The death of Mr. Mark Lemon, for thirty years Editor
of Punch, should not be allowed to pass without a note. Mr. Lemon's own -capacity might easily be overrated, but no man had a quicker eye or ability of the kind he needed, or greater success in keeping his eompany together,—success which, when artists, littdrateurs, and the public are all to work together, it is not given to many to obtain. A genuine humourist and most genial man, Mr. Lemon was perhaps of all editors of satirical journals in the world the one who did least moral harm, and his journal the one which has done least to create in its readers the jeering tone of mind. That he kept it clean is nothing—uncleanness would kill it in a week,—but he kept it reverential of all worthy things as no paper of the kind ever has been. He often gave the reins to international hate, but never vilified a political foe, and a p ersonal foe he probably never had
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