. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ence, but the sons tastes were all for did therefore little good in his chemicalstudies. Du Mauriers father died in 1856, and hethen devoted himself definitely to art. He worked at the British Mu-seum, and made considerable progress there. He next went to Paris,and lived the life which he has described in ^ Trilby.^ In 1857 he at-tended the Academy at Antwerp, and studied under De Kaiser andVan Lerius. His severe studies at Antwerp had the result that hissight was seriously impaired, and he lost the use of his left
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ence, but the sons tastes were all for did therefore little good in his chemicalstudies. Du Mauriers father died in 1856, and hethen devoted himself definitely to art. He worked at the British Mu-seum, and made considerable progress there. He next went to Paris,and lived the life which he has described in ^ Trilby.^ In 1857 he at-tended the Academy at Antwerp, and studied under De Kaiser andVan Lerius. His severe studies at Antwerp had the result that hissight was seriously impaired, and he lost the use of his left two years of enforced idleness he went to London to seek hisfortune. An old acquaintance of his student life in Paris introducedhim to Charles Reade, who in turn introduced him to Mark Lemon,the editor of Punch. Through these acquaintances he obtained em-ployment in drawing for Once a Week, Punch, and the Cornhill Maga-zine. On the death of Leech in 1864 he was regularly attached tothe staff of Punch, and till the time of his death continued to workIX—316. George du Maurier 5042 GEORGE DU MAURIER for that periodical with ever-increasing success. It is not too muchto say that for many years Punch was chiefly and mainly Du early marked out for himself an entirely new path, which was notin the direction of caricature or broad comedy; grace, sentiment, andwit, rather than fun, were the characteristics of his work. He con-fined himself almost entirely to society, so that his field was a nar-rower one than that of some of his coadjutors. He had not, forinstance, the masculine breadth of Leech, who represented with greatstrength and humor the chief characters of English life,—the parson,the soldier, the merchant, the farmer, etc. Du Maurier was almost entirely a carpet knight. He drew Lon-don society, and a certain phase of London society. The particularsociety which he represented is of very recent existence. Thirtyyears ago there was but one society in London. This w
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