personal, and wonder how many people
forgave me. I often overheard stories about myself in the hunting-field
(where I had hard times with ladies occasionally). When Shirley Brooks
died, I felt I had lost my best and most helpful friend; and then Mr.
Tom Taylor cared nothing for sport or sporting subjects, so that I felt
that my work was uncongenial to him, and I got on badly and lost all
interest in it, and gave up, after having drawn ten years for the paper,
to which I shall never again contribute."

Mr. Walter Crane, of all people in the world, appears on p. 33 of Vol.
LI. The cut is hardly funny, except in idea--it represents a
chignon-show--nor is it as well drawn as much of the work he was doing
at the time; he had not yet hit upon the style or subject that he
afterwards made his own. A couple of sketches by O. Harling, an amateur,
conclude the list for the year.

The year 1867 is famous in _Punch's_ calendar for the acquisition of Mr.
Linley Sambourne; but an earlier arrival was Mr. Frederic Shields. Mr.
Swain suggested that he should "do a letter or two"; Mr. Shields did
three, including a "social" ("Want your door swep', marm?"), and a girl
curling her hair with the fender-tongs. The initials were kept over
until 1870; and this constituted the sum of Mr. Shields' artistic
adventure into the domain of humour.

FOOTNOTES:

[59] Mr. Henry James, jun., considers ("Century Magazine," 1883) that
"since 1868, _Punch_ has been, artistically speaking, George du
Maurier."

[60] See "Encyclopaedia Britannica."

[61] See "Magazine of Art," 1891.

[62] "The Art of England: The Fireside," p. 174.

[63] The other ladies are Miss Coode, Mrs. Romer (Mrs. Jopling-Rowe),
Mrs. Field, Miss Fraser, Miss Mansell (Mrs. Bull)--merely a sketch, and
Miss Maud Sambourne.

CHAPTER XXII.

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1867-82.

Mr. Linley Sambourne--Mechanical Engineering Loses a Decorative
Designer--Mr. Sambourne's 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, Artist, Traveller, and Hermit--Mr. W.
Ralston--Mr. A. Chantrey Corbould--Charles Keene's Advice--Randolph
Caldecott--Major-General Robley--R. B. Wallace--Colonel Ward
Ben