DOI issue:
November 4, 1882
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17753#0213
November 4, 1882.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
207
“ RALLYING”
Doctor (sotto voce to his Colleague). “We must reduce the Fever and abate the Thirst !”
Patient [who had overheard). “If you’ll redooce the Fever, Gen’lemen—I’ll uld’take—to abate the Thirst myshelf!!”
Christmas Roses and no Lack-o’-daisies. The best _ samples- of
Christmas Cards, for practical purposes, are those with lines on
the back, and the words “From” and “To” printed. These we
strongly recommend in the interests of the Christmas Card trade,
because such cards cannot be used twice. Thus, Miss Nelly
Gusher sends one of these to Horatio Skinflint, Esq., and at
the back is written plainly, From Nelly Gusher to Horatio
Skinflint, and the latter is thus prevented from sending it on to
anybody else ; and, if he wants to send one, he must buy a new one
on his own account. Hooray ! Had him there !
Then there are four designs by Miss Aumonier, beautifully exe-
cuted, but, being Summer Landscapes, how can they have the face
to pass themselves off as Christmas Cards, unless our seasons are to
be utterly changed ? For example, “ Wishing you a Merry Christ-
mas” is written under a July scene. All sorts of prize designs for
Christmas Card Flowers by Miss M. Ludovic, and Figures by J. M.
Dealy in the Kate-Greenaway style.
Mr. H. G. Willink took the £50 prize for three designs—“I
know a Maiden fair to see ”—but where the £50 prize comes in is a
puzzle to us. So for Mr. Hatherley who, apparently, obtained the
£100 prize for some very pretty designs, but not, to our thinking, worth
such a high prize. If he did obtain it, then it was a very lucky
drawing. For the £75 prize, Miss Linnie Watt, a propos of a
Merry Christmas Card, shows us some children pic-nicking in a
wood, while one of them reads a book. So Christmassy !
All published by Hilderheimer and Faulkner, who are among
the first early birds in .the field, ought to attract considerable
attention : their series of “ Shooting the Cats,” by H. J. Hodgson,
is a relief to the pretties, the beautifuls, and the sentimentals.
The first Almanack for 1883 to reach us is Miss Kate Green-
away’s, published by Messrs. Routledge and Sons. Being small,
quaint, and prettily got up, it will be a very nice present on New
Year’s Day, so we won’t mention the price. But oh, don’t hurry us
into 1883 before we’re quite ready! In July we hear of the Illus-
trated Christmas Numbers being in preparation, and at Christmas
we shall see samples of the coming Summer Holiday Numbers.
We ’re getting by far too much in advance of our time. Hold on !
Then last, but far from least, comes a Book of Old Songs, or Pan-
Pipes, by Walter Crane, who drew the pictures, to which Thro
Marzials of “ Twickenham Ferry ” wrote the Pan-Pipes accompaT
niment, while Ed. Evans engraved and printed them in colours,—
and the whole comes off with flying colours.
Mr. Randolph Caldecott's Graphic Pictures (Routledge and
Sons) we have seen before. Yery amusing collection, but letterpress
not wanted. The one-shilling Picture Book by the same artist,
illustrating the ballad of “ Where are you going to, my Pretty
Maid f ” is capital, and very novel in treatment.
Mr. Joseph Meade’s “ Confession Album ” deserves its mead of
praise from us. It is on the plan of- But our readers had better
get it for themselves, as we haven’t time to describe it, as we are,
going to stir the pudding, hang up the mistletoe, and take seats for
Boxing Night- No, no—bother the Christmas Cards coming now
—we haven’t got as far as hot chestnuts yet, and it’s only just on
Guy Fawkes’ Day!
LITERATURE ON LEASE.
ESSAYIST TO LET, Weekly or Fortnightly. -
Travel, Sketches of Persons, Essays, “ Keyhole ‘
The following advertisement appears in the Athenceum :—
-Scenes from Foreign
Studies.”—Address, &c.
There are so many irrepressible people, who, by reason of their
entitling an article “On &c.,” or “Concerning &c.,” think them-
selves permitted to bore the British Public with many pa.ges of
tedious verbosity, and dub themselves “ Essayists,” that it is a,
pity the above Advertiser did not state more distinctly what his
qualifications might be. There is a wide difference between the
Essays of Charles Lamb and Plausible Platitudes by Mr. Drivel-
more, and a considerable gulf between the work of Lord Macaulay
and Pinchbeck Prosings by Mr. Twaddler. It is a novelty to hear
of an Essayist being to let. It would perhaps be more satisfactory
to know whether he is to be let furnished or unfurnished, or to be
let alone.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
207
“ RALLYING”
Doctor (sotto voce to his Colleague). “We must reduce the Fever and abate the Thirst !”
Patient [who had overheard). “If you’ll redooce the Fever, Gen’lemen—I’ll uld’take—to abate the Thirst myshelf!!”
Christmas Roses and no Lack-o’-daisies. The best _ samples- of
Christmas Cards, for practical purposes, are those with lines on
the back, and the words “From” and “To” printed. These we
strongly recommend in the interests of the Christmas Card trade,
because such cards cannot be used twice. Thus, Miss Nelly
Gusher sends one of these to Horatio Skinflint, Esq., and at
the back is written plainly, From Nelly Gusher to Horatio
Skinflint, and the latter is thus prevented from sending it on to
anybody else ; and, if he wants to send one, he must buy a new one
on his own account. Hooray ! Had him there !
Then there are four designs by Miss Aumonier, beautifully exe-
cuted, but, being Summer Landscapes, how can they have the face
to pass themselves off as Christmas Cards, unless our seasons are to
be utterly changed ? For example, “ Wishing you a Merry Christ-
mas” is written under a July scene. All sorts of prize designs for
Christmas Card Flowers by Miss M. Ludovic, and Figures by J. M.
Dealy in the Kate-Greenaway style.
Mr. H. G. Willink took the £50 prize for three designs—“I
know a Maiden fair to see ”—but where the £50 prize comes in is a
puzzle to us. So for Mr. Hatherley who, apparently, obtained the
£100 prize for some very pretty designs, but not, to our thinking, worth
such a high prize. If he did obtain it, then it was a very lucky
drawing. For the £75 prize, Miss Linnie Watt, a propos of a
Merry Christmas Card, shows us some children pic-nicking in a
wood, while one of them reads a book. So Christmassy !
All published by Hilderheimer and Faulkner, who are among
the first early birds in .the field, ought to attract considerable
attention : their series of “ Shooting the Cats,” by H. J. Hodgson,
is a relief to the pretties, the beautifuls, and the sentimentals.
The first Almanack for 1883 to reach us is Miss Kate Green-
away’s, published by Messrs. Routledge and Sons. Being small,
quaint, and prettily got up, it will be a very nice present on New
Year’s Day, so we won’t mention the price. But oh, don’t hurry us
into 1883 before we’re quite ready! In July we hear of the Illus-
trated Christmas Numbers being in preparation, and at Christmas
we shall see samples of the coming Summer Holiday Numbers.
We ’re getting by far too much in advance of our time. Hold on !
Then last, but far from least, comes a Book of Old Songs, or Pan-
Pipes, by Walter Crane, who drew the pictures, to which Thro
Marzials of “ Twickenham Ferry ” wrote the Pan-Pipes accompaT
niment, while Ed. Evans engraved and printed them in colours,—
and the whole comes off with flying colours.
Mr. Randolph Caldecott's Graphic Pictures (Routledge and
Sons) we have seen before. Yery amusing collection, but letterpress
not wanted. The one-shilling Picture Book by the same artist,
illustrating the ballad of “ Where are you going to, my Pretty
Maid f ” is capital, and very novel in treatment.
Mr. Joseph Meade’s “ Confession Album ” deserves its mead of
praise from us. It is on the plan of- But our readers had better
get it for themselves, as we haven’t time to describe it, as we are,
going to stir the pudding, hang up the mistletoe, and take seats for
Boxing Night- No, no—bother the Christmas Cards coming now
—we haven’t got as far as hot chestnuts yet, and it’s only just on
Guy Fawkes’ Day!
LITERATURE ON LEASE.
ESSAYIST TO LET, Weekly or Fortnightly. -
Travel, Sketches of Persons, Essays, “ Keyhole ‘
The following advertisement appears in the Athenceum :—
-Scenes from Foreign
Studies.”—Address, &c.
There are so many irrepressible people, who, by reason of their
entitling an article “On &c.,” or “Concerning &c.,” think them-
selves permitted to bore the British Public with many pa.ges of
tedious verbosity, and dub themselves “ Essayists,” that it is a,
pity the above Advertiser did not state more distinctly what his
qualifications might be. There is a wide difference between the
Essays of Charles Lamb and Plausible Platitudes by Mr. Drivel-
more, and a considerable gulf between the work of Lord Macaulay
and Pinchbeck Prosings by Mr. Twaddler. It is a novelty to hear
of an Essayist being to let. It would perhaps be more satisfactory
to know whether he is to be let furnished or unfurnished, or to be
let alone.