Chapter 16

_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. à Beckett--"A. Briefless, Junior"--Mortimer Collins--Mr. E. J. Milliken--"The 'Arry Papers"--Gilbert à Beckett--"How we Advertise Now"--Mr. H. F. Lester--Mr. Burnand and the Corporal 356