Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-07
n,cken. Thackery. ct alias.

Dickens, Thackery, ct alias.
The London correspondent of the n. \.
Herald. serves up the annexed dish of gossip
to the readers of that paper, under date March
18th:
The literati of this metropolis are at the
present moment enjoying no mean share OF
public attention, and their bantering and
neccadiloes take sides with the daily talk of
the European war that is to be. or is not to
be- Just as our cher ally Louis choose to have
it.
Dickens's sauabbles are interminable. The
entente cor9iaLe betwesn him and his publishers,
Bradbury & Evans, has just come to an end,
and with it new leaf of 'BoZ's' domestic
troubles is turned TO the public gaze Scarce
" cooled down over the scandal OF the little
arrangement" of separation from his wife.
with his son he ia again the subject of gossip
Dickens senior and Dickens Junior have both
been on terms intimate and affectionate with
the Bradburys and the Evanses. For long
wears the senior Dickens has done all his
publishing business with that firm. and, In
course of time and association, the Junior
Dickens has gained upon the affections OF the
fair and blooming offspring of the Junior
member of that publishing firm. Charles
the first has thought proper to dissolve his
relationship with the great book establish
u
between the business affairs of the fathers
and the love affairs of the children. The
senior Dickens is at liberty to leave Bradbury
and the Junior Dickens claims the same
privilege of clinging to Evans. The son is
betrothed to the young lady, purely and
simply on his own account, and therefor
disregards the paternal order forbldding
intimate relations between the families. This
might have ended here quietly, but the father
hoo - no seeking
revenge. The young man was candidate
for membership at the Garrick Club on his
fathers introduction; but on this daring to
love against orders, the father scored MS
name out of the candidates book. This has
brought the affair before the public. The
committee of the Garrick Club. in spite OF
the fathers proceeding offered to elect him;
he. however. has declined.
Mr.. Dickens, junior, is prOtege of Miss Bur
dett Couths and is at present III the house OF
Barring Brothers, prior to being launched on
his own account.
This uneeasing squabbling attracts particu-
lar attention to the Dickens family. Three
brothers are said to be either separated from
their wives or suing for divorces. The trouble
between the editor of the Household Words and
the publishers is said to spring from the lat
ter not publishing in Punch the letter which
Mr. Dickens addressed to the Times and other
papers in reference to his discarded wife.
Whether or no. the partnership of Mr.. Dick
ems and Messrs. Bradbury & Evans terminates
next Nav in the proprietorshlp Of Household
Words At that time it will be offer for
pnblic sale 1t Is rumOrrd that Mr. Thacke-
raw will be its future editor. The LounS ~
of the Illustrated Times says that Mr. George
Augustus Sala (for whose many articles Boz
has obtained all the kudos and much OF The
Drofit) will not write for il again. but that il
ltyt h,a NJ.
Shirley Brooks. Charles Dickens, Jr. Mark
Lemon. Tom Taylor, Horace Mayhem, and
the rest of the well known and s,Icc s-fui
contributors to the London Chairman, whose
articles he (the Lounger) never reads
Dickens is going to start new publication.
to replace Household Words. After much diff
ficuty and many consultations with Messr-.
Foster, Willes Wilkie Collins, and Albert A.
Smith. his cronies, he has hit upon AL Rouna
the Year. One of the Smiths. it is said. sng-
CRESTED Domestic BroiLs, and somebody else
Household Roacs but Charles WINGED and
| no more was said.
Though il was recently rumOrrd that the
| Thaskeray-Yates difficulty was settled a u
a1noble. il turns out that Mr.. Y. has caved in
| literally caved in. The latter is out with six
! teen mortal pages OF correspondence and
| facts setting forth the exact circumstances
| of the difficulty between me and Mr.. Ihack
pray and the GarrlCk Olub, WHICH ItSolNcs
| itself into nutshell dimensions. Mr.. Y. and
| Mr.. T. are members of the same club, and
| both are writer's Thackeray is the elder
Yates the younger. The first has made his
reputation and fortune from his pen. the lat
! ter il climbing and still low down, on The
| same ladder Mr.. y. last June writes sketch
of Mr.. T. in a London weekly, In which b,
| criticiZes unsparingly the man and his N III
ners. Mr.. Il. takes offence writes a snubhin2
| letter to Mr.. Y, to which the latter replied
| in the same amiable mood. Mr.. I. stands
upon his dignity and sends the correspondence
| to the committee of the Garrck. The clui
takes up the matter IN behalf Of Thackeray
| aud refuses admission within its portals Il
Mr.. Yates. and he consults lawyers For min,
| months this affair has been the constant sab
iect of town talk, and now it ends withou
the interesting developments expected before
| the bar Mr.. Y seems to have got scared IA
the name of Chancery. He says that his SO
| licitor informed him that the secretary of tn
! Garrick, who put his hand on his yates
| shoulder and prevented him from entering
was nobody and the committee was nobody
they were but names, and the only person
that be could proceed against were the trus
tees-wiih the prospect of a cost of $500 III
failure Mr. Y wisely concludes to foreg'
the luxury Of fitting match with the ricl
representatives of the Garrick Club. Thus i
ends. Thackeray stays in, Yates is put out
aud 'order reigns in Warsaw"