Present Ownership--"Forlorn Hope"--"The Old Crusaders"--Troubles of
the Cartoonist--The Obituary Cartoon 168

CHAPTER VIII.

CARTOONS AND THEIR EFFECT.

Origin and Growth of the Cartoon--And of its Name--Its Reflection
of Popular Opinion--Source of _Punch's_ Power--_Punch's_
Downrightness offends France--Germany--And Russia--Lord Augustus
Loftus's Fix--Lord John Russell and "No Popery"--Mr. Gladstone and
Professor Ruskin on _Punch's_ Cartoons--Their Effect on Mr.
Disraeli--His Advances and Magnanimity--Rough Handling of Lord
Brougham--Sir Robert Peel--Lord Palmerston's Straw--Mr. Bright's
Eye-glass--Difficulties of Portraiture--John Bull _alias_ Mark
Lemon--Sir John Tenniel's Types 185

CHAPTER IX.

_PUNCH_ ON THE WAR-PATH: ATTACK.

_Punch_ lays about Him--Assaults the "Morning Post"--The Factitious
"Jenkins"--Thackeray's Farewell--Mrs. Gamp (the "Morning Herald")
and Mrs. Harris (the "Standard")--_Lese Majeste!_--The "Standard"
Fulminates a Leader--The Retort--His Loyalty--Banters the Prince
Consort--Tribute on the Prince's Death--_Punch's_ Butts: Lord
William Lennox--Jullien--Sir Peter Laurie--Harrison
Ainsworth--Lytton--Turner--A Fallacy of Hope--Burne-Jones--Charles
Kean--S. C. Hall as "Pecksniff"--James Silk Buckingham and the
"British and Foreign Destitute"--Alfred Bunn--_Punch's_ Waterloo:
"A Word with Punch"--Bunn, Hot and Cross--A Second "Word" Prepared,
but never Uttered--Other Points of Attack 209

CHAPTER X.

_PUNCH_ ON THE WAR-PATH: COUNTER-ATTACK.

Satire and Libel--Mrs. Ramsbotham Assaulted--Attacks of "The Man in
the Moon" and "The Puppet-Show"--H. S. Leigh's Banter--Malicious
Wit--Mr. Pincott--_Punch's_ Purity gives Offence--His Slips of
Fact--Quotation--And Dialect are Resented--His Drunkards not
Appreciated by the U. K. A.--"_Punch_ is not as good as it
was!" 234

CHAPTER XI.

ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

Mr. Joseph Swain supersedes Ebenezer Landells--His Education as
Engraver--Head of His Department--Engraving the Big Cut: Then and
Now--Printing from the Wood-blocks--Leech's
Fastidiousness--Impracticability of Keene--Thackeray's Little
Confidence--A Record of Half a Century 247

CHAPTER XII.