Chapter 18

_PUNCH'S_ ARTISTS: 1841.

_Punch's_ Primitive Art--A. S. Henning--Brine--A Strange Doctrine--John Phillips--W. Newman--Pictorial Puns--H. G. Hine--John Leech--His Early Life--Friendship with Albert Smith--Leech Helps _Punch_ up the Social Ladder--His Political Work--Leech Follows the "Movements"--"Servantgalism"--"The Brook Green Volunteer"--The Great Beard Movement--Sothern's Indebtedness to Leech for Lord Dundreary--Crazes and Fancies--Leech's Types--"Mr. Briggs"--Leech the Hunter--Leech as a Reformer--Leech as an Artist--His "Legend" Writing--His Prejudices--His Death--And Funeral 409