The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-29 00:00:00

LITEBATUBE.

• Bleak Rouse. No. XI. By Charles rowloo a
Another instalment of " Bleak House/
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still confusion—perhaps even confusion worse red
founded. Scarcely ever was a plot more spit 00'
up into separate fragments. Indeed, the,lo
ness of the whole construction of the story in o
cated in the very style of its composition tv
work being, at uncertain intervals, written in it
first and third person, some chapters penned'ain 1)1
were, avowedly by the novelist, and some an
an imaginary autobiographer. From the firstioill
has been to us a source of discomfort in the Perafoy
and we regret every number to find the disla
one
rather increasing than otherwise. We long
thing or the other. We yearn for a atoll' WO
sively from the hand of Charles Dickens, bk., „
es for
glorious fictions for which he has rendereci.q o'
ever grateful--such fictions as " Oliver Tymior
" Nicholas Nickleby." Or, again, we yearn, 0,014'
tale exclusively penned by an imaginary c 14904,
—such as our favourite of favourites, 0,40 v
Copperfield." But to have the two joliugi.,o,ir
other in the same volume—now the author
icsriede
ing, now Esther Summerson—we acku9 Oirt
plainly that we regard that arrangement a4t la 04
take—rather, perchance, should we say that so
of arrangement. Howbeit, the work is 11°,1' •tliol'e
advanced that we must accept it as it is, 70,0
any qualms whatever, and thankful only (o
are) that we have still amongst us dear er 0601.
Dickens, telling us a story at his own PrOoore
sure. It may seem horrible to say so, but lb%
some capital fun in the first chapter of the oil!,
before us—the instalment for this current
of January,—suggested by the death of 10,5 gi;ir
rag-and-bottle Lord Chancellor, the par/Y.,.„4, 31:0 Snags, by calls him) who has been combus,;ll
the way, one of the most horridly drell_.°',Thinat-`l,-0
same ghastly gleams of humour, is the l'lwat ,0
of the good, simple-minded law-stationer
watchful wife supposing for one moment,
would go spontaneously combusting P,re°P,,,%-a 11,t
foot-passengers
tless
other is the juvenile facetiousness of the
and Young Perkins, who, "as members of t-5
juvenile circle which is the terr°los46 in Chance lane crumble iltra,ll ,
long
the pump and under the archwayfoo Ore?
; where wild yells and hootings take P„notll,eh'
giving " A Turn of the Screw ;" or
their remains 1" After this chapter comes :
in other Georeit
findsshowing how honest, brave-hearted gr.% of than
—himself ground down under the grasi:„dfatfres
detestable old scarecrow of a miser, Grb-oluteuto
Smallweed. To. release himself from ,th.feherebY oof the vampire, even for an interval, aa,u "GeorgAneo's
release the Baguets from danger, 1"r. ifalvf%
compelled to hand over some orCaptain
coveted writing to Mr. Tulkinghernr„,*
~iirjoVeo
Dedlock's that Old Man of the name 01 "-n-bserve
is accidentally encountered, we may -„t 10'7,0 Passant (for the apparently trivial eve-- oat"
doubt its importance in regard to the 113 fr,
by the Young Man of the name of .GupPlie 8074
Esther's narrative, which is resumed in i'ber4lo
quent chapter, the final chapter in the lEtt fro of
January, we learn that she has recoverLeue efectso,o
Janis
but seemingly disgured bY turt_--00,0g,
haQ
land after having
that dreadful malady. Mr. Woecle"ed to
hear from little Miss Flite—has returned far
the incidents of the plot already advanc
been shipwrecked. TuetT.

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