[54] But when, in 1866, Keene contributed three cartoons, Sir John Tenniel's appeared side by side. This was the result of a revived experiment to add to the attractions of the paper by giving two cartoons—an experiment resumed in later years in the case of Mr. Sambourne and Mr. Furniss.
[55] See Mr. Layard's "Life and Letters of Charles Keene," p. [387].
[56] Speech at Royal Academy Banquet, May 2nd, 1891.
[57] English humour is under a great debt to the English Church. Not only, of course, are Sydney Smith and "Tom Ingoldsby" of immortal fame—to name no others—in the front rank of our wits, but Punch has received the homage of "Cuthbert Bede," Dean Hole, the Rev. W. F. Callaway, Canon Ainger, and the Rev. Anthony C. Deane. The Irish Catholic priest Father James Healy, by the way, indirectly contributed a number of capital jokes.
[58] It is to be observed, however, that there is no mention of these engravings in Mr. Swain's "Punch Cut Book."
[59] Mr. Henry James, jun., considers ("Century Magazine," 1883) that "since 1868, Punch has been, artistically speaking, George du Maurier."
[60] See "Encyclopædia Britannica."
[61] See "Magazine of Art," 1891.
[62] "The Art of England: The Fireside," p. 174.
[63] The other ladies are Miss Coode, Mrs. Romer (Mrs. Jopling-Rowe), Mrs. Field, Miss Fraser, Miss Mansell (Mrs. Bull)—merely a sketch, and Miss Maud Sambourne.