... of the brilliant band of young jouoraliets who gathered round Charles Dickens's standard in the early fifties. There is also an interesting print given awray, a portrait of Charles Dickens, surrounded by his characters. ...

... se maxims, his Cockney phrases, and his undeniably shrewd ideas of men and things. Ginnifer is a character worthy of Charles Dickens himself, so perfect a type is he of the Londoner of the period. Mr Lawrence does every justice to the part. Miss Louisa ...

... then w Iessays the sentimental line in a ballad concerning ti a certain little Nell, who, like bthe famous heroine of sl: I Dickens's novel, has passed away to another anti ti ja happier world, The lines are well calculated to A\ enlist the sympathy of the ...

... visit, aud I will make a tc thousand affidavits that no burner wasleftlighted n ?? ns I awent. Tie robbery, sir; 'tis bare-faced, o0 coi(*-biooded robbery - JTis a song that is ever being sung ' ex- claiiied the Chairtuan, as a look of sorrow crossed ...

... a so! h expreasibly funny, and ainniag the cliaraeters meet *ethe skipper's artful old uncle is not unawort'hy of and if Dickens himself. In spite of all his croft, how- fashi v ever, the skipper overreaches himself, and, but h amiable seaman though he ...