Mr. Punch on the Continong

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 23, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066126735

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Mr. Punch on the Continong

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THE STEAM-LAUNCH IN VENICE

MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG

Before the Battle After the Battle

OFF TO THE CONTINONG!

FACT!

FANCY AND——

WHERE SECOND THOUGHTS ARE BETTER

"LOOK ON THIS PICTURE——

AND ON THIS!"

ON THE BOULOGNE PIER

MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG

TIPS

BREAKING THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO

FOREIGNERS IN FRANCE

THE BRITISH BATHER

L'ANGLAIS FIN-DE-SIÈCLE

A ROMAN HOLIDAY

FROM LA CÔTE D'AZUR

O FLATTERY, THY NAME IS FRENCHWOMAN!

OUR COMPATRIOTS ABROAD

WONDERS OF THE WORLD ABROAD

L'AXONG D'ALBIONG

BREAKING THE ICE

TIP NOT GOOD ENOUGH

'ARRY IN 'OLLAND

A BATH AT BOULOGNE

STRANGERS YET

AN IDYLLIC ISLAND

COURTESY À LA SUISSE

PERFECT TRANSLATION

A SKETCH AT TROUDEAUVILLE

THE DAMSELS OF DIEPPE

NO PLACE LIKE HOME!

STUDY AT A QUIET FRENCH WATERING-PLACE

SIR GORGIUS ON THE CONTINONG

VENEZIA LA BELLA

'ARRY IN 'OLLAND

L'EMBARRAS DES RICHESSES. AT THE CAFÉ DES AMBASSADEURS

'ARRY IN SWITZERLAND

'E DUNNO OÙ IL EST!

SUR LA PLAGE

'ARRY IN ST. PETERSBURG

A LITTLE DUOLOGUE ON THE QUAY AT BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

HARRY'S SON'S HOLIDAY REMINISCENCES—SWITZERLAND

A SCENE AT THE LUCULLUS

'ARRY AND 'ARRIET IN FRANCE

BEAUTIES OF BOLOGNA

UN BON MAUVAIS QUART D'HEURE

IN SUNNY NORMANDY

POP! POP!

SUCCESSFUL SANITATION

A CONTINENTAL TRIP

MRS. R. ON BOULOGNE-SUR-MER

ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN

LINES ON (AND OFF) AN ITALIAN MULE

ASTONISHING THE NATIVES

IN RE THE RIGI

PROVINCIAL MOSSOOS IN THEIR SUNDAY BEST

MUDDY MILAN

A CHOICE OF IDIOMS

THEN AND NOW

ALTOGETHER SATISFACTORY

A MOUNTAINEERING INCIDENT

TOURING IN ALGIERS

MR. 'ARRY BELVILLE, ON THE CONTINENT GENERALLY

MONSIEUR, MADAME, ET BÉBE

ADVICE TO ENGLISHMEN ABROAD

RECOLLECTIONS FROM ABROAD (FREE TRANSLATION)

AN ALPINE RAILWAY

WHY WE ARE SO BELOVED ON THE CONTINENT

ROUNDABOUT READINGS

CONSEQUENCES OF THE TOWER OF BABEL

OUR COUNTRYWOMEN IN PARIS

ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRIT

ON THE RIVIERA

THE TIME-HONOURED BRITISH THREAT

TONGUES FOR TOURISTS

AT BULLONG

FRENCH AS SHE IS SPOKE

KNOCKED 'EM IN THE OLD GHENT ROAD

FLORENCE IN THE FUTURE

OUR COUNTRYMEN ABROAD

OBJECTIONS TO PLACES

AT A FRENCH HOTEL

A FRENCH CIRCE

TALK FOR TRAVELLERS

OUR COUNTRYMEN ABROAD

INTO SPAIN

OVERHEARD NEAR BERGEN

(THE IDEAL) THE MERRY SWISS BOY (THE REAL)

(THE IDEAL) THE MERRY SWISS GIRL (THE REAL)

THE TOURIST'S BOOK OF FATE

GOING TO THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS AT NICE

L'ENTENTE CORDIALE

REGRETS EN ROUTE

Mems for Travellers on the Continent.

A REMINDER

HOLIDAY HINTS

AN INNOCENT OFFENDER

'ARRY'S AND 'ARRIET'S 'OLIDAY TRIP

The Ideal Equipment

A STAGGERER!

WHERE TO GO

THE MERRY SWISS BOY

THE REAL SWISS BOY

VENICE UNPRESERVED

THE MERRY SWISS LANDLORD TO THE TRAVELLER WHO HAS BEEN PLUNDERED

THE RETURN OF THE TOURIST

ADVANTAGES OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

THE BELFRY OF BRUGES OVERLOOKED

SIX OF ONE, HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER

A VIEW ON THE FRENCH COAST

A VIEW ON THE FRENCH COAST

HARRY'S SON'S HOLIDAY REMINISCENCES—HOLLAND

'ARRY ON THE BOULEVARDS

ON THE CHEAP

A DECLARATION INDEED!

LE PIED ANGLAIS

AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION

TOASTS FOR TRAVELLERS

FINIS

THE STEAM-LAUNCH IN VENICE

THE STEAM-LAUNCH IN VENICE

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(SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI)

'Andsome 'Arriet. Ow my! If it 'yn't that bloomin' old Temple Bar, as they did aw'y with out o' Fleet Street!

Mr. Belleville (referring to Guide-book). "Now, it 'yn't! It's the fymous Bridge o' Sighs, as Byron went and stood on; 'im as wrote Our Boys, yer know!"

'Andsome 'Arriet. "Well, I never! It 'yn't much of a Size, any'ow!"

Mr. Belleville. 'Ear! 'ear! Fustryte!

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MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG

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WITH 152 ILLUSTRATIONS

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MR. PUNCH AT THE SEASIDE

MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK

MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG

MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE

MR. PUNCH AFLOAT

MR. PUNCH IN THE HIGHLANDS

OTHERS TO FOLLOW

Before the Battle / After the Battle

Before the Battle After the Battle

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OFF TO THE CONTINONG!

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(A Foreword)

FACT!

FACT!

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The kind of figure which comes nearest to the ideal you have formed.

FANCY AND----

FANCY AND——

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The kind of figure you see on posters inviting you to French seaside resorts.

Nothing is more calculated to give Englishmen a good conceit of themselves in the matter of international courtesy than a careful examination of the archives of Mr. Punch, such as was necessary in the preparation of the present volume. To anyone familiar with the anti-British attitude of the French comic press before these happier days of the Entente Cordiale, and of the German press at all times, the complete absence of all manner of ill-feeling from Mr. Punch's jokes about our neighbours across the Channel is little short of wonderful. Even in the days when the English people were the unfailing subject for every French satirist when he suffered from an unusual attack of spleen, our national jester seems never to have lost the good-humour with which he has usually surveyed the life of the Continent. Indeed, as the pages here brought together will readily prove, Mr. Punch has seldom, if ever, laid himself open to the charge of insularity in his point of view. Instead of showing a tendency to ridicule our neighbours on the Continent, he has been more inclined to pillory the follies of his own countrymen, and to contrast their behaviour on the Continent rather unfavourably with that of the natives. But, even so, there is nothing in these humorous chronicles of Mr. Punch on the Continong which will not amuse equally the travelling or the stay-at-home Briton and the foreigner, since each will find many of his national characteristics touched off in a way that is no less kindly than amusing. The fact that a considerable proportion of these pages are from the pen of George Du Maurier, himself a Frenchman by birth, is a reminder that long before the Governments of France and Great Britain had come into their present relationship of intimate friendliness, Mr. Punch had maintained his own Entente