Punch and Judy " and nine other first-rate

" and nine other first-rate stories

Quiller-Couch delivered a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge in 1913-14

and a number of animal and human figures used in the original Celtic works

From short tunics worn by Saxon men in the fifth century to a lady's bustle dress of the late 1800s

This unabridged reproduction of the 1896 edition of lectures delivered at Harvard College is a study of "why

Punch and Judy " and nine other first-rateBraggart and bully, the immortal Punch has delighted audiences for centuries. On street corners and at country fairs, crowds of English children cheer for this paragon of unrepentant wickedness, shouting encouragement and applauding his gleeful buffoonery. Punch struts and boasts, cracking jokes and heads, while the casualties mount: Judy, his shrieking wife; the interfering policeman; the hoodwinked hangman; and the devil himself, beaten to death.