Chapter XLV: Conclusion

PUCK ON PEGASUS By H. Cholmondeley Pennell Illustrated By Leech, Phiz, Portch, and Tenniel With a Frontispiece By George Cruikshank Fourth Edition 1862.

CONTENTS PUCK ON PEGASUS. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH SONG OF IN-THE-WATER. THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. THE PETITION 'THE POET CLOSE.' THE DU CHILLU CONTROVERSY ADVERTISEMENT OUR SWEET RECRUITING SERGEANTS. SONNET DERBY DAY AH, WHO? "DAILY TRIALS." HOW WE GOT TO THE BRIGHTON REBLEW SCHOOL "FEEDS." LORD HOLLYGREENS COURTSHIP LAY OF THE DESERTED INFLUENZED I'VE LOST MY ———— THE VIII CRUSADE. IN MEDIÆVOS. FIRE! COUNT CABOUR. THE WELL OF TRUTH PERILS OF THE FINE ARTS. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT (IRISH) BRIGADE WUS, EVER WUS TOO BAD, YOU KNOW. "THE DAYS THE THING." GHOSTRIES. "MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE." ODE TO HAMPSTEAD. OUR TRAVELLER. CHINESE PUZZLES. ETCETERA. WHAT THE PRINCE OF I DREAMT. CASE IN LUNACY. A GIGGLE FOR "EXCELSIER" THE THREAD OF LIFE.

STAGE, STUDY & STUDIO by John Leech and Others INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS PANTOMIMICS PAGE Rehearsing the "fish" ballet 1 Billy and Bunny 3 Winning the gloves 4 Modern languages taught in one lesson 5 Theatre Royal—Nursery 6 An ex(bus)horse-tive argument 7 A pict-ure 8 A swallow out of season 9 "With a neck like that" 11 Experienced young fellow 12 Two transformation scenes 13 Not the correct way of pudding it 15 Humanizing influence of pantomime 16 ON THE STAGE AND OFF Prompt but not prepared 17 A wordless story 18 English as she is spoke 23 Cassius 24 Acting under difficulties 25 Ever-popular criminal on the stage 27 On the stage—and off 28-9 When actors are Members of Parliament 31 When actors become modest 32 "Still running" 33 The part of Hamlet 34 Good and bad business at the theatre 35 "A little padding" 37 The actor's one topic—himself 39 A side-box talk 40 The bald baron 41-4 FUN AT THE PLAY "Are you sitting on my hat?" 45 Delights of theatre-going 46-7 "Not so long as four solos" 49 A little ruse 50 A morning concert 52 Pit, boxes, and gallery 54 Playgoers and their eccentricities 56 Credit where credit is due 57 A "civil" retort 58 AMONG THE AMATEURS[iv] At a fancy ball 61 Private theatricals 63 Private theatricals at the Titwillows' 65 THE POETS' CORNER Portrait of a gentleman 67 The poets illustrated 69 No! Don't 70 The poets illustrated 74 "Mariar Martin, or the Red Baarn" 75 An illustrated edition of the poets 77-9 Poets and their patrons 80 MAINLY ABOUT AUTHORS Would-be novelist 85 Lady Audley's secret 86 Perfect sincerity, or, thinkings aloud 88 The ancient Britons 88 A rural study 89 "The great cypher work" 90 Author's miseries 92-7 Harris-ing reflections 99 "Hemily Fitz-Hosborn" 100 THE EDITOR IN HIS DEN The editor at home 101 Romance of advertising 103 "Pirates surprised at sunset" 104 Fancy portrait—Oliver Twist 105 A fact! 106 A new reading 111 STUDIES FROM THE STUDY "He's sent the books" 113 Returned—with thanks 114 A queer cut 115 The pursuit of letters 116 Grand march of Intellect 116 Catalogue of the letter P. 117 The age of intellect 118 Subject for a picture 119 An awful apparition 121 The musical neighbour 123 British Museum catalogue 124 Analytical papers 125 "Couldn't read Miss Frump's new book" 127 The philosopher's revenge 129-136 FUN IN THE STUDIO "Present company always excepted!" 137 "Very tiring" 138 Wholesale 139 "Qualifications" 140 Behind the scenes 141 "Asking for it" 142 The commercial side 143 Gaddy's academy picture on view 144 "Flattering" 145 Profession and practice 146 A rapid genius 147 "English langweege" 148 "Only their mothers" 149 For exhibition? 150 Pretty innocent 151 "Aye, there's the rub!" 152 "Work hard and get your own living" 153 March of science 154 The real 154 Pleasures of the studio 155 A happy medium 155 The ideal 156 Two principal figures 157 Answers for our artist 158 The mother of invention 159 Kindly meant 160 "Where's your beard?" 160 How some old painters must have worked[v] 161 Studio persuasion 162 "A portrait painter" 163 Model husband and a lay figure 164 Marvellous! 165 A visit to the studio 166 Scene in a studio 167 Ballet of action 168 Turps v. Turpitude 169 One use for "Dundrearys" 169 Accommodating! 170 "Lucky fellow!!" 171 "Noblesse oblige!" 172 Our art-school conversazione 173 "Only one spur a-piece" 174 "Sharp's the word" 175 The sympathies of art 176 Under a great master 176 "Sent it to the wash!" 177 "Ugly and as ridiculous as possible" 178 Perfect sincerity; or, thinkings aloud 179 Easily satisfied 180 Compliments of the season 181 "Skyed" 182 ROUND THE GALLERIES Caution 183 Painters and gazers 185 An artist's dream 186 "Athletic exercises" 187 Let them exhibit their pictures outside 188 Pleasures of the Royal Academy 189 Art in the National Gallery 190 Outside the Royal Academy 191 Charming fashion of long skirts 192 "Unto this last" 193 "Very like—very like" 194 The umbrella question 195 Pictures of the English, painted by the French 196 A-musing 197 Perhaps 198 Reception of pictures at Royal Academy 199 Our historical portrait gallery 200-1 A study 202 Overheard at the Academy 203 Suggestions for the Royal Academy catalogue 206 THE ARTIST OUT OF DOORS "It's an ill wind," etc. 207 The old cottage 208 The elysium of artists 209 "A pretty prospect" 210 Possibilities of a penny pistol and a box of caps 211 Technical and practical 212 "Impertinent curiosity of the vulgar" 213 "That pre-Raphaelite fellow" 214 Where ignorance is bliss 215 Design for an album 216 Studying skies 217 Culture for the million 218 An artist scamp in the Highlands 220 Ingenious protection against midges 221 Sketching from Nature 222 "Very nearly a pound" 223 Art at a cattle show 224 What an artist has to put up with 224 Enjoying himself in the Highlands 225 "Compliments of the (sketching) season" 226 "Fine Art" 227 "Brother Brush" 228 Making the best of it 229 One reason, certainly! 230 Æsthetics[vi] 230 A broad hint 231 Pleasant for Jack Daubs 231 Flattering! 232 Our adventurous artist 233 Art and science 234 An eye for colour 235 Ignorance was bliss 235 Our artist 236 SCULPTURE AND COMEDY "Well broke!" 237 Venus of Milo 238 "Ingenuas didicisse" 241 At the great exhibition of 1861 243 Popular history 244 Capital punishment 245 A flagrant attempt 246 FUNNY FILMS: HUMOURS OF PHOTOGRAPHY "Many a true word spoke in jest" 247 Bobby's camera 249 Interesting group posed for a photograph 250-251 Happy thought 252-253 Pleasant for Simpkins 254 Unanswerable 255 Can the camera lie? 256 The artistic(!) studio 257 "What for?" 259 Portrait of a distinguished photographer 260 A photographic picture 261 Encouragement of art 263 "A florid complexion" 265 Artful! 266 Subject for a picture 267 Photographic beauties 268 WANDERING MINSTRELS Christmas waits 269 Division of labour 271 Culture for the million 273 Nothing like advertising yourself 275 Sketch from a study window 277 THROUGH THE OPERA GLASSES The opera 281 What indeed? 284 "French without a master" 285 We don't sing enough 287 The high note 288 The low note 289 "Only twenty-two" 291 Culture for the million 292 Gentle rebuke 293 CHIEF ARTISTS REPRESENTED Adams, Jack. 29. Barnard, Fred. 9, 69, 74, 76-9, 99, 115, 147, 160, 169, 176, 206, 220, 244. Bateman, H. M. 3, 208, 288-9, 291. Bede, Cuthbert. 58. Booth, J. L. C. 50, 90, 138, 190. Brentnall, E. F. 212. Bromley, V. W. 146. Browne, W. G. A. 234. Brunton, W. S. 154, 185, 235, 296. Bull, René. 18. Cooper, T. G. 155. Cruikshank, George. 24, 54, 116, 118, 178, 216, 279, 280. Daubeny, Hesketh. 104. Doyle, Richard. 84, 124, 200-1, 209, 269. Du Maurier, George. 65, 67, 89, 129-136, 141, 157-9, 192, 218, 229, 238, 252, 253, 263, 271, 273, 292, 293. Griset, Ernest. 161. Haselden, W. K. 25, 27, 31, 32, 35, 39, 46, 47, 56, 57, 189, 287. Howard, Capt. H. R. 222. Keene, Charles. 91, 101, 139, 143-5, 168, 172, 173, 175, 182, 193, 195, 198, 207, 213, 217, 223, 226-8, 230, 232, 233, 241, 245, 254, 255, 265, 285. Lawson, F. W. 75. Leech, John. 4, 8, 63, 70, 86, 88, 100, 114, 119, 121, 123, 155, 166, 167, 179, 180, 196, 243, 246, 251, 256-7, 267, 268, 277, 281, 284. Leete, Alfred. 45. May, Phil. 1, 11, 23, 37, 61, 137, 148, 149, 237, 247, 259. Maybank, Thomas. 81-3. Pears, Charles. 211, 249. Proctor, J. 162. Sandercock, H. 106, 125, 150. Thackeray, William Makepeace. 286. Thomas, Bert. 34, 49, 191. Thomson, Gordon. 6, 14, 15, 16, 152, 197, 203. Wall, A. H. 194. Weigand, W. J. 17. Wright, Frank. 215. PRINCIPAL LITERARY CONTENTS PAGE PLAYERS' PRANKS 2 EMMA AND ULPHO 19 HUMOURS OF THE PLAYHOUSE 22 SCENERY AND COSTUME OF THE STAGE 48 ASS YOU LIKE IT 55 HAMLET'S LAST SOLILOQUY 58 AT THE MASQUERADE 60 AMATEUR FLUTE-PLAYER 62 ONLY SEVEN 64 LYCEUM LYRICS 66 THE POETS AT PLAY 68 MOTLEY'S KINGDOM 76 MY MANUSCRIPTS 81 A MAN I HATE 84 MARK TWAIN AND THE KEY 87 HUMOURS OF THE PRINTING HOUSE 91 HARRIS-ING REFLECTIONS 98 HUMOURS OF ADVERTISING 102 APPROVED BY THE EDITOR 109 RULES FOR NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS 110 LITERARY FLUNKEYISM 112 HUMOURS OF OUR LANGUAGE 114 MORE HUMOURS OF ADVERTISING 120 HE NEVER CALLED AGAIN 126 A DANGEROUS WRITER 128 PAINTERS AND GAZERS 184 A DREAM OF UNFAIR WOMEN 204 IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS 209 PYRAMUS AND THISBE 239 PHOTOGRAPHIC FAILURES 248 THE PHOTOGRAPHS 258 MRS BROWN AND THE GERMAN BAND 270 STREET MUSICIANS 280 THE BOHEMIAN GIRL 282 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE OPERA 286 A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN 290 THE ONION GIRL 294