Chapter XVI

Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz").--Invincible Tendency to
Exaggeration.--Charles Lever's Opinion.--Weakness and Attenuation of
his Figures.--Compared with John Leech.--Tendency to Reproduce.--All
his Heroes closely Resemble One Another.--Charles Lever's Complaint on
this Score.--Great Ability of the Artist.--"Ralph Nickleby's Visit to
his Poor Relations."--Newman Noggs.--Squeers.--Mrs. Nickleby's Lunatic
Admirer.--"Pecksniff's Reception of the New Pupil."--"Pleasant Little
Family Party at Mr. Pecksniff's."--"Warm Reception of Mr. Pecksniff by
his Venerable Friend."--Quilp and Samson Brass.--Quilp and the
Dog.--Mrs. Jarley's Waxwork Brigand.--Capture of Bunsby by Mrs.
Macstinger.--"Sunday under Three Heads."--The Jack Sheppard Mania of
1840.--"The Way to the Gallows made Easy and Pleasant."--"Phiz" not a
Born Comic Artist.--Excellence in Depicting Graver Subjects.--"The
Dombey Family."--"Mrs. Dombey at Home."--"Abstraction and
Recognition."--"The Dark Road."--"Carker in his Hour of
Triumph."--"Bleak House."--Why Browne suited Charles Dickens's
Requirements.--Coolness between Artist and Author.--One of Browne's
Finest Illustrations.--Decline of Book Etching.--Browne without an
Idea of his Own.--Powerful Assistance rendered to Novelists by Book
Illustrators of his day.--Sketches and Studies.--Death of the Artist.
_pp._ 336-354.