Show TOO SAID 0 would 1 were a boy again when life seemed formed of sunny years and all the heart then knew of pain was wept away in transient LEMON one of the great british humorists of the past cen tury and the author of the lines quoted Is chiefly remembered in the united states as one of the foremost foreign critics and detractors of dent abraham lincoln during the civil war lincoln and lemon were born in the same year and died within years of each other until the for mer s death the latter never missed an opportunity to ridicule his handling of the affairs of the united states when lincoln died however and the wisdom of his course had become apparent mark lemon was one of the to pen an apology for his cratl cism this is in the form of a poem and its obvious sincerity and easy astle make it worth reading in addition to being a humorous writer mark lemon was well known in his day as a capable playwright during his lifetime he supplied the london stage with more than CO farces melodramas and comedies when the magazine punch was established in 1841 lemon became joint ed aitor with mayhew and later he was sole editor of the publication it was in this satirical paper that roost of lemons jibes at lincoln were pub lashed lemon also achieved some success as a free lance writer lie buted to the illustrated london to dickens household words once i week and other periodicals among his later works are several novels of average merit of all lemon s works his claim to fame rests most securely upon his work as editor of punch wayne D by ceorge matthew adams |