Chapter 15

_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._ 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