Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 55 pages of information about Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 55 pages of information about Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919.

    “It is not saying too much, when I solemnly assert that I really
    believe that Miss Wank’s first book is the best she has ever
    written.”—­“A MAN OF KENT,” in The Scottish Treacly.

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SIMIAN SONGS.

BY ISABEL MUNKITTRICK.

PRICE 11/31/2.

These remarkable lyrics are translations into vernacular verse of the prose versions of specimens of the literature of the great apes of Africa, collected by Professor GARNER.  It is not too much to say that those touching cris de coeur redolent of the jungle, the lagoon and the hinterland, will appeal with irresistible force to all lovers of sincere and passionate emotion.  The Chimpanzee’s “swing song” on page 42 is a marvel of oscillating melody.

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THE MILLENNIUM VIA ARMAGEDDON.

BY REV.  ANGUS WOTTLEY, D.D.

WITH A FOREWORD BY PRINCIPAL CAWKER.

PRICE 9/41/4.

This is a work of over 120,000 words of extraordinary beauty and distinction.  It has gone into 150 editions in Patagonia, where the editions are very large, and ought to be in great demand in this country.  Tiberius Mull, writing in the Literary Supplement of The Scottish Oil World, uses these remarkable words:  “I do honestly believe that Dr. Angus Wottley’s book is the most weighty volume he has ever given to the world.”

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POLLY ANDREA’S SACRIFICE.

BY SALINA LAKE.

PRICE 8/31/2.

This is the first attempt to present the limitations of the modern monogamous system in its true polyphonic perspective, several huge editions having been exhausted before publication.  Professor McTalisker writes in the Theological Supplement of John Bull:  “For a person in a state of partial exhaustion I can imagine no more efficacious stimulant than is to be found in those beautiful pages.  Not being acquainted with any of the earlier works of the author, I can honestly declare that in my opinion it is the best thing that I have read from her pen, and, further, that it has made a deeper impression upon me than any other work which I have not read but which deals with the same subject.”

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[Illustration:  DOPE.

Jack. “’ERE’S AN ARTICLE ’ERE ON THE ‘FASCINATION OF OPIUM SMOKIN’.’  FASCINATION, I DON’T FINK!  THE ONLY TIME I SMOKED IT WAS IN CHINA, AN’ FOR THREE DAYS I ’AD AH ’EAD ON ME LIKE A SMOKE BARRAGE.”]

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PEACE AND PROMOTION.

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