Dropping the Pilot.] [Illustration: _October, 1890._ The McGladstone! “To land McGladstone lightly sprang, And thrice aloud his bugle rang With note prolong’d and varied strain, Till bold Ben-Ghoil replied again.” “_Lora of the Isles._” Canto IV.] [Illustration: _December, 1890._ “Separatists.” Douglas ... MR. GLADSTONE. Marmion ... MR. PARNELL. DOUGLAS. “The hand of Douglas is his own; And never shall in friendly grasp The hand of such as Marmion clasp!”—_Marmion._ Canto VI.] [Illustration: _January, 1891._ Arbitration. THE SEAL. “Belay, you two Johnnies!—avast quarrelling! Give me a ‘Close-time,’ and leave the ‘Sea’ an open question.”] [Illustration: _February, 1891._ “Retire!—What do *You* Think?”] [Illustration: _February, 1891._ Coriolanus. “Such a nature, Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon.”—_Coriolanus_, Act I., Sc. 1.] [Illustration: _March, 1891._ “Advance, Australia!” BRITISH LION. “Bravo, Boys!—SWING TOGETHER!!”] [Illustration: _July, 1891._ Mr. Punch’s Jubilee Pageant. (As reflected in Punch’s Magic Mirror.)] [Illustration: _September, 1891._ “Turning the Tables.”] [Illustration: _October, 1891._ “What will he do with it?” STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANT. “Is none of that for ME, ‘Little Father’?”] [Illustration: _October, 1891._ Trying it on! RUSSIA. “SS-S-T! (Whispers.) I want to speak to you, my dear!”] [Illustration: _January, 1892._ The Coming of Ninety-Two To the Modern Merlin, MR. PUNCH. “And down the wave, and in the flame was borne A naked babe, and rode to PUNCH’S feet, Who stoopt, and caught the babe, and cried, ‘The Year! Here is an heir for Ninety-One!’”—_Adapted from Tennyson’s “Coming of Arthur.”_] [Illustration: _January, 1892._ “Short ’Anded.” MRS. HALSBURY. “I tell you what it is, Mrs. Coley, Mum—if all this ’ere dirty linen’s to be got through, we must ’ave ’ELP, Mum!!”] [Illustration: _February, 1892._ The Attack on the “Capit*a*l.”] [Illustration: _February, 1892._ “Her Majesty’s Servants.” View of the Stage on the re-opening of the Theatre Royal Westminster.] [Illustration: _March, 1892._ Younger than Ever! The G.O.M. “Now then, Harcourt!—Tuck in your tuppenny!——Over!!”] [Illustration: _April, 1892._ The Dynamite Dragon.] [Illustration: _April, 1892._ The New “Queen of the May.”] [Illustration: _June, 1892._ “When Greek meets Greek.”] [Illustration: _January, 1893._ Mischief!] [Illustration: _April, 1893._ A Pilgrim’s Progress.] [Illustration: _April, 1893._ Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman. (Modern Ulster Version. After C. R. Leslie, R.A.’s celebrated picture.) MRS. ULSTER. “Now, Mr. Bull, do you see any ‘GREEN’ in my eye?”] [Illustration: _May, 1893._ “The Minstrel Boy.”