BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



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Now ready, the THIRD EDITION of 



PUCK ON PEGASUS, 



Illustrated by John Leech, George Cruickshank, Tenniel, 

 "Phiz" (Hablot K.Browne), and Julian Portch. 



LONDON: J. C. HOTTEN, PICCADILLY, and all Booksellers and Libraries. 

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. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



SATURDAY KEVIEVV, 27 July, 1861. 



" Mr. Pennell's parodies and imitations are certainly above the average, 

 and the foregoing remarks are not meant to applj-, except perhaps, here and 

 there incidentally, to his collection of such pieces. They are at times, it is 

 time, somewhat unequal, but there is a good deal of vigorous and healthy 



versification scattered throughout the volume The Derby Day is one of the 



most spirited sketches in this volume. The first three lines of our extract are 



excellent in their way, and have a fine healthy elan about them The next 



verse, of a decidedly lower order, may still be given as a very fair reproduction 



of Hood's peculiar style and humour Again in the Nlglit Mail North our 



author seems at home in his subject, and writes with considerable effect 



The last line but one is powerful enough and the best in the extract.... Many of 

 our readers may find, besides these extracts, much that is clever and amusing 

 in Puck on Pegasus" &c., fcc. 



ATHEN^UM, 15 JUTW, 1861. 



" This volume has fared sumptuously at the Publisher's hands ; inside, a 



creamy luxury ; outside, a glory of magenta and gold One or two illustrative 



faces and figures are of Mr. Leech's loveliest Cruickshank' s frontispiece is 



a jewel." 



LITERARY GAZETTE, 25 May, 1861. 



"To be funny without being vulgar, to tell a story with gestures and yet 

 become a buffoon, to parody a poet and yet retain the flavour of his real 

 poetry, to turn all the finest feelings of the heart into fun and yet not to be 

 coarse or unfeeling, is not granted by Apollo to every writer of humourous 



poems: Mr. Pennell...is an excellent parodyist, an ingenious punster, a 



reviver and modifier of existing systems of fun, a vigorous worker of veins of 

 humour not yet carried far enough, and promises to be a future rival, without 



plagiarism, of Bon Gaultier and some of the best Punch writers Of all the 



poems, we like best the Night Man North, which has a singular weird power 

 about it that takes a hold on the imagination. The following verses are 



excellent in rhythm Lord Jotty Ghreen's Courtship is a well-written parody 



on a well-known poem of Mrs. Browning, who will be the first to laugh at her 



