Identifier: punchv50lemo (find matches)
Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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mp of armed men,the flash front the ready rifle, the cry of pain from the husband and father, and the darkfigures of the soldiers dimly seal through the sulphurous smoke. Without making further extracts, we commend this romance ofJamaica to all the lovers of penny fiction, and we congratulate theenterprising publishers, Messrs. Bright and Shammyrumstuee onthe spirit which induced them to engage the pen of a spicy novelistrather than to imitate the Times, Daily News, and Telegraph, whotamely send out gentlemen with no higher mission than to ascertainfacts from credible witnesses. The writer of the novel is a true artist,and while giving all these horrors, he is careful to supply evidence thatthey are merely the creation of the sable population with whom hegossips, and he displays real art in dressing up the crude conceptionsof the blacks into sensational narrative. We trust the Tale of Horrorwill be as popular as it deserves to be. 78 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (February 24, 1866.
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A LITTLE MISTAKE. Captain Bullyon (to Remnants, the Woollen-Draper, who has been invited, as usual, to a days Pheasant Shooting by old Bullyon the Banker).Your guns No. 12, I believe, Mr. Whats-s-Name? Remnants (thinking the Captain, generally so igh and mighty, is going to he sociable). I dont exactly know the precise Figure,Captain, but Captain Bullyon. Haw ! what I mean is, cause tou seem to have been trying to keep your Barrels close to my Eyesever since we left the Cover ! FRIGHTFUL IMPERTINENCE. A Correspondent of the Standard recently called attention to thiscurious circumstance:— The Jewish Intelligencer, the accredited organ of the London Society for Pro-moting Christianity amongst the Jews, states that the secretaries have been obligedto borrow money at a high rate of interest to defray current expenses. The annualreceipts of tha society are between £30,000 and £40,000 per annum. Upon this, and upon the extraordinary costliness of performing thefeat of converting foreign

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