item: #1 of 42 id: 11571 author: Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom) title: Mr. Punch's History of the Great War date: None words: 67373 flesch: 67 summary: PROLOGUE Though a lover of peace, Mr. Punch from his earliest days has not been unfamiliar with war. In May, 1864, Mr. Punch presented the King of Prussia with the Order of St. Gibbet for his treatment of Denmark. keywords: air; allies; american; armies; army; asquith; battle; bill; british; campaign; chief; country; crown; daily; day; days; death; end; enemy; england; english; fight; fighting; fleet; food; france; french; general; george; german; god; good; government; half; home; house; illustration; ireland; irish; kaiser; king; law; life; line; lloyd; london; lord; members; men; minister; month; need; new; news; north; offensive; officer; official; parliament; peace; people; present; press; prince; public; punch; russia; sea; second; service; set; ships; sir; situation; soldiers; spirit; things; time; trenches; victory; war; way; week; women; work; world; years cache: 11571.txt plain text: 11571.txt item: #2 of 42 id: 19126 author: Raemaekers, Louis title: Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers date: None words: 52895 flesch: 71 summary: Yes; and German war is as divine as German eating and drinking. And being thus all-predominant, German war is the greatest of outrages on life and death. keywords: ----------------------------------------------------------------------the; allies; artist; belgium; blood; cartoon; chesterton; children; civilization; country; day; death; dutch; end; enemy; england; europe; eyes; face; fighting; figure; force; france; freedom; german; god; good; hands; heart; holland; home; human; illustration; john; kaiser; kultur; life; little; men; military; mother; nation; new; peace; people; picture; power; prussian; raemaekers; right; sea; spirit; thing; time; truth; war; way; william; women; work; world; years cache: 19126.txt plain text: 19126.txt item: #3 of 42 id: 21427 author: Nye, Bill title: Comic History of the United States date: None words: 55863 flesch: 72 summary: He taught school winters and studied summers, as many other great men have done since, until he knew about everything that anybody could. Thus the boys of America impressed General Gage with their courage and patriotism and grew up to be good men. keywords: america; americans; army; author; battle; british; chapter; colony; command; country; day; days; death; dollars; enemy; england; english; fight; fort; franklin; french; general; george; good; government; governor; grant; home; house; illustration; indians; john; lee; left; life; little; man; men; miles; money; new; new york; north; party; people; place; president; red; river; south; states; thing; time; troops; union; united; virginia; war; washington; way; webster; west; work; years; york cache: 21427.txt plain text: 21427.txt item: #4 of 42 id: 21676 author: Herford, Oliver title: Confessions of a Caricaturist date: None words: 1574 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration] John S. Sargent Here's Sargent doing the Duchess X In pink velours and pea-green checks. [Illustration] George Bernard Shaw The very name of Bernard Shaw Fills me with mingled Mirth and Awe. Mixture of Mephistopheles, Don Quixote, and Diogenes, The Devil's wit, the Don's Romance Joined to the Cynic's arrogance. keywords: bernard; george; illustration; john; shaw cache: 21676.txt plain text: 21676.txt item: #5 of 42 id: 26388 author: Harrison, Charles title: A Humorous History of England date: None words: 8791 flesch: 84 summary: Yes; 1215 In twelve-fifteen, but we may guess With much ill grace and many a twist; For King John wrote an awful fist. With efforts many men most able Lay the great Atlantic Cable. keywords: act; charles; day; days; edward; england; great; henry; illustration; iron; iron jelloids; jelloids; john; king; man; men; nought; queen; reign; seven; time; tonic; william; years cache: 26388.txt plain text: 26388.txt item: #6 of 42 id: 2646 author: Thackeray, William Makepeace title: John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character date: None words: 5099 flesch: 70 summary: Mr. Leech, his chief contributor, and some kindred humorists, with pencil and pen have served Mr. Punch admirably. And now, after this rambling preface, we are arrived at the subject in hand--Mr. John Leech and his Pictures of Life and Character, in the collection of Mr. Punch. keywords: boney; book; children; george; house; humor; leech; pictures; plancus; punch; time cache: 2646.txt plain text: 2646.txt item: #7 of 42 id: 2648 author: Thackeray, William Makepeace title: George Cruikshank date: None words: 16314 flesch: 67 summary: A great deal of this random work of course every artist has done in his time; many men produce effects of which they never dreamed, and strike off excellences, haphazard, which gain for them reputation; but a fine quality in Mr. Cruikshank, the quality of his success, as we have said before, is the extraordinary earnestness and good faith with which he executes all he attempts--the ludicrous, the polite, the low, the terrible. But though, in our eyes, Mr. Cruikshank reached his apogee some eighteen years since, it must not be imagined that such is really the case. keywords: artist; black; book; cruikshank; day; designs; drawing; english; face; fancy; gentleman; george; good; hand; humor; life; man; manner; men; old; picture; reader; time; tom; way; work cache: 2648.txt plain text: 2648.txt item: #8 of 42 id: 28003 author: Various title: Supplement to Punch, or the London Charivari, September 16, 1914 The New Rake's Progress: Cartoons from "Punch" Illustrating the Kaiser's Career, 1888-1914 date: None words: 706 flesch: 82 summary: DON'T GO ON LIKE THAT--OR YOU'LL UPSET US ALL! _May 10, 1890._ * * * *** =The Kaiser begins to alarm his fellow Rulers.= * _Imperial Knight Templar_ (_the German Emperor--to_ SALADIN). keywords: illustration; kaiser cache: 28003.txt plain text: 28003.txt item: #9 of 42 id: 28324 author: Various title: Supplement to "Punch, Or The London Charivari."—October 14, 1914 "Punch" and the Prussian Bully date: None words: 973 flesch: 78 summary: *** =The Prussian Bully disturbs the Peace of Europe.= _1857-1914. TEACH ME HOW TO COO! _December 7, 1904._ * * * *** =The Prussian Bully maintains, in the cause of peace, a strong and efficient army, ready for instant action.= * * keywords: bully; illustration cache: 28324.txt plain text: 28324.txt item: #10 of 42 id: 29463 author: Doyle, Richard title: The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy. date: None words: 6019 flesch: 81 summary: At first Jones was incredulous; but presently Brown, his hair standing on end, rushed towards him, and in a voice of agony, cried, As sure as we are alive they have stopped in front of the house, and the _OFFICER IS COMING IN!_ Brown, Jones, and Robinson starting on their travels. keywords: boat; brown; cologne; country; dab; jones; man; moment; party; rhine; robinson; scene cache: 29463.txt plain text: 29463.txt item: #11 of 42 id: 29560 author: Furniss, Harry title: M. P.'s in Session: From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery date: None words: 7176 flesch: 82 summary: EDWARD (_Mar. 5, '87_) 32 HENRY, MITCHELL (_May 1, '86_) 16 HIBBERT, J. T. (_Aug. 21, '86_) 12 HILL, LORD ARTHUR W. (_Feb. 19, '87_) 20 HINGLEY, BENJAMIN (_June 26, '86_) 41 HOGG, SIR JAMES MCGAREL (_Feb. 12, '87_) 39 HOLDEN, ISAAC (_July 9, '87_) 41 HOWARD, MORGAN (_Oct. 2, '86_) 43 HOWELL, GEORGE (_Mar. 12, '87_) 34 ILLINGWORTH, A. (_June 12, '86_) 12 JACOBY, JAMES A. (_Sept. 18, '86_) 35 JAMES, SIR HENRY (_Apr. 10, '86_) 17 JENKINS, D. J. (_Aug. 21, '86_) 21 JOHNSTON, W. (_Aug. 6, '87_) 46 KENNAWAY, SIR J. H. (_July 30, '87_) 46 LABOUCHERE, HENRY (_July 28, '83_) 23 (_Nov. 1, '84_) 1 (_May 1, '86_) 25 (_May 29, '86_) 21 (_June 19, '86_) 59 (_Feb. 12, '87_) 66 LACAITA, C. C. (_Feb. 18, '88_) 51 LAWRENCE, W. F. (_Sept. 22, '88_) 45 LAWSON, SIR WILFR. G. H. (_May 12, '88_) 52 AMBROSE, WILLIAM (_Apr. 23, '87_) 38 ARCH, JOSEPH (_Apr. 3, '86_) 34 ASHMEAD-BARTLETT, E. (_Dec. 5, '85_) _Frontisp. keywords: apr; aug; feb; hon; illustration; july; june; lord; sir cache: 29560.txt plain text: 29560.txt item: #12 of 42 id: 29647 author: Brinton, Selwyn title: The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature date: None words: 19410 flesch: 57 summary: To this period of the Grand Tour belong also, in my judgment, the Tour to Foreign Parts (drawn by Bunbury, engraved by Bretherton, published in 1799 by J. Harris of Cornhill), the Cuisine de la Poste, or The Kitchen of a French Post House (_H. Bunbury, invt._, published 1771 by Harris), The Englishman at Paris, 1767, the earliest in date of these (_Mr. Bunbury, del.; Js. In treating, however, of Rowlandson's women, other prints, such as Tastes Differ, Opera Boxes, Harmony, A Nap in Town, and In the Country, Interruption, or Inconvenience of a Lodging House (published April 1789), and Damp Sheets (August 1791), have a strong claim on our notice. keywords: artist; beauty; bunbury; caricature; century; england; english; figure; fox; genius; gillray; hogarth; house; james; lady; later; life; london; man; period; print; rowlandson; satire; scene; series; sir; study; subject; thomas; time; william; work; years cache: 29647.txt plain text: 29647.txt item: #13 of 42 id: 30210 author: Foote, G. W. (George William) title: Comic Bible Sketches, Reprinted from "The Freethinker" date: None words: 2105 flesch: 61 summary: Dullards prophesied a speedy exhaustion of Bible topics, but they did not know how inexhaustible it is in absurdities. The following Comic Bible Sketches, which will be succeeded in due course by others, comprise all those worth preserving that appeared in the Freethinker before its editor, proprietor and publisher were imprisoned, including the drawings they were prosecuted for by that pious guinea: pig, Sir Henry Tyler, who had his dirty fingers severely rapped by Lord Coleridge, after spending several hundred pounds of somebody's money in an unsuccessful Blasphemy prosecution, in order to patch up his threadbare reputation, and perhaps also with a faint hope of cheating the Almighty into reserving him a front-seat ticket for the dress-circle in heaven. keywords: bible; comic; editor; freethinker; sketches cache: 30210.txt plain text: 30210.txt item: #14 of 42 id: 30678 author: Various title: Supplement to "Punch", 16th December 1914 The Unspeakable Turk date: None words: 906 flesch: 85 summary: The barbarous treatment of Armenia by the Turk compels the intervention of England, France and Russia. I SUPPOSE HE CAN'T BE REFERRING TO OUR ORGANISATION OF THE _TURKISH_ ARMY. keywords: illustration; turk cache: 30678.txt plain text: 30678.txt item: #15 of 42 id: 33335 author: Glass, Montague title: Worrying Won't Win date: None words: 55466 flesch: 64 summary: Yes, Abe, Morris Perlmutter said to his partner, Abe Potash, as they sat in their office one morning in September, the English language is practically a brand-new article since the time when I used to went to night school. [Illustration: See p. 173 And the only kick they've got, Mawruss, Abe said, is that President Wilson won't expose his hand, which, if he did, he might just so well throw the game to Germany and be done with it. keywords: abe; abe potash; account; business; case; cent; coal; come; country; couple; day; difference; dollars; feller; germany; good; government; home; kaiser; law; line; lot; mawruss; money; morris; morris perlmutter; new; number; pay; peace; people; perlmutter; president; right; run; society; states; tax; thing; time; war; way; wilson; work; working; y'understand; years; york cache: 33335.txt plain text: 33335.txt item: #16 of 42 id: 34031 author: None title: Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War date: None words: 16266 flesch: 72 summary: The letterpress has been compiled mainly from official _communiques_ and reports, and from the speeches and public statements of the leading men of the belligerents and some of the neutrals. [Illustration: Louis Raemaekers] RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON HISTORY OF THE WAR COMPILED BY J. MURRAY ALLISON Editor of _Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _Kultur in Cartoons_, _ keywords: army; august; belgian; belgium; british; cartoons; children; day; france; general; german; government; history; illustration; london; march; men; new; people; prisoners; raemaekers; report; shot; soldiers; time; troops; war; women; world cache: 34031.txt plain text: 34031.txt item: #17 of 42 id: 34115 author: Raven-Hill, L. (Leonard) title: Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere date: None words: 14771 flesch: 89 summary: 'we must 'ave more men or I won't be responsible for breakages,' 'e ses. Camp may be a pleasant change for younger men, but it really is a great trial in many ways for commanding officers. keywords: ave; camp; day; ere; field; general; good; gov'mint; illustration; man; men; right; ses; sir; thing; time; way; yer cache: 34115.txt plain text: 34115.txt item: #18 of 42 id: 36175 author: Smith, Seba title: Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia date: None words: 61191 flesch: 86 summary: Linkin ses Seward reminds him of fellers he's seen out West who had the ager and fever. Wal, ses Linkin, things do look kinder dark. keywords: 'em; agin; chase; country; cum; day; deacon; downingville; eny; feller; ginneral; goin; good; got; hold; hull; jack; jest; kernel; letter; lincoln; linkin; look; majer; man; new; nigger; nigh; party; president; rite; run; sed; ses; ses linkin; seward; stantin; story; things; think; thought; time; union; wal; want; warn't; washington; way; wen; went; white cache: 36175.txt plain text: 36175.txt item: #19 of 42 id: 37603 author: Cooper, Frederic Taber title: The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature date: None words: 53184 flesch: 64 summary: Punch_ cartoons. Prior to 1830, French political cartoons were neither numerous nor especially significant. keywords: american; artist; british; bull; caricature; cartoon; cartoonists; century; chapter; cleveland; collection; daumier; day; death; emperor; end; england; english; features; figure; form; france; french; general; gillam; gillray; good; hand; head; history; idea; illustration; john; judge; king; leech; lord; louis; man; men; napoleon; national; new; party; peace; period; philippe; picture; press; public; puck; punch; sam; series; spanish; states; subject; tenniel; time; uncle; united; war; work; years; york cache: 37603.txt plain text: 37603.txt item: #20 of 42 id: 37745 author: Doyle, Richard title: Manners & Cvstoms of ye Englyshe Drawn from ye Qvick date: None words: 29481 flesch: 75 summary: [Illustration: _YE COMMONS RESSOLVED INTO A COMMYTTE OF YE WHOLE HOUSE. Pretty, to hear her sing _Venite inginocchiatevi_, where she do make _Cherubino_ kneel down on the Cushion before the _Countess_, and put him on a Girl's Cap, and pat his Chin and Face. keywords: boys; children; come; company; cost; crowd; day; delight; dinner; droll; evening; eyes; fat; good; half; hall; head; home; house; illustration; lack; ladies; look; lord; man; men; methinks; money; musique; people; place; play; room; round; sight; sport; stand; street; time; walk; way; wife cache: 37745.txt plain text: 37745.txt item: #21 of 42 id: 37767 author: May, Phil title: The Phil May Album date: None words: 5347 flesch: 82 summary: The illustrations for the Christmas Number would not do, and Mr. May was asked to do them all himself--cartoon, illustrations, cover, and initials--in a week! Then the _St. Stephen's_ started illustrations, and he was employed by it till an agent came from Australia to discover an artist for the _Sydney Bulletin_. keywords: --------------------------------------[illustration; art; brain; brain mr; george; lord; m.p; man; night; phil; sir cache: 37767.txt plain text: 37767.txt item: #22 of 42 id: 37846 author: None title: Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War date: None words: 13987 flesch: 74 summary: [Illustration] _GO TO YOUR HEREDITARY ENEMY, BULGARIA_ * Transcriber's note: Italics are rendered with underscores, e.g. _italics_. keywords: 1916; allies; armies; army; battle; british; enemy; france; french; german; government; history; illustration; june; new; peace; sea; serbia; submarine; time; troops; verdun; victims; von; war cache: 37846.txt plain text: 37846.txt item: #23 of 42 id: 38056 author: None title: Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) date: None words: 11831 flesch: 79 summary: On December 10th, _Punch_ published this brutal burlesque anticipation of that noble speech made by President Lincoln at his second Inauguration, which has now taken its due rank among the great masterpieces of forensic English: PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURAL SPEECH _(By Ultramarine Telegraph)_ Later, _Punch_ applauded that portion of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural, which dealt with the question of secession. keywords: abe; american; bull; cartoon; end; england; gentlemen; good; illustration; john; jonathan; king; lincoln; man; new; north; punch; right; south; states; war cache: 38056.txt plain text: 38056.txt item: #24 of 42 id: 38902 author: Busch, Wilhelm title: Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees date: None words: 7919 flesch: 80 summary: [Illustration] John Dull, awakened from his slumber, Observed his stock's diminished number; His apple trees he searched, and found The swarm some ten feet from the ground; [Illustration] Got his bee dress, his hive, and ladder; No Bee master was ever gladder. [Illustration] John Dull by chance came strolling by, His hives upset first met his eye; He saw they both were tenanted-- Amazed he looked, then scratched his head; [Illustration] Peered all around, espied Christine And her own true love Dicky Dean; Behind the bee house they were placed, And Dicky's arm was round her waist. keywords: "--_page; bee; bees; book; buzz; christine; coax; day; dull; eugene; fytte; hive; honey; illustration; john; master; swarm cache: 38902.txt plain text: 38902.txt item: #25 of 42 id: 39110 author: None title: Phil May's Gutter-Snipes: 50 Original Sketches in Pen & Ink date: None words: 709 flesch: 75 summary: Tags for illustrations appear in the same order as the original. [Illustration: GIVE US A BITE. keywords: gutter; illustration cache: 39110.txt plain text: 39110.txt item: #26 of 42 id: 42299 author: Combe, William title: The History of Johnny Quæ Genus, the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax. A Poem by the Author of the Three Tours. date: None words: 56165 flesch: 85 summary: The Thistle, Shamrock and the Rose May challenge all the world at blows: _English_ and _Irish_ names are known,-- There's _Marlborough_ and _ Yet Virtue in its course prevails; } The better impulse seldom fails } When smiling Conscience holds the scales: } Nay, through the venial errors past, Maintains its influence to the last, And thus, with righteous hope endued, Rests on _predominating good_. keywords: aid; call'd; care; change; day; doctor; ev'ry; eye; eyes; face; fear; fortune; friend; future; gay; genus; good; grace; hand; heart; hero; home; hope; hour; jeffery; kind; knight; lady; life; look; man; master; mind; nay; ne'er; o'er; old; place; plan; play; power; pride; prove; quæ; quæ genus; right; sense; sir; state; tell; thought; time; tis; town; twas; vain; view; way; wish; world cache: 42299.txt plain text: 42299.txt item: #27 of 42 id: 43219 author: None title: Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 3 The Third Twelve Months of War date: None words: 13902 flesch: 72 summary: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: (signed) Louis Raemaekers] RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON HISTORY OF THE WAR Compiled by J. Murray Allison Editor of _Raemaekers' Cartoons_, _Kultur in Cartoons_, _ keywords: american; british; day; enemy; french; general; german; government; illustration; march; new; official; peace; people; president; right; russia; ships; states; time; united; war; william; world cache: 43219.txt plain text: 43219.txt item: #28 of 42 id: 44740 author: None title: New Readings of Old Authors. Shakspeare. King Henry 5th date: None words: 249 flesch: 22 summary: Many thanks to the Google Books project for salvaging part of this work. By Robert Seymour Illustrated by Robert Seymour and George Cruikshank 1830 keywords: illustration cache: 44740.txt plain text: 44740.txt item: #29 of 42 id: 44743 author: None title: My Sketch Book date: None words: 207 flesch: 56 summary: [Illustration: 006] PLATE 7 [Illustration: 007] PLATE 8 [Illustration: 041] PLATE 42 [Illustration: 042] PLATE 43 keywords: plate cache: 44743.txt plain text: 44743.txt item: #30 of 42 id: 44799 author: None title: Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G. Cartoons from "Punch" 1843-1878 date: None words: 1197 flesch: 42 summary: The Dizzy Brink.........................................094 The Mysterious Cabinet Trick..........................095 The Confidence Trick!.................................096 New Persuasions.........................................097 Imperial Guard........................................098 Figures from a Triumph................................099 Façon de Parler!......................................100 Happy Family at Berlin................................101 The Schoolmaster Abroad.................................102 Triumph!................................................103 Pas de Deux!..........................................104 CARTOONS {001} [Illustration: 001] {002} [Illustration: 002] {003} [Illustration: 003] {004} [Illustration: 004] {005} [Illustration: 005] {006} [Illustration: 006] {007} [Illustration: 007] {008} [Illustration: 008] {009} [Illustration: 009] {010} [Illustration: 010] {011} [Illustration: 011] {012} [Illustration: 012] {013} [Illustration: 013] {014} [Illustration: 014] {015} [Illustration: 015] {016} [Illustration: 016] {017} [Illustration: 017] {018} [Illustration: 018] {019} [Illustration: 019] {020} [Illustration: 020] {021} [Illustration: 021] {022} [Illustration: 022] {023} [Illustration: 023] {024} [Illustration: 024] {025} [Illustration: 025] {026} [Illustration: 026] {027} [Illustration: 027] {028} [Illustration: 028] {029} [Illustration: 029] {030} [Illustration: 030] {031} [Illustration: 031] {032} [Illustration: 032] {033} [Illustration: 033] {034} [Illustration: 034] {035} [Illustration: 035] {036} [Illustration: 036] {037} [Illustration: 037] {038} [Illustration: 038] {039} [Illustration: 039] {040} [Illustration: 040] {041} [Illustration: 041] {042} [Illustration: 042] {043} [Illustration: 043] {044} [Illustration: 044] {045} [Illustration: 045] {046} [Illustration: 046] {047} [Illustration: 047] {048} [Illustration: 048] {049} [Illustration: 049] {050} [Illustration: 050] {051} [Illustration: 051] {052} [Illustration: 052] {053} [Illustration: 053] {054} [Illustration: 054] {055} [Illustration: 055] {056} [Illustration: 056] {057} [Illustration: 057] {058} [Illustration: 058] {059} [Illustration: 059] {060} [Illustration: 060] {061} [Illustration: 061] {062} [Illustration: 062] {063} [Illustration: 063] {064} [Illustration: 064] {065} [Illustration: 065] {066} [Illustration: 066] {067} [Illustration: 067] {068} [Illustration: 068] {069} [Illustration: 069] {070} [Illustration: 070] {071} [Illustration: 071] {072} [Illustration: 072] {073} [Illustration: 073] {074} [Illustration: 074] {075} [Illustration: 075] {076} [Illustration: 076] {077} [Illustration: 077] {078} [Illustration: 078] {079} [Illustration: 079] {080} [Illustration: 080] {081} [Illustration: 081] {082} [Illustration: 082] {083} [Illustration: 083] {084} [Illustration: 084] {085} [Illustration: 085] {086} [Illustration: 086] {087} [Illustration: 087] {088} [Illustration: 088] {089} [Illustration: 089] {090} [Illustration: 090] {091} [Illustration: 091] {092} [Illustration: 092] {093} [Illustration: 093] {094} [Illustration: 094] {095} [Illustration: 095] {096} [Illustration: 096] {097} [Illustration: 097] {098} [Illustration: 098] {099} [Illustration: 099] {100} [Illustration: 100] {101} [Illustration: 101] {102} [Illustration: 102] {103} [Illustration: 103] {104} [Illustration: 104] {105} [Illustration: 105] {106} [Illustration: 106] {107} [Illustration: 107] On Mr. Gladstone appealing to the country in 1874, the election returns placed him in a minority, and he resigned without meeting the new Parliament; Mr. Disraeli succeeded him as Prime Minister and formed his cabinet, March, 1874; created Earl of Beaconsfield, August, 1876; first Plenipotentiary for Great Britain at the Congress of Berlin, 1878, and K.G. Lord Beaconsfield's principal novels (besides _Vivian Grey_) are _ keywords: derby; disraeli; illustration cache: 44799.txt plain text: 44799.txt item: #31 of 42 id: 44801 author: None title: Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations With Portrait and Biographical Sketch date: None words: 3068 flesch: 63 summary: When young Leech was only three years old, he was found by the family friend, the great artist, Flaxman, seated on his mother's knee, drawing with much gravity. At sixteen years of age, young Leech left Charterhouse, and, notwithstanding Flaxman's advice that the boy should follow the profession of an artist, his father put him to the medical profession at St. Bartholomew's, under Mr Stanley, the surgeon of the Hospital. keywords: artist; illustration; leech; life; work cache: 44801.txt plain text: 44801.txt item: #32 of 42 id: 44806 author: Leigh, Percival title: Portraits of Children of the Mobility date: None words: 13011 flesch: 69 summary: Master Jim Curtis, Master Mike Waters, and Master Bill Sims. Master Curtis, in the language of his acquaintance, is an out-and-outer (a low term for a person of talent) at striking out a slide. keywords: bill; boy; children; classes; curtis; eye; eyes; flinn; jim; master; mike; miss; mobility; names; nature; papa; people; persons; place; spicy; tater; yer; young cache: 44806.txt plain text: 44806.txt item: #33 of 42 id: 45069 author: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell title: Lincoln in Caricature date: None words: 6946 flesch: 65 summary: A gang of rioters are shown beating one negro and another lies prostrate on the ground, while President Lincoln stands at one side, dismayed but apparently unwilling to put an end to the foul work going on at his elbow. He was directed, upon the presentation of his letters to the Russian Chancellor in St. Petersburg, to say that President Lincoln asked that the Minister might have a personal and confidential interview with the Czar. keywords: cartoon; harper; illustration; john; lincoln; man; new; number; president; punch; time; war; weekly cache: 45069.txt plain text: 45069.txt item: #34 of 42 id: 45274 author: Leland, H. P. (Henry Perry) title: Ye Book of Copperheads date: None words: 2461 flesch: 75 summary: `Oh what a head that head would be, ``Just _meted_ Judge, to match with thee!= 2. `Just roll that nigger out of court! ``The Judge exclaimed with solemn port; `I tell you very truly now, ``Nigs _at the bar_ |While it did us great harm, Abolition was the height of the Lion's ambition; ```Now with Copperhead _tale_ keywords: copperhead; illustration; snake; war; |there cache: 45274.txt plain text: 45274.txt item: #35 of 42 id: 46691 author: None title: Biography for Beginners Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms date: None words: 1945 flesch: 66 summary: [Illustration] OTTO THE GREAT The great Emperor Otto Could not decide upon a motto. [Illustration] THE DUKE OF FIFE K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O. It looked bad when the Duke of Fife Left off using a knife; But people began to talk When he left off using a fork. keywords: author; hall; illustration; john; pizarro; sir; wren cache: 46691.txt plain text: 46691.txt item: #36 of 42 id: 47400 author: Cruikshank, George title: George Cruikshank's Omnibus date: None words: 172018 flesch: 71 summary: It was all ready:-- £ _s._ _d._ Fish 0 2 6 Fowl and mushrooms 0 5 6 Madeira 0 4 0 Port 0 7 0 ------------- Total, including extras 1 4 6 Not dear, I must say, observed the gentleman, after he had read the bill; I must patronise this house again. Boys are little men, especially in their passions; and resentment of injury is a sharp and subtle suggester. keywords: age; appearance; arms; bed; bell; ben; bit; black; blue; boots; boy; brady; captain; child; clock; close; coach; come; country; course; cut; dark; day; days; dear; death; dinner; dog; door; evening; eyes; face; fact; fair; family; father; fear; feet; fellow; fire; frank; friend; gentleman; going; good; half; hand; hat; having; head; heartwell; helen; hold; home; hope; hour; house; human; husband; illustration; jack; john; ladder; lady; lawyer; leave; left; let; letter; lieutenant; life; like; london; look; love; man; manner; master; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; near; night; officer; omnibus; open; order; pair; party; past; people; place; poor; present; public; room; round; sambo; scene; seaman; second; set; ship; sir; small; son; spirit; stand; street; table; tell; thee; thing; thought; till; time; toddles; tom; town; true; turn; voice; water; way; wendover; white; window; woman; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 47400.txt plain text: 47400.txt item: #37 of 42 id: 5645 author: Seymour, Robert title: Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 date: None words: 8060 flesch: 88 summary: Vell! said Mr. Grubb, with a bitter emphasis, if this is finding our own wittles, we'll dine at the hor'nary next time-- Let's have a squint at it, said Mr. Spriggs, reaching across the table; but all his squinting made the bill no less, and he laid it down with a sigh. In reply to this elegant epistle, Mr. Richard Grubb was favoured with a line from Mr. Augustus Spriggs, expressive of his unbounded delight in having prevailed upon his governor to 'let him out;' and concluding with a promise of meeting the coach at Moorgate. keywords: bird; chap; day; grubb; on'y; plate; richard; scene; shot; spriggs; vell; vot cache: 5645.txt plain text: 5645.txt item: #38 of 42 id: 5646 author: Seymour, Robert title: Sketches by Seymour — Volume 02 date: None words: 6785 flesch: 83 summary: Me!--but it's o' no use talking; von may as vell make love to a lamp-post, and expect to feed von's flame vith lights! on turning my wision atop o' the bank afore me, I seed a norrid thing!--a serpent, or a rattle-snake, or somethink a-curling itself up and a hissing like fun! keywords: day; fish; gentleman; head; jack; scene; sir; vell; ven; vot; werry; wiggins cache: 5646.txt plain text: 5646.txt item: #39 of 42 id: 5647 author: Seymour, Robert title: Sketches by Seymour — Volume 03 date: None words: 6319 flesch: 79 summary: Besides a trim garden and a small close-shaven grass-plat in the rear (where elderly gentlemen found a cure for 'taedium vitae' and the rheumatism in a social game of bowls), there was a meadow of about five or six acres, wherein a target was erected for the especial benefit of the members of this celebrated club; we say celebrated, because, of all clubs that ever made a noise in the world, this bore away the palm-according to the reports in the neighbourhood. Gentlemen, the mere mention of the name of Brother Sniggs--(hear! keywords: bang; bill; bird; doctor; gentleman; giles; jack; joe; know; saggers; sammy; sniggs cache: 5647.txt plain text: 5647.txt item: #40 of 42 id: 5648 author: Seymour, Robert title: Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 date: None words: 10815 flesch: 77 summary: Along the banks, at early dawn, Trudged Nobbs and Nobbs's son, With rod and line, resolved that day Great fishes should be won. Like men with green spectacles, they look upon every object through an artificial medium, and give it a colour that has no existence in itself! keywords: bull; day; fine; fish; gentleman; head; home; jim; line; love; man; men; peter; round; sugarlips; think; time; tom; voice; water cache: 5648.txt plain text: 5648.txt item: #41 of 42 id: 5649 author: Seymour, Robert title: Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 date: None words: 15247 flesch: 75 summary: The cost of the feed, as Mr. Timmis termed it, was generally decided by a toss of best two and three; and somehow it invariably happened that Mr. Crobble lost; but he was so good-humoured, that really it was a pleasure, as Mr. Wallis said, to grub at his expense. Being now transformed, by a little personal merit, and a great favour, from a full-grown errand-boy to a small clerk, Mr. Timmis, at the suggestion of my good friend Mr. Wallis, offered me, as a treat, a row in the boat they had engaged for the occasion; which, as a matter of course, I did not refuse: making myself as spruce as my limited wardrobe would permit, I trotted at their heels to the foot of London-bridge, the point of embarkation. keywords: andrew; boy; business; chapter; crobble; day; dubois; father; fellow; friend; good; hand; head; horse; left; man; master; matthew; money; monsieur; office; poor; sir; time; timmis; tom; wallis cache: 5649.txt plain text: 5649.txt item: #42 of 42 id: 7405 author: Lardner, Ring title: The Real Dope date: None words: 51160 flesch: 87 summary: Al haveing a kid or 2 in the house and I bet little Al is tickled to death with his little sister. Well I would of liked to of had Florrie and little Al come east and see me off but Florrie felt like she couldn't afford to spend the money to make another long trip after making one long trip down to Texas and besides we wasn't even supposed to tell our family where we was going to sail from keywords: alcock; baseball; bird; boys; come; course; france; french; friend al; good; guess; half; jack; kind; letter; little; lot; man; pal; pretty; right; simon; somewheres; thought; time; trenchs; war; way; wile cache: 7405.txt plain text: 7405.txt