Punch Volume 55 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...they've endless varieties. And the main object is Number One. They've thousands of Christian subscribers Whose money's to Christianise Jews; But their Missioners can't be good bribers As the Jews prefer staying Oebreics. They've tracts upon tracts against Popery, Aousing the incense and cope; But in spite of hard words or soft soapery, They don't gain a soul from the Pope. Subscribers to every Society, Not grudging the largest amount, Begin not to question their piety, But to call for the strictest account. We have crowds of poor naked and starving, There is plenty for money to do; We'd relieve a few hundreds by halving The price of converting one Jew. Political Persuasion and Force. It is said that intimidation is the besetting sin of the Conservatives, and bribery of the Liberals. Perhaps that is the case. Then the Conservative wallops, so to speak, or threatens to wallop the British Elector, and the Liberal gives him oats, as it were, and cries gee wo A POSE FOB. A PICTURE. Does any artist, desirous of distinguishing himself, want a subject of which he may make a picture for the next Exhibition of the Royal Academy? Then here is one for him, in an extract from the Monitevr relative to the Spanish Insurrection: --"The frigate Victoria, which had appeared before Corunna, retired in consequence of the attitude assumed by the Captain-General." What scope this announcement affords for the conception of a grand historical picture In the whole range of profane history there is only one instance at all nearly parallel to the wonderful fact which it proclaims. That occurred at the last siege of Acre, where the garrison immediately laid down their arms on the appearance of Admiral Sir Charles Napier in the breach, when he raised his walking-stick. This, ...