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Sitmjffakt Of News For Jitne
^) n the 20 th , ^ support of ^ H . R . H . tlie Duke of Camb ^ subscribed . O n the 2 i 2 nd , a conference of t ^^
siderihgthe causestof the early removal of the children of ^ opened by Prince Albert , at Willis e s Rooms , and lasted during the t wo folio wing days . ^ K entertain different views upon the subject of education to act upon n eu tral ground * Oh the same d ^ was inaugural }^ Cambridge ,
Obituary.
MW
^ ra ? s distinguished jhember 8 th of June . On to and shortly after the jaoon of Monday his earthly career ^ Douglas Jerrold was in a great measure what may be termed a mah ; and the c ^ lebri ^ capable of apprecmting intellectual worth may be cited how distinction is the path to fame froni any of those beaten tracks of instruction that time and usage have prescribed . He was born in London on the 3 rd of
BRO , DOUGLAS JERROLD
January , 1803 ; and to the fact thathis hither was manage may be attributed that predilection for the stage which forms a leading characteristic of the greater portion of his life . Ho wever , his earliest expressed passion , fostered , no doub ^ by the scene which Sheerness presented during the height of the war , was for a maritime life , and he obtained a midshipman ' s appointment through the good offices of Captain Austen , brother of Miss Austen , the novelist . With the war ended his nautical career , and , on quitting the service , he vyas apprenticed to a printer in London . His leisure hours were now devoted to
selfinstruction , Shakspeare being his chief author . An essay on the opera of Der Freischutz , which he dropped into the editorial box of a newspaper on which he was employed as a compositor , is the reported beginning of his literary labours . To his infinite delight , his own anonymous " copy" was handed over to him to put in type , and shortl y afterwards appeared an editorial notice soliciting other contributions from the unknown correspondent . The two productions , Black-eyed Sman & n & ihe Rent Lay , stamped him at once as the most popular dramatist of his time , —as the writer , above all others , who could command the suffrages of the
multitude . Latterly , the greatest literary triumphs of Bro . Jerrold have been achieved in the periodical publications of the day . The papers which he collected under the title of " Cakes and Ale , " are charming ebullitions of the fancy ; and the *{ Caudle Lectures , " which so accelerated the rising popularity of Punch , stand as specimens of minute life-painting that can scarcely be surpassed . At the time when these famous lectures were in course of publication there was not a henpecked husband in the United Kingdom who did not snatch up Punch every week
to contemplate his own misfortunes " uti in speculo . " For the last few years Bro . Jerrold was chiefly occupied as the editor of Lloyd ' s Weekly Newspaper , and , by the custom of the English press ,, his own individuality could no longer be expressed as distinctly as in his earlier works . But there was one character in which Bro . Douglas Jerrold was always pre-eminent , and that was as the social wit . To conceive a brilliant and elaborate repartee was with him the work of a moment ; nay , we cpuld , if we would , cite cases , in which the cue was barely pronounced before the retort was fired off . The most novel combination of ideas were effected by him with electric rapidity ; even an old pun could become new from his manner
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sitmjffakt Of News For Jitne
^) n the 20 th , ^ support of ^ H . R . H . tlie Duke of Camb ^ subscribed . O n the 2 i 2 nd , a conference of t ^^
siderihgthe causestof the early removal of the children of ^ opened by Prince Albert , at Willis e s Rooms , and lasted during the t wo folio wing days . ^ K entertain different views upon the subject of education to act upon n eu tral ground * Oh the same d ^ was inaugural }^ Cambridge ,
Obituary.
MW
^ ra ? s distinguished jhember 8 th of June . On to and shortly after the jaoon of Monday his earthly career ^ Douglas Jerrold was in a great measure what may be termed a mah ; and the c ^ lebri ^ capable of apprecmting intellectual worth may be cited how distinction is the path to fame froni any of those beaten tracks of instruction that time and usage have prescribed . He was born in London on the 3 rd of
BRO , DOUGLAS JERROLD
January , 1803 ; and to the fact thathis hither was manage may be attributed that predilection for the stage which forms a leading characteristic of the greater portion of his life . Ho wever , his earliest expressed passion , fostered , no doub ^ by the scene which Sheerness presented during the height of the war , was for a maritime life , and he obtained a midshipman ' s appointment through the good offices of Captain Austen , brother of Miss Austen , the novelist . With the war ended his nautical career , and , on quitting the service , he vyas apprenticed to a printer in London . His leisure hours were now devoted to
selfinstruction , Shakspeare being his chief author . An essay on the opera of Der Freischutz , which he dropped into the editorial box of a newspaper on which he was employed as a compositor , is the reported beginning of his literary labours . To his infinite delight , his own anonymous " copy" was handed over to him to put in type , and shortl y afterwards appeared an editorial notice soliciting other contributions from the unknown correspondent . The two productions , Black-eyed Sman & n & ihe Rent Lay , stamped him at once as the most popular dramatist of his time , —as the writer , above all others , who could command the suffrages of the
multitude . Latterly , the greatest literary triumphs of Bro . Jerrold have been achieved in the periodical publications of the day . The papers which he collected under the title of " Cakes and Ale , " are charming ebullitions of the fancy ; and the *{ Caudle Lectures , " which so accelerated the rising popularity of Punch , stand as specimens of minute life-painting that can scarcely be surpassed . At the time when these famous lectures were in course of publication there was not a henpecked husband in the United Kingdom who did not snatch up Punch every week
to contemplate his own misfortunes " uti in speculo . " For the last few years Bro . Jerrold was chiefly occupied as the editor of Lloyd ' s Weekly Newspaper , and , by the custom of the English press ,, his own individuality could no longer be expressed as distinctly as in his earlier works . But there was one character in which Bro . Douglas Jerrold was always pre-eminent , and that was as the social wit . To conceive a brilliant and elaborate repartee was with him the work of a moment ; nay , we cpuld , if we would , cite cases , in which the cue was barely pronounced before the retort was fired off . The most novel combination of ideas were effected by him with electric rapidity ; even an old pun could become new from his manner