight.
Nor, if toilers for wages and searchers for reason,
Fmd Congress means meetings to differ all round,
Reed it cause Punch amaze, if, considering the breeze oti,
The Pan-Anglican Synod should stormy be found.
For the Bishops’ whole Bench if Natal prove too many,
If Close clinch S. Oxon, and Gloucester McNeile,
If Record and Ghuardian, like cats of Kilkenny,
To the tail eat each other, in proof of their zeal.
’Twill be but to follow the striking example
The Genevan Peace Congress the Church has just set,
Where each on his neighbour’s toes made free to trample,
And his neighbour with interest paid off the debt.
Till the preachers of peace, in a general quarrel,
Broke up, after choosing Italia’s Mars,
Garibaldi, for chairman, to point peace’s moral,
As, the leisure to make preparation for wars.
MUSIC OF THE VERY FUTURE.
The New York Times (cited by the bra) supports a good cause by
an argument of which we fail to see the overwhelming force. The
cause is the right of a dramatic author to be protected from theft. In
proof that such theft is easy, the New York Tims says,
“ Mozart is said to have written out the whole of one of Mendelssohn's over-
tures after a single hearing.”
There may be concealed and latent power in this statement, and we
simply own our ignorance of its value. We scorn to adduce against it
so Philistine and churchwardenly an answer as is implied in mentioning
the received belief that Mozart died in 1791, whereas the composer
whose overtures he wrote out was not born until 1809 _ Let Art be
discussed on higher grounds. Will the N. Y. Tims explain ?
The Greatest Achievement on Record.—Colonel Pearson’s.
RAMSGATE SANDS.-No. 1
It is Low Water—tiie Weather is most inviting. The Titwillow Nursemaids have Gone to Bathe. The Titwillow
Twins, who are of an inventive turn, have discovered the Art of Making Cheeses in the Water, and much prefer the
article to Cheeses on Dry Land. Mrs. T. feels like a Hen who has hatched a Brood of Ducklings.
N.B. The Fiendish-looking, Black-bearded Individual who is Rushing to the Rescue of the nearest Twin is one
of Mr. T.’s many Bosom Friends. His name is Mr. Pip. The other Rusher to the Rescue is, of course, Mr. Titwillow
himself. (Tide page, 120.)