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    Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893
    Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893
    Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893
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    Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893

    By Various Various and F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893

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      Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 - Various Various

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      July 22nd, 1893, by Various

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      Title: Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893

      Author: Various

      Editor: Sir Francis Burnand

      Release Date: March 31, 2011 [EBook #35734]

      Language: English

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      Punch, or the London Charivari

      Volume 105, July 22nd 1893

      edited by Sir Francis Burnand

      A LONDON PEST.

      To an impartial observer the public, philanthropic, and municipal attempts to honour the memory of the great and good, if sometimes mistaken, Earl of Shaftesbury, appear to have been singularly unfortunate. The West-End Avenue that bears his name is more full of music-halls, theatres, pot-houses, and curious property, than any street of equal length and breadth in the whole Metropolis. Lord Shaftesbury may not have been a Puritan, but he was essentially a serious man, and his sympathies were more with Exeter Hall than with the Argyle Rooms; and yet, in the street which is honoured by his name, it has been found impossible to remove the old title of this historic place from the stone facade of the Trocadero.

      The fountain at Piccadilly Circus, which has been unveiled as the second of the Shaftesbury memorials, is surmounted by—what? Some writers have called it a girl, some have called it a boy; many of the public, no doubt, regard it as a mythological bird, and it certainly looks like the Bolognese Mercury flying away with the wings of St. Michael. We are told, on authority, that it represents Eros, the Greek god of love, and his shaft is directed to a part of London that, more than any other part, at night, requires the bull's-eye and the besom of authority. The Top of the Gaymarket is in just as bad a condition as it was when Punch directed attention to it more than ten years ago, and the virus since then has extended as far eastward as St. Martin's Lane. Moll Flanders' Parade now begins at St. James's Church and ends with Cranbourne Street. It is unfortunate, to say the least of it, that Eros has been selected to point at this London Pestiduct, and the sooner it is thoroughly cleansed and the neighbourhood made worthy of the Shaftesbury Fountain, the better.

      AWFUL MOMENT!

      Conf——! I've forgotten my Dress Coat!!

      "

      Delenda est Drubilana!—The Drury Lane Committee, headed by the dauntless James O'Dowd, have decided upon approaching the Duke of Bedford with a protest against his Grace's present expressed intention of pulling down the Old Theatre within the next two years. Probably the result of this, the latest incident in the interesting annals of Old Drury, will simply be to make another addition to the well-known collection of Rejected Addresses.

      OUR OPERA.

      To hear sweet strains by Glück or Gounod,

      Mascagni, Wagner, one must, you know,

      Pass slums; at dark it

      Is nice in Endell Street and Bow Street;

      Still better in that fragrant nose treat—

      Mudsalad Market.

      Inside, say, Orpheus sings in Hades

      To gallant men and noble ladies—

      Rank, wealth, and beauty;

      Outside, Elysium is forgotten.

      To clear away

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