Chapter II: Part 2

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=The Globe.=--“The author, Mr S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald, has
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=_The Grand Panjandrum_=, and other fanciful Fairy Tales for the youthful of all Ages, Climes and Times. By S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD, Author of “The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch,” etc. Many full-page and smaller Illustrations by GUSTAVE DARRÉ. Second Edition. Square 8vo, art cloth, gilt, 3s. 6d.

=Truth.=--“A decided acquisition to the children’s library.”

=Ladies’ Pictorial.=--“Quite one of the brightest of the
season’s gift books.”

=Morning Post.=--“Bright and thoroughly amusing. It will please
all children. The pictures are excellent.”

=Echo.=--“Of the pile (of children’s books) before us, Mr
Adair Fitz-Gerald’s ‘Grand Panjandrum’ is the cleverest. Mr
Fitz-Gerald needs no introduction to the nursery of these days.”

=Pall Mall Gazette.=--“A charming little book. Simply written,
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=Literary World.=--“A handsomely-bound, mouth-watering, in
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=_Nonsense Numbers and Jocular Jingles For Funny Little Folk._= Written by DRUID GRAYL, with full-page Illustrations by WALTER J. MORGAN. 4to, cloth boards, 3s. 6d.

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=Daily Telegraph.=--“Will be productive of many a happy
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=Lloyd’s Newspaper.=--“A very amusing book indeed is this
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children delight in, while the pictures are also ludicrously
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=_The Pillypingle Pastorals._= A Series of Amusing Rustic Tales and Sketches. By DRUID GRAYL. Profusely Illustrated by WALTER J. MORGAN. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 3s. 6d.

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=Scotsman.=--“A lively book of comical yarns. It is frivolous,
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=Outlook.=--“The stories are well told, and tend to provoke
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=Literary World.=--“An amusing bit of humour.”

=Midland Mail.=--“A budget of fun, and good fun too. There is
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=_The Pottle Papers._= Written by TRISTRAM COUTTS, Author of “A Comedy of Temptation.” Illustrated by L. RAVEN HILL. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d.

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=Pall Mall Gazette.=--“It contains plenty of boisterous
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spontaneous. The author, for all his antics, has a good deal
more in him than the average buffoon. There is, for example,
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of work. Mr Raven Hill’s illustrations are as amusing as they
always are.”

=_The Pottle’s Progress._= Being the Further Adventures of Mr and Mrs Pottle. By TRISTRAM COUTTS, Author of “The Pottle Papers,” etc. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. (In preparation.)

=_Dan Leno, Hys Booke._= A Volume of Frivolities: Autobiographical, Historical, Philosophical, Anecdotal and Nonsensical. Written by DAN LENO. Profusely illustrated by Popular Artists. Seventh Edition. Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt edges, 1s. 6d. Popular Edition, sewed, picture cover, 6d.

=DAN LENO, HYS BOOKE=, is, says the =Liverpool Review=, “the
funniest publication since ‘Three Men in a Boat.’ In this
autobiographical masterpiece the inimitable King of Comedians
tells his life story in a style that would make a shrimp laugh.”

This enormously successful book of genuine and spontaneous
humour has been received with a complete chorus of
complimentary criticisms and pleasing “Press” praise and
approval. Here are a few reviewers’ remarks:--

=Scotsman.=--“Bombshells of fun.”

=Lloyd’s.=--“One long laugh from start to finish.”

=Globe.=--“Full of exuberant and harmless fun.”

=English Illustrated Magazine.=--“A deliciously humorous
volume.”

=Catholic Times.=--“The fun is fast and furious.”

=St Paul’s.=--“It is very funny.”

These are a few opinions taken at random from hundreds of
notices.

Says the =Daily News= (Hull):--“The funniest book we have read
for some time. You must perforce scream with huge delight at
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actually killed people with his patter and his antics. Page
after page of genuine fun is reeled off by the great little
man.”

=_Bachelor Ballads_= and other Lazy Lyrics. By HARRY A. SPURR, Author of “A Cockney in Arcadia.” With Fifty Illustrations by JOHN HASSALL. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 3s. 6d.

=St James’s Gazette.=--“Distinctly clever.”

=Globe.=--“Mr Spurr goes in for humour, and with very
considerable success.… Altogether he is as funny as he is
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INDEX

PAGE

Adams, H. A Virtue of Necessity, 17

Alexander, George. Introduction to Art of Elocution, 6

After-Taste, The. (Compton Reade), 14

America Abroad. (J. W. Cundall), 29

Ames, H. The Tragedy of a Pedigree, 13

Anna Marsden’s Experiment. (E. Williams), 24

---- And Afterwards. (Mrs H. E. Gorst), 17

Apollo. Ideal Physical Culture, 7

Asia, A Vagabond in. (E. Candler), 4

Asmodeus. (Le Sage), 11

“Æsculapius.” The Magnetism of Sin, 14

Ascher, Isidore. A Social Upheaval, 17

Ashes Tell no Tales. (Mrs A. S. Bradshaw), 16

Bartram, George. Ballads of Ghostly Shires, 9

Bachelor Ballads. (Harry A. Spurr), 29

Beckford, W. Vathek, 11

Black Tulip, The (Alexandre Dumas), 11 and 25

Boyd, F. M. Pelican Tails, 25

Book of the Poster, A. (W. S. Rogers), 5

Book Beautiful, From the, 7

Bradshaw, Mrs A. S. Ashes Tell no Tales, 16

Bradshaw, Mrs A. S. Gates of Temptation, The, 23

Bye-Ways of Crime. (R. J. Power-Berrey), 6

Candler, E. A Vagabond in Asia, 4

Carnie, T. W. In Quaint East Anglia, 8

Clelia. Messiahship of Shakspeare, The, 4

Clelia. God in Shakspeare, 5

Cigarette Smoker, The. (Author of “The Hypocrite”), 25

Comedy of temptation, A. (T. Coutts), 16

Committed to His Charge. (Kate and Robina Lizars), 13

Colomba. (Prosper Merimée), 11

Corelli, Marie. Patriotism or Self-Advertisement?, 7

Coutts, T. The Pottle Papers, 28

Coutts, T. A Comedy of Temptation, 16

Croly, George. Salathiel, 11

Cry in the Night, A (A. Golsworthy), 17

Cundall, J. W. London, 29

Cundall, J. W. America Abroad, 29

Cynthia’s Damages. (E. Turner), 15

Dan Leno, Hys Booke. (Dan Leno), 28

Daniels, Heber. Dona Rufina, 23

Daughters of Pleasure. (De Brémont), 14

Darab’s Wine-Cup. (Bart Kennedy), 22

Daudet. Sapho, 18

Dead Woman’s Vow, A. (Emile Zola), 18

Death and the Woman. (Golsworthy), 26

De Brémont, Comtesse. A Son of Africa, 15

De Brémont, Comtesse. Daughters of Pleasure, 14

De Brémont, Comtesse. The Gentleman Digger, 15

De Soissons, Count. The Path of the Soul, 6

Derelict and Tommy, The. (C. Forestier-Walker), 25

Detached Pirate, A. (Helen Milecete), 13

Devil in a Domino, The. (C. L’Epine), 25

Dona Rufina. (Heber Daniels), 23

Downing, C. Messiahship of Shakspeare, 4

Downing, C. God in Shakspeare, 5

Dolomite Cavern, The. (W. Kelly), 20

Dress in a Nutshell. (“R.”), 9

Dumas. The Black Tulip, 11 and 25

East Anglia, In Quaint. (Carnie), 8

“English Writers of To-day” Series--
Rudyard Kipling. (G. F. Monkshood), 1
Bret Harte. (T. E. Pemberton), 2
Swinburne. (Theodore Wratislaw), 2
George Meredith. (Walter Jerrold), 2
Hall Caine. (C. Fred. Kenyon), 2
A. W. Pinero. (Hamilton Fyffe), 2
W. E. Henley. (George Gamble), 2
Mrs Humphry Ward, } in one
Mrs Craigie, (W. L. Courtney), } volume, 3
Thomas Hardy, 3
Realistic Writers of To-day. (J. Hannaford), 3
The Parnassian School in English Poetry. (Sir G. Douglas), 3
Richard Le Gulliene. (Ranger Gull), 3

Elocution, The Art of. (R. Ferguson), 7

Epicurean, The. (Thomas Moore), 11

Escott, T. H. S. A Trip to Paradoxia, 6

Exile in Bohemia, An. (Ernest E. Williams), 12

“Fame, the Fiddler.” (S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald), 22

Farthest South. (H. G. Gorst), 24

Ferguson, Ross. The Art of Elocution, 6

Ferreira, A. J. Nebo, 7

Fevez, Coralie. Ira Lorraine, 16

Fellow-Passengers, The. (R. Pyke), 26

Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. A Tragedy of Grub Street, 23

Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. The Grand Panjandrum, 27

Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. That Fascinating Widow, 27

Fitz-Gerald, S. J. A. Fame, the Fiddler, 22

Forbes, Edmund. Red Fate, 13

For Himself Alone. (T. W. Speight), 15

Forestier-Walker, C. The Derelict and Tommy, 25

Fouillée, Alfred. Woman, 5

France, Anatole. Thaïs, 18

From the Book Beautiful. (Author of “The Hypocrite”), 7

Galt, J. Ringan Gilhaize, 10

Gates of Temptation, The. (Mrs A. Bradshaw), 23

Gentleman Digger, The. (Comtesse de Brémont), 15

Girl of the North, The. (H. Milecete), 12

God in Shakspeare. (C. Downing), 5

Gorton, Lieut.-Col. The Maori War, 6

Gorst, H. E. Farthest South, 24

Gorst, Mrs H. ---- And Afterwards, 17

Golsworthy, A. Death and the Woman, 26

Golsworthy, A. A Cry in the Night, 17

Grand Panjandrum, The. (S. J. A. Fitz-Gerald), 27

Green, Percy B. A History of Nursery Rhymes, 10

Green Passion, The. (A. P. Vert), 19

Grayl, Druid. Nonsense Numbers and Jocular Jingles, 27

Grayl, Druid. Pillypingle Pastorals, Guides, etc., 29

Hamlets, Some Notable. (C. Scott), 3

Hannaford, Justin. The Love Thirst of Elaine, 20

Harem, Romance of a, 18

Heaven, Louise P. An Idol of Bronze, 20

Herman, H. The Sword of Fate, 19

Hewitt, E. Prettiness of Fools, 14

Hypocrite, The. (Anonymous), 21

Hypocrite, The. (Author of “Miss Malevolent”), 21

Hypocrite, The. (Author of “From the Book Beautiful”), 7

Hypocrite, The. (Author of “His Grace’s Grace”), 13

Hypocrite, The. (Author of “The Cigarette Smoker”), 25

Ideal Physical Culture. (Apollo), 7

Idealist, The. (Grove Johnson), 18

Idol of Bronze. (L. P. Heaven), 20

In Monte Carlo. (H. Sienkiewicz), 22

In the World of Mimes. (L. Melville), 15

In Quaint East Anglia. (T. W. Carnie), 8

Ira Lorraine. (Coralie Fevez), 16

Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle, 10

John Basileon. (_See_ “My Lady Ruby”), 22

Johnson, Dr. Rasselas, 10

Johnson, Grove. The Idealist, 18

Kelly, W. P. The Dolomite Cavern, 20

Kennedy, Bart. A Man Adrift, 3

Kennedy, Bart. Darab’s Wine-Cup, 22

Kennedy, Bart. The Wandering Romanoff, 23

Lady of Criswold, The. (L. Outram), 24

Lady of the Leopard, The. (C. L’Epine), 20

Le Sage. Asmodeus, 11

Leno, D. Dan Leno, Hys Booke, 28

L’Epine, C. The Devil in a Domino, 25

L’Epine, C. The Lady of the Leopard, 20

Leyken, N. Where the Oranges Grow, 13

Lizars, K. and R. Committed to His Charge, 13

Longstaff, W. L. Weeds and Flowers, 9

Longstaff, W. L. The Tragedy of the Lady Palmist, 21

London. (J. W. Cundall), 29

Loughnan, J. Pym. Mad? 23

Love Thirst of Elaine, The. (J. Hannaford), 20

Lord Jimmy. (G. Martyn), 23

Mad? (J. Pym Loughnan), 23

Madonna Mia. (C. Scott), 20

Man Adrift, A. (B. Kennedy), 8

Magnetism of Sin, The. (“Æsculapius”), 14

Maori War, The. (Lt.-Col. E. Gorton), 6

Martin, E. Shadows, 26

Martyn, G. Lord Jimmy, 23

Mayne Reid, Captain. (Mrs M. Reid), 4

M’Millan. A. The Weird Well, 16

Messiahship of Shakspeare, The. (Clelia), 4

Merimée, P. Colomba, 11

Melville, L. In the World of Mimes, 15

Miss Malevolent. (Author of “The Hypocrite”), 21

Milecete, H. A Girl of the North, 12

Milecete, H. A Detached Pirate, 13

Mora. (T. W. Speight), 15

Moore, Thomas. The Epicurean, 11

Modern Argonauts, The. (Eliza Orzeszko), 12

Monkshood, G. F. Rudyard Kipling, 1

Monkshood, G. F. My Lady Ruby, 22

Monkshood, G. F. Woman and the Wits, 9

My Lady Ruby. (G. F. Monkshood), 22

Nebo. (A. J. Ferreira), 7

Nonsense Numbers and Jocular Jingles. (Druid Grayl), 27

Northern Lights and Shadows. (R. G. Taber), 5

Nursery Rhymes, A History of. (P. B. Green), 8

Obscure Apostle, An. (Madame Orzeszko), 12

Orzeszko, Madame. The Modern Argonauts, 12

Orzeszko, Madame. An Obscure Apostle, 12

Our Lady of the Ice. (Constance Sutcliffe), 20

Outrageous Fortune. (Anonymous), 19

Outram, L. The Lady of Criswold, 24

Owen, J. L. Seven Nights with Satan, 19

Path of the Soul, The. (De Soissons), 6

Patriotism or Self-Advertisement? (Marie Corelli), 7

Pemberton, T. E. Bret Harte, 2

Pelican Tails. (F. M. Boyd), 25

Physical Culture, Ideal. (Apollo), 7

Pillypingle Pastorals. (Druid Grayl), 28

Pottle Papers. (T. Coutts), 28

Poster, A Book of the. (W. S. Rogers), 5

Power of the Past, The. (Daisy Pryce), 14

Power-Berrey, R. J. Bye-Ways of Crime, 6

Prettiness of Fools, The. (E. Hewitt), 14

Pyke, R. The Fellow-Passengers, 26

Pryce, Daisy Hughes. The Power of the Past, 14

Rae-Brown, C. The Shadow on the Manse, 17

Rae-Brown, C. The Resurrection of His Grace, 24

Rasselas. (Dr Johnson), 10

Reade, C. The After-Taste, 14

Red Fate. (E. Forbes), 13

Resurrection of His Grace, The. (Rae-Brown), 24

Ringan Gilhaize. (J. Galt), 10

Rip Van Winkle. (W. Irving), 10 and 26

Rogers, W. S. A Book of the Poster, 5

Romance of a Harem, 18

Sadleir, Mrs. An Uncanny Girl, 25

Sadleir, Mrs. Such is the Law, 16

Salathiel. (Dr Croly), 11

Sapho. (Daudet), 18

Scott, C. The Wheel of Life, 3

Scott, C. Madonna Mia, 20

Scott, C. Some Notable Hamlets, 3

Scott, C. Sisters by the Sea, 4

Seed, Rev. T. A. Woman, 5

Seekers of Sentiment, 14

Seven Nights with Satan. (J. L. Owen), 19

Shadow on the Manse, The. (Rae-Brown), 17

Shadows. (E. Martin), 26

Shams! (Anonymous), 18

Sienkiewicz, H. In Monte Carlo, 22

Social Upheaval, A. (I. G. Ascher), 17

Son of Africa, A. (De Brémont), 15

Speight, T. W. Mora, 15

Speight, T. W. Two Days in a Life-time, 15

Speight, T. W. For Himself Alone, 15

Spurr, H. Bachelor Ballads, 29

Stage, The Year Book of the. (L. A. Greening), 7

Such is the Law. (Sadleir, Mrs), 16

Sutcliffe, Constance. Our Lady of the Ice, 20

Sword of Fate, The. (H. Herman), 19

Taber, R. G. Northern Lights and Shadows, 5

Thaïs. (Anatole France), 18

That Fascinating Widow. (S. J. A. Fitz-Gerald), 26

Thompson, C. J. S. Zoroastro, 18

Tragedy of Grub Street, A. (S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald), 23

Tragedy of a Pedigree, The. (Hugo Ames), 13

Tragedy of the Lady Palmist, The. (W. L. Longstaff), 21

Trip to Paradoxia, A. (T. H. Escott), 6

Two Days in a Life-time. (T. Speight), 15

Turner, R. Cynthia’s Damages, 15

Uncanny Girl, An. (Mrs Sadleir), 25

Upperton, R. Village Life and Feeling, 10

Vagabond in Asia, A. (E. Candler), 4

Vathek. (W. Beckford), 11

Vert, A. P. The Green Passion, 19

Village Life and Feeling. (Rupert Uppington), 10

Virtue of Necessity, A. (H. Adams), 17

Wandering Romanoff, The. (Bart Kennedy), 23

Weeds and Flowers. (W. Longstaff), 9

Weird Well, The. (Alec M’Millan), 16

Wheel of Life, The. (C. Scott), 3

Where the Oranges Grow. (N. A. Leyken), 13

Williams, Ernest E. An Exile in Bohemia, 12

Williams, Ellen. Anna Marsden’s Experiment, 24

Woman. (Rev. T. A Seed and A. Fouillée), 5

Woman and the Wits. (G. Monkshood), 9

Wratislaw, T. Algernon Charles Swinburne, 2

Year Book of the Stage, The. (L. A. Greening), 7

Zola, E. A Dead Woman’s Vow, 18

Zoroastro. (C. J. Thompson), 18