MrPunch's history of modern England . oes the PrimeMinister hold the scales of justice, and in the other a duelling-pistol! Punchs remedy for the evasion of the law was to letthe principals go free, but to hang the seconds withouthesitation. The choice of the Army as a profession is discussed inone of the series named The Complete Letter-writer, whichappeared in 1844. Mr. Benjamin Allpeace, guardian to youngArthur Baytwig, pronounces against it as a gilded fraud. Atbest soldiers are evils of the earth, and the pomp and pageantryof war mere gimcrackery. The reality is misery and anguish,blood a
MrPunch's history of modern England . oes the PrimeMinister hold the scales of justice, and in the other a duelling-pistol! Punchs remedy for the evasion of the law was to letthe principals go free, but to hang the seconds withouthesitation. The choice of the Army as a profession is discussed inone of the series named The Complete Letter-writer, whichappeared in 1844. Mr. Benjamin Allpeace, guardian to youngArthur Baytwig, pronounces against it as a gilded fraud. Atbest soldiers are evils of the earth, and the pomp and pageantryof war mere gimcrackery. The reality is misery and anguish,blood and tears. This was the year in which the Prince deJoinville, Louis Philippes third son, after bombarding Tangierand occupying Mogador, made himself notorious by his belli- 114 Punch as Pacificist cose pamphleteering; but Punch was equally severe on LordMaidstone for his patriotic rhymes in the Morning Post, andon the warlike philanthropists of Exeter Hall, were muchexercised by the Princes ill-will towards Great Britain. Punch,. THE LAW OF THE PISTOL. prohibited in France not for the first or last time for his commentson French politics, ridiculed the Chauvinists on both sides withimpartial satire, and published a Womans Plea for Peacewith France on the ground of our debt to that country inwine, fashion, the ballet, Jullien (the popular musician and con-ductor resident in London, who would have to flee in case of Mr. Punchs History of Modern England war), and cosmetics. Later on, in the same year, we come acrossEntente Cordiale cartoons, in Vvhich Punch assumes therole of the pacificator of Europe, and a letter to French editorsprotesting against the notion that John Bull is a plotter. Punchhad already given a half serious support to Captain Warner,the eccentric inventor, who professed to have invented a long-range invisible shell to blow up ships at a distance, hailing itas a means of ending war, and developed the argument furtherin a curious article on the Science of Wa
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