Chapter 13

John Leech.--Birth.--At Charterhouse.--The "Coach Tree."--Early Efforts in Drawing brought to the notice of Flaxman.--Apprenticed to Whittle, an Eccentric Medical Man.--Transfer of Leech's Indentures.--Early Work.--Applies to Illustrate "Pickwick."--Style not Matured till 1840.--An Attack on Dickens.--Attack on "Phiz."--Attack on D'Israeli.--"Bentley's Miscellany."--Joins _Punch_.--Marriage.--The "Right-hand Man in Punch's Cabinet."--"Illuminated Magazine."--Portraits of Leech in _Punch_.--Douglas Jerrold and Albert Smith.--Douglas Jerrold and À Beckett.--Leech at a Fancy Ball.--Albert Smith and the Wide-awake Innkeepers at Chamounix.--George Cruikshank Borrowing from Leech.--Influence of Cruikshank on Leech.--The Two Compared.--Abhorrence of Frenchmen.--Mistake in "The Battle of Life." _pp._ 277-293.