Gladstone and Disraeli--A Contrast--An unauthenticated Incident--Lord Beaconsfield's last Visit to the House of Commons--My Serious Sketch--Historical--Mr. Gladstone--His Portraits--What he thought of the Artists--Sir J. E. Millais--Frank Holl--The Despatch Boxes--Impressions--Disraeli--Dan O'Connell--Procedure--American Wit--Toys--Wine--Pressure--Sandwich Soiree--The G.O.M. dines with "Toby, M.P."--Walking--Quivering--My Desk--An Interview--Political Caricaturists--Signature in Sycamore--Scenes in the Commons--Joseph Gillis Biggar--My Double--Scenes--Divisions--Puck--Sir R. Temple--Charles Stewart Parnell--A Study--Quick Changes--His Fall--Room 15--The last Time I saw him--Lord Randolph Churchill--His Youth--His Height--His Fickleness--His Hair--His Health--His Fall--Lord Iddesleigh--Sir Stafford and Mr. Gladstone--Bradlaugh--His Youth--His Parents--His Tactics--His Fight--His Extinction--John Bright--Jacob Bright--Sir Isaac Holden--Lord Derby--A Political Prophecy--A Lucky Guess--My Confession in the _Times_--The Joke that Failed--The Seer--Fair Play--I deny being a Conservative--I am Encouraged--Chaff--Reprimanded--Misprinted--Misunderstood _pp._ 154--214 CHAPTER VII. "PUNCH." Two _Punch_ Editors--_Punch's_ Hump--My First _Punch_ Dinner--Charles Keene--"Robert"--W. H. Bradbury--du Maurier--"Kiki"--A Trip to the Place of his Birth--He Hates Me--A Practical Joke--du Maurier's Strange Model--No Sportsman--Tea--Appollinaris--My First Contribution--My Record--Parliament--Press Gallery Official--I Feel Small--The "Black Beetle"--Professor Rogers--Sergeant-at-Arms' Room--Styles of Work--Privileges--Dr. Percy--I Sit in the Table--The Villain of Art--The New Cabinet--Criticism--_Punch's_ Historical Cartoons--Darwen MacNeill--Scenes in the Lobby--A Technical Assault--John Burns's "Invention"--John Burns's Promise--John Burns's Insult--The Lay of Swift MacNeill--The Truth--Sir Frank Lockwood--"Grand Cross"--Lockwood's Little Sketch--Lockwood's Little Joke in the House--Lockwood's Little Joke at Dinner--Lewis Carroll and _Punch_--Gladstone's Head--Sir William's Portrait--Ciphers--Reversion--_Punch_ at Play--Three _Punch_ Men in a Boat--Squaring up--Two Pins Club--Its One Joke--Its One Horse--Its Mystery--Artistic Duties--Lord Russell--Furious Riding--Before the Beak--Burnand and I in the Saddle--Caricaturing Pictures for _Punch_--Art under Glass--Arthur Cecil--My Other Eye--The Ridicule that Kills--Red Tape--_Punch_ in Prison--I make a Mess of it--Waterproof--"I used your Soap two years ago"--Charles Keene--Charles Barber--_Punch's_ Advice--_Punch's_ Wives _pp._ 215--302 [Illustration: HARRY FURNISS'S (EGYPTIAN STYLE). _From "Punch."_] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.