be
done. Unfortunately I am too busy elsewhere, putting my own country
right.

"But to conclude--for I see that we are drawing close to the
landing-stage--I do hope that in my desire to be genial I have not
been too flattering. No true friend ever flatters. And in my heart,
which has some of our common blood in it (notoriously thicker than
water), I cannot help loving your country, and would love it better
still if only it gave me a better chance. Indeed, I belong at home to
a Society for the Promotion of Anglo-American Friendship. More than
that"--and here the Sage was seen to probe into a voluminous and
bulging breast-pocket--"I have brought with me a token of affection
designed to stimulate a mutual cordiality."

"_Not_ a flask of whisky?" exclaimed the representative of _The
Democratic Elevator_, suddenly moved to animation.

"No, not that, not that, my child," said Mr. Punch, "but something
far, far better for you; something that gives you, among other less
serious matter, a record of the way in which we in England, with
private troubles of our own no easier than yours to bear, and
exhausted with twice as many years of sacrifice in the War of Liberty
(whose colossal effigy I have just had the pleasure to remark), still
try to play an honourable part in that society of nations from which
you have apparently resolved, for your better ease and comfort, to cut
yourselves off. Be good enough to accept, in the spirit of benevolence
in which I offer it, this copy of my

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINTH VOLUME."

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CARTOONS.

PARTRIDGE, BERNARD
Aladdin and the Miner's Lamp 311
Bad for the Bull 51
Cap of Liberty: Le Dernier Cri 191
Close Corporation (A) 351
Economists (The) 471
Experts (The) 291
Folly of Athens (The) 411
German Invasion (A) 431
Great Repudiation (The) 231
"House"-Breaker (The) 151
If Winston Set the Fashion-- 111
League of Youth (The) 91
Micawber and Son 511
Moral Suasion 71
Prince Comes Home (The) 271
Problem (The) 131
Road to Economy (The) 451
Salvage 251
Scales of Justice (The) 331
Session of Common Sense (A) 171
Shrine of Honour (The) 371
Snowed Under 211
Verdun 491
Worth a Trial 391

RAVEN-HILL, L.
Abysmalists (The)