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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIYARI.
[May 6, 1882.
More than half a page
devoted to the Academy.
OUR ACADEMY GUIDE. FIRST VISIT.
And sometimes Our Academy Guy’d, as
in former years. Gro straight and at once to
the Numbers indicated, and thank your
Guide, Philosopher, and Priend. Sometimes
we give new and more appropriate titles
than those in the Official Catalogue.
No. 5. “ II y en a toujours un autre.”
Harcus Stone, R.A. Q,uite so; there ’s
always another of the same sort from this
Artist. Here we are again. It has heen
bought for the Chantrey Bequest. Ve
don’t profess to understand this, as up till
now we had always thought that all Chan-
trey Bequests had been abolished at the
Reforraation with other “ Superstitious
Uses.” However, as every Chantrey we ’ve
ever seen has heen made of stone, tkk
valuable Stone-work will be in its proper place.
No. 13. Cupboard Love ; or, After Trespassing on the Preserves.
Cha rles Lutyens.
No. 19. Spinning Jenny. T. B. WlRGilAN.
No. 24. The Leopards. This subject is naturally among the
ffirst to be spotted. Both
animals are chained to their
respective spots, so that they
can’t change them. The
picture is called “ The Ma-
| gician's Doorway.” There
j used to be a shop in Regent
Street with two stuffed
leopards at the entrance: it
wasn’t a magician’s, but_ a
mantle-maker’s. The Artist
j probably rememhered _ the
fact, and adopted the idea.
This is a true Briton—
Riviere, R.A.
No. 37. “ Come and be
Baked/” Horace H. Cauty.
Cruel woman opening door
of third room in Turkish
hath; fire-glow seen in distance ; sorrowful little girl won’t come
in; she is saying, “I have
heen there and. still wouldn’t
go, ’Tis like a little Oven
below.”
No. 161. “ Give him enough
Rope ”—and see what he ’ll do.
Robert B. Browning.
Fain would I climb, but that I
fe ir to fall—
Should the rope fail me !—I ’ll not
climb at all.
No. 307. Phryne ; or, a Severe Case of Jaundice. Sir F.
Leighton, P.R.A. Phryne was a single young woman, as repre-
sented here by the President. The moael for this figure must have
been a Tangerine-orange-coloured girl. We have given it from our
point of view, as Phryne before her judges the Crities.
Mr. Millais’ two great Portraits are (No. 127) Sir Henry
Thompson and (No. 1514) His Eminence Cardinal Newman. The
two ought to have been hung in the same line with Mr. Millais’
own portrait hetween them, and the trio entered in the Catalogue as
“ Art supported by Science and Faith.”
No. 24.—The Magician’s Doorway.
Magician (in the distance). How on
earth shall I get out ?
No. 171.—Members of the Commons.
By E. B. de Satire.
No. 171. Members of the
Commons. The Fourth Party
and Constituents. E. Byrne de Satur.
No. 290. “ Cold Witliout; ” or, Warming the Statue mto Life.
Frank Dicksee, A. No one can touch this Artist on his own
ground, i.e., Dicksee’s Land. Ob-
serve how the graceful folds of the
•dress form part of the cold stone
seat, and how the chiselled maiden
is gradually warming into life, and
blowing the tips of her fingers to
No. 290.—Signed—“Ipse Dicksee.”
No. 307.—Phryne before her
judges the Critics.
keep them from heing refrigerated again. The lover, Pygmalion-
like, is charming her.
ONE EOR WATKIN.
If Sir Edward Watkin had desired to furnish an argument in
favour of his Channel Tunnel scheme, he could not have done
better than by exhibiting the bad
management of the service of
Channel Steamers in connection
with the South-Eastern Rail-
, way. On one day last week the
whole of the passengers of a
certain train from Paris to Bou-
logne should have proceeded to
Folkestone in a fine boat, the
Albert Victor, but the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh, with
eight attendants, were in the train, and to these ten people the
steamer was assigned, while the unfortunate passengers were, as one
paper says, packed into a “ crazy tub,” and had not been long on
board before a cylinder-pipe burst, and but for the presence of
mind of an engineer, she would have gone to the bottom. As it was,
she drifted helplessly for sixteen hours on a rough sea, with no con-
veniences and hardly anything to eat, until at last she was rescued,
and the unhappy passengers released.
This is the account of Mr. St. GtEorge Mivart, an eminent man
of science; and it is answered by Sir Edward Watkin, in a fine
confused statement, which in no way shakes the savant's testimony.
The boat which came to grief is called by Sir Edward a steamer of
the “ old type,” a euphemismfor “ crazy tub,” which reflects credit
on that ingenious orator. It is certainly a disgraceful business;
and Punch is sure that no one will feel more angry than the Duke
of Edinburgh, and his kindly Duchess, that an aet of snobbish
sycophancy to themselves should have placed three hundred fellow-
creatures in imminent danger.
SUGGrESTIONS TO INTENDINGr HOMICIDISTS.
April 1.—Discovered that my cousin Brown was a man of money,
which, in case of his death, would come to me. Why should a
Brown possess wealth which I, a Smith, am forbidden to enjoy ?
April 4.—Took a violent dislike to Brown.
April 6.—Bought a revolver, a case of dynamite, and a waggon-
load of gun-cottou.
April 9.—Laid in a stock of strychnine and arsenic.
April 11.—Found in the Newgate Calendar that in 1792 there was
a Smith who committed murder. Evidently homicidal mania is
hereditary with me. Mem.—Might call on Mr. Charles Reade and
dance wildly in his hall. He ’ll note down the fact in his nncom-
mon-place book for future use.
April 12.—Read of a Smith in Crackskull on Insanity, whose
peculiar form of madness pnzzled the leading doetors of the earlier
part of this century. Plainly an ancestor of mine. Take first op-
portunity of making Ameriean acquaintances. Have heard there
was a Smith who helped Columbus to discover America. He must
have been as mad as a Hatter. By the way, have just found out
that an ancestor of rnine ivas a Hatter !!
April 14.—Curious case in the paper of a robbery, accompanied by
violence, on the part of' a man named Smith. Is kleptomania also
a disease of mine ?
April 16-—Administer 1| oz. Strychnine, and 11b. Arsenic to
Brown. Shot at him six times with revolver, threw dynamite into
his bed-room, and placed gun-cottonround his house. BROWNno more.
June 20.—Trial came on.
June 22.—Counsel for Defence ealled attention to the Smith of the
Newgate Calendar, the Smith of Crackskull on Insanity, Colum-
bus Smith, and Smith the Hatter ; Mr. Charles Reade’s evidence
valuable; press reports of Kleptomaniae Smith put in; and asked
whether, with such antecedents an intelligent Jury could find the
Prisoner at the Bar aught but the most innocent and ill-used of men ?
June 23.—Acquitted honourably.
Last Thursday, M. Pasteur, the distinguished Physiologist, suc-
ceeded to M. Littre’s chair in the French Academy. A scientific
man replaces a Littre man.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIYARI.
[May 6, 1882.
More than half a page
devoted to the Academy.
OUR ACADEMY GUIDE. FIRST VISIT.
And sometimes Our Academy Guy’d, as
in former years. Gro straight and at once to
the Numbers indicated, and thank your
Guide, Philosopher, and Priend. Sometimes
we give new and more appropriate titles
than those in the Official Catalogue.
No. 5. “ II y en a toujours un autre.”
Harcus Stone, R.A. Q,uite so; there ’s
always another of the same sort from this
Artist. Here we are again. It has heen
bought for the Chantrey Bequest. Ve
don’t profess to understand this, as up till
now we had always thought that all Chan-
trey Bequests had been abolished at the
Reforraation with other “ Superstitious
Uses.” However, as every Chantrey we ’ve
ever seen has heen made of stone, tkk
valuable Stone-work will be in its proper place.
No. 13. Cupboard Love ; or, After Trespassing on the Preserves.
Cha rles Lutyens.
No. 19. Spinning Jenny. T. B. WlRGilAN.
No. 24. The Leopards. This subject is naturally among the
ffirst to be spotted. Both
animals are chained to their
respective spots, so that they
can’t change them. The
picture is called “ The Ma-
| gician's Doorway.” There
j used to be a shop in Regent
Street with two stuffed
leopards at the entrance: it
wasn’t a magician’s, but_ a
mantle-maker’s. The Artist
j probably rememhered _ the
fact, and adopted the idea.
This is a true Briton—
Riviere, R.A.
No. 37. “ Come and be
Baked/” Horace H. Cauty.
Cruel woman opening door
of third room in Turkish
hath; fire-glow seen in distance ; sorrowful little girl won’t come
in; she is saying, “I have
heen there and. still wouldn’t
go, ’Tis like a little Oven
below.”
No. 161. “ Give him enough
Rope ”—and see what he ’ll do.
Robert B. Browning.
Fain would I climb, but that I
fe ir to fall—
Should the rope fail me !—I ’ll not
climb at all.
No. 307. Phryne ; or, a Severe Case of Jaundice. Sir F.
Leighton, P.R.A. Phryne was a single young woman, as repre-
sented here by the President. The moael for this figure must have
been a Tangerine-orange-coloured girl. We have given it from our
point of view, as Phryne before her judges the Crities.
Mr. Millais’ two great Portraits are (No. 127) Sir Henry
Thompson and (No. 1514) His Eminence Cardinal Newman. The
two ought to have been hung in the same line with Mr. Millais’
own portrait hetween them, and the trio entered in the Catalogue as
“ Art supported by Science and Faith.”
No. 24.—The Magician’s Doorway.
Magician (in the distance). How on
earth shall I get out ?
No. 171.—Members of the Commons.
By E. B. de Satire.
No. 171. Members of the
Commons. The Fourth Party
and Constituents. E. Byrne de Satur.
No. 290. “ Cold Witliout; ” or, Warming the Statue mto Life.
Frank Dicksee, A. No one can touch this Artist on his own
ground, i.e., Dicksee’s Land. Ob-
serve how the graceful folds of the
•dress form part of the cold stone
seat, and how the chiselled maiden
is gradually warming into life, and
blowing the tips of her fingers to
No. 290.—Signed—“Ipse Dicksee.”
No. 307.—Phryne before her
judges the Critics.
keep them from heing refrigerated again. The lover, Pygmalion-
like, is charming her.
ONE EOR WATKIN.
If Sir Edward Watkin had desired to furnish an argument in
favour of his Channel Tunnel scheme, he could not have done
better than by exhibiting the bad
management of the service of
Channel Steamers in connection
with the South-Eastern Rail-
, way. On one day last week the
whole of the passengers of a
certain train from Paris to Bou-
logne should have proceeded to
Folkestone in a fine boat, the
Albert Victor, but the Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh, with
eight attendants, were in the train, and to these ten people the
steamer was assigned, while the unfortunate passengers were, as one
paper says, packed into a “ crazy tub,” and had not been long on
board before a cylinder-pipe burst, and but for the presence of
mind of an engineer, she would have gone to the bottom. As it was,
she drifted helplessly for sixteen hours on a rough sea, with no con-
veniences and hardly anything to eat, until at last she was rescued,
and the unhappy passengers released.
This is the account of Mr. St. GtEorge Mivart, an eminent man
of science; and it is answered by Sir Edward Watkin, in a fine
confused statement, which in no way shakes the savant's testimony.
The boat which came to grief is called by Sir Edward a steamer of
the “ old type,” a euphemismfor “ crazy tub,” which reflects credit
on that ingenious orator. It is certainly a disgraceful business;
and Punch is sure that no one will feel more angry than the Duke
of Edinburgh, and his kindly Duchess, that an aet of snobbish
sycophancy to themselves should have placed three hundred fellow-
creatures in imminent danger.
SUGGrESTIONS TO INTENDINGr HOMICIDISTS.
April 1.—Discovered that my cousin Brown was a man of money,
which, in case of his death, would come to me. Why should a
Brown possess wealth which I, a Smith, am forbidden to enjoy ?
April 4.—Took a violent dislike to Brown.
April 6.—Bought a revolver, a case of dynamite, and a waggon-
load of gun-cottou.
April 9.—Laid in a stock of strychnine and arsenic.
April 11.—Found in the Newgate Calendar that in 1792 there was
a Smith who committed murder. Evidently homicidal mania is
hereditary with me. Mem.—Might call on Mr. Charles Reade and
dance wildly in his hall. He ’ll note down the fact in his nncom-
mon-place book for future use.
April 12.—Read of a Smith in Crackskull on Insanity, whose
peculiar form of madness pnzzled the leading doetors of the earlier
part of this century. Plainly an ancestor of mine. Take first op-
portunity of making Ameriean acquaintances. Have heard there
was a Smith who helped Columbus to discover America. He must
have been as mad as a Hatter. By the way, have just found out
that an ancestor of rnine ivas a Hatter !!
April 14.—Curious case in the paper of a robbery, accompanied by
violence, on the part of' a man named Smith. Is kleptomania also
a disease of mine ?
April 16-—Administer 1| oz. Strychnine, and 11b. Arsenic to
Brown. Shot at him six times with revolver, threw dynamite into
his bed-room, and placed gun-cottonround his house. BROWNno more.
June 20.—Trial came on.
June 22.—Counsel for Defence ealled attention to the Smith of the
Newgate Calendar, the Smith of Crackskull on Insanity, Colum-
bus Smith, and Smith the Hatter ; Mr. Charles Reade’s evidence
valuable; press reports of Kleptomaniae Smith put in; and asked
whether, with such antecedents an intelligent Jury could find the
Prisoner at the Bar aught but the most innocent and ill-used of men ?
June 23.—Acquitted honourably.
Last Thursday, M. Pasteur, the distinguished Physiologist, suc-
ceeded to M. Littre’s chair in the French Academy. A scientific
man replaces a Littre man.