. Thackerayana;. 485 CHAPTER XX. Commencement of the Cornhill Magazine—Roundabout Papers—Lovelthe Widower—The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World—Lectures on the Four Georges—Editorial Penalties—The Thorn in theCushion—Harass from disappointed Contributors—Vexatious Correspond-ents—Withdrawal from the arduous post of Editor—Building of ThackeraysHouse in Kensington Palace Gardens—Christmas 1863—Death of thegreat Novelist—The unfinished Work—Circumstances of the Authors lastIllness. The great event of the last few years of Thackerays life was thestarting of the Cornhill Magazine,
. Thackerayana;. 485 CHAPTER XX. Commencement of the Cornhill Magazine—Roundabout Papers—Lovelthe Widower—The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World—Lectures on the Four Georges—Editorial Penalties—The Thorn in theCushion—Harass from disappointed Contributors—Vexatious Correspond-ents—Withdrawal from the arduous post of Editor—Building of ThackeraysHouse in Kensington Palace Gardens—Christmas 1863—Death of thegreat Novelist—The unfinished Work—Circumstances of the Authors lastIllness. The great event of the last few years of Thackerays life was thestarting of the Cornhill Magazine, the first number of which,with the date of January i860, appeared shortly before Christ-mas in the previous year. The great success which CharlesDickens had met in conducting his weekly periodical perhaps. suggested, to Messrs. Smith and Elder the project of theirnew monthly magazine, with Thackeray for editor. But fewexpected a design so bold and original as they found developedby the appearance of Number I. The contents were by contri- 486 THACKERA YANA. butors of first-rate excellence; the quantity of matter in each wasequal to that given by the old-established magazines, published athalf-a-crown, while the price of the Cornhill, as everyone knows,was only a shilling. The editors ideas on the subject of the newperiodical were explained by him some weeks before the com-mencement in a characteristic letter to his friend, G. H. Lewes,which was afterwards adopted as the vehicle of announcing thedesign to the public. I am not mistaken, says this letter, in supposing that myreaders give me credit for experience and observation, for havinglived with educated people in many countries, and seen the worldin no small variety; and, having heard me soliloquise with somuch kindness and favour, and
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