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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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the Syrian conference, Sir Henry Bclwerassumed a threatening attitude. This announcement is calculated toimpress the minds of our neighbours with an erroneous idea. Pre-occupied with a belief in the propension of all Englishmen for the box,they will naturally picture to themselves the threatening attitude,assumed by Sir Henry Bulwer in the Syrian Conference, as that ofsquaring round, and will imagine that, throwing himself into aposture of offence, he doubled his fists, and offered to punch theRussian ambassadors head. As Clear as Crystal. We believe that the Crystal Palace was originally designed for theelevation of the masses. This tight-rope dancing of M. Blondin is,we suppose, only a carrying out of the original intention, for thoughthe Franco-/American is seemingly the only person of the masses whois elevated, yet we know as a positive fact that his performances areso popular that they have invariably met with a general ascent! 258 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. (June 22, 1861.
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THE RIDING-HAT QUESTION, Lucy. Now tell me, Mary, Which is the Best ? Mary (who is rather horsey). Well, Dear, for Tea in the Arbour, and that sort of thing, perhaps the Little RoundOne; but if you want to Look like Going Across Country, the Chimney Pot all to Nothing ! THE GENTS AVENGED. When Albert Smith, determined foeTo all high aims and large pretensions, Called Crystal Palace programmes slow,And prophesied the swift declensions By which its art from High to Low, Would sink, until it came to flowLevel with vulgar comprehensions, When Punchs friends, with faith aesthetic In architecture, pictures, casts,—Although not bilious nor ascetic, But still preferring feasts to fasts,—Hoped, that poor Alberts view propheticWould prove as false as unpoetic, Alas! they went beyond their lasts. For thumping dividends they looked, To Educational attraction—They dreamed that John Bull could be hooked By Saurians displayed in action;And visitors in shoals be booked(Preferring mental food to

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