286 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



Hogarthian to be acceptable on Messrs Smith & Son's 

 bookstalls, as they then were. A Bowdlerised cartoon 

 was published instead with the paper, and later, when 

 the " returns " had come in from publishers, we made 

 up a complete series of 500, including the cartoon 

 which I had stopped, and sold them at 303. a set. They 

 were all sold right off, and the late Lord Salisbury had 

 two of the sets. I always regretted that it was impossible 

 in any orthodox fashion to acquaint Mr Gladstone with 

 this fact. 



Phil May occasionally did our cartoons, and he was an 

 incomparably superior artist to Tom Merry, but somehow 

 his work did not catch the public so readily, except in one 

 instance, and that cartoon was " The Old Gravedigger's 

 Christmas Eve." It was published on 27th December 

 1884, and represented Mr Gladstone as a gravedigger, 

 the tombs all round about him showing the names of 

 well-known men who had fallen in Egypt that year, 

 and the inference a woefully prophetic one was that 

 the grave then being dug was for Gordon, who was holding 

 out at Khartoum. It is a gruesome cartoon, with moon- 

 light effects, and it created some sensation. 



What progress St Stephen's Review had made by the end 

 of that year may be judged from the Christmas Number, 

 St Stephen's Saturnalia, to which the late Lord Lytton 

 (" Owen Meredith ") and the late Earl of Carnarvon 

 were the principal contributors. Lord Lytton' s con- 

 tribution was " Bernardo : A Study of Sentiment." 

 It is written in dramatic form for three characters, and 

 the only wonder is that it has never been republished, 

 for much of it is very beautiful. It was illustrated by 

 George Cruikshank. 



Lord Carnarvon wrote " The Magic Mirror," giving 

 word pictures of Parliament as it was in various epochs. 

 Even Sir Wilfrid Lawson contributed verses to that 

 number, and Mr Horace Lennard wrote a clever skit after 

 the manner of Aristophanes, entitled " Birds of a Feather ; 

 or, Larks with the Greek." 



