MrPunch's history of modern England . Education of the Poor inJune, 1849, a clerical speaker ridiculed the questions, set in anexamination paper for National School teachers, which pre-supposed a knowledge of the works of Shakespeare, Milton,Adam Smith, Johnson and Scott, and of the Life of Mrs. was at a discount; authors of note, with few excep-tions—such as Thackeray and Macaulay—were generally im-pecunious, and sometimes on the border-land of Jerrold had a life-long struggle to keep his headabove water, for all his industry. There were no royalties inthose d
MrPunch's history of modern England . Education of the Poor inJune, 1849, a clerical speaker ridiculed the questions, set in anexamination paper for National School teachers, which pre-supposed a knowledge of the works of Shakespeare, Milton,Adam Smith, Johnson and Scott, and of the Life of Mrs. was at a discount; authors of note, with few excep-tions—such as Thackeray and Macaulay—were generally im-pecunious, and sometimes on the border-land of Jerrold had a life-long struggle to keep his headabove water, for all his industry. There were no royalties inthose days, and for Black-Eyed S2isan, which brought tens 84 The Distressed Author of thousands of pounds to theatrical lessees and popularactors, he received from first to last the sum of £^o. Punchwas the constant champion of the distressed author fallen onevil days, such as Joseph Haydn of the Dictionary of Dates,who was granted a Civil List pension of £2^ a year just threeweeks before his death in January, 1856, or old Joseph Guy,. NeWSVENDOR : Now, my man, what is it ? BoY: I vonts a nillustrated newspaper with a norrid murder and a likenessin it. the man of many books, the ever-green Spelling Book among the number. One of the finest (but posthumous)tributes to Sir Robert Peel was on the occasion of the LiteraryFund dinner in 1856, when a sum of ^100 was sent from theproceeds of the first portion of the Peel Papers:— From the tomb of Sir Robert speaks tlie spirit that, when in theflesh and baited by the dogs of party [not to mention the bitter 85 Mr. PuncJis History of Modern England satire of Punch himself], still beneficently thoug-ht of the wants ofspasmodic Haydn; still, by sympathy in word and act, smoothed thedying- pillow of poor Tom Hood. The respect and admiration with which George Stephensonand Joseph Paxton were invariably treated was largely dueto the fact that they were self-taught men. And when JosephHume died in 1855, Punch, who had so often chaffed him for
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