MOTORING

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 19

MOTORING

WITH A PUNCH

Prom the first sight of the cover down to the last page, the happy possessor of "Mr. Punch's Motor Book" is guaranteed a succession of broad smiles. The whole story of motoring is covered ia a collection of about 100 pictures, and every variety of motorist and victim comes in for attention from the genial, all-seeing Mr. Punch. Even the fashions of the period between 1895 and 1931 can bo studied from these pages, and the modern girl driver iv a beret and sports suit can prove by Punch's pictures that Mothor really went motoring with a voluminous veil over a wide hat, incredible as it may appear. J The war years were responsible for few of th,o motor jokes in the book, but there is an irresistible . Bert Thomas picture of two Tommies in a motor-lorry in the pouring rain. Says the driver: "Yus, I married my old girl through sympathy like. Yor soe I knocked her dahn in my old taxi." To ■which 'tho Misogynist replies: "They ought to make that compulsory. There wouldn't be so many blinking accidents then." Tho road-hog is flayed very gently, tind tho non-motorist scores in the picture oi' tbo driver with a smashed car saying: "Come and help me to get this car out of: the ditch, will you?" receiving the caustic reply from the embittered pedestrian, "Why?" The exasperating wifo who tries to bo helpful inspires several jests, thoro is a good, if unkind joke about tho lot of salesmen at a motor show, the old car does not receive the tender consideration due to its age, the jokea about tho Baby will cause even its owners to smile, and the inconsiderate women drivers get what they deserve. This is a book no niotorist will dare to confess he has not seen,' and the antiuiotoi'ist must get it to equip himsolf with witty gibes at the expense of his car-mad friends.

Mr. Charloa B. Driscoll has written a survey of the world's buried or sunken treasure. Messrs. Chapman and Hall liavo the book in preparation inidor the title "Doubloons."