... Sergean been made extensive inquiries ad into thin air.” but the man “It ig not a stunt” The quota tion is from a Christmas Charles Dickens sent to John Forster in 1846. It is to be found in most books of qu ota ns. A member of the tio! who and who own the Roardings ...

... to decide to what farther shall be t&krn. ROBBERY a PUBLIC-HOUSE Thursday, at ths ford Borough Polios Court, a young man, named Robert Haaly, was fcrookht, on remand, ch urged with being concerned the robbery of carhbox, containing £2OO, from the Duke ...

... flagrant examples. A=* the oldest ••( uuc living novelists, whose works held honourable place at time when Thackeray and Dickens the held, Mrs. may justly claim 10 beard upon objectionable ucics our contemporary fiction. INCORTOHATKD B'V IKTV MUSICIANS ...

... become inseparably Linked with that of Dickens that the earlier asisociaf tions of the place—the neighbourhood, not the house —are apt be forgotten. The best known of these associations is, of course, the famous robbery in which Falrtaft took part. The victims ...

... by means ' of a dose of morphine, of Mrs. A. N. Dickens, widow of g the brother of Charles Dickens; ' and say that depression y of spirits, due to poverty, was the cause of the act. Dar- a 'ag Mr. Dickens's last visit to this country certain western vi ...

... photographic illustrations Mrs. Kato Porugini, daughter of Charles Dickens, has made selections from her father’s works and published them tinder the title of “Tho Comedy of Charles Dickens (Chapman and Hall). extracts arc preceded by notes to their ...

... ; and the Visiting Committee was appointed to examine into aud report upon their merits. Charles Dickens, and his Christmas Carol.— On Thursday eveniug Mr. Dickens gratified a large assembly of the people of this town by a reading of his Christmas Carol ...

... anything. Inquiries uiado the Museum elicit the fact the robbery was committed either on Saturday Bank Hobday, probably latter. It evident that tlie thief or thieves had carefully planned robbery. room the jewels were kept is one the most largely frequented ...

... promise of marriage, came on for the assessment of damag~s. | Mr. Henry F. Dickens appeared for the pleintiff, and Mir. Perey Gye for the defendant. In opening Gie case, Dickens said that the defen- dant admitted having inade the promise question, and ...

... Phillips, who had been called upon assume that poeition in consequence of the unavoidable absence Charles Dickens,the president of the institution. Mr Charles Dickens had been long announced to take the chair on the occasion, but the illness which unfortunately ...

... in the sale newspapers. Mr. Arthur T. Yates, a trustee of the institution. responding, referred the association with Charles Dickens, who was their fim president. and who. ebelieved, roust have derived for >oroc his characters from hi- intimacy with the ...

... Myrtle and Mr. Orton Bradley; violin, a Mr C. F. Crowder; violoncello, Mr. 'Trust; reciter Miss Mary Dickens (granddaughter of the late Charles > Dickens). An attractive programme of vocal and instru- i .f mental music was ably submitted and highly appreciated ...