Mendoza, when he is fighting with the bargeman, or drinking with Codlingsby, or receiving Louis Philippe in his rooms, seems to have come direct from the pen of our Premier.

Phil Fogerty's jump, and the younger and the elder horsemen, as they come riding into the story, one in his armour and the other with his feathers, have the very savour and tone of Lever and James; but then the savour and the tone are not so piquant.

I know nothing in the way of imitation to equal Codlingsby, if it be not The Tale of Drury Lane, by W.S.in the _Rejected Addresses_, of which it is said that Walter Scott declared that he must have written it himself.

The scene between Dr.Franklin, Louis XVI., Marie Antoinette, and Tatua, the chief of the Nose-rings, as told in _The Stars and Stripes_, is perfect in its way, but it fails as being a caricature of Cooper.

The caricaturist has been carried away beyond and above his model, by his own sense of fun.
Of the ballads which appeared in _Punch_ I will speak elsewhere, as I must give a separate short chapter to our author's power of versification; but I must say a word of _The Snob Papers_, which were at the time the most popular and the best known of all Thackeray's contributions to _Punch_.