New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-25
NEW PUBLIGA IION&.
prcKENs's GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

No one Of the former productions OF MT.
Dickens is richer in the peculiar qualities which
have given him such wide and solid popularity
than the present remarkable creation of bis
genius; Without falling back on his own steps,
aud reproducing in a new form the characters
with which the whole reading world is familiar,
he follows out the path in which he has won
such brilliant renown and exhibits series oil
fresh Illustrations of the kind of individuaiIties
which his pen delights to represent, and of The
wslks Of life in which all the afinities Of bis
inteIlect make him completely at home. The
personages in this story bear the evident marks
of their paternity they show stroDg family
likeness to the extensive gallery Of portraits with
which the name of Charles Dickens has become
IDENTICAL; they are drawn for the most part
from Q layer of society with which his readers
have no special sympathes; and regarded as
separate Individuals, they are not Pre~seiy Oh
tAe stamp whose acquaintance tue "arn'es' au-
nlirers Of The author wonld be solictoas TO eai-
aysse Nor does the plot in which they are
made 10 figure attract by the NATURAL sequence
of ,ts events; it presents succession al wild
improbabities, and although constructed with
more than Mr. Dickens's usual Auesse, it carries
invention 10 tho extreme borders of legitimate
romance.
The person, On whom the fortunes Of Mr.. Pip,
the young gentleman of "great expectations"
are made to hinge, is one. Magwitch, chrstered
Abel, an escaped convict, whose emineuty con-
sistent Life previous to transportation, is summed
sp ia tue terse photographer statements In
iaiI and out of Jail, in jail and out of Jail, in ail
aud out Of Jail, carted here and carted there,
aud put out of this town and put out Of that
towp, and stuck in the stocks, and whipped and
worried and drove" The earliest recollections
of the juvenile " warmth were Of 4" thievipg
turuips for q living" and afterward, tramping,
begging. thieying working sometimes when he
could, which was not often, "a bit OF poacber,
a bit of q labOreT, bit of wagner, bit OF
q haymaker, q bit Of a hawker, bit Of most
things that don't pay and lead to trouble" until
bs got TO be man.
Mr.. Pip himself the marvellous yieissisudes OF
whose life are the theme of bis own story makes
his first appearance as a miserable, puny, timer
ous. lynphatic urcbo, who had becn "brought up
bv hand BY a sister, Mrs. Joe GaTgery twenty
years elder than himself, whose douestic virtues
took the form Of strength of temper rather than
sweetness of disposition, aud kept her husband,-
a staivart Hercules Of blacksmith, but q mild,
good uotured, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,
- with curls of iaxen hair each side OF his
smootl, face. and ewes of such very undecided
blue TINT they seemed somehow to have got
mssd with their own whites, "--in perpetual
terror OF his LIE.
Ioe's forge adjoiued ou, house, which was wooden
Nome as many II the dwellings in OUT country were
,nnet efshem at that time. When ran home from the
chutco-yard the forge was shut up and jos was at
tug alone in the kitchen. doe and being fellow SUI
fsrtye aud having confidence a6 such, doe impaired
conGaepoa TO ne the moment raised the latch OF the
door aud peeped in at him opposite to it, sitting IN the
chiuuey.corne
you Pip; aId she q out noN, making u baker 6
Dozen"
"Is sbsF'
"Yesl'p." said joe; I" and shass worse, she's got
A. this dsmal intelligence tsistsd tse only button
on my gastcOat round aud round and iooked In great
depression at the fire. 1iesler wasa w.X-eaded piees
tf eana, worn smooth by collision with my tisks
she sat down. sold joe ann M 9rs: .a.de gl1o a.
xs4LSsl, ana she rsDrEage1 ont ihAts what slie
ia" stid Joe, slowly elea:ing tha Gre between the
,sre with the poker; &C she rafn-paeed out, Pip.
{" Han she been gone long, Joe y | always treated
ara "a larger species OF child and as no laore than
%WeII." said Joe, looking up at tho Dutch clock
sbes Il en- On the Rampage, this last spell, about
6ve minutes, Pip. Stesa coming! Get behind the
door odd chap, and have the actOwel betwixi you.'
The acquaintance botwem Pip and thc future
ssar of biz d, sipy commenced unde, somewhat dls-
Agreeable circumstances. He had been wandering
one raN, 6anp dismal aifesroon seward evening
10 clrlreh.yara where his athes aud mother ioy
srNd near IA extensive wilderness sf marsh,
intersecteSI with d.kes and mounds aud gates with
scattered cattle feeding on it, when hs vas well
nigh f,2seened oat Of bis seses by the sudden ad.
vent Of grim, grizzly aprar'iOn, which spoke to
bifa in not at Ill encouraging words:
"Hoid your noise l' ciied terible voice, as nss
stsred up froa auong the graves at th0 side OF TIE
churt porch. Hold your noise vou lille dsYil, or
III cut yoar throat - .'-f'.
fearful man, all in gray with n great iron oD his
leg. man with no hat, and broken shoes, ana with
a. old sag tied round hs head. q nan VINO hai Deen
eOaked la water aud sinothered In mud, and Aned by
stones, and cut by ints aud stuug by reees ana torn
by briars; gho1imped aud thyered, ard elared and
Towed; ahl whose teeth chatered ia his head ~ he
seized me By tie chin.
"Don.t cut my throat, Sir" | plssded in terror
GPEy don't 10 1t, Sir y
'TeIl y your namel" said tbe mar. "Quick"
"Pip, Sir"
"oncs more, )" said the man. "Giye it mouth
"show us wherO yOu i've" said the man. 'Pint
Sut the place y
rointed TO where our village lay on the fat iu-shore
among tie ader-tTees and pollrds, amlo from
the church.
The mar, after locking at me for a moment, turned
me upside-down, and empled my pockets. There was
nothing in them hut piece OF bread. When the
church came 10 itseE-Or be was sudden and strong
that no made it go head over heels before ne, and
saw the sieepe under my legs-wben The church came
90 itseff, say, was seated on high tomb-S Stons