        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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        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
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