Of Mr. ATHOL MAYHEW'S _History of Punch_ the Baron can
at present say nothing, no copy of this work having as yet been
brought to Our Booking Office, and without a ticket-of-leave, or
ticket-for-leaves, granted by _Mr. Punch_ himself, per the Baron de
B.-W., the book of MAHU ("MODO he is called and
MAHU," as SHIRLEY BROOKS used to quote from _King
Lear_) will not have received _the_ "imprimatur." Already it appears,
as we read in a letter from Mr. HENRY SPIELMANN (who, if any
man living knows anything about _Mr. Punch's_ history, is the Punchian
Biographer and Historian _par excellence_ and "by appointment") to the
_Daily Chronicle_, Friday, July 12, that in Mr. MAYHEW'S book
there are numerous errors on important matters. "_Mayhew-manum est
errare._" But "Herr VON SPIELMANN will put him right in his
forthcoming book," says
THE JUDICIOUS
BARON DE BOOK-WORMS.
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