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work on The Sydney Bulletin. He was making about 10 

 a week out of us, and we could afford no more, for at that 

 time the British public did not fully appreciate Phil May. 

 I told him that, in my judgment, if he went to Australia 

 he might be forgotten, and that there was no place like 

 London to get good work appreciated; but there were 

 other reasons besides the pecuniary inducement which 

 caused him to go ; and so much did I think of him that 

 we gave up all the ground floor of the office three rooms 

 to a view of his original drawings, during two days, 

 and invited all the Press. 



It will never do to fill up this book with illustrations, 

 but I must needs give one, which is the last Phil May did 

 for St Stephen's Review before he left for Sydney. It was 

 published on i4th November 1885, and he sailed on the 

 Wednesday in that week. 



It is needless to say how much life had gone out of the 

 paper after the departure of Phil May and for three 

 years too. It shows something for our vitality that we 

 survived those three years. 



It would be unedifying here to give the details of how 

 I retrieved St Stephen's Review from the Company that 

 should have been so big and was so little. At this juncture 

 the i shareholders gave no trouble, but there were seven 

 different sets of solicitors to be finally dealt with, and all 

 in one room at the same time. It seems like a dream 

 now that such an ordeal could have been gone through, 

 but it was, and the paper slid imperceptibly into the 

 ownership of another company, leaving me once more 

 clear of all interference. 



