"Gone!"--Duke of
Marlborough's Boot.--The Two Elves.--Witches' Frolic.--Ghosts.--Jack
o' Lantern.--Devils.--The Gin Shop.--Redgauntlet.--Fagin in the
Condemned Cell.--Murder of Sir Rowland Trenchard.--Xit Wedded to the
Scavenger's Daughter.--Mauger Sharpening his Axe.--Massacre at
Tullabogue, etc.--His Genius.
_pp._ 167-188.

CHAPTER IX.

The Sleep of Thirty Years.--Causes of George Cruikshank's Decadence
Insufficiently Understood.--Professor Bates' Theory.--Charles
Dickens's Nervousness (?).--Why Cruikshank was Unfitted to Illustrate
his Novels.--The Rejected Illustration to Oliver Twist.--Quarrel with
Bentley.--Guy Fawkes Illustrations.--"Ainsworth's Magazine."--Progress
of the Cruikshank _versus_ Bentley Campaign.--Cruikshank's Declaration
of War.--His Tactics.--"Our Library Table."--Quarrel with Harrison
Ainsworth.--Cruikshank's Claim to be Originator of Two of his Stories
Considered.--A word for Harrison Ainsworth.--Popularity and Success of
his Novels.--Charles Lever's "Arthur O'Leary."--Cruikshank's final
Leap in the Dark.--Its Fatal Consequences.--Crusade against
Drink.--"Worship of Bacchus."--His Work Falls away.--Thirty Years of
Artistic Sterility.--Fairy Stories turned into Temperance
Tracts.--Forgotten!

_pp._ 189-207.

CHAPTER X.

Birth of Robert Seymour.--Starts as a Painter in Oils.--Death of
George IV.--His Contemptible Character.--Sale of his Wardrobe.--Order
for General Mourning.--"The Adelaide Mill."--Revolution of
1830.--Dismissal of the German Band.--St. John Long the
Quack.--Administering an Oath.--The "Humorous Sketches."--"Book of
Christmas."--"New Readings of Old Authors."--"Figaro in London."--A
Beckett's Editorial Amenities.--Feud between him and Seymour.--Seymour
Caricatures A Beckett.--"Figaro" passes into the hands of
Mayhew.--Re-engagement of Seymour.--Origin of the "Pickwick
Papers."--The Rejected Etching.--Suicide of Seymour.--His Claim to be
the "Inventor" of "Pickwick" considered.
_pp._ 208-234.

CHAPTER XI.

The Agitation for Reform in 1830-32.--The Marquis of Blandford's
Scheme of Reform.--Strange State of the English Representative System
of those Days.--O'Connell's Scheme.--Lord John Russell's "Resolutions"
Rejected.--Dearth of Political Caricaturists at this
Time.--HB.--Secret of the Success of his "Political Sketches."--His
Style a Complete Innovation.--"I'll be your Sec