Litchfield enquirer., 1842-12-22
DlcKENs AND Rf'rcHIE.

From long editorial criiqas on Dickens American Noies in the Richmond Enquirer, we make the following extAcS :R.
 We have read the work with disappoint- ment, regret, much disgust, and we must add, some indignation. We expected from Mir. Dickens talents, and the expression of gratitude he evinced, much better produc- tion-more just in its views of American so- ciety- more liberal in its temper = more worthy of him and of ourselves. We had admired many of his works-and we con- duction will lose him friends in America It will circumscribe the range of his future production. will nearly cut off the whole region of the south, once his most ardent admirers, from the circle of his readers.- It will weaken the moral force of all his opinions, copyright, and all. He has been kind enough to give us some good advice in relation to our excess in splitting, and to the defects of our press-though he has made carricature of both, yet even it's advice will loose its influence from tho manner in which it is presented, and from the bitter feelings which he has produced on other subjects. We agree with Niles Register" that '" the work will sadly lower the estimate in which the author was held-both as a writer and man, although there are many well writ
 
 "We do not blame him for making mo reference to his reception," though there was an immense field beyond it for de- scription of those distinguished minds that enlighten and embellish our country. He has no want of space to complain of. He had time enough for a larger observation al least of the great elements of our society," He had leisure and bad taste enough to witness a negro dance at the Five Points. He has condescended to give full and sil- ly account of it. He can stoop to the low and protraeted dialogue with negro stage driver who drove him from the Potomac to Fredericksburg. He has found to describe con Gnore the hogs of New York and of Lou- isville-the coarser manners of his fellow passengers on board canal boats and steam- CTS. And yet he had no taste for describing the distinguished men whom he saw at Washington and in the north. Let any one read his whole western tour, from his leav- ing Richmond to his arrival at Niagara, be- ing one- fourth of his book, ,and then say how many grains of wheat he can collect in all this bushel of chaff. Except very few facts which he has given us in his account of Cincinnati and St. Louis, almost the whole passage might be spared without the slightest loss to the beauty or the value of his Notes"
 A TEMPERANCE TALE.-The New Orleans Picayune relates the following story, as an illustration of the many beneficial changes which the temperance reformation has cf. fected in that city :- .......
 Before the introduction or propagation of temperance in this city, there lived here a shoemaker, and here he lives still but lo {! what change has come over his mode of I:e. ki. Ans,.s~sis. e.ounfs,Pa and nnoaneetive happiness. He then worked hard and drank hard. and lived ln filth and wretch edneas HO resided in Q dark, dlngy shan. tee in an obscure street. It might Do said to have been his
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 Which served hlm loE paFlOF. lSF kitchen and hail"
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