Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony

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• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547341901

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Mr. Punch's Book of Love: Being the Humours of Courtship and Matrimony

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MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE

MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE

THE HUMOURS OF COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY

THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

ABOUT MATRIMONIAL JOKES, AND ONE IN PARTICULAR

DRIVEN TO DESPERATION

MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

THE NEOGAMS—A WARNING

SONGS OF THE HEARTH-RUG

MARRIAGE MEMORIES

A SCIENTIFIC WOOER

TO ALL THE OTHER GIRLS

VALENTINE'S DAY—THEN AND NOW

LOVE IN LACONICS

THE IDEAL HUSBAND

TO A RICH YOUNG WIDOW.

THE OFF SEASON

LOVE LETTERS OF A BUSINESS MAN.

REFLECTIONS ON A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT

PROFESSIONAL LOVE-LETTERS

I

II

WHAT TO WEAR ON YOUR WEDDING DAY.

WORDS TO A WIFE

THE DIVORCE SHOP

A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE

Act I. — Before the Event.

Act II. — After the Event.

THE SEVEN WONDERS OF A MARRIED MAN.

THE SEVEN WONDERS OF A MARRIED WOMAN.

WAITING

VIRGINIA STOCK'S VIEW OF IT.

SONG OF THE HIGHER SENTIMENTS

HOW TO MAKE LIFE EMINENTLY DISAGREEABLE

TO AN OLD FLAME—(Twenty Years after)

THE FIN DE SIÈCLE SUITOR.

A HUSBAND'S LAMENT

LOVE AND COURTSHIP

MY NEIGHBOUR

ADVICE TO GIRL GRADUATES

READING BETWEEN THE MARRIAGE LINES

WAIT FOR AGE.

EVOLUTION

AN ENGAGEMENT

DROP BY DROP

A YOUNG HUSBAND'S LAMENT

THE EDUCATION OF HUSBANDS

LINES TO MY LADY-LOVE

WHOM NOT TO MARRY

TRITE BUT TRUE

MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE

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PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

Edited by

J. A. Hammerton

Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to Punch, from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.

Mr. P holding misletoe

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Couple and gent. sitting on bench.

Edwin (suddenly, after a long pause). Darling!

Angelina. Yes, darling?

Edwin. "Nothing, darling. Only darling, darling!"

[Bilious Old Gentleman feels quite sick.

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MR. PUNCH'S

BOOK OF LOVE

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BEING

THE HUMOURS OF COURTSHIP

AND MATRIMONY

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Holding hands

WITH 150 ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

JOHN LEECH,

CHARLES KEENE,

GEORGE DU MAURIER,

SIR JOHN TENNIEL,

PHIL MAY,

E. T. REED,

L. RAVEN-HILL,

GORDON BROWNE,

TOM BROWNE,

J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE,

C. E. BROCK,

REGINALD CLEAVER,

CHARLES PEARS,

A. S. BOYD,

LEWIS BAUMER,

DAVID WILSON,

G. L. STAMPA,

AND OTHERS

PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH

THE PROPRIETORS OF PUNCH

THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD.

THE PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

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Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo, 192 pages fully illustrated

LIFE IN LONDON

COUNTRY LIFE

IN THE HIGHLANDS

SCOTTISH HUMOUR

IRISH HUMOUR

COCKNEY HUMOUR

IN SOCIETY

AFTER DINNER STORIES

IN BOHEMIA

AT THE PLAY

MR. PUNCH AT HOME

ON THE CONTINONG

RAILWAY BOOK

AT THE SEASIDE

MR. PUNCH AFLOAT

IN THE HUNTING FIELD

MR. PUNCH ON TOUR WITH ROD AND GUN

MR. PUNCH AWHEEL

BOOK OF SPORTS

GOLF STORIES

IN WIG AND GOWN

ON THE WARPATH

BOOK OF LOVE

WITH THE CHILDREN

Take back the heart that you gave me.

Take back the heart that you gave me.

ABOUT MATRIMONIAL JOKES, AND ONE IN PARTICULAR

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Of all Mr. Punch's jokes it might be fair to say that none has ever rivalled the popularity of Advice to persons about to marry,—Don't! unless it be that of the Scotsman who had been no more than a few hours in London, when bang went saxpence! Of the latter, more in its place; here, we are immediately concerned with Punch's advice. The most preposterous stories are current among the uninformed as to the origin of some of Mr. Punch's favourite jests. Only recently we heard a gentleman telling a group of people in a hotel smoking-room that Mark Twain got a hundred pounds from Punch for writing that famous line, I used your soap two years ago; since then I have used no other, familiar to every one by Mr. Harry Furniss's drawing of a disreputable tramp who is supposed to be writing the words quoted. As a matter of fact, the idea came to Mr. Furniss from an anonymous correspondent. Stories equally, if not more, absurd have been told as to the origin of Punch's advice, which, thanks to the researches of Mr. Spielmann, we now know to have been the happy inspiration of Henry Mayhew, one of the founders of Punch. It was sixty-one years ago that Mayhew wrote the line, and how many millions of times it must have been quoted since one dare not guess!

It may be said to have struck the keynote of Mr. Punch's matrimonial policy, as an examination of his pages reveals him an incorrigible pessimist on the subject of marriage. He is very hard on the mother-in-law, but in all his life he has not made more than one or two jokes about the young wife's pastry, though he has made a good deal of fun about her general ignorance of domestic affairs. Nor has he spared the bachelor or the old maid, and the designing widow has been an especial butt for his shafts.

It might be a good thing to pass a law prohibiting