Chapter II: Part 2

"It is plain that Miss has the eye artistic: that sees itself well in the new basin she has bought to replace the one that fell by hazard and burst itself. Monsieur also has the eye straight. In effect the picture there that Monsieur designs is of a justness, but of a justness! One would say the place itself," leaning back and half closing her eyes. "In Belgium could it not be better done. No. It is I, Victorine, who say it. If Monsieur has the false digestion, by contrary it is evident that he has the head solid."

But Victorine has a fault dark and grievous in the British eye. She jibs at fresh air.

"Surely Mr., and above all Miss, will take a congestion with the window grand-open of that fashion? As for me I have the neuralgias to make fear! Figure to yourself that in the kitchen the three windows (where one would well suffice, go) if open make to pass a hurricane!"

A short lecture follows, in which the ill effects of stuffiness are pointed out, and Victorine is reduced to unconvinced and mutinous silence. As the days pass a little acquiescence in "cette manie pour les courants d'air" is visible, but at the slightest approach of cold every aperture through which air may possibly find its way is surreptitiously closed, and it is only when she is out with her husband taking a walk or refreshing the inner man in a "café" with "un peu de stoot" that we can penetrate by stealth into her bedroom and air it.

Jean Baptiste is for the moment in disgrace because he has not been to see Victorine for a week. He is threatened with all sorts of penalties when he finally decides to present himself. Primarily Victorine is going to present him with _savon_, which appears in the vernacular to be the Belgian equivalent for beans. She is also going to wash him the head.

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_Second ditto._ "I AM KNITTING SOCKS FOR THE TROOPS."

_First Old Dame (robustly)._ "KNITTING! _I_ AM LEARNING TO SHOOT!"]

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)

_Sir John Lubbock_, whose Life, by Mr. HORACE HUTCHINSON, MACMILLAN publishes in two volumes, was one of the most honourable men who figured in public life during the last half-century. He was also one of the most widely honoured. Under his name on the title-page of the book appears a prodigious paragraph in small type enumerating the high distinctions bestowed upon him by British and foreign literary and scientific bodies. Forestalling the leisure of a bank-holiday I have counted the list and find it contains no fewer than fifty-two high distinctions, one for every week of the year. These were won not by striking genius or brilliant talent. Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, to preserve a name which the crowning honour of the peerage did not displace in the public mind, was by nature and daily habit constitutionally industrious. After Eton he joined his father's banking business. In his diary under date Christmas Day, 1852, being the nineteenth year of his age, he gives an account of how he spends his day. It is too long to quote, but, beginning by "getting up at half-past six," it includes steady reading in natural history, poetry, political economy, science, mathematics and German. Breakfast, luncheon and tea are mentioned in due course; but there is no reference to dinner or supper. These functions were doubtless regarded by the young student as frivolous waste of time.

I knew LUBBOCK personally during his long membership of the House of Commons. He had neither grace of diction nor charm of oratory. But he had a way of getting Bills through all their stages which exceeded the average attained by more attractive speakers. In his references to Parliamentary life he mentions that GLADSTONE, when he proposed to abolish the Income Tax, told him that he intended to meet the deficiency partly by increase of the death duties. That was a fundamental principle of the Budget Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL prepared during his brief Chancellorship of the Exchequer. It was left to Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT to realise the fascinating scheme, later to be extended by Mr. LLOYD GEORGE. Another of Lord RANDOLPH'S personally unfulfilled schemes was the introduction of one-pound notes. In a letter dated 16th December, 1886, he confidentially communicated his project to LUBBOCK. When his book reaches its second edition Mr. HUTCHINSON will have an opportunity of correcting a misapprehension set forth on page 48. He writes that, on June 21st, 1895, "all were startled by an announcement that Mr. GLADSTONE had resigned and that Parliament was to be dissolved." The surprise was not unnatural since Lord ROSEBERY was Prime Minister at this memorable crisis.

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I can see some good in most people, but none whatever in those chairmen of meetings who, being put up to introduce distinguished speakers, thoroughly well worth listening to, feel called upon to delay matters by making lengthy speeches themselves. I propose to be quite brief in announcing PROFESSOR STEPHEN LEACOCK on _Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich_ (LANE). Conceive this arch-humourist let loose, if so rough a term may be applied to so delicate a wit, among the sordid and fleshly plutocracy of a progressive American city; imagine his polished satire expending itself on such playful themes as the running of fashionable churches on strictly commercial lines, dogma and ritualism being so directed and adapted as to leave the largest possible dividends on the Special Offertory Cumulative Stock, and your appetite will be whetted for an intellectual feast of the most delicious flavour. For myself, I found a certain quiet but intense delight in the first five stories, episodes in the lives of individual billionaires; but when I came to the last three, which dealt with the class as a collective whole, then I became frankly and noisily hilarious. I am not given to being tiresome in the reading-room; it is another of the unforgivable offences; but I defy any man of intelligence to read those chapters and retain even a fair remnant of self-control.

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_The Lighter Side of School Life_ (FOULIS) is one of the merriest and shrewdest books that I have met for a long time. Mr. IAN HAY pleasantly dedicates his work "to the members of the most responsible, the least advertised, the worst paid, and the most richly rewarded profession in the world"; and you will not have turned two pages before discovering that the writer of them knows pretty thoroughly what he is writing about. For my own part I claim to have some experience both of schoolmasters and boys, and I can say at once that the former at least have seldom been dealt with more faithfully than by Mr. HAY. His chapter on "Some Form Masters" is a thing of the purest joy; bitingly true, yet withal of a kindly sympathy with his victims. One would say that he knows boys as well, were it not for the conviction that to imagine any kind of understanding of Boydom is (if my contemporaries will forgive me) the last enchantment of the middle-aged, and the most fallacious. As for the Educational experts, he has all the cold and calculated hate for them that is the mark of experience. I admired especially his treatment of the "craze for practical teaching," the theory which holds, for example, that, instead of postulating a fixed relation between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, a teacher should supply his boys with several ordinary tin canisters, a piece of string and a ruler, and leave the form to work out their own result. Decidedly, Mr. HAY has seen _The Lighter Side of School Life_ with the eye of knowledge; and when I mention that your own eyes will here encounter a dozen pictures by Mr. LEWIS BAUMER at his delightful best--well, I suppose, enough said.

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(ATTEMPTED ILLUSTRATION TO A RECENT POSTER OF THE EVENING PRESS.)]

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At one time, I hope for ever gone, Mr. PERCY WHITE'S sense of irony ran away with him. He seemed to have said to himself, "I can write witty dialogue and I have a shrewd eye for foibles, and if you are not satisfied with that you can take it or leave it." I for one took it, but always with a feeling that he was offering me a sparkling wine of a quality not first-rate, whereas with a little more trouble and expense he could have offered me an unimpeachable brand. Now that _Cairo_ (CONSTABLE) has provided me with what I have been waiting for, I am more than delighted to present my acknowledgments. Mr. WHITE'S subject is pat to the moment; moreover it is handled with such unobtrusive skill that one absorbs a serious problem without being anxiously conscious that all the play of intrigue and adventure is covering a much deeper motive. When Mr. WHITE sent _Daniel Addington_ to Egypt to meet _Abdul Sayed_, who had been at Oxford and was a leader of the Young Egyptian party, he gave himself a chance of which he has taken full advantage. It is true that _Addington_ cried a pest on all politics as soon as he fell a victim to the charms of _Ann Donne_, a widow of excessive sprightliness; but by that time he was too deeply enmeshed in the nets of intrigue to escape the just reward of those amateurs who dabble with critical situations. _Abdul_ regarded him as a "milksop," and so he was from _Abdul's_ full-blooded point of view; but I can also see in him a fresh testimony to the courage of our race. For he married the widow _Ann_, and that was a very plucky thing to do.

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The only thing that I didn't like about _Molly, My Heart's Delight_ (SMITH, ELDER) was the title. But to allow yourself to be put off by this will be to miss one of the pleasantest books of the season. What I might call true fiction has always held a peculiar charm for me. In the present work that clever writer, KATHARINE TYNAN, has been lucky and astute enough to find an ideal heroine, ready made to her hand, in the person of the charming woman who married DEAN DELANY. Upon the basis of her diaries and letters the romance has been built up, with the excellent result of a blend of art and actuality that is most engaging. _Molly_ is the gayest of creatures in her girlhood. We see her character develop gradually, tamed and half broken by her unhappy first marriage (an episode exquisitely treated, so that even the ugly side of it bears yet some precious jewels of charity and long-suffering), tried in the fire of romantic adoration, and finally reaching its appointed destiny in the comradeship with "kind, tender, faithful D.D." Lovers of diaries and memoirs, equally with those who like a graceful tale well told, will find what they want here, from the moment when its heroine goes, a girl-bride, to the romantically gloomy house of Rhoscrow, to that other moment when the placid mistress of the Deanery hears of the death of _Bellamy_, the man whom all her life she really loved. This book of _Molly_ should be a "heart's delight" to many.

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"ARIZONA BILL VIOLATES TREATIES."--_New York Times._

So does Potsdam BILL.

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PUNCH IN THE TRENCHES.

_Mr. Punch_ drew another letter from the heap on his office-desk and opened it.

_Polwheedle, Cornwall._

DEAR _Mr. Punch_,--An amusing incident happened here yesterday. I was talking to an old countryman, a great character in the village, and I happened to make some remark about the War. "What war?" asked old Jarge. "The European War," I answered in surprise. "Well," he said, "they've got a fine day for it." I thought this would interest you.

Yours etc.,
JOHN BROWN.

"Two hundred and eighteen," said _Mr. Punch_ to himself, and took the next letter from the heap.

_Wortleberry, Sussex._

Mr. William Smith presents his compliments to _Mr. Punch_ and begs to send him the following dialogue which occurred in this village yesterday:--

_Myself._ "Well, what do you think of the War, Jarge?"

_Jarge._ "What war?"

_Myself (surprised)._ "The European War."

_Jarge._ "They've got a fine day for it, anyhow."

Mr. Smith thought you would like this.

"Two hundred and nineteen," said _Mr. Punch_ to himself, "not counting the South African or Crimean ones." He sighed and selected a third letter.

_Sporransprock, Kirkcudbrightshire._

DEAR _Mr. Punch_,--How's this? I asked a native what he thought of the War. On being told which war, he replied, "Eh, mon, ye ken, but they've got a gran'----"

At this point _Mr. Punch_ rose from his chair and began to pace the room restlessly.

"There must be more in life than this," he said to himself again and again; "this can't be all."

He looked at his watch.

"Yes," he murmured, "that's it. I shall just have time."

Hastily donning the military overcoat of an Honorary Cornet-Major of the Bouverie Street Roughriders, he left for the Front.

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Mud, and then again mud, and then very much more mud.

"Halt! Who goes there?" "Friend," said _Mr. Punch_ hopefully. "It's _Mr. Punch_," said a cheerful voice. "Come in."

The Cornet-Major of the B.S.R. glissaded into the trench and found himself shaking hands with a very young subaltern of the ----th ----s. [_Censored._]

"Thought I recognised you," he said. "Glad to see you out here, Sir."

"That's really what I came about," said _Mr. Punch_. "I want your advice."

"My advice! Good Lord!... Sure you're comfortable there? Now what'll you have? Cigar or barley-sugar?" _Mr. Punch_ accepted a cigar.

"We're all for barley-sugar ourselves just now," the subaltern went on. "Seems kiddish, but there it is."

_Mr. Punch_ lit his cigar and proceeded to explain himself.

"I say that I have come to consult you," he began. "It seems strange, you think. I am seventy-three, and you are----"

"Twenty-two," said the subaltern. "Next November."

"And yet Seventy-three comes here to sit at the feet of Twenty-two, and for every encouraging word that Twenty-two offers him Seventy-three will say 'Thank you!'"

"Rats," said Twenty-two for a start.

"Let me explain," said the Venerable One. "There come moments in the life of every man when he says suddenly to himself, 'What am I doing? Is it worth it?'--a moment when the work of which he has for years been proud seems all at once to be of no value whatever." The subaltern murmured something. "No, not necessarily indigestion. There may be other causes. Well, such a moment has just come to me ... and I wondered." He hesitated, and then added wistfully, "Perhaps you could say something to help me."

"The pen," said the subaltern, coughing slightly, "is mightier than the sword."

"It is," said the Sage. "I've often said so ... in Peace time."

The subaltern blushed as he searched his mind for the Historic Example.

"Didn't WOLFE say that he would rather have written what's-its-name than taken Quebec?" he asked hesitatingly.

"Yes, he did. And for most of his life the poet would have agreed with him. But, if at the moment when he read of the taking of Quebec you had asked GRAY, I think he would have changed places with WOLFE very willingly.... And in Bouverie Street," added _Mr. Punch_, "we read of the takings of Quebecs almost every day."

The subaltern was thoughtful for a moment.

"I'll tell you a true story," he said quietly. "There was a man in this trench who had his leg shot off. They couldn't get him away till night, and here he had to wait for the whole of the day.... He stuck it out.... And what do you think he stuck it out on?"

"Morphia?" suggested _Mr. Punch_.

"Partly on morphia, and partly on--something else."

"Yes?" said _Mr. Punch_ breathlessly.

"Yes--_you_. He read ... and he laughed ... and by-and-by the night came."

A silence came over them both. Then _Mr. Punch_ got up quietly.

"Good-bye," he said, holding out his hand, "and thank you. That moment I spoke about seems to have gone." He took a book from under his arm and placed it in the other's hands. "I generally give this away with rather a flourish," he confessed. "This time I'll just say, 'Will you take it?' It's all there; all that I think and hope and dream, and that you out here are doing.... Good luck to you--and let me help some more of you to stick it out."

And with that he returned to Bouverie Street, leaving behind in the trench his

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Cartoons.

PARTRIDGE, BERNARD.
At the Post of Honour, 203
Children's Truce (The), 519
Chronic Complaint (A), 459
Eagle Comique (The), 419
Emergency Exit (The), 11
Excursionist (The), 379
Giving the Show Away, 319
Glorious Example (A), 399
God (and the Women) our Shield, 223
Hail! Russia, 243
Killed, 499
King at the Front (The), 479
Masterpiece in the Making (A), 51
Mutual Service, 131
New Army to the Front (The), 539
Pattern of Chivalry (A), 439
Plain Duty (A), 359
Resort to the Obvious (A), 91
Road to Russia (The), 299
Triumph of "Culture" (The), 185
Unconquerable, 339
What of the Dawn?, 111
World's Enemy (The), 167

RAVEN-HILL, L.
At Durazzo-super-Mare, 83
Beaten on Points, 23
Carrying on, 431
Coming of the Cossacks (The), 177
Cool Stuff, 123
Dishonoured, 531
Forewarned, 371
For Friendship and Honour, 151
Fulfilment, 511
Good Hunting, 411
Greater Game (The), 331
Great Goth (The), 281
Great Illusion (The), 263
His Master's Voice, 391
India for the King, 215
Innocent (The), 471
Joseph Chamberlain, 71
Limit (The), 351
Made in Germany, 235
North Sea Chantey (A), 311
Political Jungle (The), 40-41
Power Behind (The), 103
Sinews of War (The), 491
To Arms, 195
Well Met, 161
When the Ships come Home, 3

TOWNSEND, F. H.
Boer and Briton Too, 273
Bravo, Belgium, 143
Incorrigibles (The), 291
Liberal Cave-Men (The), 63
Men of Few Words, 451
Nothing Doing, 255

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Articles.

BOYLE, W. P.
In Memory, 280

BRIGHTWELL, L. R.
Another Misjudged Alien, 465
Notes by a War Dog, 385

BROWN, C. HILTON
Cottage (The), 138
Little Brother, 495

CALDECOTT, H. S.
Paris Again, 426

CAMPBELL, A. Y.
Stick to it, Right Wing, 335

CHALMERS, P. R.
At the Tower, 62
Bees (The), 121
Fact and Fable, 110
Fan, 435
Guns of Verdun, 202
Infantry, 222
In the City, 181
Jules François, 315
Kings from the East, 260
Kitty Adair, 98
Lady's Walk (The), 377
Prima Donna (The), 31
Southdowns (The), 343
Steeple (The), 279
To Limehouse, 251
Wilhelm, 348
Wireless, 395

COBB, MISS J.
Willow Pattern Plate (The), 503

COCHRANE, A.
Sporting Despatch (A), 464
Tirpitz Touch (The), 242

COLLINS, G. H.
To a Super-Patriot, 413

CRESWELL, BULKELEY
Rubbing It In, 56

DARK, RICHARD
Love's Labour Not Lost, 474
Voice in the Night (A), 536

DAVEY, NORMAN
R.G.A. 536

DRENNAN, W. ST. G.
Docthor's War Speech (The), 424
Tommy Brown, Auctioneer, 466
Tommy Brown, Patriot, 394
Tommy Brown, Recruiting Sergeant, 330

DUFFIELD, E. N.
Silvern Tongue (The), 268

DUFFIN, MISS
Barbara's Birthday Bear, 524

ECKERSLEY, ARTHUR
Cutting Down, 268
New News (The), 179
Next (The), 541
Pacificist (The), 238

EDEN, MRS. H. P.
Prize (The), 521

ELIAS, F.
How Germany Came Off, 194
How War is "Made in Germany", 163
Mails for a Mailed Fist, 498
Sound and Fury, 279
Why I Don't Enlist, 410
Works of Kultur, 341

EMANUEL, WALTER
Catch (The), 259
Charivaria, weekly
Nut's Views on the War (A), 306

FAY, STANLEY J.
Plea for Pegasus (A), 166
Price of Patriotism (The), 430

FORSTER, R. H.
Food War (A), 259

GARVEY, MISS INA
Blanche's Letters, 68, 206, 396

GITTINS, H. N.
Double Cure (The), 129
Exercise 1, 95

GLASGOW, MRS. R.
On Earth--Peace, 521

GRAHAM, SCOTT
Militant's Tariff (The), 15

GRAVES, C. L.
Burgomaster Max, 301
Father Wilhelm, 397
Freedom of the Press (The), 483
Imperial Infanticide (The), 537
Minor War Games, 501
New School of Divinity (The), 257
Passing of the Cow (The), 137
Super-Sympathy, 239
To Mr. Bernard Jaw, 430
Two Germanies (The), 213
War's Revenges, 464
Woman at the Fight, 25

GRAVES, C. L., AND LUCAS, E. V.
Answers to Correspondents, 171
Archibong, 382
As Others Wish to See Us, 381
Aunt Louisa's Song Scena, 414
Balm for the Brainless, 16
Choice (The), 278
Feline Amenities, 187
First Blunder (The), 230
From Another Point of View, 189
Heroes (The), 209
Limit of Ignorance (The), 424
Meditations on Mushrooms, 286
Mutability, 105
My Brother's Letter, 326
My Favourite Paper, 404
My Hardy Annual, 126
Our Literary War Lords, 378
Our Mighty Penmen, 476
Our Overburdened Heroes, 226
Oxford in Transition, 82
Politics at the Zoo, 30
Progress of Man (The), 106
Real Hero of the War (The), 532
Real Reason (The), 361
Renamed Celebrities, 313
Santa Claus at the Front, 522
Surprise (The), 346
Volumes, 145
White Man's Burden (The), 355

HASELDEN, PERCY
En Passant, 192
Moon-Pennies, 304
Searchlights on the Mersey, 478
To a Pompadour Clock, 269

HASTINGS, B. MACDONALD
Keeping in the Limelight, 515

HODGKINSON, T.
Benefactor (A), 462
Diplomacy, 94
Forlorn Hope (The), 486
Imports and Exports, 247
Repatriation, 426
Silent Charmer (The), 16
Stable Information, 497
To a Jaded German Pressman, 306
Viking Spirit (The), 170
Wiser Choice (The), 135

HUGHES, C. E.
Restorative Power of Music (The), 150

JENKINS, ERNEST
Another Innocent Victim of the War, 373
Our Colossal Arrangements, 107
Things That Do Not Matter, 321

JOHNSTON, ALEC
How Will You Take It?, 219
News from the Back of the Front, 470
Private View (The), 165

KEIGWIN, R. P.
Casus Belli, 366
Four Sea Lords (The), 478
To a Naval Cadet, 266

KIDD, ARTHUR
Awakening (The), 287
Fortune's Favourite, 198
Kill or Cure, 530
Our Daily Bread, 308
Prophets (The), 505
Strategic Disease, 416
Tours in Fact and Fancy, 58

KINGSLEY-LONG, H.
With High Heart, 343

KNOX, E. G. V.
Awakening (The), 87, 433
Cocoanuts, 127
Cut Flowers, 122
Double Life (The), 148
Error in Arcady (An), 116
Foiling of "The Blare" (The), 117
Great Petard (The), 375
Great Shock (The), 338
In Darkest Germany, 358
Jesting of Jane (The), 55
Kaiser's Hate (The), 415
Misused Talent (The), 393
New Noah's Ark (The), 234
Ode to the Spirit of Wireless Victory, 262
Peace with Honour, 458
Progress, 1
Purple Lie (The), 22
Saving of Stratford (The), 295
Scratch Handicap (The), 188
Tempering the Wind, 65
Twilight in Regent's Park, 318
Valhalla, 276

LANGLEY, F. O.
Extenuating Circumstance (The), 146
Helpmeet (The), 304
Payment in Kind, 66
Sinecure (The), 82
Watch Dogs (The), 183, 200, 258, 284, 314, 353, 398, 453, 494,
534

LAWS, A. GORDON
Censor Habit (The), 221

LAWRENCE C. E.
As England Expects, 260

LEGARD, T. F.
Victorine, 542

LEHMANN, R. C.
Amanda, 75
Compulsion, 98
Crisis (The), 102
Determined Island (A), 142, 160, 176
Diary of a Kaiser, 214
For the Children, 435
Khaki Muffler (The), 364
Ode to John Bradbury, 208
Packer's Plaint (The), 130
Search for Paddington (The), 486
Teeth-Setting, 247
Unwritten Letters to the Kaiser, 254, 272, 290, 310, 345, 370,
390, 426, 450, 493, 510, 530
Walkers (The), 10

LETTS, W. M.
Sea Change (A), 301

LODGE, ARTHUR A.
Enigma, 6

LUCAS, E. V.
Entente in Being (The), 481
Marne Footnote (A), 504
Once Upon a Time, 18, 26, 76, 85

LUCY, HENRY
Essence of Parliament, Weekly during Session.
"Charlie" Beresford, 401

LULHAM, H.
Bob's Way, 259

LUMLEY, L.
Guarded Green (The), 78
My Girl Caddie, 138

LYON, MISS L. BOWES
Britain to Belgium, 381

MACLAREN, N.
Peacemaker (The), 535

MARTIN, N. R.
Doubt, 267
False Pretences, 355
Great Campaign (The), 241
Our Guy, 374
Recruiting Ballad (A), 443
Report Fallacious (The), 374
Terrors of War (The), 484
Too Much Championship, 69
War in Acacia Avenue (The), 303

MCKAY, HERBERT
Top Slice (The), 108

MILNE, A. A.
Armageddon, 128
At the Play, 210, 222, 246, 286
Christmas Spirit (The), 516
Double Mystery (The), 336
Enchanted Castle (The), 2
Enter Bingo, 316
Evangelist (The), 254
Fatal Gift (The), 198
First Tee (The), 89
High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall, 496
James Feels Better, 240
Last Line (The), 275, 293, 356, 416, 476
Midsummer Madness (A), 28
Old Order Changes (The), 164
Patriot (The), 436
Peace Cigar (The), 376
Problem of Life (The), 146
Question of Light (A), 456
"They Also Serve", 182
Two Recruiting Sergeants (The), 218
Warm Half-Hour (A), 62

MULGREW, FRANK
Scandalmongrian Romance (A), 7

O'CARROLL, T. LOCKE
Archbishop's Apologia (The), 455

OGILVIE, W. H.
War Horse of the King (A), 280

PHILPOTTS, EDEN
Cannon Fodder, 305

PLUMBE, C. CONWAY
Debt of Honour (A), 422
Home Thoughts from the Trenches, 496
India: 1784-1914, 296

POPE, MISS JESSIE
His First Victory, 217
Little and Good, 383
Outpost (The), 239
Royal Cracksman (A), 338

RICHARDSON, R. J.
Lost Season (The), 364

RIGBY, REGINALD
Another War Scare, 475
Arrest (The), 363
Counting of Chickens (The), 230
Mark of Distinction (A), 78
Safeguards, 418
Suppressed Superman (The), 516
Unintelligent Anticipation, 334

RITTENBERG, MAX
Beats, 322
Column of Adventure (The), 208
Mystery of Prince ---- (The), 383
Old Bulldog Breed (The), 424
Slump in Crime (The), 342
Wild and Woolly West End (The), 444

SEAMAN, OWEN
Another Scrap of Paper, 290
At the Play, 96, 246, 286, 302, 344, 434, 506
Avengers (The), 194
Between Midnight and Morning, 490
Call of England (The), 176
Canute and the Kaiser, 350
Dies Iræ, 160
Earl Roberts (In Memory), 438
Egypt in Venice, 5
For the Red Cross, 214
Imperial Overture (An), 272
Joseph Chamberlain (In Memory), 70
Leaves from an Imperial Note Book, 234
Old Sea-Rover Speaks (The), 510
Patriot Under Fire (A), 22
Probation, 254
Pro Patria, 142
Thomas of the Light Heart, 310
To a False Patriot, 370
To the Bitter End, 410
To the Enemy on his Achievement, 330
To the Neutral Nations, 450
To the Shirker: A Last Appeal, 390
Truthful Willie, 470
Uses of Ocean (The), 102
War-Lord's New Year's Eve (The), 530

SMITH, BERTRAM
Attack on German Trade (The), 197
Christmas Presents, 1914, 502
Cure for Cricket (The), 17
Dispositions, 237
Inquisition (The), 76
Interpreters (The), 296
Nature of a Moratorium (The), 159
Our Dumb Enemies, 383
Our National Guests, 406, 444, 502
Sunday Evening Edition (The), 333
War Declarations, 220
War Items, 341
War Mementoes, 454

SMITH, MISS CICELY FOX
Return of the Prodigal (The), 538

SMITH, E. B.
Zeitungs and Gazettings, 342

SPENDER, MISS BRENDA
Capture (A), 514
Herbert, 386

STERNE, ASHLEY
Arms and the Woman, 250
Candidate for the Force (A), 199
Christmas Present for the Queen (A), 483
Last Bottle (The), 446
Mnemonics, 136
My Trousseau, 86
On Active Service, 156
Our War Story, 323
Rash Assumption (A), 473
Tobacco Plant (A), 405
Too Much Notice, 526

SYMNS, J. M.
Grey Gibbons, 403
Missionary (The), 115

TATHAM, M.
Retrospective, 97

THOROLD, R. A.
Opportunists (The), 463
Price of War (The), 404
Traitor (The), 315

TOMBS, J. S. M.
Love's Labour Well Lost, 108
Love's Logic, 15
Professional Attitude (The), 61
Seasonable Beverage (A), 28

TRUSCOTT, PARRY
At the "Plough and Horses", 325
War and the High Hand, 350

WHAITE, M. H. HOYLE
Mr. Punch's War Correspondence, 277
Tragic Mistake at Potsdam (A), 423

WHITE, R. F.
All Liars' Day, 118
Mr. Punch's Holiday Stories, 134, 154, 169, 190, 210, 228, 248
New Art(A), 365
Seaside Song Scena (A), 26
Unplayed Masterpiece (An), 88

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Pictures and Sketches.

ARMOUR, G. D., 44, 65, 97, 117, 139, 157, 165, 189, 199, 267, 287,
303, 323, 335, 365, 385, 407, 427, 445, 467, 485, 507, 527,
537

BAUMER, LEWIS, 15, 29, 32, 85, 110, 245, 271, 305, 337, 361, 369,
453, 478

BAYNES, PHILIP, 17, 46

BELCHER, GEORGE, 59, 79, 137, 145, 173, 219, 237, 275, 307, 321,
347, 375, 447, 475, 521

BIRD, W., 38, 61, 121, 238, 251, 314, 362, 389, 489, 529

BRIAULT, S., 294

BRIGHTWELL, L. R., 415, 514

BROOK, RICARDO, 284, 309, 384, 402, 409, 494, 528

CALOR, T., 374

COBB, MISS RUTH, 429

CROSS, STANLEY, 278, 414

DOWD, J. H., 94, 231

FENNING, WILSON, 21

FRASER, P., 54, 158, 328, 348, 349, 454, 534

GERMAN, DICK, 449, 502

GRAVE, CHARLES, 6, 69, 95, 126, 181, 213, 250, 265, 289, 465, 469,
482, 526

HALLIDAY, W., 106

HARRISON, C., 38, 46, 159, 241, 302, 306, 522

HART, FRANK, 155, 327, 343, 423

HASELDEN, W. K., 96, 210, 434, 506

HENRY, THOMAS, 508

HICKLING, P. B., 115, 301

ILLINGWORTH, F. W., 270

JENNIS, G., 227, 277, 355

KING, GUNNING, 397

LEWIN, F. G., 474

LLOYD, A. W., 13, 53, 73, 74, 93, 113, 133, 134, 153, 154, 162, 170,
175, 180, 205, 206, 228, 230, 233, 245, 266

LOW, HARRY, 448

LUNT, WILMOT, 99, 345, 398, 463

MCHUTCHON, F., 220

MILES, M., 354

MILLS, A. WALLIS, 7, 47, 75, 101, 135, 149, 174, 191, 193, 207, 247,
259, 285, 317, 333, 363, 382, 394, 425, 455, 495, 538

MINNS, B. E., 27, 86

MORROW, EDWIN A., 14, 80, 81, 147

MORROW, GEORGE, 9, 43, 48, 49, 50, 60, 77, 100, 120, 140, 190, 212,
232, 252, 288, 308, 325, 387, 401, 428, 435, 468, 488, 498,
509

NORRIS, A., 26, 221, 322

PARTRIDGE, BERNARD, 1, 31

PATTEN, L., 368

PEARS, CHARLES, 129, 269

PEGRAM, FRED, 171, 357, 418, 505, 525, 541

PETT, NORMAN, 141

RAVEN-HILL, L., 36, 107, 166, 187, 209, 257, 358, 383, 515, 518

REYNOLDS, FRANK, 211, 261, 279, 395, 487

REYNOLDS, PERCY T., 342, 483

RHEAD, F. A., 381

ROUNTREE, HARRY, 295, 443, 503

SHEPARD, E. H., 45, 57, 66, 130, 183, 201, 222, 298, 318, 338, 378,
417, 517, 543

SHEPPERSON, C. A., 10, 34, 35, 90, 109, 184, 202, 249, 262, 280,
293, 315, 341, 367, 377, 413, 433, 458, 481, 501, 535

SIMMONS, GRAHAM, 67

SKINNER, H. F. C., 446

SMITH, A. T., 19, 30, 55, 87, 114, 127

STAMPA, G. L., 37, 119, 169, 192, 229, 242, 253, 297, 329, 388, 405,
437, 457, 477, 523

THOMAS, BERT, 422, 497

THORPE, J. H., 403

TERRY, STAN, 20

TOWNSEND, F. H., 5, 25, 33, 37, 89, 105, 125, 150, 163, 179, 197,
217, 225, 239, 283, 313, 334, 353, 373, 393, 421, 441, 442,
461, 473, 493, 513, 533

WESTRUP, MISS E. K., 408

WILSON, DAVID, 172, 246, 462

WOOD, STARR, 188

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Transcriber Notes

Page 538 was moved to just after page 535, as the Peace-Maker article clearly begins on page 538 and concludes on page 536.

Other typographical inconsistencies that have been changed are listed below.

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The following changes were made to the original text:

Page 529: Was 'If' (=It= is said that for some time past he
would start nervously)

Page 542: Added period (for she is very =high-minded.= Her
weekly bath gives rise to)