Chapter 17

_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