From tae "Norta-Cutna Dary News" or Jury 3, 1871
The great event has happened. The second number of "Puck"—was Published yesterday, And having, done our duty by recording the fact, we might almost stop; for of course every one in Shanghai will have read "Puck before these words can be printed; so, if the object of a review is to give People an idea of a publication, our labour will be useless. We may, howment of oni fenders of the ouporis benefit of our readers at the on! supplied. may say that it is probably as approdte as other "yet produced, and better than the majority meeting. "Puck's" judgment on the Soochow Creek bridge is of course looked for, and we find it next in the series. A poem, entitled "A Lay of the Soochow Creek" amusingly describes the conception, execution and collapse of the commodious structure which we have lately had to mourn. The sketches this time are better even than last. The series of delineations of Volunteer eccentricities and accidents is capital, and the cartoon, Tannhauser, represents well a recent episode. Decidedly, however, in our opinion, the great success of the present number is its poetry. The "Lay of the Soochow Creek" is even surpassed by "A Lay of the Shanghai Club," describing the gallant struggles for freedom and the ballot, which have distinguished its recent meetings. The hitherto unpublished chapter of Dr. Johnson and Boswell's You can be sure of years of Service if your refrigerator is a Westinghouse.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.