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...WORLD FOR NELLIE (38 pp.)-Rowland Emett-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A fussy, ramshackle British train with a bad case" of wanderlust spins off to America as a plane, masquerades a while as a riverboat, and returns as a submarine, fueled solely by the remarkable comic imagination of one of Punch's most inventive contributors...
Missing are the traditional cartoons that were merely illustrations for dialogue. Punch's modern jokes are in the drawings themselves, broad, often wildly exaggerated cartoons by Britain's best$#151;Emett, Anton, Sprod, Francois, ffolkes-with only a helpful nudge or two from the captions. And most of the characters are the kind Americans can understand: taxi drivers, sidewalk hawkers, boy geniuses, women in telephone booths, snake charmers, acrobats, psychoanalysts, woolly dogs, fancy new cars and rickety old ones...
...Alice's Wonderland had a railroad, it would probably look like the "Far Twittering and Oysterperch," which for years has been chuffing through the pages of Punch. Under the management of its founder, Cartoonist Rowland Emett, its carriages are apt to be outhouses, its locomotives are overgrown with vines and their mechanism recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which...
...down a 15-inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...
What follows his escape is a mad chase on locomotives through the slumbering countryside, a scene with all the peculiar virtues of the Keystone Cops, the drawings of Punch's artist Emett, and Liza crossing...