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ID i,-no, tenth part as much would have been eat.

ed i-not tenth part as much would have been eat.
en-, and therefore he would have acquired no, 1.-THE
of the glory 7" Then all the people of Jonahandom
waved wroth tho pleasant fruit they had been eat
ing, turned to ashes in their mouth and then was
heard mighty splitting and sputtering all over the
land So Charles went homo; and the land he had
left rung with curse, Of him and his fruit.
Clumsy, Mr. Editor my parable may be: hut not
quite pcness, / hope. can readily see how those,
who have been so long and deeply delighted with tho
writings of DicKrNs, should sadden at the thought,
that they must hereafter be placed farther from their
grasp. Perfectly ineligible is This 10 And can
easily conceive moreover, that they should be I'M
willing 10 deprive themselves OF pleasant food for
the benefit, even, of the man who has prepared for
them. But 1t is not quite so comprehensive to my
mind, how this man-who was once 80 great gen.
uF, whom men of sane minds and sound hearts often
ventired to name in connection with SHAKESPEARE,
whose song reached unto the ends Of the Earth, Le
cause ii was sounded upon the chord that sends up
lite melody wherever there is found human beng
should in moment of time in the twinkling of an
eye-bc transformed into worthless "poiice report
era scavenger in the polluted streets of London
low lite-a ca,caturist ro,ray and boor. As the
old merchant says in the farce, when accused OF
peccadillo, 't may be all right presume it is: bu
o! the illusions Mr.. nicxENs was in the habit of
making to the right question, a, complimentary
fesvalsi in this country. have nothing to say. II
may have been IN bad taste-perhaps it was but a
lack of taste, in this country you know, is not a
capital offence. Mr.. DlcRESs may have been guilty
OF 1t, and yet have written some very commend
able books. But suppose he had chosen the path d.
rectly opposite the one he did take. Suppose, wher
| a tod IN pnI.oixa AZ puI,lin h. b,j e,;l
| mo, gentleman you rob me of my books and til
| you make provision for my payment, can't partnk,
of your hospitality respectfully decline your offer )
Would you have thought any better of him then
nay, half os well 90 you do nova And vet yo,
blame him for having received in all cases withou
| beng urged and III most with acknowledged pratifi
cation the hospitality of his American hosts. Yot
boast that you expressed yonr dsapprobaon' Of thu
| public honofs paid to DICKENS at the time. Well
perhapsyou were right did no,-nor did feel i
very decidedly. As Wordsworth SAYS, of his beau
tiiuI little poem about the Rainbow, thought i
something very childish but very notural" and no
the less coinHeudable for being either II spoke
| deeper language than that of msn-worship 70 whci
you ascrihe IL and when saw iRvGSa and BRYAS-
ana HAitEcK and BANCROFT and QrIScy and al
our best men, sharing in the enthusiasm confess
felt somewhat proud of n sympathetic feeling
know not whether these men are ashamed of it nov
or no''-for my own part think it infinitely NOR
honorable to the American character than the yer,
undlgniied tit Of vexaton and anger into which w
were thrown by the rumor that our lato guest in
tended to ridicue our hospitality. If he does In
sure II will show him to be much baser than thos
he abuses and with this console myself But
am inclined to ''wait and See and so l think is
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