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ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE LONDON PUNCH

[Illustration: THE AMERICAN JUGGERNAUT]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE LONDON PUNCH

Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865)

Edited by

WILLIAM S. WALSH

Author of "A Handbook of Literary Curiosities," "Curiosities of Popular Customs," "Faust, the Legend and the Poem," etc.

New York Moffat, Yard and Company 1909

Copyright 1909, by William S. Walsh New York Published March 1909

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

The American Juggernaut _Frontispiece_

Divorce A Vinculo 12

The American Difficulty 14

The American Gladiators 14

Naughty Jonathan 20

How they went to take Canada 20

A Family Quarrel 20

King Cotton Bound 22

The Genu-ine Othello 26

Over the Way 28

The Wilful Boy 33

A Likely Story 34

Look out for Squalls 40

A Bad Case of Throwing Stones 42

Waiting for an Answer 42

Columbia's Fix 42

Boxing Day 46

"Up a Tree" 46

Naughty Jonathan 48

Oberon and Titania 50

The New Orleans Plume 52

The "Sensation" Struggle in America 54

The Latest from America 56

One Good Turn Deserves Another 58

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch
• 2: Was one of Goethe's pregnant apothegms
• 3: Illustration DIVORCE A VINCULO
• 4: Seceders will go on seceding and subseceding
• 5: Illustration THE GENU INE OTHELLO
• 6: Blood and tears the taking of fort sumter
• 7: Here is the poem KING COTTON BOUND
• 8: Makes this fettered giant languish
• 9: When you blustered he still was content with pooh poohing
• 10: Illustration OBERON AND TITANIA
• 11: Let bygones be bygones for me
• 12: Why i du declare it's my dear old friend sambo
• 13: If their owners like to wop 'em
• 14: His backers say he purposely is playing a slow game
• 15: Illustration BRUTUS AND CAESAR
• 16: In October appeared a cartoon headed with unconscious satire
• 17: BRITISHER TO BEECHER Alas
• 18: For the REVEREND BEECHER is not a spoon
• 19: But you must do something more than bully for me
• 20: But talking won't take Richmond
• 21: ABRAHAM LINCOLN Foully Assassinated April
• 22: Forgiveness in his heart and on his pen
• 23: Illustration BRITANNIA SYMPATHISES WITH COLUMBIA