Identifier: mrpunchshistoryo01grav (find matches)
Title: Mr. Punch's history of modern England
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom), 1856-1944
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Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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are past : — Weve now some sharpish mutual slanging,But, Heaven be thanked, there is no hanging!No axe, no- chopping-block, no drawing,But only just a little jawing. Theres no Jack Ketch his business plying, » People beheading, throttling, frying.Punch, and he says it without boasting,Does all the cutting up and roasting. As a matter of fact, the whole of Volume xix. is dominatedby the one subject. The cutting up and roasting of thePope and Cardinal Wiseman, of Passionists and Puseyites,is conducted on every other page. The Popes message wasthe greatest bull ever known. In Pontifical News wehave a series of imaginary appointments, including a PapalLord Chancellor, miracles and conversions, winding up withthe announcement that the Palace of Bedlam will be proposedas the residence of the new Primate of England. Simultane-ously, burlesque rival claims are put forward on behalf of othercreeds—Mohammedan, Buddhist and Brahmin. On November 4 Lord John Russell, then Prime Minister, 100
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THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE Daring Attempt to Break Into a Church lOI Mr. PiincJis Histoiy of Modern England addressed a letter to the Bishop of Durham, in which, withoutpronouncing definitely whether the law had been transgressed,he vigorously condemned the Papal claims as inconsistentwith the Queens supremacy, the rights of our bishops andclergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation asasserted even in Roman Catholic times. Lord John confessed,however, that he was less alarmed by any aggression of aforeign sovereign than by the practices of clergymen of ourown Church, who have been most forward in leading theirflocks, step by step, to the verge of the precipice. In con-clusion he relied with confidence on the people of England,feeling sure that the great mass of a nation which looked withcontempt on the mummeries of superstition would be faith-ful to the glorious principles and the immortal martyrs of theReformation. Punch lost no time in improving on this text,and in the

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