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Pullen, Henry William, and Others. THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] "WHY JOHNNY DIDN'T INTERFERE ..." [with] JOHN JUSTIFIED: A REPLY TO "THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... Tenth Edition [with] "WHICH SHOULD JOHN HAVE HELPED?" ... Second Edition. [with] THE TRUE STORY ABOUT THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] JOHN'S GOVERNOR VISITS DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] LOUIS' OWN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] DAME EUROPA'S ACCOUNT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD ON THE FIGHT IN HER SCHOOL AFTER HEARING BOTH SIDES [with] THE BREAK-UP OF DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] JOHN'S UNCLE (A THOUGHTFUL OLD GENTLEMAN) THINKS IT IS TIME TO SAY A WORD ... Fourth Edition, with Appendix, As to the 500,000 Men [with] IMPEACHMENT OF THE BRITISH LION BY THE BRITISH UNICORN AT THE QUEEN'S ARMS. London: various publishers, 1870-1871. Small octavo, eleven pamphlets, bound together in three-quarter black leather and marbled boards in one volume. Mostly first editions. Eleven pamphlets, ten of them issued as responses to THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL, Henry William Pullen's anonymously published allegory about the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871). About 200 pamphlets, taking various sides of the question, appeared over the next couple of years. "The treatment by Pullen and his followers of modern mechanized war as a row among school boys is likely to strike a modern reader as either quaint or horribly naïve. The other irony triggered by a modern reading is that Dame Europa's School, an allegorical figment in 1870, was, a hundred years later, well on its way to becoming an actual political and economic institution, the European Union (which now, under the stress of a single currency, may be on its way back to being a fantasy). The only pamphlet here with futuristic content is THE BREAK-UP OF DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL (Locke I, see below). The only pamphlet here not found in Locke (Spectrum I, II or III) is the last of these, IMPEACHMENT OF THE BRITISH LION BY THE BRITISH UNICORN AT THE QUEEN'S ARMS by Wykehamicus Friedrich, pseudonym of Frederick Gale (London: P. S. King, 34, Parliament Street, 1871), which abandons the schoolboy allegory of Pullen for a system based on animals (England = the Lion; Scotland = the Unicorn; France = the French Eagle; Germany = the double-faced Eagle; Russia = the Bear; America = the Stars and Stripes Menagerie, etc.), but it is still very much in the same spirit of half-playful, half-earnest satire." - Robert Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy I, pp. 16-17 and Spectrum II, pp. 130-131. Last two titles have closely trimmed fore-edges with loss of a few letters of text from right edges of most leaves, else all are very good. None have their original paper covers. (#107140).

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