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From the Home Front (CONSTABLE) is a further, and rather belated, selection from the War verses that have appeared from week to week on the second page of Punch.  Conscious of cherishing a natural prejudice in favour of his own productions, Mr. Punch forbears to commend this little volume, but he may permit himself to say that, in the judgment of The Daily News, which is above suspicion of bias, it is calculated to provoke “a sorrow chequered by disgust.”

[Illustration:  Topical Huckster. “’ERE YOU ARE, LADY—­AS CHEWED BY THE PRESIDENT.”]

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    “This royal throne of kings,
     This sceptical isle, this seat of Mars.”

     Quotation by Miss MARIE CORELLI in “The Pall Mall Gazette."

No man is a prophet in his own country, and this is how Shakespeare gets treated at Stratford-on-Avon.