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xxii PHILIP
wrote it, but I should much like Thackeray to know that the last
book my brother read was the first number of The Cornhill Magazine.
It was open at Thackeray's story, on the table by the side of the
chair in which he died. I think that this might interest Thackeray,
and perhaps when you have an opportunity you will mention it
to him.—Very affectionately yours, C. MACAULAY."
W. M. THACKERAY.
From a Sketch by Sir Henry Thompson, about 1857.
An article was written by Sir Henry Thompson for the first
number of The Cornhill Magazine, of which the history has come
to me lately.
"Before the Cornhill came out," Sir Henry writes, "your
father told me that he intended to develop a new principle—that
he thought every man, whatever his profession, might be able to
tell something about it which no one else could say, provided
the writer could write at all: and he wanted to utilise this
element. 'So,' said he, 'I want you to describe cutting off a leg