hillips--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"--Hablot 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
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