MrPunch's history of modern England . is, by theway, was the third theatre burned down during Andersonsengagements, and the disaster led to a picture in Punch re-presenting Mario, the famous tenor, mourning amid the ruinsof the scenes of his many triumphs—an ingenious adaptationof the episode of Marius sitting as a refugee amid the ruins ofCarthage. Punch was no lover of bals masques, reckoningthem among the things which they manage better abroad. Norwas he a friendly critic of Madame Tussaud, modestly housedat the Bazaar in Baker Street until the erection of the presentbuilding in 1884. Punch
MrPunch's history of modern England . is, by theway, was the third theatre burned down during Andersonsengagements, and the disaster led to a picture in Punch re-presenting Mario, the famous tenor, mourning amid the ruinsof the scenes of his many triumphs—an ingenious adaptationof the episode of Marius sitting as a refugee amid the ruins ofCarthage. Punch was no lover of bals masques, reckoningthem among the things which they manage better abroad. Norwas he a friendly critic of Madame Tussaud, modestly housedat the Bazaar in Baker Street until the erection of the presentbuilding in 1884. Punch owned that admission to her showwas a test of popularity, but he condemned the Chamber ofHorrors as ministering to the cult of monstrosity, and com- 157 Mr. PuncJis History of Modern England pared Madame Tussaud in 1849—the year before her death—to the witches who made wax models of those whom theywished to injure. Chelsea buns are still with us, though it is declared inLondon Past and Present that the tradition of making them. THE HAPPY FAMILY is lost; the Original Bun House, at the bottom of JewsRow, was taken down in 1839, but its memories linger in theearly volumes of Punch. There is a good series entitled TheGratuitous Exhibitions of London, one of which, The HappyFamily, lasted for forty years later. The present writer wellremembers in his schoolboy days the wire safe on wheels,stationed at the corner of Trafalgar Square, near Hamptonsshop, containing cats, mice, pigeons, rabbits, and small birds,very much as in Punchs picture. The nearest survival is thecage of fortune-telling birds one sees now and again. A charge 158 The Doininion of Din of twopence was made for admission to St. Pauls Churchyard,and this was a non-gratuitous exhibition which Punch bitterlyresented, even to the extent of comparing it with WombwellsMenagerie. The occasional raids of the aristocracy on Cre-morne Gardens—which stood a little west of Battersea Bridge—have been described elsewhere
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