An Artistic Joke. A London Slum. My Parody of the Venetian School. _Frontispiece._
My Studio during the Progress of "An Artistic Joke" 1
The Pictures by R. Macbeth: Potato Gang in the Fens; Twitch-burning in the Fens; A Flood in the Fens 8
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy 11
My Portrait. Frontispiece for "How he did it" 21
Letter from the President of the Royal Academy 25
The Saloon of the _Teutonic_. The First Morning at Breakfast 30
Mr. Lloyd and the Lady. "If you will sing, _I_ will!" 42
The Bath Steward and the Bishop. "Your Time, Sir! Your Time!" 48
I am Entertained at the Twelfth Night Club 110
After the Great Parade: "Am I to sit on an ordinary seat to-night?" 120
Queen's Hall, London. I was the first to speak from the Platform 154
Giving My "Humours of Parliament" to the Nurses 162
Speaker Brand, afterwards Viscount Hampden 164
In "The Humours of Parliament." Ballyhooley Pathetic 181
Harry Furniss as a Pictorial Entertainer 182
"Grandolph ad Leones." Reduction of a Page Drawing for _Punch_ made by me whilst travelling by Train 185
"Art Critic of the _Daily Telegraph_" 199
Mr. F. C. Gould's Sketch in the _Westminster_, which Sala maintained was mine 200
The Sequel--I Distribute the Prizes at Nottingham 205
No Water-Colour or Black-and-White need apply 210
The Central Criminal Court. From _Punch_ 215
Regent's Park as it was. From _Punch_. A Rough Sketch on Wood 217
Menu of the Dinner given to me by the Lotos Club, New York 237
J. Whistler, after a City Dinner (Drawn with my Left Hand) 241
My Design (reduced) for the Dinner of Ye Red Lyon Clubbe 243
Remarkable and much-talked-of Lunch to me at Washington. The Autographs on back of Menu 254
Thirteen Club Banquet. The Table Decorations 259
"The Chairman will be Pleased to Spill Salt with You." From the _St. James's Budget_ 267
[Illustration: MY STUDIO DURING THE PROGRESS OF "AN ARTISTIC JOKE."]
The First Idea--How it was Made--"Fire!"--I am a Somnambulist--My Workshop--My Business "Partner"--Not by Gainsborough--Lord Leighton--The Private View--The Catalogue--Sold Out--How the R.A.'s Took It--How a Critic Took It--Curious Offers--Mr. Sambourne as a Company Promoter--A One-man Show--_Punch's_ Mistake--A Joke within a Joke--My Offer to the Nation.