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 A 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. CHAPTER XIV. 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'etat_.--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 Levees.--The French Colonels.--"Religion _a la mode_."--Fete at Cremorne.--Plots against the French Emperor, and their Consequences.--"Invasion of French Light Wines." _pp._ 294-314. CHAPTER XV.