George Cruikshank as a Book Illustrator.--Defects and Excellencies.--Women, Horses, Trees.--"Greenwich Hospital."--Sikes and the Dog.--Jonathan Wild.--Simon Renard and Winwike.--"Born a Genius and Born a Dwarf."--Its History.--Randalph and Hilda at Ranelagh.--Sale of the Shadow.--Sailors Carousing.--Paying off a Jew.--Simpkin Dancing.--The Last Cab Driver.--Dominie Sampson.--Dumbiedikes.--Fall of the Leaf.--Taurus.--Libra.--Revolution at Madame Tussaud's.--Theatrical Fun Dinner.--"Gone!"--Duke of Marlborough's Boot.--The Two Elves.--Witches' Frolic.--Ghosts.--Jack o' Lantern.--Devils.--The Gin Shop.--Redgauntlet.--Fagin in the Condemned Cell.--Murder of Sir Rowland Trenchard.--Xit Wedded to the Scavenger's Daughter.--Mauger Sharpening his Axe.--Massacre at Tullabogue, etc.--His Genius. _pp._ 167-188. CHAPTER IX. The Sleep of Thirty Years.--Causes of George Cruikshank's Decadence Insufficiently Understood.--Professor Bates' Theory.--Charles Dickens's Nervousness (?).--Why Cruikshank was Unfitted to Illustrate his Novels.--The Rejected Illustration to Oliver Twist.--Quarrel with Bentley.--Guy Fawkes Illustrations.--"Ainsworth's Magazine."--Progress of the Cruikshank _versus_ Bentley Campaign.--Cruikshank's Declaration of War.--His Tactics.--"Our Library Table."--Quarrel with Harrison Ainsworth.--Cruikshank's Claim to be Originator of Two of his Stories Considered.--A word for Harrison Ainsworth.--Popularity and Success of his Novels.--Charles Lever's "Arthur O'Leary."--Cruikshank's final Leap in the Dark.--Its Fatal Consequences.--Crusade against Drink.--"Worship of Bacchus."--His Work Falls away.--Thirty Years of Artistic Sterility.--Fairy Stories turned into Temperance Tracts.--Forgotten! _pp._ 189-207. CHAPTER X. Birth of Robert Seymour.--Starts as a Painter in Oils.--Death of George IV.--His Contemptible Character.--Sale of his Wardrobe.--Order for General Mourning.--"The Adelaide Mill."--Revolution of 1830.--Dismissal of the German Band.--St. John Long the Quack.--Administering an Oath.--The "Humorous Sketches."--"Book of Christmas."--"New Readings of Old Authors."--"Figaro in London."--A Beckett's Editorial Amenities.--Feud between him and Seymour.--Seymour Caricatures A Beckett.--"Figaro" passes into the hands of Mayhew.--Re-engagement of Seymour.--Origin of the "Pickwick Papers."--The Rejected Etching.--Suicide of Seymour.--His Claim to be the "Inventor" of "Pickwick" considered. _pp._ 208-234. CHAPTER XI.