"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." [Illustration] * * * * * [Illustration: Index] 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) 383 Balm for the Sick Man 423 Blue Ribbon of the Sea (The) 83 Boblet (The) 463 Encourage Home Industries 363 Evil Communications 43 Good Fairy Georgina (The) 503 Iconoclast (The) 123 I. O. U. 11 Labor Omnia Vincit 443 Last Straw (The) 403 "Lion of Lucerne (The)" 143 Our Parish Church 31 Our Village Sign 343 Out of the Frying-Pan 183 Polish Hug (The) 283 Prospective Jonah? (A) 263 Public Benefactor (The) 203 Real Music (The) 103 Resources of Civilisation (The) 303 Road to Ruin (The) 163 Sing a Song of Drachmas 483 Tartarin dans les Indes 243 Too-Free Country (A) 323 REYNOLDS, FRANK Under a Cloud (with a Golden Lining) 223 TOWNSEND, F. H. L'Enfant Terrible 3 Sea-view of the Situation (A) 63 Subject to Revision 23 ARTICLES. ALLEN, INGLIS Difference of Class (A) 208 ANDERSON, MISS E. V. M. Mudford Blight (The) 188 ARMSTRONG, H. Working for Peace 330 BELL, NEIL Cage (The) 349 BIDDULPH, MISS VIOLET In Defence of Dorothy 102 BIRD, A. W. Cricket Mannerism (A) 22 Edward and the B.O.F. 98 Fine Old Fruity (The) 490 Stuttfield and the Reds 374 Twenty Years On 55 BLAIKLEY, MISS E. L. Pamela's Alphabet 270