Punchiana

Messrs. Ferritt & Co. have for sale Messrs. Carey & Hart's last Punch book. It is entitled "Punchiana," and surpasses all its predecessors of the same class. The large coloured steel frontispiece, entitled " Farming for Ladies," is the richest thing of the kind we have seen. It is evidently intended as a satire on the queen's rural tastes. She is represented sitting in a garden chaise, attended by three footmen in livery, in the farm-yard. She is very composedly ladling the liquid food from a porcelain swill-pail into a China hog's trough, and at the same time holding a bottle of Eau de Cologne to her olfactory organ to counteract the unpleasant effluvia arising from the multitude of interesting domestic animals which are participating of the queen's bounty. In the distance a neat English chamber-maid is carefully sweeping out the pig-stye; a dairy-maid is returning from milking, holding very daintily a parasol over her head ; another is churning, and, at the same time, reading a novel; another damsel is holding plough, with a footman in livery behind her with a sun-shade to preserve the fair plough-woman's complexion from injury; and a load of hay is driven home by a royal coachman sitting on a magnificent hammer cloth in front, with liveried footmen holding on behind, and gay ladies with flags riding on the top. Commend us to Punch for hitting off royal affectation and nonsense.