"There can be no blinking the fact that in Mr.Punch's Cabinet John Leech is the right-hand man.
Fancy a number of _Punch_ without Leech's pictures! What would you give for it ?" Then he breaks out into strong admiration of that one friend,--perhaps with a little disregard as to the feelings of other friends.[3] This _Critical Review_, if it may properly be so called,--at any rate it is so named as now published,--is to be found in our author's collected works, in the same volume with _Catherine_.

It is there preceded by another, from _The Westminster Review_, written fourteen years earlier, on _The Genius of Cruikshank_.

This contains a descriptive catalogue of Cruikshank's works up to that period, and is interesting from the piquant style in which it is written.

I fancy that these two are the only efforts of the kind which he made,--and in both he dealt with the two great caricaturists of his time, he himself being, in the imaginative part of a caricaturist's work, equal in power to either of them.
We now come to a phase of Thackeray's life in which he achieved a remarkable success, attributable rather to his fame as a writer than to any particular excellence in the art which he then exercised.

He took upon himself the functions of a lecturer, being moved to do so by a hope that he might thus provide a sum of money for the future sustenance of his children.