Punch (74.1878)

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[May 11, 1878.

IN THE ART-LlSTS.

Sound a charge for the encounter ! Sound for R. A. and G.G
Sir Francis to the melee ! Sir Cotjtts to saddle-tree !
To the lists, fair Queens of Beauty, to rain your influence down

Month that brings up country cousins, country roses, oh, so nice 1
Month of esthetics, hot and cold, 'twixt the entrees and the ice ;
Month for discussing Millais and Leighton and Burne Jones,

Blow your trumpets, my Art-Critics, and dealers deal the crown ! j And discoursing, o'er the menu, on treatments, tastes, and tones—

Month of aught hut merry meetings, that usurp the name of May, Month of Art that is not Nature, and of Nature beyond Art,

Month of lilacs and light bonnets, and of Art's great opening When the nightingales are singing, and the swallows flash and dart,

day : When the chestnut's milky blossoms rise from fans of freshest
Of public views called " private," where everybody goes green,

To see and be seen by ev'rybody, that anybody knows. And the lilacs are in blossom, and e'en London leaves look clean !

" Contrived a Double Debt to Pay."

They have lately opened in St. Paul's a triple Monument, of tbe
Duke of Wellington-, of A. Stevens, its sculptor, and of British
stupidity and Philistinism. And the third thing thereby commemo-
rated is the biggest, though the other two are the greatest of English
Generals, and one of the greatest of English Artists.

make clatjstjm.

It is said the Russians propose to re-christen the Sea of Marmora
" The Fleet Prison."

Our Heroines.

A Manchester paper advertises—
QN hand, Several Nice Young GIRLS, Nurses or Generals, English.

Talk of English pluck, when even nice young girls are ready, not
only to nurse the sick and wounded, but even to lead the fighters!

prof. henry smith's prospects.

Of course he is the best man. M apres ?_ The best man win at
an Oxford University Election P Go along with you!