Bulwer Lytton--Horace Smith--"Rob Roy"
Macgregor--Mr. Henry Silver--Introduces Charles Keene--His Literary
Work--Service to Leech--Retirement--Mr. Sutherland Edwards--Charles
Dickens and _Punch_--Sothern Earns his Dinner--Reconciliation of
Dickens and Mark Lemon--J. L. Hannay--Cuthbert Bede 327
CHAPTER XVI.
_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1852-78.
Shirley Brooks--His Wit and Humour--Training--Lays Siege to
_Punch_--And Carries him by Assault--"Essence of
Parliament"--William Brough--Mr. Beatty Kingston--F. I.
Scudamore--M. J. Barry--Dean Hole--Mr. Charles L. Eastlake--Mr.
Francis Cowley Burnand--His Little Joke with Cardinal
Manning--"Fun"--"Mokeanna"--Its Success--Thackeray's
Congratulations to _Punch_--"Happy Thoughts"--And Other Happy
Thoughts--Mr. Burnand as a Ground-Swell--Promoted to the
Editorship--The Apotheosis of the Pun--Mr. J. Priestman
Atkinson--Mr. John Hollingshead--Mr. R. F. Sketchley--"Artemus
Ward"--A Death-bed Ambition--H. Savile Clarke--Locker-Lampson and
C. S. Calverley--Miss Betham-Edwards--Mr. du Maurier's "Vers
Nonsensiques"--Mr. A. P. Graves--Rev. Stainton Moses--Mr. Arthur W.
a Beckett--"A. Briefless, Junior"--Mortimer Collins--Mr. E. J.
Milliken--"The 'Arry Papers"--Gilbert a Beckett--"How we Advertise
Now"--Mr. H. F. Lester--Mr. Burnand and the Corporal 356
CHAPTER XVII.
_PUNCH'S_ WRITERS: 1880-94.
"Robert"--Mr. Deputy Bedford--Mr. Ashby-Sterry--Reginald Shirley
Brooks--Mr. George Augustus Sala--Mr. Clement Scott--The "Times"
Approves--Mr. H. W. Lucy--"Toby, M.P."--Martin Tupper and Edmund
Yates--Mr. George Grossmith--Mr. Weedon Grossmith--Mr. Andrew
Lang's "Confessions of a Duffer"--Miss May Kendall--Miss
Burnand--Lady Humorists--Mr. Brandon Thomas and Mr. Gladstone--Mr.
Warham St. Leger--Mr. Anstey--"Modern Music-hall Songs"--"Voces
Populi"--Mr. R. C. Lehmann--Mr. Barry Pain--Mr. H. P. Stephens--Mr.
Charles Geake--Mr. Gerald Campbell--R. F. Murray--Mr. George
Davis--Mr. Arthur A. Sykes--Rev. A. C. Deane--Mr. Owen Seaman--Lady
Campbell--Mr. James Payn--Mr. H. D. Traill--Mr. A. Armitage--Mr.
Hosack--"Arthur Sketchley"--Henry J. Byron--_Punch's_ Literature
Considered 385
CHAPTER XVIII.
_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1841.
_Punch's_ Primitive Art--A. S. Henning--Brine--A Strange
Doctrine--John P
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