Leigh, Percival: and the "London Charivari," 15;
and the first Staff of Punch, 19;
mock-classic verses, 31;
verses on Punch Club, 55, 56; 61, 69, 70, 71;
at the Dinner, 76;
and Thackeray's faux pas, 88;
lines on Punch Club, 93, 94;
suggestions for cartoons, 171;
"Pauper Song," 301;
"Punch's Labours of Hercules," 302;
biographical summary, 299-303

Leighton, Sir Frederic, 126;
on Keene, 489;
portrait of Miss Dene, 559

Lemon, Harry, 525

Lemon, Mark: and the manifesto in the first number of Punch, 2;
and the origin of Punch, 17;
early life, 18;
draft of prospectus, 19-21;
the editorship, 25;
"Visit to the Watering-Places," 49;
portrait by F. Chester, 60; 69, 71, 74;
the Jews, 103;
his lectures, 129;
as an amateur actor, 135;
"Jest Book," 162, 265;
his instinct for an old joke, 163;
suggestions for cartoons, 170, 171;
at the Printers' Pension Society dinner, 198;
and "A Word with Punch," 228, 231;
and Henry Mayhew, 257;
work as editor, character, etc., 254-267;
and Douglas Jerrold, 297;
relations with Dickens, 352, 354;
on Shirley Brooks, 358;
and Hine, 415;
organ-grinding nuisance, 439; et passim

Lennox, Lord William, and "The Tuft-Hunter," 217, 218; 330

Leon, M.P., Mr., 245

Lester, Mr. Horace Frank, 384

Lever, Charles, 259;
"Prize Novelists," 320, 337;
"A Familiar Epistle," 337

Leverson, Mrs., 392, 406

Lewes, George Henry, 135

Lewis, Mr. Arthur, and the Moray Minstrels, 92

Libel actions against Punch, 235, 236

"Lika Joko," 237, 238, 502, 525, 555

Lillie, Mr. Charles J., 556, 557

Lincoln, Abraham, Assassination of, 177

Linton, W. J., and the "Anti-Graham Envelope," 114; 248

Literary errors of Punch, 244

Literature of Punch, Past and present, 407, 408

"Little Frenchman's First Lesson," 337

"Liverpool Lion," The, 360

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, Contributions of, 371, 566; 562

Lockwood, Sir Frank, 98, 166, 566

Loftus, Lord Augustus, 194, 195

"London Charivari," 12, 15

"London Journal," Satire on, 364, 365

"Lord Jack the Giant-killer" cartoon, 470

Louis-Philippe, 191

Loyalty of Punch, 214-217

Lucas, Samuel, and the Punch Dinners, 85; 443

Lucy, Mr. Henry, 51, 67, 79;
politics, 80;
dinner to Mr. Gladstone, 91; 149;
and cartoons, 169; 205;
"Essence of Parliament," etc., 389-391, 551

Lushington, J. J., 405

Lyndhurst, Lord, 172

"Lyre and Lancet," 399

Lytton, Bulwer, 155, 220;
attack on Tennyson, 344


"M. S. R.," 537

Macgregor, John ("Rob Roy"), 269, 346, 372, 460

Mackay, Mr. Wallace, 540, 541

MacMahon, Marshal, 191

MacNeill, M.P., Mr. Swift, 232, 554

Maginn, Dr., and the origin of the "Almanac," 32;
obituary of, 38, 307; 297;
work on Punch, 306, 307

Magistrates, Skits on, 391, 392

"Mahogany Tree, The," 53, 86, 320;
Jubilee picture, 180; 536

Malmesbury, Lord, 233

"Man from Blankley's, The," 399, 565

"Man in the Moon, The," 154-156, 231, 238, 265, 280, 306, 315, 412, 416, 449

"Manners and Customs," 401, 406

Mansel, Miss, 519, 529 note

Mansion House, the, "Literature and Art" dinner at, 90

Marks, R.A., Mr. Stacy, 41, 126, 517

Marshalsea Prison, 3

Marshall, Mr. C. A., 560

Martin, Charles, 490, 491

Martin, Sir Theodore, 172

"Mask, The," 500

Mason, Mr. Finch, 556

Massacre in Algiers, and lines by Coventry Patmore, 342, 343

"Maternal Solicitude," 211-213

Mathew, Father, 102

"Matter in Camera, A," 376

Maud, Mr., 563, 564

Maurice, Rev. F. D., Lines to the memory of, 374

Maurier, Mr. G. du, 4;
his portrait of Punch, 9;
"Tercentenary Number," 50; 66, 79;
fashions, 122, 124, 506;
on the Punch artists, 128;
"Social Pictorial Satire," 129;
old maid and the "charming view," 162;
"heir" joke, 163;
"tipsy husband," 166;
going into society, 319;
"Mokeanna," 365;
"Vers Nonsensiques," 372, 515;
on drawing from Nature, 410;
on Leech, 432; 473; 503-516

May, Mr. Phil, 67;
and jokes of the "Unknown Man," 139; 149; 159; 567-570

Mayhew, Augustus, and the "Journal for Laughter," 56, 258, 269

Mayhew, Henry, and the origin of Punch, 11-14, 17-19;
and the title of Punch, 24;
and his co-editors, 25, 257;
origin of the "Almanac," 32;
"Visit to the Watering-Places," 49;
satire on Art Union, 52;
"Anti-Graham Wafers," 114;
"London Labour and London Poor," 129, 269;
"Advice to Persons about to Marry," 142, 270;
suggestions for cartoons, 170, 171; 269;
characteristics, etc., 268-271

Mayhew, Horace ("Ponny"), 61, 69-71;
singing at the Dinner, 86;
suggestions for cartoons, 170, 171, 328;
as sub-editor, 257, 327;
and Jerrold's death, 297;
characteristics, etc., 327-330

Mazzini, opening of his letters, 114

McConnell, W., and cartoons, 171; 460, 461

McCosh, Dr., 161

McDonnell, Mr., 252

Meadows, Kenny, his portrait of Punch, 8;
and the "London Charivari," 15;
and the Almanac, 40;
design for cover of Punch, 46, 449;
"Valentines," 49;
at the Dinner, 74;
at the Club, 95;
cartoons, 171;
and Leech, 436; 446-449

Melancholy of humorists, 435

Melbourne, Lord, and the heading of the Punch prospectus, 23;
fall of his Administration, 30, 107;
at an amateur theatrical performance at Knebworth, 136

"Melbourne Punch," 393

Mellor, Mr. John Page, 558, 559

"Men who have taken me in—to dinner," 406

"Mephystopheles," 154, 416

Meredith, Mr. George, his tribute to Tom Taylor, 341

"Mery Tales, Wittie Questions, and Quicke Answeres Very Pleasant to be Readde," 162

Millais, Sir John, and the Punch Dinners, 86; 126;
"Mokeanna," 365, 517; 426, 427;
jokes supplied to Leech, 434; 435, 443;
contributions, 517, 518

Milliken, Mr. E. J., 67;
politics, 80;
the cartoons, 81, 381;
"Childe Chappie," 146, 166, 378;
and the cartoons, 169;
and "Forlorn Hope," 180;
"The Old Crusaders," 182;
and the society lady, 246;
"'Arry," etc., 377-381

Mills, Jowett, and Mills, printers, 32

"Mind and matter," 160

Missing-word competition, 125

Mistakes of Punch, 243-245

"Mistress of the Hounds," 125

Mitchell, Mr. C., and the origin of Punch, 11;
and the printing of Punch, 32

"Moaning of the Tide," 413

"Model Men," 328

"Model Music Hall Songs," 396, 397

"Modern Alexander's Feast, The," 192

"Modern Life in London," 371

"Modern Sisyphus" cartoon, 455

Modern types, 401

Moir, Frank, 337

"Mokeanna," 364, 365, 450

"Month, The," 347

Moon, Alderman, 220

"Moonshine" and the dinner to Mr. Gladstone, 91; 549, 567

"Moral of Punch, The," 2, 256

Morality of Punch, 5, 6, 8, 242, 243

Moray Minstrels, 92, 484, 520, 528

Morgan, Matt: his designs in the "Tomahawk," 41;
and the "Arrow," 240;
"Fun," 364

Morley, Mr. John, 205

"Morning Herald," 50, 210, 211

"Morning Post" and the Jews, 104;
attacked by Punch, 209, 210, 288, 289, 319

Morpeth, Lord, and the heading of the Punch prospectus, 23

Moses, Rev. Stainton, 374

"Mud-Salad Market," 368

Mulberry Club, 447

Mulready envelope, 52, 420

Mundella, Mr., on Punch, 189

Murray, R. F., 403, 404

Music in Punch, 52;
Punch's patronage of, 128


Napoleon III., 109, 110, 120, 124, 323;
as the hedgehog, 173;
Franco-Prussian War, 179;
"Cock-a-doodle-do!" 190;
collection of Punch cartoons, 199;
and Thackeray's retirement from Punch, 323, 324;
cartoon on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, 512

"National Standard," Thackeray's, 226

"Natural History of Courtship," 450

Naval defence, 172

"New Guide to Knowledge," 378

Newdegate, Mr., 232

Newman, William, 19;
and the "Valentines," 49, 152;
cartoons, 171;
the "Squib," 275, 414; 413, 414

Nicholas, Tsar, 173;
and "General Février," 174-176

"Night with Punch, A," 130

"Nineveh bull" cartoon, 255

"No Popery" cartoon, 196

Noé, Comte Amédée de, 501, 502

North, Colonel, 233

"Notes from the Diary of a City Waiter," 386


Obituaries, 38, 377

Obituary cartoons, 184

O'Brien, Smith, 106

O'Connell, Daniel, 106, 153

Offices of Punch, 258

O'Leary, Joseph, 330

"Old Crusaders, The," 182

Old jokes, 150-167

"Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, The," 159, 245

"Old Nickotin stealing away the brains of his devotees," 512

"Old stock" in Punch, 457

"Omnibus," The, 496, 497

Omnibus jokes, 144, 156

"Omnium, Jacob," see Higgins, Matthew J.

"Once a Week" and Mr. Samuel Lucas, 85; 521

Onwhyn, Thomas, 459, 460

"Open to conviction," 413

"Opera telakouphanon," 124, 125

"Organ Boy's Appeal," 321

Organ-grinders, 437-440

Orr and Co., W.S., and the distribution of Punch, 36

"Our Dramatic Correspondent," 348

"Our Flight with Punch," 238, 357

"Our Honeymoon," 291

"Our Play Box," 526

"Out of Town," 276, 366

Oxenford, John, 259, 260, 307, 308


Padgett, Mr. William, 558

Pain, Mr. Barry, 241, 402

"Pall Mall Budget," 160

Palmerston, Lord, 99;
as the "Judicious Bottle-holder," 118; 165;
portraits, 203, 204

"Pantomime, Punch's," 131, 132

"Papal Aggression," 102, 103, 195, 196, 374, 455, 470

Paris Exhibition Special Number, 51, 61, 87

"Paris Revisited," 322

Parish Councils Bill, 169, 170

Parliamentary drawings by C. H. Bennett, 526

Partridge, Mr. Bernard, 67, 149, 560, 564, 565

"Pasquin," 11, 240, 348

Patmore, Mr. Coventry, 342, 343

"Pauper's Christmas Carol, The," 334