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...called because the four Inns-Gray's, Lincoln's, the Inner and Middle Temples-once furnished lodgings for their members. Francis Bacon was a "bencher"' (senior member), and Thomas More, Thackeray, Pitt, Burke and Disraeli all attended the Inns...
...authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
Time's founder and editor was Edmund Yates, a novelist and playwright who, like Dickens, Thackeray and other contemporary 19th Century literary figures, was also a working journalist. He founded Time in 1879. It was by no means a news magazine, nor was it departmentalized like our TIME, but it did print many articles on current affairs, along with poetry, serialized fiction and short stories. In its first six issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving...
...second issue of Town Talk Yates wrote an impertinent, unfriendly piece about Thackeray, accusing him, among other things, of "an extravagant adulation of birth and position." Thackeray accused Yates of picking up gossip at the Garrick Club and managed to have him blackballed. Dickens, who had been the subject of a flattering piece in the first issue, defended Yates, although he condemned the article and wrote that the entire incident, which had become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly...
...again, and so is writing about them. The latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite, though not very sharp, may even penetrate a few skins...