_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841.

Mark Lemon--As Others Saw Him--His Duties--His Industry--His Staff
and their Apportioned Work--Lemon as an Editor--And Diplomatist--A
Testimonial--And a Practical Joke--Henry Mayhew--His Great Powers
and Little Weaknesses--Disappointment and Retirement--Stirling
Coyne--Gilbert Abbott a Beckett--His Early Career--Tremendous
Industry--A Beckett and Robert Seymour--Appointed
Magistrate--Locked in--Agnus B. Reach 254

CHAPTER XIII.

_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841.

H. P. Grattan--W. H. Wills--R. B. Postans--Bread-Tax and
Tooth-Tax--G. Hodder--G. H. B. Rodwell--Douglas Jerrold--His
Caustic Wit--The "Q Papers"--A Statesman _pour rire_--His Sympathy
with the Poor and Oppressed--Wins for _Punch_ his Political
Influence--Ill-health--"_Punch's_ Letters"--The "Jenkins" and
"Pecksniff" Papers--"Mrs. Caudle"--Jerrold's Love of Children,
common to the Staff--He Silences his Fellow-wits--And is Routed by
a Barmaid--He sends his Love to the Staff--And they prove theirs
282

CHAPTER XIV.

_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1841-2.

Percival Leigh--His Medical Shrewdness--Unsuspected Wealth--His
Ability and Work--His Decay--Kindness of the Proprietors to the Old
Pensioner--Albert Smith--Inspires varied Sentiments--Jerrold's
Hostility--"Lord Smith"--Parts Company--H. A. Kennedy--Dr.
Maginn--John Oxenford--W. M. Thackeray--His First
Contribution--"Miss Tickletoby" Fails to Please--He Withdraws--And
Resumes--Rivalry with Jerrold--As an Illustrator--A Mysterious
Picture--Thackeray's Contributions--And Pseudonyms--Quaint
Orthography--"The Snobs of England"--He Tires of _Punch_--His
Motives for Resignation--The Letter--Death of "Dear Old
Thack"--_Punch's_ Tribute to his Memory 299

CHAPTER XV.

_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1843-51.

Horace Mayhew--"The Wicked Old Marquis"--A Birthday Ode--R. B.
Peake--Thomas Hood--"The Song of the Shirt"--Its Origin--Its Effect
in the Country--Its Authorship Claimed by Others--Translated
throughout Europe--A Missing Verse--Hood Compared with
Jerrold--"Reflections on New Year's Day"--Dr. E. V. Kenealy--J. W.
Ferguson--Charles Lever--Laman Blanchard--Tom Taylor--Passed over
by Shirley Brooks--Taylor's Critics--Mr. Coventry Patmore--"Jacob
Omnium"--Tennyson _v._