I need hardly say that Father Prout was the Rev.F.Mahony.Then followed _Our Volunteers_, by Sir John Burgoyne; _A Man of Letters of the Last Generation_, by Thornton Hunt; _The Search for Sir John Franklin_, from a private journal of an officer of the Fox, now Sir Allen Young; and _The First Morning of 1860_, by Mrs.Archer Clive.

The number was concluded by the first of those _Roundabout Papers_ by Thackeray himself, which became so delightful a portion of the literature of _The Cornhill Magazine_.
It would be out of my power, and hardly interesting, to give an entire list of those who wrote for _The Cornhill_ under Thackeray's editorial direction.

But I may name a few, to show how strong was the support which he received.

Those who contributed to the first number I have named.

Among those who followed were Alfred Tennyson, Jacob Omnium, Lord Houghton, William Russell, Mrs.Beecher Stowe, Mrs.Browning, Robert Bell, George Augustus Sala, Mrs.Gaskell, James Hinton, Mary Howitt, John Kaye, Charles Lever, Frederick Locker, Laurence Oliphant, John Ruskin, Fitzjames Stephen, T.A.Trollope, Henry Thompson, Herman Merivale, Adelaide Proctor, Matthew Arnold, the present Lord Lytton, and Miss Thackeray, now Mrs.Ritchie.Thackeray continued the editorship for two years and four months, namely, up to April, 1862; but, as all readers will remember, he continued to write for it till he died, the day before Christmas Day, in 1863.