—the Editor for the first time taking his proper place at the table, although, it is true, it was only at the foot.
To-day the number of the staff has been increased, and the right proportion struck between the pen and the pencil—the Editor, too, presiding.
| Mr. F. C. Burnand | |
| Sir John Tenniel | Mr. F. Anstey |
| Mr. Linley Sambourne | Mr. Henry Lucy |
| Mr. Arthur à Beckett | Mr. E. T. Reed |
| Mr. R. C. Lehmann | Mr. Bernard Partridge |
| Mr. Harry Furniss (until Feb. 1894) | Mr. Phil May |
| Mr. Du Maurier | Mr. E. J. Milliken |
| Sir William Agnew (sometimes) | |
| Mr. Lawrence Bradbury or | |
| Mr. Philip Agnew | |
* Proprietors
F. C. BURNAND'S INITIALS.
(1) On joining the Table, and
(2) on appointment as Editor.
In the decade or so following the death of Douglas Jerrold—roughly corresponding with the period within which the arrangements varied as I have shown—six new appointments were made to the table. These Were: Mr. Henry Silver, In August, 1857; Charles Keene, February, 1860 (after a nine years' probationership); Mr. F. C. Burnand, June, 1863; Mr. G. Du Maurier, November, 1864; Charles H. Bennett, February, 1865 (though ill-health prevented him from taking his place until the following June); and Mr. R. F. Sketchley (till 1894 of the South Kensington Museum), January, 1868. The present Staff, I may add, since Mr. du Maurier's accession, have taken their places at the Table in the following order: Mr. Linley Sambourne, Mr. Arthur à Beckett, Mr. E. J. Milliken, Gilbert à Beckett, Mr. Reginald Shirley Brooks (until 1884), Mr. Henry Lucy, Mr. F. Anstey, Mr. R. C. Lehmann, Mr. E. T. Reed, Mr. Bernard Partridge, and in February, 1895, Mr. Phil May. As Mr. Punch approached man's estate, and arrived at years of artistic discretion, he cultivated a pretty taste in epicurism; until to-day, if report be true, the Dinners (prepared and sent in by Spiers and Pond), the Ayala, and the cigars, are all worthy of the palates of the men whose wit it is theirs to stimulate and nourish. To summon the Staff to these feasts of reason it was in later years the practice to issue printed notices, which after 1870 were superseded by invitation cards drawn by Mr. du Maurier—the design representing Mr. Punch ringing his bell, while the faithful fly hurriedly to respond to the behest. But owing to the number of portraits it contained of old friends now departed, and the painful recollections it consequently aroused, its later use has been discontinued.
GEORGE DU MAURIER'S MONOGRAM.
