[Illustration: PUNCH
VOL 98]
London:
Published at the Office, 85, Fleet Street,
and Sold by All Booksellers.
1890.
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[Illustration: Preface]
It was a Midsummer Night, and Mr. PUNCH in his _sanctum_ dreamed a
Dream! To adapt the Laureate's lay:--
He read, before his eyelids dropt their shade,
The _Lusiads_ of CAMOENS, long ago
Sung by the Lusitanian bard, who made
Great GAMA'S glories glow.
It was the wondrous tale of STANLEY which had turned the Sage's
attention to the pages of the great Epic of Commerce.