Clare. T. R., Colchester, Jan. 24, 1887.
_Mysseltoe Bough Burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.
_Nero_, a Romantick Fiddler, by T. H. Bayley. English Opera House,
August, 1833.
_The New Corsican Brothers_, by Cecil Raleigh. Royalty, November 20,
1889. Arthur Roberts.
_A New Edition of the Corsican Brothers_; or, the Kompact, the Kick,
and the Kombat, by W. H. Mason. Theatre Royal, Brighton, July 18,
1870.
_New Don Juan_, by J. B. Buckstone. Adelphi, 1828.
_The New King Richard the Third_, by C. H. Hazlewood. Britannia,
April 1, 1878.
_Nobody’s Cheild_, by H. T. Arden. Cremorne, August 10, 1868, and
Surrey, October 8, 1870.
_Noodledom_, by Edwin Marshall. Lecture Hall, Walworth, January 10,
1877.
_Norma_, burlesque, by J. H. Draper. Royal Hall, Jersey, March 5,
1875.
_Norma Travestie_, burlesque-burletta, by W. H. Oxberry. Adelphi,
December 6, 1841. Paul Bedford and Wright.
_The Norman Invasion_, burlesque, by J. M. Killick. Saint George’s
Hall, October 26, 1870.
_No Thorough-fair beyond Highbury_; or, the Maid, the Mother, and
the Malicious Mountaineer, by Mr. Hazlewood, Junior. Alexandra,
April 13, 1868.
_No Thoroughfare_, burl., by George Grossmith. Victoria, March 22,
1869.
_Nottingham Castle_, burl., by F. R. Goodyer. Nottingham Theatre,
September 22, 1873.
_Novelty Fair_, a review, by Albert Smith. Lyceum, May 21, 1850. C.
Mathews, F. Matthews, Julia St. George.
_The Nymph of the Lurleyburg_; or, the Knight and the Naiads, by
Henry James Byron. New Adelphi, Dec. 26, 1859. Founded on the
Legend of “Lurline.” J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, & Miss Woolgar.
_O Gemini!_ or, the Brothers of Co(u)rse, by Gilbert A. à Beckett
and Mark Lemon. Haymarket, April 12, 1852. J. B. Buckstone.
_The O’Dora: or, a Wrong Accent_, travestie of Sardou’s “Theodora,”
by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, July 13, 1885.
_Oh! Aida, or a Game at Pyramids_.
_Oh! Those Babes_; or, the Unhappy Uncle, the Virtuous Villains, and
the Cheeky Children, by Will Clements. T. R., Woolwich, June 18,
1888.
_O’ Jupiter_; or the Fiddler’s Wife, by Frank Hall. Philharmonic,
October 2, 1880.
_Old Carlisle Bridge_; or, the Shame of the City, a burl. Dublin
Street drama, by William Scribble. Queen’s Theatre, Dublin, 1862.
_Old Izaak Walton_; or, Tom Moore of Fleet Street, the Silver Trout,
and the Seven Sisters of Tottenham. Panto-opening, by T. L.
Greenwood. Sadler’s Wells, December, 1858.
_Old Pals_, burlesque, by Lloyd Clarance. South Shields Theatre,
August 7, 1884.
_Oliver Grumble_, by George Dance. Prince of Wales’s T., Liverpool,
March 15, 1886. Novelty T., London, March 25, 1886.
_Olympic Games_; or, the Major, the Miner, and the
Cock-a-doodle-doo, by F. C. Burnand. Olympic, April 22, 1867.
Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, W.
_Olympic Devils_; or, Orpheus and Eurydice. A mythological
burlesque, by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1831. J. Bland, W.
Vining, Madame Vestris.
_Olympic Revels_; or, Prometheus and Pandora, by J. R. Planché.
Olympic, January 3, 1831. J. Cooper, Beckwith and Madame Vestris.
_On the Rink_; or, the Girl He left Behind Him, by F. C. Burnand.
Duke’s Theatre, February 26, 1876.
_Open Sesame!_ or a Night with the Forty Thieves.
_The Orange Tree and the Humble Bee_; or, the Little Princess who
was Lost at Sea, burlesque by Henry J. Byron. Vaudeville, May 13,
1871.
_Orlando ye Brave, and ye Fayre Rosalynde_; or, “As you Lump it.” A
Comycke Pastorale, by Master William Shakesydes. London, no date.
_Orpheus and Eurydice_; or, the Young Gentleman who charmed the
Rocks, by Henry J. Byron. Strand, Dec. 26, 1863. D. James, George
Honey, Marie Wilton.
_Orpheus_; or, the Magic Lyre, by F. C. Burnand. For Amateurs.
London, S. O. Beeton, 1865.
_Orpheus in the Haymarket_, by J. R. Planché. Haymarket, December
26, 1865.
_Othello Travestie_, burlesque-burletta, by Maurice G. Dowling.
Liverpool Theatre, Liverpool, March, 1834.
_The Other Little Lord Fondleboy_, travestie, by Frederick Bowyer.
Avenue, June 18, 1888.
_Our Cinderella_, by R. Reece. Gaiety, Sept. 8, 1883.
_Our Helen_, burlesque, adapted from “La Belle Helène,” by Robert
Reece. Gaiety, April 8, 1884.
_Our Own Antony and Cleopatra_, “an absurdity,” by F. C. Burnand.
Gaiety, September 8, 1873.
_Our Traviata_, burlesque, by W. F. Vandervell. Surrey Theatre,
September 14, 1857.
_Our War Correspondent_, burl., Leicester T., May 27, 1878.
_Out of the Ranks_, burlesque, by Robert Reece. Strand, June 3,
1884.
_Oxygen_; or, Gas in Burlesque Metre, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Folly, March 31, 1877.
_Paddy in the Moon Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.
_Pan_; or, the Loves of Echo and Narcissus, by H. J. Byron.
_Pandora’s Box_, by H. J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, December 26,
1866.
_The Paphian Bower_; or, Venus and Adonis. A mythological burlesque,
by J. R. Planché. Olympic, Dec. 26, 1832. Benjamin Webster, W.
Vining, J. Bland, Madame Vestris.
_Papillonetta_, by W. Brough. Prince of Wales’s Theatre, Liverpool,
December 26, 1865.
_Paris_; or, Vive Lemprière, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, April 2,
1886. David James, Thomas Thorne, H. J. Turner, J. D. Stoyle.
_Patient Penelope_; or, the Return of Ulysses, by F. C. Burnand.
Strand, November 25, 1863.
_Paul and Virginia_, burlesque, by Arthur Wood. Olympic, October 15,
1870.
_Paul Clifford Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.
_Paw Clawdian_, or, the Roman Awry, a travestie of “Claudian,” by F.
C. Burnand. Toole’s, February 14, 1884. J. L. Toole, W. Cheesman,
Miss Marie Linden.
_The Peddler of Very Nice_, a burlesque of the Trial Scene in “The
Merchant of Venice.” Anonymous. Boston, U.S., Lee and Shepard,
1866.
_Pentheus_, an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts and W. R.
Anson. Oxford, T. and G. Shrimpton, 1866.
_The People’s William_; or, Randy the (W) Reckless and the Grand Old
Man all at Sea. Birkenhead T., May 12, 1884.
_Perdita_; or, the Royal Milkmaid, by W. Brough. Lyceum, September
15, 1856.
_Perola_; or, the Jewel and the Duel. Rotherham Theatre, March 19,
1883.
_Perseus and Andromeda_, burlesque, by William Brough.
_Peter Wilkins_, an extravagant extrav, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and
Mark Lemon. Adelphi, April 13, 1846.
_Peter Wilkins._ Panto-opening, by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane,
December, 1860.
_Phæton_; or, Pride must have a Fall, by William Brough. For
Amateurs. London: S. O. Beeton, 1865.
_Pickwick_, dramatic Cantata, by F. C. Burnand. Comedy, February,
1889. Arthur Cecil, Rutland Barrington, Miss Lottie Venne.
_Pietro Wilkini_; or, the Castaways, the Wild Men, and the Winged
Beauty, burlesque, by F. Eyles, Jun. Swiss Gardens, Shoreham,
August 18, 1870.
_Pirithous_, the Son of Ixion, burl., by F. C. Burnand.
_Pizarro_; a Spanish Rolla-King Peruvian Drama, by C. J. Collins.
Drury Lane, September 22, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Frank
Matthews, George Honey.
_Pizarro_; or, the Leotard of Peru, by Leicester Buckingham. Strand,
1862. James Rogers, J. Clarke, Misses Eleanor Bufton, and C.
Saunders.
_Pizarro, the Great Tyrant, burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.
_Plucky Parthenia_, by Robert Reece. Portsmouth, February 26, 1874.
_Pluto and Proserpine_; or, the Belle, and the Pomegranate, by F.
Talfourd. Haymarket, April 5, 1858. Compton, Clark, Braid, Miss
L. Leclercq.
_Pluto_; or, Little Orpheus and His Lute, by H. J. Byron. Royalty,
December 26, 1881. W. J. Hill, C. Glenney, Miss Lydia Thompson.
_Po-ca-hon-tas_; or, the Gentle Savage, burlesque, by John Brougham.
Wallack’s Theatre, New York, U.S.
_Poll and Partner Joe_; or, the Pride of Putney, and the Pressing
Pirate, by F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, May 6, 1871. Lionel
Brough, H. Cox, Mrs. John Wood.
_The Pretty Druidess_; or, the Mother, the Maid, and the Miseltoe
Bough (founded on “Norma”), by W. S. Gilbert. Charing Cross, June
19, 1869. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
_Pretty Esmeralda and Captain Phœbus of Ours_, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, April 2, 1879. E. Royce, Edward Terry, Misses E. Farren,
C. Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.
_Pretty Miss Pippin_, by Percy Vere (Amateur).
_Prince Cherry, and Princess Fair Star_, by E. J. Collins. Strand,
July 11, 1855.
_Prince Love_; or, the Fays of the Forest, by F. Vandervell.
Philharmonic Theatre, December 26, 1870.
_Prince Sohobazar_; or, Eighteen-carat Soup, burlesque-extrav., by
E. W. Bowles. Kilburn Town Hall, London, December 11, 1885.
_The Princess_, by W. S. Gilbert. Olympic, January 8, 1870.
_Princess Ida_; or, Castle Adamant. Respectful perversion of
Tennyson’s “Princess,” by W. S. Gilbert. Savoy T., January 5,
1884. R. Barrington, G. Grossmith, Misses Braham and Brandram.
_Princess Ouida_; or, Castle Adamandeve, by H. G. F. Taylor. London:
A. Hays, 1886.
_Princess Primrose_, by Messrs. Bellingham and Best. Olympic, June
13, 1866.
_Printer’s Devil_, burlesque extrav. Anonymous.
_Prometheus_; or, The Man on the Rock, by R. Reece.
_The Proscribed Royalist_; or, Who Stole the Ducks, by Frank
Seymour. Opera House, Leicester, August 1, 1881.
_Prospero_; or, the King of the Caliban Islands. Imperial Theatre,
December 26, 1883.
_Pygmalion_; or, the Statue Fair, by William Brough. Strand, April
20, 1867.
_Puss in a new pair of Boots_, by H. J. Byron. Strand, 1862.
_Quasimodo, the Deformed_; or, the Man with the Hump, and the Belle
of Notre Dame, by H. Spry. Grecian, April 18, 1870.
_Queen of Hearts_, burlesque. Sanger’s Amphitheatre, Ramsgate, July
14, 1884.
_The Quizziology of the British Drama_, comprising stage passions,
stage characters, and stage plays, by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
London, Punch Office, 1846. With this is usually found _Scenes
from the Rejected Comedies_. See “Scenes.”
_Randolph the Reckless_, extravaganza, by Victor Stevens. Salford
T., August 6, 1888.
_Rasselas_, Prince of Abyssinia, burlesque, by W. Brough. Haymarket,
December 26, 1862. Chippendale, Tilbury, Compton, Louise Keeley.
_Le Raw Carotte_, by G. Thorne. Margate T., Sept. 19, 1873
_Raymond and Agnes Burlesque_, by Mr. Marchant.
_The Real Case of Hide and Seekyll_, by George Grossmith. Royalty,
September 3, 1888. In this Mr. Lionel Brough cleverly imitated
both Mr. Mansfield & Mr. Bandmann.
_The Red Rover_; or, I believe you my Buoy, by F. C. Burnand.
Strand, Dec. 26, 1887. Marius, Cox, Miss Lottie Venne.
_The Rehearsal_, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, London,
printed for Thomas Dring, 1672, by George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham. This celebrated work burlesques passages in the plays
of Mrs. A. Behn, J. Dryden, Sir W. Davenant, Killigrew, and
others. The history of _The Rehearsal_, with notes, and parallel
passages has been ably written by Mr. Edward Arber in his series
of valuable English Reprints. It was first acted on December 7,
1671.
_The Rehearsal_, an Absurdity, by Harry Dacre.
_Revolt of the Workhouse_, burlesque-opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Fitzroy Theatre, February 24, 1834.
_Richard III._, travestie, by J. Stirling Coyne. Adelphi, February
12, 1844. Wright, Honey, and Miss Woolgar.
_Richard ye Third_, by Charles Selby. Strand, Feb. 26, 1844.
_Richelieu Redressed_, by R. Reece. Olympic, Oct. 27, 1873.
_Rienzi Reinstated_; or, the Last of the Cobbler, by W. A. Allan.
Globe, December 21, 1874.
_The Right-Fall Heir_; or, the Sea-Rover and the Fall over. By H. T.
Arden, 1868.
_The Right-Fellow_; or, the Wrong-Fellow and the Felo d’ye see? By
W. F. Marshall, R. N. School, New Cross, December 21, 1868.
_Rip Van Winkle_; or, Some Nambulistic Knickerbockers, by John
Strachan and Henry Davis. Newcastle Theatre, April 2, 1866.
_Rip Van Winkle_; or, a Little Game of Nap, by F. Savile Clarke.
Portsmouth Theatre, March 29, 1880.
_Riquet with the Tuft_, burlesque-extrav., by J. R. Planché.
Olympic, Dec. 26, 1836. Charles Mathews, J. Bland, Madame
Vestris, Miss R. Isaacs, Mrs. Anderson.
_The Rise and Fall of Richard III._; or, a New Front to an old
Dicky, a Richardsonian burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty,
September 24, 1868. Dewar, Misses C. Saunders, Nellie Bromley and
M. Oliver.
Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
_The Rival Rascals_; or, Virtue Rewarded, and Vice Versa, by Alfred
Greenland, Jun. St. George’s May 3, 1877.
_The Rival Sergeants_, burletta, by William Collier. Sadler’s Wells,
April 5, 1847.
_Robert the Devil_; or, the Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun, by
W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, Dec. 21, 1868. J. G. Taylor, R. Soutar,
Miss E. Farren. Published by Phillips, Regent Circus, London.
_Robert Macaire_; or, the Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out, by Henry
J. Byron. Globe, April 16, 1870. J. Clarke, and Fanny Josephs.
_Robert Macaire Renovated_, by Lloyd Clarance. Barnsley Theatre,
March 3, 1884.
_Robert Make-Airs_; or, the Two Fugitives. Ethiopian burlesque, by
E. Warden. New York, 1856.
_Robin Hood_, burl. spectacle, by Messrs. Stocqueler, Shirley
Brooks, and Charles Kenny. Lyceum, May 4, 1846.
_Robin Hood._ Panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Drury Lane,
December, 1858.
_Robin Hood_; or, the Forester’s Fate, by F. C. Burnand. Olympic,
December 26, 1862.
_Robin Hood, Burlesque_, by William Brough. For amateurs. London: S.
O. Beeton, 1865.
_Robin Hood_, and the Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest, by George
Thorne and F. Grove Palmer, Margate, 1889.
_Robin Hood Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.
_Robinson Crusoe_; or, Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribbee
Islands, by Henry J. Byron. Princess’s December 26, 1860.
_Robinson Crusoe_, burl., by H. J. Byron, Gilbert, Hood, Leigh,
Sketchley, & Prowse. Haymarket, July 6, 1867.
_Robinson Crusoe_; burl., by H. B. Farnie. Prince’s, Manchester,
October 7, 1876, Folly (London,) Nov. 11, 1876.
_Robinson Crusoe Revived_, by E. C. Bertrand. Dumfries Theatre,
February 5, 1877.
_Robinson Crusoe_; or, the Pirate Will, Pretty Poll, and Captain
Bill. Todmorden Theatre, October 29, 1883.
_Robinson Crusoe_, burl.-pantomime, by R. Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Avenue, December 23, 1886. Arthur Roberts, Miss P. Broughton.
_Rob Roy_, burlesque, by Sydney French. Marylebone T., June 29,
1867.
_Robbing Roy_; or, Scotched and Kilt, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety,
November 11, 1879. Edward Terry, E. W. Royce, T. Squire, Misses
E. Farren, Kate Vaughan, and C. Gilchrist.
_Rob Roy_, his Great Wife and Small Family. By C. H. Hazlewood.
_Romeo and Juliet_, “as the Law Directs,” by Maurice G. Dowling.
Strand, May 1, 1837.
_Romeo and Juliet Travestie_; or, The Cup of Cold Pison, by Andrew
Halliday. Strand, November 3, 1859. H. J. Turner, Rogers, Clarke,
Misses Marie Wilton, C. Saunders.
_Romeo and Juliet_; or, the Shaming of the True, an atrocious
outrage, by E. Nolan. Perpetrated at Oxford, by the St. John’s
College Amateurs, during Commemoration, 1868. T. Shrimpton,
Oxford.
_Romeo the Radical, and Juliet the Jingo_; or, Obstruction and
Effect, by C. P. Emery. Alexandra Theatre, Walsall, August 14, 1882.
_Romulus and Remus_; or, Rome was not Built in a Day, a most
absurdly ridiculous burlesque in one Act, being an attempt at
something founded on Roman history, by T. F. Dillon Croker.
Privately printed, 1859.
_Romulus and Remus_; or, the Two Rum-’uns, by R. Reece, Vaudeville,
Dec. 23, 1872. James, Thorne, Nelly Power.
_The Roof Scrambler_, burlesque opera, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Victoria, June 15, 1835.
_The Rosebud of Stingingnettle Farm_; or, the Villainous Squire and
the Virtuous Villager. A burl.-drama by H. J. Byron. R.D.C.
Crystal Palace, 1862.
_Round the World in W’Eighty Days_, by Captain Fitz-George, Brighton
Theatre, March 13, 1877.
_The Rovers_; or, the Double Arrangement, by George Canning, George
Ellis, and John Hookham Frere. This originally appeared in “The
Anti-Jacobin,” about 1798. It is a caricature of the sentimental
German drama then fashionable.
_The Rows of Castille_, by Conway Edwardes. Brighton Theatre, March
4, 1872.
_The Royal Riddle_, burlesque, by Horace Mills. Woolwich Theatre
(Amateurs), February 16, 1887.
_Ruddy George_; or, Robin Red Breast, a musical parody, by H. G. F.
Taylor, and Percy Reeve. Toole’s T., March 19, 1887.
_Rumfastian Innamorato_, burlesque interlude. Oxberry, Harley,
Knight.
_Rumplestiltskin_; or, the Woman at the Wheel, by F. C. Burnand.
_Rumpelstiltskin!_ An extrav. for amateurs by M. W. Hallett
_Ruy Blas Righted_, by Robert Reece. Vaudeville. Jan. 3, 1874. D.
James, T. Thorne, and Kate Bishop.
_Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué_, by A. C. Torr & H. Clark. First
performed in Birmingham, Sept. 2, 1889. Gaiety, London, Sept. 21,
1889. Fred Leslie, C. Danby, F. Storey, Miss E. Farren. In this
burlesque Mr. Leslie’s caricature of Mr. Henry Irving’s
appearance and mannerisms was so pronounced that the Lord
Chamberlain insisted on the part being considerably modified.
_St. George and the Dragon_, by Gilbert A. à Beckett and Mark Lemon.
Adelphi, March 24, 1845.
_St. George and the Dragon_, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Written
for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first performed Feb. 21, 1856,
when the author played the “Dragon.”
_St. George and the Dragon_, panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard.
Alexandra Palace, Dec. 1877.
_St. George and the Dragon_, burl. Torquay T. Aug. 6, 1883.
_Salammbo, the Lovely Queen of Carthage._ Holborn, May 6, 1871.
_Salthello Ovini._ Illegitimate tragedy. Haymarket, July 26, 1875.
_Sappho_; or, Look before you Leap! by F. C. Burnand. For amateurs.
London, S. O. Beeton, 1865.
_Sardanapalus_; or, the “fast” King of Assyria, by Gilbert A. à
Beckett and Mark Lemon. Adelphi, July 20, 1853.
_Sardanapalus_; or, the Light of Other Days, by H. Such Granville.
St. George’s Hall, December 23, 1868.
_Sardanapalus_, burl., by H. Such Granville. Limerick Theatre, May
15, 1868.
_The Scalded Back_; or, Comin’ Scars, travestie of Hugh Conway and
Comyns Carr’s “Called Back,” by W. Yardley. Novelty Theatre, July
12, 1884.
_Scenes from the Rejected Comedies_, by some of the competitors for
the Prize of £500 offered by Mr. B. Webster, Lessee of the
Haymarket Theatre, for the best original Comedy, illustrative of
English Manners. These amusing scenes were written by Gilbert A.
à Beckett, and parody passages of the plays of J. Sheridan
Knowles, Douglas Jerrold, Serjeant Talfourd, J. R. Planché, E.
Fitzball, Leigh Hunt, Mark Lemon, Sir E. B. Lytton, and of G. A.
à Beckett himself. London, Punch office, 1844.
_Seraphina the Fair_, by Charles W. Laidlaw. Public Hall, Southend,
December 26, 1874.
_The Seven Champions of Christendom_; or, Good Little St. George and
the Naughty Snap dragon, by W. R. Osman. Alexandra T., August 22,
1870.
_Shin Fain_; or, Ourselves Alone, by Tom Telephone. Dublin. J. Duffy
and Sons, 1882.
_The Siege of Seringapatam_; or, the Maiden of Mesopotamia, by F. C.
Burnand. For the Fête in aid of the Funds of the Hospital for
Incurables, 1863.
_The Siege of Troy_, burl., by Robert B. Brough. Lyceum, Dec. 27,
1858. J Rogers, Mrs. Keeley, Miss J. St. George.
_Shylock_; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved, by F. Talfourd.
Olympic, July 4, 1853. F. Robson.
_Silver Guilt_, burl., by W. Warham. Strand, June 9, 1883.
_Sinbad_; or, the Dry-land Sailor, by James Horner. Coventry
Theatre, July 7, 1884.
_Sinbad the Sailor_; or, the “Tar” that was “Pitched” into, by Frank
W. Green. Princess’s, Edinburgh, March 31, 1878.
_Sindbad the Sailor_, by E. L. Blanchard. Crystal Palace, Dec.,
1876.
_Sir George and a Dragon_; or, We are Seven, burlesque, by F. C.
Burnand. Strand, March 31, 1870.
_Sir Marigold the Dottie_; or, the Moonlight Knight, by C. F.
Fuller, H.M.S. “Rainbow,” April 16, 1885.
_Sir Rupert the Fearless_, burl. extrav., by A. J. Seymour. Strand,
April 24, 1848.
_The Sleeping Beauty_; Her Seven Fairy Godmothers, and a Wicked
Fairy, by Charles Daly and B. Chatterton. Aldershot T., August 3,
1885.
_Snow Bound_, a dramatic entertainment, by George M. Baker. Contains
an original burlesque on “Alonzo the Brave, and the Fair Imogene.”
Boston, U.S.
_Snowdrop_, burlesque extravaganza, by F. C. Burnand. Royalty,
November 21, 1864.
_The Son of the Sun_; or, the Fate of Phæton. A classical burl., by
Gilbert A. à Beckett. Fitzroy T. Feb. 13, 1834.
_La Sonnambula Burlesque_, by C. H. Hazlewood.
_The Somnambulist_, a negro burlesque sketch, by H. Dacre.
_La! Sonnambula!_ or, the Supper, the Sleeper, and the Merry Swiss
Boy, by Henry J. Byron. Prince of Wales’s, April 15, 1865, the
opening night of Miss Marie Wilton’s management. F. Dewar, Harry
Cox, J. Clarke, Misses Marie Wilton, and Fanny Josephs.
_Il Sonnambulo and Lively Little Alessio_, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, April 6, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, W. Elton, Miss E.
Farren.
_The Spanish Dancers_; or, Fans and Fandangoes, a Terpsichorean
burl., by Charles Selby. St. James’s Oct. 18, 1854. J. L. Toole,
Clarke, Misses Lydia Thompson, and E. Bufton.
_The Spectre of Shooter’s Hill_; or, the Broken Hot-cross Bun, by W.
Sallenger. Woolwich Theatre, Oct. 20, 1888.
_The Sphinx_, by the Brothers Brough. Haymarket, April 9, 1849. Mr.
and Mrs. Keeley, J. Bland, and Miss P. Horton.
_The Sphinx_; a Touch from the Ancients (a new version of the
Brothers Brough’s burlesque), by Walter Boult, Prince of Wales’s,
Liverpool, January 6, 1872.
_The Squires Maria_; or, Too, too Far from the Madding Crowd, by
Harry Adams. Hanley T., July 17, 1882.
_Stage-Dora_; or, Who Killed Cock Robin? travestie of Sardou’s
_Fédora_, by F. C. Burnand. Toole’s, May 26, 1883. J. L. Toole, E.
D. Ward, W. Cheesman, Miss Marie Linden.
_Stars and Garters_, burlesque, by Robert Reece and H. B. Farnie.
Folly, September 21, 1878.
_The Statue Bride_; an Echo of the Greek Drama, by Vincent Amcotts
and W. R. Anson, Oxford.
_Stranger_, burlesque, by W. D. Ward (for Amateurs), 1859.
_Stranger_, stranger than ever; by R. Reece. Queen’s, November 4,
1868.
_The Stranger Travestie._ See “Rejected Addresses,” by James and
Horace Smith.
_Success_; or, a Hit if you Like it, a Grand mock-heroical burletta,
by J. R. Planché. Adelphi, Dec. 12, 1825. T. P. Cooke, Yates,
Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
_Such a Guy Mannering_, by Mr. Strachan, Jun. Newcastle-on-Tyne
Theatre, April 27, 1868.
_The Tailors_ (or “Quadrupeds”), a Tragedy for Warm Weather, by
Samuel Foote. Haymarket, 1767. This burlesque was revived at the
Haymarket in 1805, on which occasion a number of London tailors
created a disturbance in and around the theatre.
_A Tale of Tell_; or, the Pole, the Patriot, and the Pippin, by
Lloyd Clarance. Darwen T., February 26, 1883.
_The Talisman_, burl., by J. F. M’Ardle. Liverpool T., Aug. 10,
1874, and Philharmonic, London, Mar. 29, 1875.
_Taming a Tartar_, burlesque, by Charles Selby. Adelphi, October 20,
1845.
_Tam O’Shanter_, burlesque, by W. Lowe, Opera House, Dundee,
February 10, 1873.
_Tantalus_; or, Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip, by Arthur Matthison
and Charles Wyndham. Folly, Oct. 14, 1878.
_Telemachus_; or, the Island of Calypso, by J. R. Planché. Olympic,
December 26, 1834. J. Bland, Wyman, Madame Vestris.
_Telemachus_; or, the Island of Calypso, by Stirling Coyne. Adelphi,
October 15, 1844.
_The Tempest_, the very last edition of, by A. H. O.
_The O’Dora_, a parody of Sardou’s _Théodora_, by F. C. Burnand.
Toole’s July 13, 1885. J. L. Toole and Miss Mary Linden, whose
imitation of Sara Bernhardt was particularly clever and comical.
_Theseus and Ariadne_; or, the Marriage of Bacchus. A classical
extrav., by J. R. Planché. Lyceum, April 24, 1848. C. Mathews,
Miss Fitzwilliam, Mdme. Vestris.
_Thespis_, burlesque, by W. S. Gilbert. Gaiety, J. L. Toole, Miss E.
Farren.
_The Three Calenders_, burl., by Charles Penruddocke.
_Three Graces_, by G. A. à Beckett. Princess’s April 17, 1843.
_The Three Musket Dears, and a Little One In_, by Joseph and Harry
Paulton. Strand, October 5, 1871.
_Timour_, the Cream of all the Tartars. Princess’s, March 24, 1845.
_Timour the Tartar_; or the Iron Master of Samarkand-by-Oxus, by
John Oxenford and Shirley Brooks. Olympic, December 26, 1860. F.
Robson, Horace Wigan.
_Timour the Tartar_; or, the Swell Belle of the Period, by Edward
Chamberlaine. Alexandra, Dec. 27, 1869.
_Tom Thumb_, by Kane O’Hara. Founded on Henry Fielding’s _Tragedy of
Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great_, first
performed at the Haymarket in 1730. O’Hara’s adaptation was
produced at the Covent Garden Theatre in 1780.
_Too Late for the Train_, a dramatic entertainment, containing burl.
scenes. G. M. Baker & Co., Boston, U.S.
_Too Lovely Black-eyed Susan_, perversion of Douglas Jerrold’s
drama, by Horace Lennard. Crystal Palace, April 2, 1888, and
Strand Theatre, April 11, 1888. Dan Leno and Miss Fannie Leslie.
_Tootsie’s Lovers_, by W. T. Le Queux. Brentford Theatre, April 19,
1886.
_Touch and Go_, burlesque, by Walter Andrews. Prince of Wales’s
Theatre, Liverpool, March 8, 1886.
_The Tragedy of Tragedies_; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the
Great, by Henry Fielding. First acted in 1730. This contains
parodies of numerous passages in the Tragedies of Dryden, N.
Rowe, Thompson, and other writers whose works were then popular.
_Trovatore_; or, Larks with a Libretto, by Henry J. Byron. Olympic,
April 26, 1880. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, Misses E. Farren, C.
Gilchrist, and Kate Vaughan.
_Troy Again_, by E. A. Bowles (Amateurs). St. George’s Hall, March
13, 1888.
_Tumble-down Dick_; or, Phæton in the Suds, a Dramatic Entertainment
of Walking, in Serious and Foolish Characters. Interlarded with
Burlesque, Grotesque, Comic Interludes, as it is performed at the
New Theatre in the Hay-Market. By Henry Fielding. 1737.
_Turkish Waters_, a Tail of Coarse Hair; or, Medora’s Private Tear,
by Rowley Hill. Written for the A.D.C., Cambridge, and first
performed November 18, 1857.
_“Two” Much Alike_, burlesque comedietta, by G. Grossmith, Jun., and
A. R. Rogers. Gallery of Illustration, February 12, 1870.
_Two Gallows_; or, Slaves Escaped from Brixton, a Parody. Olympic,
1823.
_Ulf the Minstrel_; or, the Player, the Princess, and the Prophecy,
burlesque-extravaganza, by R. Reece. Royalty, May 31, 1866.
_Ulysses_; or, the Iron Clad Warrior, and the Little Tug of War, by
F. C. Burnand. St. James’s, April 17, 1865.
_Under Proof_; or, Very Much Above Pa, by Edward Rose, Princess’s,
Edinburgh, May 1, 1879.
_Undine Undone._ Halifax Theatre, April 21, 1873.
_Undine_, burl. Great Yarmouth Theatre, August 13, 1883.
_The Ups and Downs of Deal, and Black-eyed Susan._ Marylebone, June
10, 1867.
_Valentine and Orson_, burl.-drama, by R. Reece. Gaiety, December
23, 1882.
_Valentine and Orson_, burlesque, by Joseph Ellis. Brentford
Theatre, November 1, 1888.
_The Vampire_, burl., by Robert Reece. Strand, Aug. 15, 1872.
_Vanderdecken_; or, The Flying Anglo-Dutchman’s Phantom Penny
Steamer, by Whyte Edgar. Novelty, Dec. 9, 1885.
_The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan_; or, the Maniac, the Mistery, and
the Malediction, by H. L. Walford. Gallery of Illustration,
November 24, 1870.
_Venus_; or, Gods as they Were, and not as they ought to Have Been,
by Edward Rose and Augustus Harris. Royalty, June 27, 1879.
_Venus and Adonis_, burl., by F. C. Burnand. Haymarket, March 28,
1864. Misses Nelly Moore and Louise Keeley.
_The Very Last Days of Pompeii!_ By R. Reece. Vaudeville, February
13, 1872. David James, Thomas Thorne, Miss Nelly Power.
_The Very Last Edition of the Tempest_; or, the Wily Wizard, the
Winsome Wench, and the Wicked Willain, by A. H. O.
_The Very Latest Edition of the Gathering of the Clans_, by G. W.
Hunt. East London T., October 18, 1873.
_The Very Latest Edition of the Lady of Lyons_, by H. J. Byron.
Strand, July 11, 1859. J. Rogers, J. Clarke, H. J. Turner, Misses
C. Saunders, and M. Oliver.
_The Very Latest Edition of Robinson Crusoe_, by H. B. Farnie.
Folly. Lionel Brough, Willie Edouin, Misses Lydia Thompson, and
Violet Cameron.
_Very Little Faust and More Mephistopheles_, by F. C. Burnand.
Charing Cross, August 18, 1869. Published by Phillips, Regent
Circus, London.
_Very Little Hamlet_, by W. Yardley. Gaiety, Nov. 29, 1884.
_Vesta_, burl., by H. B. Farnie. St. James’s, Feb. 9, 1871.
_The Vicar of Wide-awake-field_; or, the Miss-Tery-ous Uncle,
burlesque of “Olivia,” by H. P. Stephens and W. Yardley. Gaiety,
August 8, 1885. In this Mr. Arthur Roberts and Miss L. Linden
were very successful in their burlesques of Henry Irving & Miss
Ellen Terry.
_La Vie_, burl.-opera, by H. B. Farnie. First produced at Brighton
T., September 17, 1883, Avenue T., London, Oct. 3, 1883. Founded
on “La Vie Parisienne.”
_Villekyns and His Dinah_, by Frederick Eyles. Swiss Gardens,
Shoreham, July 7, 1873.
_Villikins and His Dinah_, burl., by F. C. Burnand. The Amateur
Dramatic Club, Cambridge, Nov. 8, 1855.
_Virginius the Rum’un_, by W. Rogers. Sadler’s Wells, May, 1837.
_Virginius_; or, the Trial of a fond Papa, by Leicester Buckingham.
St. James’s, October 1, 1859.
_La Vivandière_, by W. S. Gilbert. Queen’s, Jan. 18, 1868.
_Vortigern_; an Historical Play. Represented at the T. R., Drury
Lane, April 2, 1796, as a supposed newly-discovered Drama by
Shakespeare. Mr. John Kemble and Mrs. Jordan. This play was a
forgery written by W. H. Ireland, and was afterwards published by
him, with a Preface, in which he acknowledged the imposition he
had practised, and gloried in having been able to deceive some of
the first scholars and ablest critics of the day.
_Wattie and Meg_, burl., by W. Lowe. Dundee Theatre, January 20,
1873.
_Wat Tyler, M.P._, burlesque, by G. A. Sala. Gaiety, December 20,
1869.
_The Weeping Willow_, burl., by Peter Davey, Herbert Linford, and H.
S. Ram. Town Hall, Staines. May 5, 1886.
_What’s it on_; or, Shakespeare-ience Teaches, burl., by W.
Routledge. Gallery of Illustration (Amateurs), Jan. 29, ’70
_The White Cat_, burlesque, by F. C. Burnand. Globe, December 26,
1870.
_The White Fawn_, extrav., by F. C. Burnand. Holborn, April 13,
1868.
_Whittington Junior, and his Sensation Cat_, by Robert Reece.
Royalty, November 23, 1870.
_Whittington and His Cat._ Panto-opening by E. L. Blanchard. Drury
Lane, Dec., 1875.
_Whittington and his Cat_, burl.-drama, by F. C. Burnand. Gaiety,
October 15, 1881. T. Squire, E. W. Royce, J. Dallas, Misses E.
Farren and Kate Vaughan.
_The Wife_, a Tale of a Mantua Maker, burl.-drama by Joseph Graves.
Strand, June 19, 1837.
_William Tell_, burl.-panto. Drury Lane, July 12, 1856.
_William Tell_, a Telling Version of an old Tell Tale, by Leicester
Buckingham. Strand, April 13, 1857.
_William Tell with a Vengeance_, by Henry J. Byron. Alexandra T.,
Liverpool, September 4, 1867, and Strand Theatre, London, October
5, 1867.
_William Tell_, by Arthur J. O’Neil. Sadler’s Wells, October 19,
1867.
_William Tell, Told over again_, by Robert Reece. Gaiety, December
21, 1876.
_Willikind and his Dinah_, by J. Stirling Coyne. Haymarket, March
16, 1854.
_Windsor Castle_, burlesque-opera, by F. C. Burnand. Strand, June 5,
1865. David James, T. Thorne, J. Stoyle, H. J. Turner, Miss Ada
Swanborough.
_Windsor Castle_, burlesque, by T. C. Grace. Newcastle Theatre, June
22, 1868.
_Winter’s Tale_, burlesque, by William Brough. Lyceum, September 15,
1856. J. L. Toole, William Brough, Mrs. A. Mellon, and Marie
Wilton.
_Wonderful Lamp in a new light_, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Princess’s, July 4, 1844.
_Wood Demon_; or, One o’clock, by Charles Kenney and Albert Smith.
Lyceum, May 6, 1847.
_The World Underground_; or, the Golden Fleece and the Brazen
Waters, burlesque, by Gilbert A. à Beckett. Haymarket, December,
1848.
_Yellow Dwarf_, burlesque-burletta, by Gilbert A. à Beckett.
Princess’s, December 26, 1842. Madame Sala.
_The Yellow Dwarf_, and the King of the Gold Mine, by J. R. Planché.
Olympic, December 26, 1854. F. Robson, Miss Julia St. George.
_The Yellow Dwarf_; or, the Good Sovereign and the Bad Yellow Boy,
by Frank Hall. Philharmonic. March 29, 1880.
_Yellow Dwarf_, burlesque-extrav., by Robert Reece and Alfred
Thompson. Her Majesty’s, December 30, 1882.
_Young Dick Whittington_, by J. Wilton Jones. Leicester Theatre,
April 18, 1881.
_Young Fra Diavolo_; the Terror of Terracina, by Henry J. Byron.
Gaiety, November 18, 1878. E. Terry, E. W. Royce, R. Soutar, T.
Squire, Misses E. Farren, Kate Vaughan and C. Gilchrist.
_Young Rip Van Winkle_, by R. Reece. Folly, April 17, 1876.
_Zampa_; or, The Buckaneer and the Little Dear, by T. F. Plowman.
Court, October 2, 1872.
_Zampa_; or, the Cruel Corsair, and the Marble Maid, by J. F.
McArdle. Liverpool T., October 9, 1876.
――――:o:――――
In his Introduction to _Burlesque Plays and Poems_ (G. Routledge &
Sons, 1885), Mr. Henry Morley observes:――
“The word Burlesque came to us through the French from the
Italian ‘burlesco’; ‘burla’ being mockery or raillery, and
implying always an object. Burlesque must, _burlarsi di
uno_, mock at somebody or something, and when intended to
give pleasure it is nothing if not good-natured. One
etymologist associates the word with the old English
‘bourd,’ a jest; the Gaelic ‘burd,’ he says, means
mockery, and ‘buirleadh,’ is language of ridicule. Yes,
and ‘burrail’ is the loud romping of children, and
‘burrall’ is weeping and wailing in a deep-toned howl.
Another etymologist takes the Italian ‘burla,’ waggery or
banter, as diminutive from the Latin ‘burra,’ which means
a rough hair, but is used by Ausonius in the sense of a
jest. That etymology no doubt fits burlesque to a hair,
but, like Launce’s sweetheart, it may have more hair than
wit.”
There are few more amusing pieces of light English literature than
some of our early theatrical burlesques, such as Beaumont and
Fletcher’s “Knight of the Burning Pestle,” the Duke of Buckingham’s
“Rehearsal,” Henry Fielding’s “Tom Thumb,” Sheridan’s “The Critic,”
and Poole’s “Hamlet,” with its absurd notes in imitation of several
learned Shakespearian commentators.
During the last thirty or forty years this particular form of Dramatic
Entertainment has been specially cultivated, and at the Strand,
Royalty, and Gaiety Theatres, in London, the “Sacred Lamp of
Burlesque” has been kept alight by the productions of such prolific
and humorous writers as Gilbert A. à Beckett, Francis Talfourd,
Leicester Buckingham, Albert Smith, William Brough, Robert Reece,
Stirling Coyne, H. B. Farnie, Henry J. Byron, and F. C. Burnand. Much
has been written for and against dramatic burlesque, and it may be
said, without fear of contradiction, that recently far less attention
has been devoted to the literary merits of the productions than to the
scenery and dresses. The humour of the actors being considered as of
less importance than a dazzling mise-en-scene with a host of pretty
half-dressed ballet girls.
The following articles are of interest in connection with modern
dramatic burlesque.
_Is Burlesque Art?_ A paper by Blanche Reives, read before the Church
and Stage Guild, October 7, 1880. The authoress quotes thus from a
letter written by Mr. W. S. Gilbert:――“Burlesque in its higher
development calls for high intellectual power on the part of its
professors. Aristophanes, Rabelais, George Cruikshank, the authors of
the _Rejected Addresses_, John Leech, and J. R. Planché were all in
their respective lines professors of true burlesque. The form of
burlesque with which modern theatre goers are familiar, scarcely calls
for criticism, it is infantile in its folly.”
_The “A. D. C.”_, by F. C. Burnand, B.A., being Personal Reminiscences
of the University Amateur Dramatic Club, Cambridge. London, Chapman &
Hall, 1880.
_Old Comedy on a New Stage_, by R. C. Jebb. The Fortnightly Review.
January 1884.
_Burlesques, Old and New_, a short paper by Leopold Wagner. _Time_,
November, 1886.
_The Spirit of Burlesque_, in “The Universal Review” for October,
1888, by F. C. Burnand, himself probably the most prolific of all
modern English authors of Parody and Burlesque.
_Reminiscences of the New Royalty_, by F. C. Burnand, containing an
illustrated history of his immensely successful burlesque, “Black Eyed
Susan.” _See_ “The Universal Review,” December, 1888.
A VERY PRIVATE VIEW OF THE GROSVENOR.
(_By Ollendorff Junior._)
Have you seen the Pictures? I have not seen the Pictures. I have not
seen the Pictures, but I have seen the People. I shall lunch. Shall
you lunch? I will lunch with you (at your expense). Thank you!
(_merci!_) Has the Æsthete cut his hair? The Hairdresser has cut the
Æsthete’s hair (_i.e._, the hair of the Æsthete). I like (_j’aime_)
the Picture by (_par_) Keeley Halswelle, but I will not purchase
(_acheter_) the Nocturne by Whistler (_siffleur_). Whistler be
blowed! (_sifflé_). Keeley Halswelle’s Picture is called
(_s’appelle_) “_Royal Windsor_.” Is it true (_est-ce vrai que_) the
Soap-man (_l’homme aux savons_), Pears, has purchased “_Royal
Windsor_” for an advertisement (_affiche_)? Val Prinsep has painted
something like an Artist, but (_mais_) Mr. Holl has painted somebody
who is something like an Artist. What is his name? His name is (_il
s’appelle_) John Tenniel. It is very hot. It is crowded. When it is
crowded it is hot. How many people are there here? I do not know: I
will count them. I should like some lunch. You can lunch at the
Restaurant below. Will you lunch there also (_aussi_)? With
pleasure, if you will pay for both of us (_tous les deux_). I have a
hat, a stick, an umbrella, a catalogue, a ticket of admission, and
an appetite, but I have no money. I am afraid (_je crains_) that no
one will give me luncheon. I will (_je vais_) go down (_descendre_)
into the Restaurant.
Waiter! (_garçon_) have you some bread, some cutlets, some beef,
some preserved strawberry jam-tart (_confiture aux fraises_), and
some good wine (_du bon vin_)? Yes sir; here they are (_voilà_). Ah!
my dear friend (_mon cher ami_), sit opposite (_vis-à-vis_) me. Call
the Waiter, and tell him we lunch together (_ensemble_).
The wine is good, the bread is excellent, the beef is appetising.
Excuse me one moment (_un moment_) I see Madame X―――― going up
(_monter_) to the Gallery. I must (_il faut_) speak to her. She has
asked me to show (_indiquer_) her Mrs. Jopling’s pictures and Miss
Montalba’s (_ceux de_ Mlle. Montalba). You are coming back (_de
retour_), are you not (_n’est-ce pas_)? Yes; I shall come back.
Waiter! the Gentleman who was with me will come back and pay for his
own share. No, Sir (_Non, Monsieur_) you must pay for the two. It is
too bad; I will speak to (_m’addresser_) Mr. Comyns Carr, or to Sir
Coutts. All that is nothing to me (_tout ça ne me regarde pas_); you
have (_il faut absolument_) to pay for two soups, two fish, two
beefs, two vegetables (_legumes_), one bottle of the best (_le
meilleur_) wine, two breads, two butters.
There is the money. I am angry. I will not give anything (_ne-rien_)
to the waiter. The pictures are in the Gallery above, but his friend
is no longer to be seen (_visible_). Where is that gentleman (_ce
monsieur_)? He is gone (_il est parti_). Did he say when he would
return? No; he did not say when he would return. He has taken my
overcoat (_par-dessus_), my catalogue, and my new umbrella
(_parapluie_). I will hasten (_me presser_) to seek (_chercher_)
him. Another day I will look at the pictures.
_Punch_, May 5, 1883.
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A CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
to some of the principal
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS
treating of Parody and Burlesque.
――――
_Curiosities of Literature_, by Isaac D’Israeli, has chapters on
“Parodies,” “Literary Forgeries,” and on “Literary Impostures.”
_The Edinburgh Review_, November 1812, contains the famous article
by Lord Jeffrey on “Rejected Addresses.”
_The Three Trials of William Hone_ for publishing Three Parodies,
namely, “The late John Wilkes’s Catechism,” “The Political
Litany,” and the “Sinecurist’s Creed,” at Guildhall, London,
December 18, 19, and 20, 1817. William Hone himself printed and
published in 1818, the Reports of these Trials, which contain a
great quantity of general information about Parodies.
_Rejected Addresses._ After this amusing collection of Parodies had
run through seventeen editions Mr. John Murray purchased the
copyright, and in 1833 he brought out the eighteenth edition.
This has an interesting preface, and valuable notes.
_The Westminster Review_, July, 1854. An anonymous article on
“Parody.” London: John Chapman.
_Curiosités Littéraires_, par Ludovic Lalanne. Paris: A. Delahays,
1857. Contains articles on imitation and burlesque.
_Memoir of William Edmonstoune Aytoun._ By (Sir) Theodore Martin.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1867. This contains
information as to Aytoun’s share in the _Bon Gaultier Ballads_,
his mock tragedy _Firmilian_, and other humorous writings, prose
and verse.
_The Standard_, November 26, 1868; January 30, 1871.
_La Parodie chez les Grecs, chez les Romains, et chez les Modernes_,
par Octave Delepierre. Londres: N. Trübner et Cie., 1870.
The chapter on English Parodies (p. 146 to p. 169) was compiled
by M. Delepierre from information and Parodies supplied to him by
Walter Hamilton.
_The Athenæum_, July 1, 1871. A Review of M. Delepierre’s “La
Parodie.” London.
_Pro and Con._ Edited by Walter Hamilton. February 15, 1873. An
article on Parodies, Paraphrases and Imitations. London: E. and
F. Spon.
_The Galaxy_, May 1874. Contains “The Parody of the Period,” by J.
Brander Matthews (p. 694). New York, U.S.A. Sheldon & Company.
_Tinsley’s Magazine_ (London), September 1876. An article on
“Parody,” by S. Waddington.
_Fun, Ancient and Modern._ By Dr. Maurice Davies. Two volumes.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1878.
_History of English Humour._ By the Rev. A. G. L’Estrange. Two
volumes. Has a chapter on Burlesque and Parody. London: Hurst &
Blackett, 1878.
_The Globe_ (London), November 17, 1880. An article on “Parodies.”
_The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe._
Collected by J. Parton, Boston, U.S. Houghton & Co., 1881. This
contains a good collection of Parodies and Burlesques, most of
which have been reprinted in this work.
_The Gentleman’s Magazine_, London. September, 1881. “The Poetry of
Parody,” by W. Davenport Adams.
_Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities._ Edited by William T.
Dobson. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Contains a chapter on Parody.
_The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters_,
with Memoirs. By William Bates, B.A. London: Chatto & Windus,
1883.
A storehouse of information as to the history and origin of some
of the best parodies in the language.
_Vers de Société and Parody._ By H. A. Page. London: T. Fisher
Unwin, 1883.
_The Gentleman’s Magazine_, February, 1884. “Charles Cotton,” by
Rev. M. G. Watkins, contains an account of Cotton’s Burlesques.
London: Chatto & Windus.
_Chambers’s Journal_, February 2, 1884. “The Muse of Parody.”
Anonymous. London: W. & R. Chambers.
_Burlesque Plays and Poems_, with an Introduction, by Henry Morley.
London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1885.
_The Literary Remains of Charles Stuart Calverley_, with a Memoir.
By Walter J. Sendall. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. This is
interesting as throwing light on the composition of Calverley’s
exquisite imitations.
_The Saturday Review_ (London), February 14, 1885. An article “The
Art of Parody” (anonymous), which was reprinted on p. 103, Vol.
II. of this collection.
_The Daily News_ (London), October 10, 1885. A leader on Charles
Stuart Calverley’s Poems and Parodies.
_Longman’s Magazine_ (London), October, 1886. An article, “The
Ethics of Plagiarism,” by Brander Matthews.
_Temple Bar_ (London), January, 1887. An article on Charles Stuart
Calverley, and his Parodies.
_The Whitehall Review_ (London), March 10, 1887. “Concerning
Parodies.”
_Family Herald_, July 28, 1888. “Parodies.” Anonymous. London:
William Stevens.
_The Daily News_ (London), December 3, 1888. A leader on “Parody.”
_Temple Bar_ (London), March, 1889. An anonymous paper on James
Smith, and the _Rejected Addresses_, the greater part of which is
borrowed from the Preface to the 18th edition (1833), of the R.
A.
_In Cap and Gown_, Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit. Edited by
Charles Whibley. London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.
This contains some of the best parodies which have been published
in Cambridge, with notes descriptive of the principal
publications of the University.
_The Daily News_ (London), June 21, 1889. A leader on Hamilton’s
“Collection of Poems and Parodies in Praise of Tobacco.”
_The Daily News_ (London), October 16, 1889. A leader on Mr. Charles
Whibley’s “In Cap and Gown,” which see.
_Famous Literary Impostures_, a Series of Essays. By H. R.
Montgomery. London: E. W. Allen.
_Notes and Queries._ London. See particularly March 25, 1871; June
26, 1880; June 25, 1887; July 30, 1887.
_The Weekly Dispatch._ London. In November, 1879, this paper
commenced prize competitions which it has continued ever since.
Parodies of well-known authors are often selected for these
competitions, and many examples have been quoted in this
collection.
_The World._ London. In July, 1879, this journal opened its columns
to competitors for prizes, which were awarded for the best
parodies of certain poems selected by the Editor. Many of these
have also been quoted in _Parodies_.
END OF SIXTH, AND LAST, VOLUME.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Written at the Crystal Palace Aquarium.
[2] _J’entends._
[3] An adaptation of “Madonna mia.”
[4] See “The Gentleman’s Magazine,” Vol. 56, p. 427; also
Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Vol. 10, p. 189――edition in 10
vols., published by John Murray, London, 1835.
[5] The lines in italics are usually omitted, as being too
serious for the occasion. They allude to certain newspaper
critics who were supposed to be present, and who became
rather heated in their political expressions.
[6] A bawbling vessel was he captain of
For shallow draught and bulk imprisible.
SHAKESPEARE.
[7] In plain English, the Halfpenny-hatch, then a footway
through fields; but now, as the same bards sing elsewhere――
“St. George’s Fields are fields no more,
The trowel supersedes the plough;
Swamps, huge and inundate of yore,
Are changed to civic villas now.”
[8] Some extracts from this parody, with an illustration by
Cruikshank, will be found in Vol. IV. _Parodies_, p. 102.
[9] John Kemble.
[10] Madame Catalani.
[11] “Company” understood.
[12] Cochin China Cock.
[13] Halliwell considered this rhyme to be at least 300
years old. He adds a fifth verse:――
“Jenny was so mad,
She didn’t know what to do;
She put her finger in her ear,
And crackt it right in two.”
He also makes the last line of the fourth verse to read:――
And snapt off her nose,
which tragical _dénouement_ is certainly that which is
inculcated in all well-regulated nurseries.
[14] Slang for sixpence.
[15] Battenburg.
[16] Poem on Liberty, ver. 12.
[17] Ibid. ver. 16.
[18] Ibid. ver. 104.
[19] A poetical word for a Tobacco-box.
[20] Poem on Liberty, ver. 243, 245.
[21] Poem on Liberty, ver. 247.
[22] Ibid. ver. 309.
[23] Ibid. ver. 171.
[24] _Antis i.e._, Anti-smokers.
[25] An allusion to a phrase in _Ruddigore_.
[26] The term “drinking” tobacco was commonly used in the
early days of smoking.
[27] An herb with which the hart is said to cure its wounds.
[28] Or, Swad out with the antro gilespians.
[29] See Hesio. Pro Mea benevolente. Act. Mediæv. Pp. 992.
Quisque numjam satis, Vol. II., chap. 78, ¶XIV. Also, Hey
Didhul Didhul Thecat anthef Hidul. ¶XI Pp. 672. Ib.
[30] Not found in the MSS. of the 29th century. Hunc Dune
objected to by the English committee.
[31] This may also be rendered, “a long ways.”
[32] In the Vulgate, “like a California diamond.”
[33] _The Morning Star_, a London Liberal newspaper, founded
in 1856.
[34] To enable the reader to realise more vividly the
impressive solemnity of this ode, the number of welcomes has
been put in Arabic numerals.
[35] Sir Francis Burdett, Radical M.P. for Westminster, and
father of Lady Burdett Coutts.
[36] William Cobbett, M.P. for Oldham, an extraordinary man,
who started life as a private soldier, and by his own
unaided exertions acquired a position of considerable
importance.
[37] Query――Paced?――_Printers Devil_.
[38] Fellows of Colleges are not so destitute of _feeling_
as to forget their “OLD FRIEND.”
[39] Sir Richard Steele.
[40] Sir Richard Blackmore.
[41] Sir Richard Cox.
[42] Father of Mr. J. L. Toole, the popular comedian.
[43] Alfred Bunn, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, was a
fortune to the small wits of the day. He wrote the librettos
for some operas, which were neither better nor worse than
the average of such productions. _Punch_ bitterly attacked
him, but he retaliated in “A word with _Punch_” which
effectually silenced that individual.
Bunn brought out the wonderfully successful Operatic Singer,
Jenny Lind. He died in 1860.
[44] Jullien organised the popular Promenade Concerts, with
military bands, Army Quadrilles, &c.
[45] _The Rape of the Bucket_: An Heroi-comical Poem.
Translated from the Italian of Tassoni by Mr. Ozell.
[46] Ringing the penance-bell was an expression which
frequently occurred in Brown’s writings.
[47] Two celebrated coaches.
[48] The month in which the B.A. degree is taken and which
in many instances, is the “finis fatorum;” at least to a
great portion of the “bons vivans.”
[49] The celebrated Lord Chesterfield, whose Letters to his
Son, according to Dr. Johnson, inculcate “the manners of a
dancing master and the morals of a ――――,” &c.
[50] “Lord Mayor of the theatric sky.” This alludes to Leigh
Hunt, who, in _The Examiner_, at this time kept the actors
in hot water.
[51] All England Lawn-Tennis Club.
[52] President Hitquick Club.
[53] It would seem that the striking want of poetical
justice in the usually-received termination of this
otherwise excellent story, wherein none of the good people
were made happy, and the wicked were most inadequately
punished, had caused the author to tremble for his
popularity among the female portion of the community――who,
it is well known, will stand no liberties of that
description. He has therefore (apparently) re-written it on
more orthodox principles; or (not improbably) got somebody
else to re-write it for him; or (as is barely possible)
somebody else has re-written it for him without asking his
leave. We have no means of ascertaining the exact state of
the case. The reader is requested to form his own opinion,
and let us know at his earliest convenience.――EDS. O. M.
[54] Not being a ghost, _Corydon_ does not talk in the style
of 1670.
[55] The subject and title of these papers bear some
resemblance to Messrs. Griffith and Farran’s natty little
republication of the selections from “Lord Chesterfield’s
Letters to his Son,” entitled _Manners and Speech_, but a
careful comparison will establish the dissimilarity.
[56] The Syndicate.
[57] One who betrays his companions.
[58] Share of the plunder.
[59] Burglary.
[60] Inform.
[61] Companions.
[62] Gentlemanly.
[63] Police officers.
[64] Old Bailey pleaders.
[65] Prison.
[66] Gunpowder.
[67] An experienced hand at stealing.
[68] Double-barrelled gun.
[69] Drink freely.
[70] Brandy.
[71] Depart.
[72] Fire.
[73] Transported.
[74] A hearty choke; i.e., _hanging_.
[75] A Burglary.
[76] Houses.
[77] Steal.
[78] Handkerchief.
[79] Skilful.
[80] Pass false notes.
[81] Watch.
[82] Hanged.
[83] Parson.
[84] Magistrate or judge.
[85] Handsomest wig.
[86] Prison.
[87] Ladies of a certain description.
[88] Comrades or fast friends.
[89] Thieves speak of themselves as “family-men.”
[90] Warders.
[91] Night.
[92] Meat and drink.
[93] A greenhorn.
[94] Tricks of the trade.
[95] Talking slang.
[96] Imprisoned.
[97] Up to prison ways.
[98] Writing.
[99] Thieves should pray on their knees.
[100] Highway-robbers, swell-mobsmen, burglars, and forgers.
[101] Slang names for Pentonville Model Prison, and Millbank
Penitentiary.
[102] Whitechapel Swell.
[103] Actions.
[104] Flash.
[105] Half-penny.
[106] Hat.
[107] Eatables.
[108] Coat.
[109] Look.
[110] Trousers.
[111] The Throat.
[112] Flash.
[113] Vest.
[114] Pockets.
[115] Teetotaler.
[116] Sure place.
[117] Money.
[118] Pickpockets.
[119] Cross hands.
[120] A watch.
[121] Chain.
[122] Deceive.
[123] Gensd’armes.
[124] Salute.
[125] Shout.
[126] Public-house.
[127] Smoke a pipe.
[128] Paid a shilling.
[129] Gin.
[130] Humbug.
[131] Sherry.
[132] Mistress.
[133] Pork.
[134] Red herring.
[135] Lots of beer.
[136] The judges.
[137] Clothes.
[138] Neat.
[139] A fine young woman.
[140] Die.
[141] Drinks water or tea.
[142] Innkeeper.
[143] Tongue.
[144] Stole.
[145] Newgate.
[146] _Pike it_, to run off quickly.
[147] The Devil take.
[148] The beadle or constable.
[149] Beg Bread.
[150] Porridge.
[151] The day.
[152] Legs in the stocks.
[153] Break into a house.
[154] Get a whipping.
[155] Rob a beer shop.
[156] Cut a purse.
[157] Force a lock.
[158] Magistrate.
[159] Fetters.
[160] Hang on the gallows in the daylight.
[161] To go.
[162] Good, or well.
[163] Women.
[164] To look out.
[165] Goods.
[166] Lost.
[167] A good fellow.
[168] Money.
[169] A buxom wench.
[170] Suited me very well.
[171] To cover or conceal.
[172] Steal.
[173] To tell lies cleverly.
[174] A penny.
[175] The country.
[176] The house being alarmed.
[177] To hide in the woods.
[178] Thieves receiving house.
[179] Bacon.
[180] A beadle or Watchman.
[181] Do not brag of your booty.
[182] To rogues that are base.
[183] The girl on the look out.
[184] A counterfeit license.
[185] To beg.
[186] To break into each house.
[187] The man must run.
[188] Through hedge, ditch and field.
[189] Base fetters give the man his deserts.
[190] The jail.
[191] May the Devil take.
[192] Justice of the Peace.
[193] Drink, wench, and beershop, then good night.
[194] To hang on the gallows.
[195] By rogues betrayed.
[196] Long-home.
[197] London.
[198] Horse stealers.
[199] Carriage and Wagon pilferers, and Trunk lifters.
[200] Fancy man, sweetheart.
[201] Prisons.
[202] Handcuffs.
[203] A fool easily cheated by a woman.
[204] Refreshments.
[205] A ring, a watch, and a pair of pistols.
[206] Gin shops.
[207] Women and girls.
[208] Beggars with sham wooden legs, etc.
[209] To see you.
[210] Hats or caps.
[211] Beggars’ holiday.
[212] Constables.
[213] Justice of the Peace.
[214] Tramp.
[215] Head of a gang.
[216] Poultry thief.
[217] Horse stealer.
[218] Beggar.
[219] Avoid.
[220] One who sneaks into a house at dusk to admit his
companions later on.
[221] Takes us to goal.
[222] Half-pennies.
[223] Rob him of his money.
[224] To spend his shilling.
[225] To treat the other prisoners.
[226] Girl.
[227] Hanging place.
[228] Knife.
[229] The moon.
[230] Light.
[231] Highwayman.
[232] “Cherry-coloured――black; there being black cherries as
well as red.”――GROSE.
[233] Sword.
[234] Pistols.
[235] Highway-robbery.
[236] Pocket-book.
[237] Money.
[238] Bullets.
[239] The gallows.
[240] Ditto.
[241] Money.
[242] Man.
[243] Stripped.
[244] Fellow.
[245] A particular kind of pugilistic punishment.
[246] Kept an eye upon the other.
[247] Hands.
[248] Deceive them.
[249] Dyot Street, St. Giles’s, afterwards called George
Street, Bloomsbury, was a well-known Rookery, where thieves,
and other gentry, could obtain cheap accommodation.
[250] Beggars.
[251] A _footman_ to hackney coaches, to water the horses,
etc.
[252] To pick a pocket.
[253] To lay hold of notes or money.
[254] Steal handkerchiefs dexterously.
[255] Steal a watch.
[256] Pocket the chain and seals.
[257] Search for a pouch or pocket-book.
[258] Pocket-books are also called readers.
[259] An intended robbery.
[260] My hand is skilful.
[261] A disorderly vagabond.
[262] The lock-up.
[263] Gaoler.
[264] Running away.
[265] Frolicsome.
[266] An expert pickpocket.
[267] Night.
[268] Not to commit any offence punishable with death.
[269] The fine payable on capital conviction.
[270] Transported.
[271] Hanged.
[272] House-breaker.
[273] Highwayman.
[274] Pawned their clothes.
[275] The rope.
[276] Pocket handkerchief.
[277] Candles.
[278] Break your head.
[279] Neck.
[280] On the _tapis_ (carpet).
[281] Regular nonsense.
[282] Talking.
[283] Walking.
[284] Eating and drinking.
[285] A sovereign.
[286] Look out, be on your guard.
[287] The gallows.
[288] A Foot pad.
[289] A Burglar.
[290] A Window thief.
[291] Steal the valuables.
[292] A pickpocket.
[293] A silly fop.
[294] A sneaking thief.
[295] One whose duty it is to hustle a person, whilst
another robs him.
[296] A country man.
[297] One who hooks goods out of shop doors, and windows.
[298] A publichouse thief.
[299] A well-dressed sharper who performs the confidence
trick, etc.
[300] A good-natured fool.
[301] Money.
[302] A wench.
[303] An easy dupe.
[304] Something dropped in the street as a lure.
[305] One caught in the act of stealing is considered a poor
hand by his pals.
[306] A cow stealer.
[307] A child stealer.
[308] A poultry stealer.
[309] Members of the Canting Crew.
[310] and [311] Night and Day.
[312] See.
[313] My Girl.
[314] Return.
[315] Eyes.
[316] Strolling mock priest.
[317] Ducks and geese.
[318] Hang.
[319] Never “peach” or confess.
[320] Neck.
[321] Thieving business.
[322] A girl.
[323] Spoke flash.
[324] Drink and food.
[325] Beer.
[326] Thieving way.
[327] Bed.
[328] Nose.
[329] Pockets.
[330] Fingers.
[331] Sovereigns.
[332] Seals.
[333] The parson at Newgate.
[334] Saying prayers.
[335] Pickpockets.
[336] Morning work at thieving.
[337] A proof with many errors in it.
[338] When any words have erroneously been set up twice.
[339] This was an error, as the _Catechism_ had previously
appeared in a daily paper.
[340] Lord Chancellor Eldon.
[341] Lord Castlereagh.
[342] Lord Sidmouth.
[343] _Triangle, s._ a _thing_ having three _sides_; the
meanest and most tinkling of all musical _instruments_;
machinery used in military _torture_.――DICTIONARY.
[344] _All-twattle_; Twattle, _v. n._ to prate, gabble,
chatter, talk idly.――ENTICK’S DICTIONARY.
[345] Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate.
[346] Sir Robert Walpole.
[347] George III., then insane.
[348] Covent Carden.
[349] Sir Cecil Wray, the Ministerial Candidate, who
proposed to put a tax on female servants.
[350] This prophecy was afterwards strangely fulfilled, for
the _Sultan_ was run upon rocks and sunk. The Duke of
Edinburgh was not on board at the time, but he was in
command on the station, and under his directions ineffectual
efforts were made to save the vessel. These having failed, a
Court of Enquiry was held, of which it has not been deemed
prudent to publish any report. It would obviously be
exceedingly unprofessional to impute negligence or
incompetence to a Royal Duke who condescends to accept the
title and the pay of an Admiral.
The vessel was afterwards raised, and taken into port by a
firm of contractors.
INDEX.
_The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order;
the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by
the Parodies. The Authors of the Parodies are named in italics._
A Bibliography of the Parodies of Charles Dickens 224
A Bibliography of French Parodies 323
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312
Books and Periodicals dealing with Parody 345
Books of Reference on Slang, Cant, and “Argot” 282
Burlesques of Educational Works 328
English Burlesques of the Classics 325
Literary Forgeries and Impostures 322
Mock Heroic Poems 179
Plays founded on Charles Dickens’s Novels 226
Theatrical Burlesques and Travesties 331
Ballades; Rondeaus; Villanelles, etc.
_The Ballade_ (See Swinburne).
The Ballade in Bad Weather. _J. Ashby Sterry_ 64
A Ballade of Old Metres 64
A Young Poet’s Advice 64
Ballade of Old Law Books 65
Ballade of the Honest Lawyer 65
Ballade of Leading Cases 65
Ballade of the Timid Bard 65
Ballade of a Ballade Monger. _G. White_ 85
Ballade of Primitive Man. _Andrew Lang_ 85
Ballade of Primitive Woman. American 85
The Doom of the Muses. _H. D. Traill_ 86
Austin Dobson――Andrew Lang 86
Ballade of the Best Pipe 145
Ballade of Tobacco 145
_The Villanelle_ 65
J’ay perdu ma tourterelle 66
When I saw you last, Rose 66
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66
The Street Singer. _Austin Dobson_ 66
Culture in the Slums. _W. E. Henley_ 66
In Wain! _Punch_ 67
Jean Passerat, I like thee well 87
It’s all a trick. _W. W. Skeat_ 87
We are Cook’s Tourists. _H. C. Bunner_ 87
Dewy-eyed with shimmering hair 88
_The Triolet_ (in a Temper) 67
Le premier jour du mois de mai 67
I wished to sing my love 67
How to fashion a Triolet 67
Triolets by Austin Dobson 86
With Pipe and Book 146
_The Rondeau_ (in a Rage) 67
Ma foi, c’est fait de moi 68
You bid me try. _Austin Dobson_ 68
Why do I wander wildly? 68
Culture in the Slums. _W. E. Henley_ 68
That dear old Tune 86
In corsets laced 87
_Chant Royal._
Behold the Deeds. _H. E. Bunner_ 68
_Rondels._
Two Rondels 68
You bet! you hear _me_ 86
We have a most erotic bard 86
In a Cloud of smoke 146
_Roundel._
The cat that sings 87
Robert Browning.
Mr. R. Browning’s objection to Parodies 46
Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black 19
A Motto! Just a catch-word 26
How they brought the Good News from Ulundi to Landsman’s
Drift. _The World_ 47
How I won the Challenge Shield 47
_The Pied Piper of Hamelin_ 48
The Bagpiper of Midlothian 48
The Red Piper of Westminster 49
Poets and Linnets. _Tom Hood_ 49
The Quest of Barparlo. _Judy_ 49
_Wanting is――what?_
Browning is――what? 49
Loving is――what? 49
Wooing is――what? 50
A Billiard Mystery 50
Come _is_ the Comer 50
_The Lost Leader._
The Latest News. _Fun_ 50
A Story of Girton 51
The Losing Leader 52
_The Patriot_, and two Parodies 51
A Parleying with a certain person of no importance
(Joseph Chamberlain) 51
Two Sides 52
My Kate 52
Lays of a Lover 52
Post Chronology. _O. M. Brown_ 52
R. Browning’s Lines on the “Jubilee,” and a Parody 52
The Poets at Tea 52
Angelo orders his Dinner. _Bayard Taylor_ 53
Any Pleader to any Student 53
The Cock and the Bull. _C. S. Calverley_ 53
John Jones. _The Heptalogia_ 54
Articles on Robert Browning’s Poems 54
Browning Societies 54
Take them, Chum, the book and me together 55
Austin Dobson.
_This was the Pompadour’s Fan_ 61
A Ballade of the Grosvenor Gallery 61
A Ballade of Five o’clock Tea 62
Ballade of Pot-Pourri 62
Other Ballades 62, 64
_Tu Quoyue_ (by permission) 62
An Idyll of the Lobby. _Pall Mall_ 63
The Prodigals. _W. E. Henley_ 63
John Dryden.
_Alexander’s Feast_ 169
Shakespeare’s Feast, 1769 170
Prancer’s Feast, 1779 171
The Grand Portsmouth Puppet-show, 1786 171
The Covent Garden Row. (O. P.) 1810 172
Sir Francis Burdett’s Feast, 1814 172
Commemoration Day, 1824 172
Ode to a Wrangler’s Spread 173
The Kennington Common Revolution, 1848 173
Josh Hudson’s Feast 174
Alexander (Henderson’s) Feast, 1884 175
_Three Poets, in three distant ages born_ 175
Parallel passages and imitations 176
_The Hind and the Panther._
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse 176
John Keats.
Who killed John Keats? 193
La Belle Dame sans merci 193
Ode on a Jar of Pickles. _Bayard Taylor_ 193
_A thing of Beauty is a joy for ever_
A Locomotive is a joy for ever 194
Frederick Locker-Lampson.
Biographical Notes 55, 85
_St. James’s Street_, and a pirated version 56
St. Giles. _Henry S. Leigh_ 57
_Tempora Mutantur!_ and a Parody 57
_Bramble Rise_ 57
A song at Sixty 57
His Girl 58
_An Invitation to Rome_ 58
Mr. Gladstone in Rome 58
_From the Cradle_, and a Parody 58
A Gallery of Fair Women 59
Something Praedesque. _Mortimer Collins_ 59
London’s “Suez Canal.” _H. C. Pennell_ 60
Songsters of the Day. _Time_ 60
On Frederick Locker 61
Nursery Rhymes.
Introductory Notes 101
_The House that Jack built_ 101
Hebrew version 101
Political Parodies of this Rhyme 102
Version written for the O. P. Riots 103
Parodies in _The Ingoldsby Lyrics_ 103
The Palace that Nash built 103
The Crystal Palace that Fox built 103
The House that Barry built 103
The Water that John drinks 104
The Show that Sham built 104
The Mine that Lyon struck 104
The Land of Austra-_lia_ 104
The Ship that Jack built 104
The House that John built 104
This is the Radical Bradlaugh 104
This is the Face that Art made 105
The House that any one built 105
The Bicycle that Jack made 105
The House that Tithe built 105
The Mitchelstown Murders 106
This is the Toy. _Truth._ 106
The Boat that Jack built 106
Behold the Mansion reared by Daedal Jack.
_E. L. Blanchard_ 106
The Jubilee Coercion Bill 107
The House that Bowen built 107
The Domiciliary Edifice erected by John 107
A Sermon on this Rhyme 108
_Mary had a Little Lamb_
Austin Dobson’s Version 88
Robert Browning’s Version 88
H. W. Longfellows’s Version 88
Andrew Lang’s Version 88
A. C. Swinburne’s Version 88
Parodies on “Mary had a Little Lamb” 125
_Sing a Song of Sixpence_ 108
Latin Versions 108, 109
The Song of the Cover. _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 108
French Version 109
Sing a Song of Christmas 109
A Version in “Pidgin” English 109
Carol forth a Canticle 109
Sing a Song of Season 109
Sing a Song of Dollars 110
Sing a Song of Native Art 110
Sing a Song of Gladness 110
The Cabman’s Shelter. _Punch_ 110
The Song of Science 110
The English Illustrated Magazine 110
Fifty Thousand nimble Shillings 111
Sing a Song of Jingo 111
Sing a Song of Eightpence 111
Sing a Song of Saving 111
The Jubilee Coinage 111
Sing a Song of Gladstone 111
Sing a Song of Scaffolds, of Gunnery, of French Pence,
of Chamberlain, of Armaments, of Tricksters, of Libels,
of Dynamite 112
_Who killed Cock Robin?_
Who’ll teach the Prince? _Punch_, 1843 114
Who killed these Arabs? 114
Who killed Home Rule? 114
Who killed Gladstone? 115
Who won Miss Jenny? 115
Who’ll kill Coercion? 116
Who stole O’Brien’s Breeches? 116
Who killed Cock Warren? 122
_Jack and Jill_, and Parodies 116, 122
_Hey! Diddle Diddle_ 117
An Æsthetic Version 117
Mr. Escott’s Version 117
_This Pig went to Market._ Latin Version 116
_The Bells of London Town_, and Parodies 113
_Mistress Mary_, and a Latin Version 117
A Revised Edition 118
Political Parodies 118
_Old Mother Hubbard_, as a Sermon 118
_Little Jack Horner_, Latin Versions 119
Little Lord Randy 119
_Thirty Days hath September_ 123
A French Version 123
Dirty days hath September 123
A Summery Summary 123
Mems. for 1885 123
_The Three Jovial Huntsmen_
The Three Jolly Ratsmen 124
The Three Jovial Welshmen 124
_Three Children Sliding on the Ice_ 124
A Latin Version 124
_Thank you, Pretty Cow that made_ 125
Thank you, Pretty Spotted Snake 125
What are you doing, my Pretty Maid? 128
_Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star_ 122, 161
Mica, mica, parva Stella 161
Tinkle, tinkle horrid bell 161
Monument to Temple Bar 162
Shine with Irregular Light 162
Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Water Cart 162
Twinkle, twinkle, _Morning Star_ 162
Tinkle, tinkle, Tramway Car 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Prosecu_tar_ 163
Wrinkles, wrinkles, Solar Star 163
Tyndall, Tyndall, Learned Star 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Little Arc 163
Twinkle, twinkle, Boulanger 164
_The Spider and the Fly_, by Mary Howitt 164
Will you Migrate to New Zealand 165
The Song of the Bank Director 165
The Irish Spider and the English Fly 166
Will you Walk into our Death-trap? 166
Harcourt and Chamberlain 166
Will you Walk into my Convent? 167
Will you Walk into my Tunnel? 167
Pray Come along to Hawarden 167
――――
Taffy was a Welshman 119
What are Little Boys Made of 120
Dickory, dickory dock 120
Multiplication is Vexation 120
Please to Remember the 5th November 121
Privations Sore 121
Humpty Dumpty 123
Babye Bunting 123
I Love Little Pussy 125
If I had a Donkey 127
Halliwell-Halliwell, My Pretty Man 167
When Great Victoria Ruled the Land 167
I do not like Thee, Dr. Fell 168
I love Thee not Nell 169
Jan, je ne t’aime point 169
Parodies and Poems in Praise of Tobacco.
J. H. BROWNE’S Imitations of Colley Cibber, A. Phillips,
J. Thomson, E. Young, A. Pope, and Jonathan Swift,
entitled “A Pipe of Tobacco” 129
LORD BYRON. I Had a Dream 135
C. S. CALVERLEY’S Ode to Tobacco 139
Hand me Another Spill 139
E. COOK. I Love It! I Love It! 134
BARRY CORNWALL. The Pipe, the Pipe 138
ABRAHAM COWLEY. The lazy Earth doth Steam amain 148
T. GRAY. Elegy on an Old Pipe Box 131
MRS. HEMANS. The Stately Pipes of England 135
O. W. HOLMES. Hymn to St. Nicotine 137
THOMAS HOOD. I Remember, I Remember 134
HORACE. An Ode Against Tobacco 131
C. KINGSLEY. Three Antis went Groaning 138
H. W. LONGFELLOW. Beware! 139
Tobacco Smoke 139
Song of Firewater 140
Song of Nicotine 140
Tell me not in Penny Numbers 140
Come to Me! oh, my Meerschaum 141
The Pipe and the Quid 141
T. MOORE. ’Tis a last choice Havana 133
’Tis the last Weed of Hudson’s 133
’Tis my last Mild Havana 134
The Butcher boy down the Road 134
Oh! the Days are gone 134
MY Mother. My Hookah! 136
A Pinch of Snuff! 136
My Pipe, Love! 136
My True Cigar! 137
Tobacco! 137
The Weed 137
A Smoke 137
MRS. NORTON. Smoke not, smoke not 135
A. C. SWINBURNE. Another match 141
Ballade of more Burdens, “This is the cause of every
smoker’s ire” 142
W. SHAKESPEARE. To smoke or not to smoke 132
R. B. SHERIDAN. Here’s to the hookah 132
WALTER SCOTT. Hail to the plant! 133
The weed was rank 133
ALFRED TENNYSON. The Cigar Smokers 142
Nicotina! 144
O, Darling weed! 144
I come from vaunted root 145
WORDSWORTH’S Sonnet.
Scorn not the meerschaum 136
SONG from the _Mikado_ 145
BALLADE of the Best Pipe 145
BALLADE of Tobacco 145
IN a Cloud of Smoke. Rondel 146
WITH Pipe and Book 146
ON an empty Tobacco Pouch 146
THE Smoker’s Alphabet 146
FIRST LINES OF SONGS IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO.
A Poet’s Pipe am I 155
A Small Boy puffed at a Big Cigar 158
As the Years vanish, Darling 159
Borne from a Short Frail Pipe 152
Certain Fumeur Courtisait une Veuve 149
Come, Lovely Tube by Friendship Blest 152
Contre Les Chagrins de La Vie 153
Contented I sit with my Pipe 153
Charm of the Solitude I Love 155
Come! don’t refuse Sweet Nicotina 157
Critics avaunt, Tobacco is my theme 149
Doux charme de ma Solitude (and Translation) 152
Good, good indeed the Herb’s good Weed 148
For lack o’Tobacco 152
Hail! Social Pipe――thou Foe to care 152
Je suis la Pipe d’un Auteur (and Translation) 155
I flirted first with Cigarettes 150
I owe to Smoking, more or less 159
I sing the Song of the Cigarette 159
J’ ai du bon Tabac 160
Knows he that never took a Pinch? 160
Keep me at hand 157
Let no cold Marble o’er my Body rise 152
Luscious Leaf of Fragrant Savour 149
May the Babylonish curse. _Charles Lamb_ 150
Molière on Tobacco 160
My Pipe to me, thro’ gloom and glee 156
Once your Smoothly Polished Face 154
Pig Tail to Chor (A Letter) 147
Plains-moi, Philippe, mon ami 154
Pipe my Darling, Fate is Snarling 155
Sweet Smoking Pipe 152
Some Praise taking Snuff 154
Some sombre evening, when I sit 155
Some sigh for this and that 157
Smoke, do you? 158
The Pungent, Nose Refreshing Weed 160
The Mighty Thebes 158
The Warmth of thy Glow 158
The Sky it was dark 157
Three Hundred Years ago or soe 157
Thou Cheering Friend 155
Tube, I Love thee as my Life 152
Tell me, Shade of Walter Raleigh 150
Thrice Happy Isles that stole the World’s Delight 149
The Indian Weed withered quite 147
Two Maiden Dames of Sixty-two 148
The Lazy Earth doth steam amain 148
Was this small Plant for thee 147
Weed of the Strange Power 148
When Happy quite and Cosy grown 150
When my Pipe burns bright and clear 153
Why should Life in sorrow be spent 153
When Nobs come oot to walk aboot 154
When Life was all a Summer Day 156
Who Scorns the Pipe? 156
When Strong Perfumes 160
Yes, Social Friend, I Love thee well 158
Political Parodies.
Anticipation. _R. Tickell_, 1778 315
Kings’ and Queens’ Speeches to the Houses of Parliament 316
Punch’s Proclamation, 1878 318
“Ads” of the Future 318
Limited Liability. _Daily News_ 319
Political Manifestoes 319
Saunderson and Waring 319
The Hawarden Block Wood Company 320
Mr. W. E. Gladstone’s Last Will 321
Letters from Political Leaders 321
Prose Parodies.
Addison (Joseph). Prefatory Paper, by 207
Acts of Parliament. On Evening Parties, and on
Ladies’ Dress 268
Admiralty Reforms 270
Ainsworth (W. H.), Novels 258
Black, William. Parodies on his Novels 259
Blessington, Countess of. Parodies of 259
Boyle, Robert. Dean Swift’s Parody of 261
Braddon, Miss M. E., Dr. Marchmont’s Misery 257
Selina Sedilia. _Bret Harte_ 259
Bret Harte. The Luck of Tory Camp 242
His Finger. _Shotover Papers_ 243
Brontë, Charlotte. Miss Mix. _Bret Harte_ 259
Broughton, Rhoda. Gone Wrong. _F. C. Burnand_ 259
Bürger G. A. Baron Munchausen, & Imitations 260
Burnaby, Colonel F. _The_ Ride to Khiva, _F. C. Burnand_ 259
Burnett, Mrs. F. H. The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy 255
Carlyle, Thomas. Carlyle on Bloomerism 211
On the Tichborne Trial 211
On Mr. Gladstone’s Portrait 212
On the Parliamentary “Closure” 213
On People of the Present 213
On the Inventories 213
On “The Biglow Papers” 214
Carlyle Redivivus 215
On the Oxford Commemoration 229
The Irish Revolution, 1848 229
Cervantes, Miguel. Parodies of Don Quixote 259
Chesterfield, Lord. Chesterfield Travestie, 1808 253
Lady Chesterfield’s Letters to her daughter 253
Good manners, _Punch_ 253
Churchill, Lord Randolph. The _Standard’s_ varying
estimate of him in 1885, 1888 & 1889 256
Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, imitated 259
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in Tights 242
No Title. _Bret Harte_ 242
The Moonstone & Moonshine 259
Conway, Hugh. Much Darker Days 259
Hauled Back. 1885 259
Day, Thomas. The _New_ History of Sandford & Merton,
_F. C. Burnand_ 259
Defoe, Daniel. Imitations of Robinson Crusoe 259
De Quincey, Thomas. A Recent Confession of an Opium Eater 253
Dickens, Charles. Chronological List of his principal
Works 224
Parodies from the _World_, 1879 215
The Age of Lawn Tennis, _Pastime_ 216
C. S. Calverley’s Examination Paper on “Pickwick” 217
Death of Mr. Pickwick 218
The Battle Won by the Wind 218
The Haunted Man. _Bret Harte_ 219
Dombey & Sons, Finished 221
Hard Times, refinished. _R. B. Brough_ 223
The Political Mrs. Gummidge. _Punch_ 224
The Mudfog Association Papers 228
Sam Weller’s Adventures 228
List of Parodies & Imitations of Dickens’s Works 225
Plays founded upon Dickens’s Novels 226, 259
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), Lothaw
_Bret Harte_ 238
Codlingsby, _W. M. Thackeray_ 239
Nihilism in Russia. _The World_ 239
De Tankard. _Puppet Show_ 240
Tancredi. _Cuthbert Bede_ 241
Ben D’ymion. _H. F. Lester_ 241
The Age of Lawn Tennis 241
A Key to _Endymion_ 242
A Plagiarism, by B. Disraeli 242
A List of Minor Parodies 259
Dumas, Alexander. The Ninety-nine Guardsmen 250
Fielding, Henry. Imitations of Tom Jones 259
Forbes, Archibald. His egotistical style 254
Gore, Mrs. Mammon’s Marriage 259
Haggard, H. Rider, He, 1887 257
“She” dramatised 257
She-that-ought-not-to-be-Played 257
Hee-Hee. _Punch_ 257
Me, a Companion to She 257
King Solomon’s Wives 257
Hugo, Victor. Anticipations of the Derby, 1869 244
One and Three. _Punch_ 247
Thirty-one. _C. H. Waring_ 248
Fantine. _Bret Harte_ 248
Grinplaine. _Walter Parke_ 248
Quel bonheur Marie? 249
The House that Victor built 249
The Spoiler of the Sea 249
The Cat 249
A Manifesto by Victor Hugo 250
Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of a Wheelbarrow 259
James, G. P. R. Parodies of 260
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost on “Drury Lane Theatre” 208
On Book binders, after “Rasselas” 209
Anonymous Journalism 209
Lexiphanes 209
Dinarbas 209
Labouchere, Henry, and Edmund Yates 255
Lamb, Charles. Our New Actors. _The World_ 233
Lever, Charles, Parodies of 260
Lytton, Lord. Parodies of his Plays 251
The Diamond Death. _Puppet Show_ 251
The Dweller of the Threshold. _Bret Harte_ 252
On a Toasted Muffin. _Cuthbert Bede_ 253
The Wrongful Heir. _Walter Parke_ 260
Macaulay, T. B. The Quarterly Reviewer parodies him 234
A Page by Macaulay 234
A Bit of _Whig_ his-_Tory_ 235
The next Armada 235
The Age of Lawn-Tennis 236
The Story of Johnnie Armstrong 236
Marryat, Captain. Mr. Midshipman Breezy. _Bret Harte_ 243
The Flying Dutchman. _W. E. Aytoun_ 232
Menagérie, The. Burlesque Lecture by C. Collette 269
Menu. Ministerial Whitebait Dinner, 1878 261
Menu, by Miss Louisa Alcorn 262
Menu. Capital Club Dinner, 1885 262
Lady Morgan’s Wild Irish Girl 254
Munchausen, Baron. Ascribed to G. A. Burger 260
Imitations of 260
Office Rules 268
On Farming 269
“Ouida.” Moll Marine. _Light Green_ 231
The Cambridgeshire Stakes 231
Strapmore. _F. C. Burnand_ 232
Bluebottles. _Judy_ 232
Blue-blooded Bertie. _Walter Parke_ 260
Pepys, Samuel. Imitations of his Diary 260
Prescription for feelin’ bad 262
Programmes. Lords Mayor’s Show, 1884 262
How they’ll open the Inventories 263
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1885 264
Lord Mayor’s Show, 1886 264
Play Bill by Rev. Rowland Hill 265
Prospectuses. Imperial Homeless Hotel Company 266
The Glenmutchkin Railway 266
The Gott-up Hotel Company 266
Horse Shoe Hotel Prospectus 266
Quill Toothpick Attachment Company 267
Reade, Charles. A Parody by F. C. Burnand 260
Regulations in the U.S. Navy 269
Reid, Captain Mayne. The Pale Faced Warriors 244
The Skull Hunters. _Walter Parke_ 244
Richardson, Samuel. Joseph Andrews 257
Apology for Shamela Andrews 257
The History of Clorana, 1737 257
John Ruskin. “That Little Brown-red Butterfly” 229
Mark Twain’s Parody 230
On all Fours Clavigera. _Punch_ 230
On Toothpicks. _Shotover Papers_ 230
Pre-Raffaelitism. _Rev. E. Young_, 1857 231
Letter to Chesterfield 258
Letter lo the Richmond Baptists 258
On Usury, a Biblical Parody 312
Scott, Sir Walter. Parodies of his Novels 260
Sketchley, Arthur. Mrs. Brown at Cambridge 237
Smart, Hawley. What’s the Odds? _F. C. Burnand_ 260
Smith, Horace. Whitehall, 1827 260
Soyer, Alexis. Camp Cookery 254
The Art of Cookery 254
Military Cookery Book. _Punch_ 254
Stephenson R. L., Parodies of 260
Sterne (Laurence). A Sentimental Journey 209
Affecting Appeal 210
The Citizen 211
Fragments in the manner of L. Sterne, and
other Imitations 211
Sue Eugene. Sir Brown. _Cuthbert Bede_ 250
Parodie du Juif Errant, and an English Translation 250
Swift, Jonathan. Parodies and Imitations 261
Thackeray, W. M. Parodies of his Novels 261
Trollope, Anthony. Parodies of his Novels 261
Walton, Izaak. The Complete (ly) done Angler 251
The Incompleat Angler 251
Walton’s Angler Imitated 251
Yates, Edmund. “Ba! Ba! Black Sheep” 261
Religious Parodies.
No Parodies introduced which have a tendency to
ridicule Religion 288
The Protestants Ave Mary, 1689 288
A Parodie by George Herbert, 1633 289
Luther’s Parody of the Psalms 289
William Hone’s Three Trials 289
John Wilkes’s Catechism 289
The Political Litany 291
The Sinecurist’s Creed 293
Parodies of the Litany 294
The Book Lover’s Litany 297
Parodies of the Creed of St. Athanasius 298
England’s Te Deum to George III 301
Parodies of the Catechism 302
Imitations of the Lord’s Prayer 305
Parodies of the X Commandments 305
Richard Carlile’s Parodies 307
Administration of Loaves and Fishes 307
Chronicles of the Kings of England 309
Imitations of Biblical Phraseology 309
Blackwood’s Chaldee Manuscript 310
The Bible of the Future 310
The Origin of Species. _C. Neaves_ 311
The Positivists. _Mortimer Collins_ 311
Bibliography of Scriptural Parodies 312
A Dean and a Prebendary 314
Parodies of Hymns 314
God Save the Queen 315
Alexander Pope.
_Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day_ 176
Ode to Toast-Master Toole. _Punch_, 1843 177
Ode to Lessee Bunn, of Drury Lane 177
Bonnell Thornton’s Burlesque Ode 178
Mock Heroic Poems, Parodies or Imitations of
the _Dunciad_ and the _Rape of the Lock_ 179
_The Essay on Man._
The Essay on Woman 182
_Eloisa’s Epistle to Abelard._
Eloisa en Déshabille 182
Elegy in an Empty Assembly Room 183
Les Amours d’Abélard et d’Eloise 183
_The Rape of the Lock._
The Rape of the Smock 182
The Rape of the Bucket 183
The Rape of the Cake 185
_Lo! The Poor Indian, whose Untutor’d Mind_ 183
Lo! the poor Toper 183
Lo! the lean Indian 183
_The Universal Prayer_ 183
_Achilles Speech_, a Parody of 184
_As when the Moon._
As when an Alderman 184
_Pope’s Prologue to Addison’s “Cato,”_ Parody of 185
Pope’s Imitations of the early Poets 186
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The Blooming Damozel 26
_Sister Helen._
Apple, and Orange, and Nectarine 70
O Mother Carey, Mother! 70
Mother Eve. _Mabel Peacock_ 70
O, Weary Mother, Drive the Cows to Roost 71
A Twilight Fantasy 71
O, for a Brandy and Soda 71
Butter, and Eggs, and a Pound of Cheese.
_C. S. Calverley_ 71
Paper, and Pens, and a Bottle of Ink 72
Agriculture’s Latest Rôle. _Punch_ 72
O, the Dinner was Fine to see. _Truth_ 72
I would I were a Cigarette 73
Ah Night! Blind Germ of Days to be 73
A Goodly Balance is Fair to see 73
O, London Town 74
Cimabuella. _Bayard Taylor_ 74
A Legend of Camelot. _Punch_ 75
_The Leaf_
Imitazione 75
De la tige détachée 75
Thou Poor Leaf. _Lord Macaulay_ 75
_Remember_, by Miss Christina Rossetti 76
Remember it. _Judy_ 76
Ding Dong. _The Light Green_ 76
George R. Sims.
_Ostler Joe._ (By Permission) 35
Teamster Jim. _R. J. Burdette_ 37
“Ostler Joe” and Mrs. J. B. Potter 37
Hustler Jim 37
_Billy’s Rose_, (By Permission.) 38
Billy’s Nose. _F. Rawkins_ 39
_The Lifeboat._
The Tricycle. _Cassell’s Journal_ 39
The Terror of Tadger’s Rents 40
Another “Bagonet” Ballad 40
The Ballad Monger 43
Little Flo’. _Truth_ 43
The Coster’s Plea 44
_The Lights of London Town_ 42
Those Wights of London Town 42
The Lights o’ Ascot Heath 42
Sally 44
Christmas Day in the Beer House 45
A Coster’s Conversion 45
Slang, Cant, and Flash Songs.
The House Breaker’s Song 271
Nix my Dolly, Pals, Fake away 271
Dear Bill, this Stone Jug 271
The Chick-a-Leary Cove 272
The Thieves’ Chaunt 272
Dartmoor is a tidy place 272
Joe quickly his sand had Sold 272
Millbank for thick shins 272
The Beggar’s Curse (1609) 273
Clear out――Look sharp 273
Frisky Moll’s Song 273
Ye Morts and ye Dells 274
Ode to the King of the Mendicants 274
Oath of the Canting Crew 274
Life and Death of the Darkman’s Budge 274
The Game of High Toby 275
The Double Cross 275
Flash Anecdote, and Translation 275
The Leary Man 276
Song of the Young Prig 276
Death of Socrates 277
’Arry at a Political Picnic 277
Life in Gaol. _The Chequers_ 279
The Twenty Craftsmen 279
Retoure my Dear Dell 280
The Pickpockets’ Chaunt 280
A Cant Handbill 281
W. H. Ainsworth on Slang and Cant 281
The Printer’s Epitaph 282
Books of Reference on Slang and Cant 282
Continental Books on “Argot,” or Slang 285
American and Colonial Slang 285
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
_Before the Beginning of Years_ 1
American Parody 1
Before the Beginning of Post 1
Now in the Railway Years 2
_For Winter’s Rains and Ruins are Over_ 2
For Mayfair’s Balls and Ballets are over 2
_Dolores and Poems and Ballads_ 2
When Waters are Rent with Commotion 2
Pain and Travel. _Fun_ 5
Our Lady Champagne. _Judy_ 6, 26
Mosquitos Again. _J. B. Stephens_ 6
Brandy and Soda. _H. Howard_ 7
Our M.D. of Spain. _Punch_ 7
Octopus. _The Light Green_ 8
Procuratores. _Shotover Papers_ 8
Oh, Vanished Benevolent Bobby 8
Oh, Nymph with the Nicest of Noses 9
O Blood-bitten Lip all Aflame 16
Stylites. _Walter Parke_ 18
Thou Magpie and Stump 22
The Days of the Dunces are Over 31
All pale from the past we draw nigh thee 33
“Disgust,” a Parody of “Despair” 22
O Season supposed of all Free Flowers 22
I trow, Wild Friends. _S. K. Cowan_ 23
Ah! Love, if Love lie still. _J. M. Lowry_ 23
Also Thine Eyes were Mild 23
The God and the Damosel, 1879. _The World_ 23
Soft is the Smell of it 24
I See the Sad Sorrow 24
A. C. Swinburne and Victor Hugo 25
The Pigmy and Portative Horner 26
I Sing of the Months 27
I am the Lady of Shalott 27
Strophes from a Song after Moonrise 28
Is not this the First Lord of Your Choice? 31
_The Ballad of Burdens_ 3
A Burden of Foul Weathers 3
The Burden of Strange Seasons 4
The Burden of Long Fielding 4
The Burden of Hard Hitting 5
The Burden of Old Women 5
How Jack Harris became Æsthetic 17
The Lay of Macaroni. _Bayard Taylor_ 17
To Ada I. Menken. _The Tomahawk_ 18
Parody of A. C. S. by Mortimer Collins 19
“O Cool in the Summer is Salad.” 19
Between the Gate Post and the Gate 21
A Song after Sunset 21
Oh, April Showers 21
“The Heptalogia.” _Nephelidia_ 21
_Ballad of Dreamland._
I hid my Head on a Rug from Moses 17
The Sorest stress of the Season’s over 18
She hid herself in the _Soirée_ Kettle 16
_A Century of Roundels_ 25
Far-fetched and dear bought 25
What Gain were mine 25
Magician of Song and of Sound 25
A Trio of Roundels 26
_March._ An Ode 26
Another Ode to March 27
_The Commomweal_ 29
_The Question_ 29
The Answer. _The Daily News_ 29
The “Question” answered. _Truth_ 29
_A Match._
“If Love were what the Rose is” 9
If You were Queen of Bloaters 9
If Life were never Bitter. _M. Collins_ 10
If you were an Elector. _E. Hamilton_ 10
If you were what your Nose is 10
If I were Big Nat Langham. _Punch_ 11
I am your Dr. Jekyll 11
If it be but a Dream or a Vision 16
If I were Anglo-Saxon. _Punch_ 20
If Love were dhudeen olden 141
_The Interpreters_ 11
Parodies from _The Weekly Dispatch_ 12
Imparadised by my Environment 13
Parody from _The Family Herald_ 13
Home, Sweet Home, _à la_ Swinburne 13
Short Space shall be Hereafter 14
Vaccine after _Faustine_ 14
A Song after Sunset. _Judy_ 15
The Mad, Mad Muse. _R. J. Burdette_ 15
I have made me an End of the Moods 16
_Clear the Way!_ 30
Rail Away! _Punch_ 30
_A Word for the Navy_ 30
A Word for the Poet 30
The Palace of Bric-à-Brac 32
Baby, see the flowers! 32
England, what of the fight? 32
Oh, thy swift, subtle, slanting, services 32
Mr. Swinburne’s prose writings 32, 205
The Session of the Poets. _R. Buchanan_ 33
Paddy Blake on Swinburne 34
An Utter Passion uttered Utterly. _Kottabos_ 81
Lines on a Dead Dog. _College Rhymes_ 204
The Song of Sir Palamede. _H. G. Cone_
“With flow exhaustless of alliterate words.” 205
Martin Farquhar Tupper.
Cuthbert Bede’s Parody 89
The Queen of Oude 89
Beer, that hath entered my head 90
Philosophy of Sausages 90
The Fall of Tupper 90
Going to the Wash 90
Tupper in the Clouds. _Andrew Lang_ 90
The Welcome to the Princess Alexandra 168
Oscar Wilde.
Biographical Memoranda 78
Sala on “Requiescat” 78
A Villanelle, after Oscar Wilde 66
There’s _Oscar Wylde_, that Gifted Chylde 79
What a Shame and what a Pity 79
Narcissus in Camden. _The Century_ 79
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman 79
Oscar Interviewed. _Punch_ 80
Sainte Margérie. _An Imitation_ 81
Oh, fainting of Lilies with broken stem 81
Meseem’d that Love. _Kottabos_ 81
Consummate Dish! full many an ancient Crack 81
Impressions, by Oscuro Wildegoose 81
A List of Parodies on O. W. 82
The Public House 82
Five-and-Seventy Maidens, free 82
A Barrel of Beer and a Glass of Gin hot 83
Sing hey! Potatoes and Paint. _H. C. Waring_ 83
――――
ARNOLD, MATTHEW. _The Forsaken Merman_ 200
The Saturday Review on Arnold’s poems 200
Parody by W. H. Mallock 200
Christmas Thoughts. _The World_ 201
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT. The Bishop’s wish. _Punch_ 192
The Pot Boy. _C. Thirlwall_ 192
BUTLER, SAMUEL. Parodies and Imitations of Hudibras 259
CALVERLEY, C. S. On the River 84
COLLINS, MORTIMER. The Birds 19
Oh, Summer said to Winter 206
Lady, very fair are you 206
Careless Rhymer, it is True 206
COMIC History of England. In verse 207
CORNWALL, BARRY. The Omnibus 322
COUNTRY Quarter Session. _Three or Four Parsons_ 203
Two or three facts 203
Two or three “dears” 203
CRABBE, REV. G. The Theatre. _Rejected Addresses_ 94
CROSS Readings 287
CUMULATIVE Parodies 270
DARWIN, DR. ERASMUS. _Now stood Eliza_ 198
Parody on above from _Diogenes_ 199
_The Loves of the Plants._ The Loves of the Triangles 199
The Loves of the Lowlier Plants 200
Natural Selection. Founded on Darwin 200
Miss, I’ m a Pensive Protoplasm. _S. Brooks_ 200
Parody Epitaph on Darwin 200
ÆSTHETIC School, The 69
FITZGERALD, W. T. _Britons to Arms!_ 95
Loyal Effusion. _Rejected Addresses_ 96
GAY’S “Beggar’s Opera. Parodies of songs in 198
GEORGE BARNWELL. Parody, _Rejected Addresses_ 96
“Sam,” by _Shirley Brooks_ 97
HEBER, DR. REGINALD. _From Greenland’s icy Mountains_ 98
From Cashmere’s icy Mountains 98
Address to Women Missionaries 98
From Chatham’s pleasant Mountains 99
HORACES’S Odes.
Buttons you booby. _Shirley Brooks_ 197
On the Commencement of Term 197
Thackeray’s Versions 198
November, 1858 198
Railway Horace 198
INGELOW, MISS JEAN. _The Apple-Woman’s Song_ 195
Calverley’s Parodies of above 196
Lovers, and a Reflection 196
The Shrimp Gatherers. _Bayard Taylor_ 196
The Letter L. _Daily News_ 197
I AM COLONEL NORTH of the Horse Marines,
_Financial News_ 203
JOHNSON, DR. SAMUEL. Ode to a Girl in the Temple, 1777 188
Parody of Dr. Johnson’s “Prologue” for Drury Lane
in 1847 188
LAST Arrival, The. _G. W. Cable_ 270
LEIGH, HENRY S. _The Twins_ 100
In the Strand. _Judy_ 100
LORNE, MARQUIS OF. _Guido and Lita_ Parodied 202
LOST Chord, The. The Lost Chord. _G. R. Sims_ 45
The Lost Shot. _Corporal_ 45
The Legislative Organ 128
LYTTELTON’S Ode, & a Parody by Tobias Smollett 187
MACARONIC Poems. The Death of the Sea Serpent 327
MALLET, David. _William and Margaret_ 91
French and Latin Versions 92
Dr. Johnson’s Ghost 92
Giles Scroggin’s Ghost 93
A Polished Version of the same 93
MOCK Heroic Poems, and Imitations of the Dunciad 179
MORRIS, LEWIS. _The Imperial Institute Ode_ 99
The Ode as it ought to have been. _Truth_ 99
Poet and Poetaster. _The Star_ 100
MORRIS, WILLIAM. The Volsung Tale 26
Behold the Works of W. Morris 76
In the Cushioned Abbey Pew 76
All Sides of the River. _Once a Week_ 77
The Monthly Parodies, after Morris’s
“Earthly Paradise.” _Gleeson White_ 77
NUTSHELL Novels 202
OLDEST Classical Burlesque Battle of the Frogs and Mice 328
PATMORE, COVENTRY. The Baby in the House. _S. Brooks_ 194
The Spoons. _Puppet Show Album_ 195
The Person of the House. _Heptalogia_ 229
Poetical Criticism from the _Athenæum_ 229
PYGMALION; or, the Statue Fair. _Hornet_ 326
ROWE, NICHOLAS. _Colin’s Complaint_ 186
Corydon Querens 186
A Parody by _George Canning_ 187
Bow Bells. _Henry S. Leigh_ 187
SCOTT, CLEMENT W. _The Women of Mumble’s Head._
The Wreck of the steamship “Puffin” 46
_A Tale of the 10th Hussars_, and a Parody on it 46
The Garden of Sleep 46
SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Paddy Dunbar. (_Young Lochinvar_) 161
O’SHAUGHNESSY. ARTHUR W. E.
Blue Moonshine. _F. G. Stokes_ 83
Frangipanni. _Judy_ 83
On the River 84
SPENSER, EDMUND. List of works written in the
Spenserian stanza. _J. Bouchier_ 189
The Alley. _Alexander Pope_ 189
The Holidayer. _Funny Folks_ 189
STERRY J. ASHBY. Georgy 84
The Muse in Manacles 64
SWIFT, JONATHAN. The State Coach 190
The Happy Life of a Country Parson. _A. Pope_ 191
The Logicians Refuted. _O. Goldsmith_ 191
A New Simile. _O. Goldsmith_ 191
TENNYSON, ALFRED. King Arthur, growing very tired 20
The Cigar-Smokers 142
Nicotina. (_Oriana_) 144
The Weed. (_The Brook_) 145
“VERNON AVICK.” Song on Sir W. Vernon Harcourt 34
WATTS, DR. How Doth the Nasty Dirty Man 138
’Twas the Voice of the Doctor 138
WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. _It is not that my Lot is low_ 188
It is not that my “Place” was low 188
WILSON’S _Isle of Palms_, imitated by James Brown 192
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belong.
Illustrated drop capitals letters at beginnings of paragraphs are
indicated thus: [Illustration: I]n the beginning.
Unprinted diacriticals were added to words in languages other than
English. Use of quotation marks is not standardized; minor adjustments
were made for clarity of text. Extraneous punctuation was deleted.
The St. James’s Street ballad and its parody are presented in
sequence, not side by side.
Spelling corrections:
shall the mandate he/be spoken
first appeared in the colums/columns
in lines of unequal lengths ocasionally/occasionally
the/she sit down and weep,
Michelstown’s/Mitchelstown’s murderous shot
bicylist/bicyclist to his lamp:
Dose schillen did ask it, dot schoolemaster/schoolmaster
written by H. B. Farmie/Farnie
Keats’s ‘Imitation of Spencer/Spenser
And as, forsooth, such cates/cakes
Swowflakes/Snowflakes white,
friend of mine took notige/notice of
shamless/shameless, unreasonable, treasonable
man with hugh/huge bush of beard
and on potatoe/potato cans
sandy loams of Cambridshire/Cambridgeshire
magnificently-dessicated/desiccated veins
The formost/foremost wins!
apophthegm/apothegm
we shall now Retreive/Retrieve
Luxurously/Luxuriously rolling in coaches
Superviser/Supervisor the servant
insufficent/insufficient to prevent it
preface to the Pantomine/Pantomime
copywright/copyright