John Leech.--Birth.--At Charterhouse.--The "Coach Tree."--Early Efforts in Drawing brought to the notice of Flaxman.--Apprenticed to Whittle, an Eccentric Medical Man.--Transfer of Leech's Indentures.--Early Work.--Applies to Illustrate "Pickwick."--Style not Matured till 1840.--An Attack on Dickens.--Attack on "Phiz."--Attack on D'Israeli.--"Bentley's Miscellany."--Joins _Punch_.--Marriage.--The "Right-hand Man in Punch's Cabinet."--"Illuminated Magazine."--Portraits of Leech in _Punch_.--Douglas Jerrold and Albert Smith.--Douglas Jerrold and À Beckett.--Leech at a Fancy Ball.--Albert Smith and the Wide-awake Innkeepers at Chamounix.--George Cruikshank Borrowing from Leech.--Influence of Cruikshank on Leech.--The Two Compared.--Abhorrence of Frenchmen.--Mistake in "The Battle of Life." _pp._ 277-293.
John Leech's _Punch_ Cartoons.--The "Albert" Hat.--O'Connell.--Sir James Graham.--"Peel's Dirty Little Boy."--"How do you Like the New Whig?"--"The Premier's Fix."--"The Railway Juggernaut."--Between Free Trade and Protection Sir Robert Peel falls through.--"Dombey and Son."--Lord Brougham "in order."--Smithfield.--Louis Philippe.--The Year of Unrest, 1848.--French Expedition to Rome.--"A Bright Idea."--General Haynau and Barclay & Perkins' Draymen.--"Joe" Hume.--The "Papal Aggression" Cartoons.--"The Boy who Chalked up 'No Popery' and then Ran Away."--Great Exhibition of 1851.--The _Coup d'état_.--The Peace Society.--"The Old 'Un and the Young 'Un."--War with Russia.--Evils of the Purchase System.--Generals _Janvier_ and _Fevrier_.--"The Return from Vienna."--Incapacity of English Generals.--"Urgent Private Affairs."--"Staying Proceedings."--The Royal Levées.--The French Colonels.--"Religion _à la mode_."--Fête at Cremorne.--Plots against the French Emperor, and their Consequences.--"Invasion of French Light Wines." _pp._ 294-314.
Exhibition of Leech's "Sketches in Oil" at the Egyptian Hall in 1862.--What Thackeray said of them.--Gradual Decrease in the Numbers of his Cartoons for _Punch_.--Overwork.--Goes to the Continent with Mark Lemon in 1862.--"A day at Biarritz."--Returns with no Benefit.--Leech and Thackeray at Evans's in December, 1863.--Thackeray and Leech at Charterhouse on "Founder's Day."--Thackeray at the Wednesday _Punch_ Dinner, 15th of December, 1863.--Death of Thackeray.--Death of Mr. R. W. Surtees.--The _Punch_ Council Dinners.--John Leech a faithful Attendant.--"Moses Starting for the Fair."--John Leech's Illness described.--No Falling off in the Quality of his Designs.--"St. Genulphus."--Starts off for Homburg with Mr. Alfred Elmore.--Death of Thomas Frederick Robson.--His Wonderful Powers Wasted.--Leech goes to Whitby.--Shirley Brooks joins him.--"The Weinbrunnen Schwalbach."--Reminiscences of the Whitby Visit.--Opening of Fechter's Season at the Lyceum.--John Leech at a Party at Mr. W. P. Frith's, 13th of October--At the Weekly _Punch_ Dinner, 26th of October.--Serious Change for the Worse.--His Death.--Shock caused by his Death in London and the Provinces.--His Funeral.--Shirley Brooks' Memorial in _Punch_. _pp._ 315-335.