Transcriber's Note: Some Illustrations have been moved higher in the book to allow uninterrupted flow of the text. 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. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG [Illustration] [Illustration: THE STEAM-LAUNCH IN VENICE ("SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI") _'Andsome 'Arriet._ "Ow my! If it 'yn't that bloomin' old Temple Bar, as they did aw'y with out o' Fleet Street!" _Mr. Belleville_ (_referring to Guide-book_). "Now, it 'yn't! It's the fymous Bridge o' _Sighs_, as _Byron_ went and stood on; 'im as wrote _Our Boys_, yer know!" _'Andsome 'Arriet._ "Well, I _never!_ It 'yn't _much_ of a _Size_, any'ow!" _Mr. Belleville._ "'Ear! 'ear Fustryte!"] MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG _WITH 152 ILLUSTRATIONS_ BY PHIL MAY, GEORGE DU MAURIER, JOHN LEECH, CHARLES KEENE, L. RAVENHILL, J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE, E. T. REED, REGINALD CLEAVER, AND OTHER HUMOROUS ARTISTS [Illustration] PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE PROPRIETORS OF "PUNCH" THE AMALGAMATED PRESS, LTD. PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR _Crown 8vo. 192 pages, fully illustrated, pictorial cover, 1s. net._ MR. PUNCH AT THE SEASIDE MR. PUNCH'S RAILWAY BOOK MR. PUNCH ON THE CONTINONG MR. PUNCH'S BOOK OF LOVE MR. PUNCH AFLOAT MR. PUNCH IN THE HIGHLANDS OTHERS TO FOLLOW [Illustration: Before the Battle] [Illustration: After the Battle] OFF TO THE CONTINONG! (_A Foreword_) [Illustration: FANCY AND---- The kind of figure you see on posters inviting you to French seaside resorts. ]