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Chapter 10: Humphry Ward’s Iron Buildings.
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A brief satirical miscellany masquerades as promotional material for a ludicrously grand encyclopaedia, blending parodic advertising copy, faux testimonials, a boastful preface, and absurdly detailed terms of sale. Fragments include mock lists of editors and departments, ridiculous delivery and storage schemes, secret-packing forms, and officious warnings that escalate into surreal consequences. The piece lampoons commercial hype, publishing pretension, and bureaucratic pomposity by using hyperbole, formal documents, and comic inversion of practical concerns.

Humphry Ward’s Iron Buildings.

To cope with the difficulty of accommodating a work that multiplies with such alarming regularity, Mr. Humphry Ward has devised a system of Iron Buildings.

ONE HOUSE ONE CYCLO

is a good rule, but all houses cannot cope with the strain. Hence Mr. Humphry Ward’s noble project.

These buildings are easily erected, and for housing the INSIDECOMPLETUAR are superior in every way to the old method of shooting them into the coal-cellar, where the process of reference was difficult.


Lady Warwick writes:—‘It is quite an addition to Warwick Castle. Mr. Joseph Arch, who was calling here the other day with some more autobiographical materials, was greatly taken with it.’

The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschild, M.P., writes:—‘As winter quarters for my Zebras I do not know what I should do without it.’