Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life
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Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
MR. PUNCH IN SOCIETY
A SEASONABLE LETTER
THE BOOK TEA
THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID
THINGS ONE MIGHT HAVE EXPRESSED OTHERWISE
THE SOCIETY VOICE
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS
MAY FAIR NURSERY RHYMES
THE LATEST THING IN CRIME
ANOTHER PAIR OF SLEEVES
SERVICE AND SOCIETY NEWS
THE LAMENT OF THE LADIES’ MAN
AWFUL
TASTE IN 1875!
DISTINGUISHED INVALIDS
A DANCE DIALOGUE
THE SOCIETY SWEAR
ROBERT’S ROMANCE
FOR CHARITY’S SAKE
UNLUCKY SPEECHES
SOME EMOTIONS BUT NO MORAL
THE GREAT KNEE-BREECHES QUESTION
THE LATEST CRAZE
THE LADIES’ COLUMN
Books to Match all Dresses.
FIVE O’CLOCK TEA-CLASSES
INTRODUCTION
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Gentleman in evening wearIt would be difficult to think of Mr. Punch’s prototype of the immortal drama as in Society
; but, however much our national jester may resemble in facial detail the somewhat rude and impulsive character from whom he took his name, he is in all his instincts a gentleman. In other words, it is just here that
Punch
has differed from most comic journals, being, if not absolutely from the first number, certainly from its early days, distinguished for refinement of taste and good manners, not less than for its wit and humour. "
Mr. Punch
in Society" is indeed
Mr. Punch
in his most congenial surroundings, as he has been above all else the untiring, irrepressible satirist of the social world.
If an analysis were made of all the drawings which have appeared in
Punch
from 1841 to the present day, we venture to think that those devoted to Society’s ways, its foibles, its follies, would greatly outnumber the illustrations of any other phase of life. And was not the entire career of one of
Mr. Punch’s
most celebrated artists devoted exclusively to social satire? The name of George du Maurier is pre-eminent in the history of modern humorous art. To an unerring instinct for character, shrewd but never unkindly satire, he united a profound sense of beauty which made his work unique and individual. It was thus that to a vast public, of which only a very small proportion could be expected to possess any art culture, Du Maurier’s work appealed with irresistible force, his charming lightness of touch, his gaiety, which came no doubt from his Gallic origins, rendering everything from his pencil a source of delight to the general public, no less than to the students of draughtsmanship.
Du Maurier’s connection with
Punch
began in 1860 and his earliest work displayed very little of that wonderful grace to which it attained before many years had passed, but Mr. Henry James, discussing his art so long ago as 1883, said that "since 1868,
Punch
has been, artistically speaking, George du Maurier, an opinion which would certainly be accepted in America, where for a generation the cultured classes looked to Du Maurier, as Mr. Spielman reminds us,
almost exclusively, not only for English fashions in male and female attire, the dernière mode in social etiquette, but for the truest reflection of English life and character."
When we consider that almost exclusively in the pages of
Mr. Punch
is the artistic life-work of Du Maurier contained, we shall see how inexhaustible a treasury is there to be drawn upon for such a collection as the present. We have thought it wise, however, not to limit "
Mr. Punch
in Society" to the work of any one humorist, but have sought to present a collection of Du Maurier’s best social satires in company with those of many other artists who, in their individual ways, have also depicted the humours of social life.
Dandy gentlemanMR. PUNCH IN SOCIETY
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A SEASONABLE LETTER
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Well-dressed ladyHuntingthorpe Hall.
My Dear Jack
,—I want you to come down on Monday and stay a couple of days with me. My wife will be delighted, as you can help her with a children’s party, and also play Pantaloon in a little thing being got up by the young people. I will mount you on the Tuesday with our Stag hounds, as I know you are fond of a day’s hunting. No, don’t thank me, my dear chap—I shall be only too glad if you will go, as the horse I am intending to put you on is a rank brute, and when he doesn’t refuse his fences—which is a rare occurrence—he invariably falls into them. However, you won’t mind that, will you?
You will have to put up with real bachelor accommodation, I am afraid, as the house is crammed. The best I can do for you is a half share of one of the attics. Our cook has left us, all unexpectedly, so this places her room at our disposal for two of you. The kitchen-maid