Produced by Neville Allen, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. III. OF IV. Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. Words printed in italics are noted with underscores: _italics_. The small letter e with a macron cannot be represented in plain text. It is instead shown in this text as [=e]. [Illustration: EMPRESS AND EARL; OR, ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER Lord Beaconsfield: "Thanks, your Majesty! I might have had it before! Now I think I have _earned_ it!" _Reproduced from the Cartoon by John Tenniel._] MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND By CHARLES L. GRAVES IN FOUR VOLUMES VOL. III.--1874-1892 CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1922 _Published by arrangement with the Proprietors of "Punch"_ CONTENTS PART I THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK HIGH POLITICS MEN AND MASTERS: WORK AND WAGES THE STATUS OF WOMEN EDUCATION RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES LONDON AND ITS GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS AND INVENTIONS: FORECASTS AND NOVELTIES PART II THE SOCIAL FABRIC CROWN AND COURT SOCIETY RECREATION, SPORT, AND PASTIME FASHION IN DRESS LETTERS AND JOURNALISM: DRAMA AND MUSIC HEROES AND WORTHIES PART I THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK HIGH POLITICS