A great "Punch" editor, being the life, letters, and diaries of Shirley Brooks . be judged as a whole,and not by what this or that man may have said at onetime or another during the long-drawn-out and bittercontroversy. 248 CHAPTER XIV 1865 (continued) and 1866—Health—Earnings—Work—The LeighMurray Benefit—At Scarborough with the Friths—Punchs Table Talk —Death of Lord Palmerston—The Agnews—Lectures at Oswestry—The Years Earnings—Letters to Mrs. Frith—The Censorship of Plays—Artemus Ward—Letters to Percival Leigh—Punchs Golden Wedding—GovernorEyre—Boulogne—Dieppe—C. H. Bennett—Parting Ki
A great "Punch" editor, being the life, letters, and diaries of Shirley Brooks . be judged as a whole,and not by what this or that man may have said at onetime or another during the long-drawn-out and bittercontroversy. 248 CHAPTER XIV 1865 (continued) and 1866—Health—Earnings—Work—The LeighMurray Benefit—At Scarborough with the Friths—Punchs Table Talk —Death of Lord Palmerston—The Agnews—Lectures at Oswestry—The Years Earnings—Letters to Mrs. Frith—The Censorship of Plays—Artemus Ward—Letters to Percival Leigh—Punchs Golden Wedding—GovernorEyre—Boulogne—Dieppe—C. H. Bennett—Parting Kick to1866. AY, with its treacherous winds and hot sun, was barely over when Shirley was again laid up with a severe attack of gout, and wrote in his diary :— Have had solemnpalaver with Duplex*on matters which affectthe nearest, and he saysthat on three conditionshe will assure me 15years of nerves as theyought to be — whichmeans a deal. Theterms are :— 1. Exercise, at least6 miles a day. 2. Only one wine ata time. 3. No His doctor. 249 SHIRLEY BROOKS The last item is a severe one, as I have got into thehabit so much. But I am sure that he is right, andI have been so miserable that it would be absurd notto enter on the new course. I make no pledge, onprinciple, but I will try. He was burning the candle at both ends, and takingbut little healthy recreation. As literary work in-creased, so did the social exigencies of life. Dinnerparties, first nights at the theatre, late hours, put thefinishing touch to long spells of arduous work, andexhausted nerves cried out, now for stimulants, nowfor narcotics. Bohemia was inhabited by Bohemians in thosedays, and Shirley was a true native. Now it has beencaptured by men whose tastes and habits have beenformed at the public schools, or who at least havehad their three years at Oxford or Cambridge. Thedifference is clearly put in a note which Sir FrancisBurnand has kindly sent to me :—
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