Chapter XVII

Kenny Meadows.--"Portraits of the English."--A Thoroughly Useful
Man.--Some Works Illustrated by Meadows.--His Merits Unequal.--His
Contempt for Nature.--An Early Illustrator of _Punch_.--His
Illustrated Shakespeare.--Some Excellent Work of Meadows.--His
Death.--Robert William Buss.--Recommended to Illustrate "Pickwick" on
Seymour's Death.--Etchings Suppressed.--The "Buss Plates" not his at
all.--His Paintings.--Lectures on Caricature and Graphic
Satire.--Comic Publications which preceded or ran side by side with
_Punch_.--Alfred William Forrester (Alfred Crowquill).--"A General
Utility Man."--Crowquill a Caricaturist.--His Talent and
Cleverness.--Some of His Paintings.--Charles H.
Bennett.--"Shadows."--"Shadow and Substance."--"Origin of
Species."--Taken on the _Punch_ Staff.--Early Death.--Theatrical
Performances for the Benefit of his Family.--Kate Terry.--Thackeray as
a Comic Artist.--Satire on Charles Lever.--Unfitted to Illustrate his
own Novels, and why.--His Genius Displayed in Literature not in
Art.--Illustrations to "Vanity Fair" Considered.--Anthony Trollope on
this Subject.
_pp._ 355-380.