. Thackerayana;. e period in the previous year. This outline car-toon represents a banquet at the house of the publisher, Mr. * He had certainly seen Sydney Smith. A quaint, half-caricature, outlinesketch of the latter was contributed by T-itmarsh to Erasers Magazine, at anearly period of his connection with that journal. f Edinburgh Evening Courant, Jan. 5, 1864. K 2 132 THACKER A YANA. Fraser, at which, on some of his brief visits to London, Thackerayhad doubtless been present, for it is easy to trace in the juvenilefeatures of the tall figure with the double eyeglass—Thackeraywas throughout
. Thackerayana;. e period in the previous year. This outline car-toon represents a banquet at the house of the publisher, Mr. * He had certainly seen Sydney Smith. A quaint, half-caricature, outlinesketch of the latter was contributed by T-itmarsh to Erasers Magazine, at anearly period of his connection with that journal. f Edinburgh Evening Courant, Jan. 5, 1864. K 2 132 THACKER A YANA. Fraser, at which, on some of his brief visits to London, Thackerayhad doubtless been present, for it is easy to trace in the juvenilefeatures of the tall figure with the double eyeglass—Thackeraywas throughout life somewhat near-sighted — a portrait of thefuture author of Vanity Fair. Mr. Mahony, the well-known\ Father Prout of the magazine, in his account of this picture,written in 1859, te^s us tnat the banquet was no fiction. In thechair appears Dr. Maginn in the act of making a speech; andaround him are a host of contributors, including Bryan WallerProcter (better known then as Barry Cornwall), Robert Southey,. William Harrison Ainsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, JamesHogg, John Gait, Fraser the publisher, having on his right, CroftonCroker, Lockhart, Theodore Hook, Sir David Brewster, ThomasCarlyle, Sir Egerton Brydges, Rev. G. R. Gleig, Mahoney, EdwardIrving, and others, numbering twenty-seven in all—of whom, in1859, eight only were living. This celebrated cartoon of the Fraserians appears to placeThackerays connection with the magazine before 1835; ^utwe have not succeeded in tracing any contribution from his handearlier than November 1837. Certainly, the afterwards well-usednotns de plume of Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Fitzboodle, Charles THE ANATOMY OF CONDUCT. 133
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