Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
    Ebook93 pages49 minutes

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917

    By Archive Classics

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917

    Related to Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Letter Bocks

      Nov 18, 2021

      letters@viz.co.uk ON A RECENT visit to Denmark I saw this remarkable poster inside a bus. Needless to say, I put my foot through the bus window and was hospitalised for a considerable amount of time. However, I was perfectly fine and I didn’t even ha

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Loyal rebel

      Feb 8, 2020

      The Loyal rebel
      17 min read

    • Article

      Return Of The Anglo-Irish

      Jul 27, 2022

      Return Of The Anglo-Irish
      3 min read

    • Article

      Fishing Village shop

      Sep 16, 2021

      Fishing Village shop
      6 min read

    • Article

      1900s Notebook

      Jan 5, 2022

      1900s Notebook
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Potter For Our Times

      Sep 1, 2021

      WHEN perusing this attractively packaged biography of ceramics impresario Josiah Wedgwood (1730–95), your reviewer was prompted to recall one of the few joyous moments of lockdown, Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throw Down (GPTD): a show that reveals

      5 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Sep 11, 2020

      Dear Paul
      6 min read

    • Article

      Crazy For Cider

      Aug 25, 2021

      JAMES CROWDEN is a poet, shepherd and total cider nut. In this, at least his third book on the subject, there is no other drink but that it suffers from his passion for cider, apple brandy and cider’s delicate, sweet sister, perry—and almost no momen

      5 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Hear It For Britain

      Jan 3, 2024

      Let’s Hear It For Britain
      15 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Nov 17, 2021

      SIR: I must applaud William Cook (Who was Blackie the donkey?, October issue) in maintaining the tradition of never allowing the facts to mar a good story. Don Mackay arrived at Jarandilla de la Vera first, not in the wake of Hugh Whittow of the Sun.

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Pre-loved Treasure House

      Oct 14, 2019

      A Pre-loved Treasure House
      9 min read

    • Article

      Giving Lincolnshire Its Due

      Jun 29, 2022

      MAY we play a word-association game? I say ‘Lincolnshire’ and you reply... Yes, you might struggle to find anything to say about the ancient shire of that name. Perhaps ‘cathedral’ and ‘cabbages’ will float up through the mist of memory. I doubt many

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Old Un's Notes

      Nov 15, 2023

      At the October Oldie Literary Lunch, we were lucky enough to host Sir Don McCullin, the world's greatest war photographer. Don was talking about his new book, Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor, published with a commentary by Barnaby Rogerson. He says

      4 min read

    • Article

      Snaffle A Bargain

      Mar 11, 2021

      Snaffle A Bargain
      6 min read

    • Article

      Lamport Hall

      Mar 7, 2024

      Lamport Hall
      6 min read

    • Article

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER

      Aug 4, 2022

      Q&A YOU ASK, WE ANSWER
      9 min read

    • Article

      Where Will Your Reading Take You?

      Oct 14, 2022

      Britain’s Secret Defences by Andrew Chatterton This is a history of the Auxiliary Unit, the Special Defence Branch and Section VII. You’ve not heard of them before? Little wonder. These were organisations so secret that when they were demobilised par

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Feb 16, 2023

      really enjoyed the article on British Restaurants (Eat for Victory, January). A lesser-known aspect is their role during the Second World War in providing a hot lunch service to schoolchildren. By 1942 the local school in the village of Knowle, then

      4 min read

    • Article

      Troubled Waters

      Nov 9, 2023

      THIS MIGHT be the Christmas issue but I’m feeling anything but festive. Instead, I am in mourning for the end of the fishing season and the knowledge that it will be six long months before I’m back on the bank. That said, one summer memory brings a s

      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Dec 28, 2022

      I was intrigued by the short story in the November issue's Anniversaries section regarding the peaceful transfer of power from Henry III to his son Edward I –the first such occasion in English history. I wanted to know more about why this particular

      4 min read

    • Article

      City Of A Scandal

      Jan 4, 2023

      City Of A Scandal
      5 min read

    • Article

      Reasons To Be Miserable

      Feb 11, 2021

      Reasons To Be Miserable
      6 min read

    • Article

      History Cookbook

      Dec 21, 2023

      ELEANOR BARNETT bakes a batch of sweet morsels – made with some surprisingly earthy ingredients What comes to mind when you think of Tudor food? Perhaps you imagine a great feast at which ostentatious pies were served with stuffed and gilded swans on

      5 min read

    • Article

      Cry God for Harry

      Oct 18, 2023

      Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King By Michael Livingston Osprey £20 The tale is a familiar one – of a beleaguered and outnumbered English army, led by the heroic Henry V, trouncing the ‘flower of French chivalry’ through bulldog tenacity and withe

      3 min read

    • Article

      Going Dutch

      Dec 8, 2021

      THIS work covers a period neatly book-ended by two sea journeys: those of Matilda, William the Conqueror’s Flemish-speaking wife, and the Dutch William of Orange in 1688. Between the two dates, the fortunes of Anglo-Dutch literary relations, like tho

      5 min read

    Reviews for Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152,

      April 18, 1917, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917

      Author: Various

      Release Date: February 12, 2005 [EBook #15021]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the PG Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team.

      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 152.

      April 18th, 1917.

      CHARIVARIA

      .

      The growing disposition to declare war against her is causing genuine concern in Germany, where it is feared that there may not be enough interned German vessels to go round.

      An Austrian General is reported to have been overwhelmed by an avalanche of snow, and at Easter-time a number of patriotic English people were offering, in view of the usefulness of the stuff for military purposes, to forgo their own ration.

      The question of Parliamentary reform has been under discussion in the House of Commons. That the Legislature should attempt to deal with reforms of any kind which have not been previously demanded by the Daily Press is regarded in certain quarters as a most dangerous precedent.

      Immediately north of the Siegfried line, the experts explain, is a new German position, which they have christened the Wotan line. It will not be long before we hear of fresh German activities in the Götterdämmerung line.

      Thousands of men at the docks are boycotting public-houses as a protest against increased prices. A deputation of licensed victuallers will shortly wait upon the Government to inform them that their action in restricting the brewers' output is likely to have the deplorable effect of making drinking unpopular.

      There has been some slight activity on the Dublin front, but beyond a few skirmishes there is little to report.

      One of the most recent additions to the Entente Alliance proves that the art of war as practised by Germany is such a horrible travesty that even the Cubists condemn it.

      Goat-skin coats are mentioned by a lady writer as quite a novelty. She is in error. Goats have worn them for years.

      A wedding at Huntingdon, the other day, was interrupted by the barking of dog within the vicinity of the church. It is a peculiar thing, but dogs have never looked upon marriage as the serious thing it really is.

      We are sorry to contradict a contemporary, but the assertion that men are losing their chivalry cannot be lightly passed over. Only the other night in the tube a man was distinctly heard to say to a lady who was standing, Pray accept my seat, Madam. I am getting out here.

      Small Invalid (to visitor). "I'VE HAD A LOT OF DISEASES IN MY TIME — MEASLES — WHOOPING-COUGH — INFLUENZA — TONSILITIS — BUT (modestly) I HAVEN'T HAD DROPSY YET."

      Mr. DUKE has just stated that there is work for all in Ireland. This is not the way to make the Government popular in the distressed isle.

      The Vienna Zeit says the worst enemy of the people is their appetite. Several local humourists have been severely dealt with for pointing out that eating is the best way of getting rid of this pest.

      A Stepney market porter attempted last week to evade military service by hiding in a cupboard, but the police captured him despite the fact that he attempted to throw them off the scent by making a noise like a piece of cheese—a very old device.

      On one day of Eastertide there was an inch of snow in Liverpool, followed by hailstones, lightning, thunder and a gale of wind. Summer has certainly arrived very early this year.

      The Berliner Tageblatt makes much of the fact that a recent submarine expedition was carried out by means of German Naval officers on board a trawler "disguised as

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1