Chapter XVI: Punch's Writers: 1852-78

Shirley Brooks--His Wit and Humour--Training--Lays Siege to
_Punch_--And Carries him by Assault--"Essence of
Parliament"--William Brough--Mr. Beatty Kingston--F. I.
Scudamore--M. J. Barry--Dean Hole--Mr. Charles L. Eastlake--Mr.
Francis Cowley Burnand--His Little Joke with Cardinal
Manning--"Fun"--"Mokeanna"--Its Success--Thackeray's
Congratulations to _Punch_--"Happy Thoughts"--And Other Happy
Thoughts--Mr. Burnand as a Ground-Swell--Promoted to the
Editorship--The Apotheosis of the Pun--Mr. J. Priestman
Atkinson--Mr. John Hollingshead--Mr. R. F. Sketchley--"Artemus
Ward"--A Death-bed Ambition--H. Savile Clarke--Locker-Lampson and
C. S. Calverley--Miss Betham-Edwards--Mr. du Maurier's "Vers
Nonsensiques"--Mr. A. P. Graves--Rev. Stainton Moses--Mr. Arthur W.
à Beckett--"A. Briefless, Junior"--Mortimer Collins--Mr. E. J.
Milliken--"The 'Arry Papers"--Gilbert à Beckett--"How we Advertise
Now"--Mr. H. F. Lester--Mr. Burnand and the Corporal 356

CHAPTER XVII.

_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1880-94.

"Robert"--Mr. Deputy Bedford--Mr. Ashby-Sterry--Reginald Shirley
Brooks--Mr. George Augustus Sala--Mr. Clement Scott--The "Times"
Approves--Mr. H. W. Lucy--"Toby, M.P."--Martin Tupper and Edmund
Yates--Mr. George Grossmith--Mr. Weedon Grossmith--Mr. Andrew
Lang's "Confessions of a Duffer"--Miss May Kendall--Miss
Burnand--Lady Humorists--Mr. Brandon Thomas and Mr. Gladstone--Mr.
Warham St. Leger--Mr. Anstey--"Modern Music-hall Songs"--"Voces
Populi"--Mr. R. C. Lehmann--Mr. Barry Pain--Mr. H. P. Stephens--Mr.
Charles Geake--Mr. Gerald Campbell--R. F. Murray--Mr. George
Davis--Mr. Arthur A. Sykes--Rev. A. C. Deane--Mr. Owen Seaman--Lady
Campbell--Mr. James Payn--Mr. H. D. Traill--Mr. A. Armitage--Mr.
Hosack--"Arthur Sketchley"--Henry J. Byron--_Punch's_ Literature
Considered 385

CHAPTER XVIII.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1841.

_Punch's_ Primitive Art--A. S. Henning--Brine--A Strange
Doctrine--John Phillips--W. Newman--Pictorial Puns--H. G.
Hine--John Leech--His Early Life--Friendship with Albert
Smith--Leech Helps _Punch_ up the Social Ladder--His Political
Work--Leech Follows the "Movements"--"Servantgalism"--"The Brook
Green Volunteer"--The Great Beard Movement--Sothern's Indebtedness
to Leech for Lord Dundreary--Crazes and Fancies--Leech's
Types--"Mr. Briggs"--Leech the Hunter--Leech as a Reformer--Leech
as an Artist--His "Legend" Writing--His Prejudices--His Death--And
Funeral 409

CHAPTER XIX.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1841-50.

William Harvey--Mr. Birket Foster--Kenny Meadows--His
Joviality--Alfred "Crowquill"--Sir John Gilbert--Exit
"Rubens"--Hablôt Knight Browne ("Phiz")--Henry Heath--Mr. R. J.
Hamerton--W. Brown--Richard Doyle--Desires Pseudonymity--His
Protest against _Punch's_ "Papal Aggression"
Campaign--Withdraws--His Art--Epitaph by _Punch_--Henry Doyle--T.
Onwhyn--"Rob Roy" Macgregor--William McConnell--Sir John
Tenniel--His Career--And Technique--His Early Work--Cartoons--His
Art--His Memory and its Lapses--"Jack[=i]d[=e]s"--Knighthood 444

CHAPTER XX.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1850-60.

Captain Howard--Receipt for Landscape Drawing--Earnings, Real and
Ideal--George H. Thomas--Charles Keene--His Training--Introduction
to _Punch_--Called to the Table--Uselessness in Council--A Strong
Politician--Inherits Leech's Position--Keene as an Artist--Where He
Failed--His Joke-Primers--Torturing the Bagpipes--Good Stories,
Used, Spoiled, and Rejected--"Toby" as a Dachshund--Death of
"Frau"--Keene's Technique--His Inventions and Creations--And what
He Earned by Them--Charles Martin--Harry Hall--Rev. Edward Bradley
("Cuthbert Bede")--"Verdant Green" or "Blanco White"?--Double
Acrostics--George Cruikshank Defies _Punch_--Mr. T. Harrington
Wilson--Mr. Harrison Weir--Mr. Ashby-Sterry--Alfred Thompson--Frank
Bellew--Julian Portch--"Cham"--G. H. Haydon--J. M. Lawless 475

CHAPTER XXI.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1860-67.

Mr. G. du Maurier's First Drawing--The "Romantic Tenor"--Polite
Satire--His Types and Creations--His Pretty Women--And Fair
American--"Chang," "Don," and "Punch"--Mr. du Maurier as a _Punch_
Writer--Mr. Gordon Thompson--Mr. Stacy Marks, R.A.--Paul Gray--Sir
John Millais, Bart., R.A.--Mr. Fred Barnard--First Joke Refused as
"Painful"--Mr. R. T. Pritchett--Initiation by Sir John
Tenniel--Fritz Eltze--His Amiable Jocularity--Mr. A. R.
Fairfield--Colonel Seccombe--Fred Walker, A.R.A.--Mr. J. Priestman
Atkinson ("Dumb Crambo")--C. H. Bennett--Mr. W. S. Gilbert
("Bab")--His Classic Joke--G. B. Goddard--Miss Georgina Bowers--Mr.
Walter Crane 503

CHAPTER XXII.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1867-82.

Mr. Linley Sambourne--His Work--His Photographs--And
Enterprise--Strasynski--Mr. Wilfrid Lawson--Mr. E. J. Ellis--Mr.
Ernest Griset--Mr. A. Chasemore--Mr. Walter Browne--Mr. Briton
Riviere, R.A.--An Undergraduate Humorist--A _Punch_ Initial
Converted into an Academy Picture--Mrs. Jopling-Rowe--Mr. Wallis
Mackay--Mr. J. Sands--Mr. W. Ralston--Mr. A. Chantrey
Corbould--Charles Keene's Advice--Randolph Caldecott--Major-General
Robley--R. B. Wallace--Colonel Ward Bennitt--Mr. Montagu
Blatchford--Mr. Harry Furniss--Origin of Mr. Gladstone's Collars--A
Favourite Ruse--How It's Done--Mr. Furniss and the Irish
Members--The Lobby Incident--Clever Retaliation--Mr. Furniss's
Withdrawal--Mr. Lillie--Mr. Storey, A.R.A.--Mr. Alfred Bryan. 531

CHAPTER XXIII.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1882-95.

Mr. William Padgett--Mr. E. M. Cox--Mr. J. P. Mellor--Sir F.
Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.--Mr. G. H. Jalland--Monsieur Darré--Mr.
E. T. Reed--His Original Humour--"Contrasts" and "Prehistoric
Peeps"--Approved by Sports Committees and School Classes--Mr.
Maud--A Useful Drain--Mr. Bernard Partridge--Fine Qualities of his
Art--Mr. Everard Hopkins--Mr. Reginald Cleaver--Mr. W. J.
Hodgson--Excites the Countryside--Miss Sambourne--Sir Frank
Lockwood, Q.C., M.P.--Mr. Arthur Hopkins--Mr. J. F. Sullivan--Mr.
J. A. Shepherd--Mr. A. S. Boyd--Mr. Phil May--A Test of
Drunkenness--Mr. Stafford--"Caran d'Ache"--Conclusion. 558