Title:  Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 19, 1891

Author:  Various

Release Date:  November 28, 2004 [EBook #14186]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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PUNCH,

Or the London charivari.

Vol. 101.

December 19, 1891.

OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

[Illustration:  King Cracker the Millionth, of the Bonbon Dynasty.]

The Baron’s Assistants say that of the Christmas works published by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. they can and do recommend The Children of Wilton Chase by L.J.  Mead, to which they accord their mead of praise, which likewise they bestow on Florence MARRYAT’s The Little Marine and the Japanese Lily, a book of adventures in the land of the Rising Sun, which will delight many rising sons for whom chiefly was this book intended.  There are always “more ways than one,” and so Where Two Ways Meet there is like to be a puzzle, solved in this instance by the authoress, Sarah DOUDNEY.  Put down the books!  Come to the festive board!  Down—­(the right way of course) with the mince-pie and plum-pudding!  Strange is it that the source of so much enjoyment, the very types of Christmas good cheer, should themselves be so “down in the mouth” as invariably are Mathew Mince-pie and Peter Plum-pudding at this festive season.  And they being gone and cleared off, enter a gentleman bearing the unusual and remarkable name of Smith—­familiarly welcomed as “Tom” of that ilk—­and then pop go the crackers!  “But we must keep the secret,” whisper the Baron’s Assistants, and they strongly advise everyone not to peep into this boite a surprise until Christmas Day itself.  So, for SPARAGNAPANE’s “charming confections, which,” as the Baron’s young lady clerks, Blythe and gay, observe, “are in the very highest style of ‘High Art’; and the same Mr. Spare-Na-PAIN’s Darkest Evening, and How to Get Out of It, will be tidings of comfort and joy to many a holiday-making household.”

Baron de book-Worms & Co.

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A Truly ROORAL opera.

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