New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-03
Dickens,
Charles Dickens, the most popular writer

Charles Dickens, the most popular writer
of bis time, was born In February, 1879 at Landpor
Portsmouth. His fsh-r, the late Mr. John d. kens tn
tie early part Of bis lite, enjoyed post In the navy
P.y Department the dures of which required that ne
should side from time 10 time, in different sezpOrs
now at Ply mouth, now at Portsmouth, aud then at
SheerIe ss. ain the glorious days, OF the war WIN
France these towns full Of Tile, hustle, ana CHAR
scer and the father OF Boz" at times fond af di
lsting upon strange scenes he had witnessed One OF
his stories describes a sittDgrOOm he once enjoyed al
Bluetown, SheeTness abuttiDg on the th"ater On An
evening he used 10 sit 10 this room and could near wns
was passing the stage, snd Join IN the chIru' ~
"GOd save the King" and Britannia rules the waves,
then the faverire songs of Engli-hmen.
The war being at an end amongst those who len The
public service with a peu'on, was the father OF our
novelist Coming TO London he subsequently found
lucrative employ for his rsens on the pres ~
reporter OF parliamentary debates Charles dickens
may therefore be said D. hsve been in his youth IA NIL
iarzeo with copy " and when his father with parental
anxiety for his took the preliminary steps
for making his attorney, the drearlness Oh the
proposed occupation fell so heavily on the mind OF the
future author that he induced his father u permit him
resign the law and join the parliamentary corps OF
daily newspaper His fret engagement Was ON the
True Sun, an uliralibera paper then carryi z on a
fierce struggle for existence, from the staff II which he
afterwards passed into the reporting ranks OF the
Morn ing Chronicle.
on that payer he obtained reputation fir-t-rate
man-his reports being exceedingly raOd and no Tess
correct In The columns OF The Chronicle ne gave proof
of other talents than those OF reporter tor Ia the
ever ing edition OF that journal appeared tH cHeCe'
Of English Lii. and Character stterward collected 10
form the two well known volumes OF Stetctes by Boz
publih respectively in 1893 These at once attracted
considerable notice and otained great cess and
the publisher of the collected ednou anxious to make
the most of the pze which had fallen to hi. lot gladly
came 10 an agreement with Mr. Dickens and Seymour,
the comic draughtsman-the t. write, the other 10
illustrate book which sdoud exhibit the adventures OF
a party of cockDey sportmen. Hence the appearance
OF PicLtoicL book which made its authors reputation
and publishers fortune After the work hid com
menced poor Seymour committed suicide, and Mr..
Hobot X Browne selected to contiDu- the ilusra-
lions, which be did under the signature OF "Pho."
Meanw bile Mr. Dickens bad courted and married the
daughter of Mr.. George Hogarth then and now mu
sical writer a man of consderab g attainm"nts, ana
who In his earlier days, while writer to The Sgna,
in Edinburgh enjoyed the intimate friendship Ut sir
Walter Scott Jeffrey, and other literary nota1les at
that day adcrIng the Modern Athens. The great sue
cess OF Piccik brought down npon It's a''hor demands
from all sides for another work, and Boz agreed TO
write Nichilas Nckitby TO be published In moI thy
parfs In the predatory notices which gives additional
value TO the cheap and elegant reprint of he works OF
Dickens, we INDUCED with slight giimpses OF his
ow recoecops, personal and literary. IL is unueces-
ssry to bote the titles of Mr.. Dickenss subsequent
works, all of which have justly obtained popularity.