Puck — December 24, 1879 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. Christmas, THE OLD WORLD HANGS UP ITS STOCKING — AND UNCLE SAM FILLS IT. MORE LAUREL LEAVES FOR PUCK’S ANNUAL FOR 1880. Puck's ANNUAL for 1880 is out. It is a superb publi cation. It is elegantly illustrated, and its reading matter is splendid. Send and get it, and enjoy a good treat.— Whitehall Times. Puck's ANNUAL, jis out and at large. It is in reality a fresh bright volume ‘of humor in prose and verse, of over | AN UNDECIDED CHARACTER. 100 pages, handsomely printed and capitally illustrated. | Louisville Courier-Journal, Puck’s ANNUAL for 1880 seems to be a very interest ing mixture of humorous and other matter, put up in cheap pamphlet form, and will no doubt prove a valuable addition to the humorous literature of the da polis Daily Sentinel. Pucx issues an annual, which is just about the sauciest, wittiest and queerest thing out. Twenty-five cents worth Indiana: |, of illustrated fun, which needs to be enjoyed at home, | where if you burst your buttons off with laughter you are all right.—Meriden Recorder. Or Puck's Costc ANNUAL FoR 1880 there is no end of well-deserved commendation. Our exchanges teem with kindly greetings and pleasant adjectives, freely and fitly bestowed on this sprightly variorum of mirth and phi- and the vignette and more pretentious illustra- the acme of the caricaturist's ait.— WV. ¥. News, Puck's ANNUAL FOR 1880 is far ahead of anything of the kind we have ever scen. It contains 121 pages of reading matter and pictures warranted to split the buttons off of any vest in use up to date, and mechanically it is a model of artistic beauty. A man that can't cure the blues with a dose of Puck should go get him to anunnery, as it were.—Steubenville Herald. Puck’s ANNUAL FOR 1880 cannot be described accu rately, and we doubt if the editor could explain its con- tents, It is as unique as the weekly issue of Puck, both in matter and illustrations, only a little more so. It is a bundle of oddities, and so full of bon mots that its deform: | ities are hidden to the eye of the connaisseyr of fun and frolic. Perhaps Mark Twain is a contributor; it eclipses, however, his funny sayings.— Pittsburgh Telegraph Puck's ANNUAL, the sauciest, queerest, wittiest, bright: est, most original, artistic, sensible and interesting of all the holiday publications, isat hand. It oddly says of itself that besides being an annual, it is “also an almanac, a city directory, a universal gazetteer, a rhyming dictionary, a guide to draw-poker and Wall Street, a cold collation, a jack-knife and a toothpick.” Those ‘Puck fellows are chaps, and have more energy to the square inch than a steam-engine. We forgot to say that the price of the ANNUAL is only a quarter.— Wheeling Leader. part of Winter, why don’t you let us know, and | we will leave.” Puck’s Ansvat is a handsomely printed, lavishly il: lustrated pamphlet of about 125 pages, and contains any quantity of pure fun. Puck is nothing if not original, | therefore the ANNUAL is not a collection of old worn-out cuts and stale jokes. It is fresh, clean and sweet—*a | thing of beauty and a joy forever,” or at least until the ANNUAL of 1881 comes out.— Rome Sentinel. | ‘Tur, handcomest thing, by all odds, thst we have seen this year, in the literary line, is Puck's ANNUAL, pub: lished by Keppler & Schwarzmann, and illustrated by | Messrs. Keppler and Wales. No paper of its kind, either Europe or America, is equal to PUCK, and its incisive | and pungent cartoons and editorials penetrate straight to | the heart of the evil attacked. When we say that the ANNUAL is equal to the weekly, we can think of no | greater meed of praise.—_Baltimere Every Saturday. | Puck's ANNUAL for 1880 is on deck, and is a book for | every one, combining, as it does, an almanac, a New | York city directory, a universal gazetteer, a rhyming dic- | tionary, a guide to draw-poker and various other matters | which all good citizens should know about. It is full of | witty and humorous sayings, and its illustrations are ex cellent, being from the pencils of the well known cartoon | ists of Puck. The person who can't find something in it to amuse and interest him is blind, deaf and crazy. The publishers are Keppler & Schwarzmann, New Vor | Boston Post, Tue Puck of the “Midsummer Night's Dream" was but the precursor of the more sprightly sprite who fash ions the art and inspires the literature of one of the best satirical journals in the world to-day. He of the Shak spere creation proclaimed that he could put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” and that dream has been more than realized in the telegraph conquests, by which time and space have been annihilated. Our Puck of New York has achieved greater wonders, He has encircled the hearts of millions with his influence; he | has turned away the misdocr from the evil of his ways by the keenness of his wit, and promoted honesty in public life by the satirical slaughter of hypocrisy. This for every week of the year. But now, at the year's close, and as an acceptable offering for ‘our coming guest, #1880,” we have a concentrated essence of wit and. wis. dom, of song and satire, of attractive tales and entertain. ing trifles. We have art wedded to literature, society taken to pieces and its weak sides exposed with as little of the pain of the surgeon's knife as possible; beats and blackmailers burnished up with the aids of pen and pen- cil, but only with a view to the abatement of the nui- sances and—— But why pursue the enumeration of con- tents? It is enough to say that in forty minutes of reading Puck's ANNUAL puts a girdle of enjoyment round about the hearts and homes of its patrons which, we hope, in time may mean ‘all about the earth.” —W. Y. Star. comicbooks.com