The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-25
LITERARIANA.
DICKENS As A READER.

DlckES5 AS READER.
MI. DICKENS debut as a reader 10 Riyon by
correspondent OF tho Round Idbse II WAS son,
fourteen years ago, for tho benefit OF tho Ms
ehanioa Institute IN. tho English town OF petei
borough. Tho Institute was embarrassed by debt
anu hlF. u. was prevailed upon by the borough
iuelnber to give it a reading.
MIR. Dickens ut that tinp hpd made no publj
appearance as q roader. He had occasionally beo,
heard OF as giving selections from his works t,
small cotores Of friends, or In tho private ga loo,
OF eome distinguished patron OF art. But ho hst
norSonsly shrnnk from any public debut, unwil
ing, 80 1t seemed, to weaken his reputation as I
writer BY any possible failure rs q reador
This s;- di[ildence i had taken so strong a hoit
como but for for tho inaidious persuasions OF "oul
TtS5 sond9s Ss!as tho ms!tOr wiiout satsda
and daughters rural sSopkeopors and sHns faM
country parsons-if interest could be excited in
tho success OF tho reader would bo assured who're.
rssaeS' sPSTsaa a sSS Ssssf %asf
| and blr. Dickeus consented to deliver q public
TToadt!ln9 reading In aid Of tho Peterborough Mcohanics'
a5sate He 9IlE stipulated that tho prices q
| ho ohoae, might como to hear him, and named
Two shllings shilling, aud sixpence, as tho limit
the reading every place WIS taken, and half q
guinea and guinea wore tho curront rates for
Dickens hmaoIf came down aud sup,rir.e,aoa
tho arTangements..s 80 anxious was no as to tho
result. At ono end OF tho large Corn Excharge
pulpit OF red bniEe much like q Punch and
Judy show with tho top taken of az anything.
This n was to be tho readers roatrum. But, as tho
up there alone two dSpo on nrIS rsISSu sido 10 bosr Il
company. When tho roador mountoi into tho
middle box nothing was visible of him but his
was stated afterwards by an ndtscrcet " @ auper' @
numornry that MR. Dickens legs shook undor
him from first to last, the audience knew
stage arrangements suggested that Mr. Dickens
was sure OF hia head, but waB not quite 30 sure
Of us legs. It was tho Christmas Carol that
As tho clock struck the appointed hour, o rcd TO-
vial face, unrelieyed BY the heavy mo,,Htache
Mhi;h ia , tho novelist has since assumed. broad,
panse OF shirt collar aud front appeared sboro tho
red baize box, and full sonorous yoico rang out
then pauaed ns il to take in tho character OF tho
audience: No ne neGd OF further hesitation The
yoisG c6Sn held sl Is depths o, qre
lis oabodmcn Of bary sooa sspnst nature U
IN a SnbDs Ing
spirit OF ChristmaseB to come pointed to tho
nettc-Rrown, neglected grave OF tho rnlored man,
Tim dwell yet IN memory ike ike aiIGS nsnoSn tnnc @
That one nights reading in lhe quaint little city,
80 suriously brought about, 81; ludcrcus almost
career OF public reader; and he huB snce derived
noarly as large an income from his readings as
failed to cnrry out his wish Of making his first
bow before All uncducated audience The yoto OF
thanks which closed tho proceedings was moved
By tue senior marquis of Scotland, and seconded
by the heir OF tho wealthicst peer in England
Five editors OF The PtcksbHr3 Republican have
been killed within tho last ton ycars The readers
which is tho spico OF life-arc less fortunate. 80
says tho Round Table.
Rev. CHARLEs KINGSLEY, author Of Alton Locke
and Professor Of Hiatory at Cambridge, England,
is about to visit tho United States.
DR.. LsAAo !. HAYES has beeu awarded by tho
ROYAL Geographical Society Of England tho Ticto-
ria gold medal in honor OF hia having attained the
most Northorn point Of land over reached by anv
eIploror Tho medal which was accompanied by
SON, is OF solid gold, moro than two inchcs thick
bears on it's diverse medallion Of the Queen,
with tho inscription
''yietorin D. g., Britanniarum Regina IDCCCXxxyII
Patrona,
whie tho revorso contains tho figure OF Minerva
holding out wreath with the motto
lob Tesraa Reclusas Royal Geographical Society of
It is q pity that, wbilo Franco is fitting out an
expedition intont upon actually reaching tho pole,
DR.; hayes, inBtead OF removing tho enterpriso as
diqnitafe, and devoting his experience to tho com
position OF stories for Juvenile magazines.
MIR. James Russell Lowell will publish a new vol
umc OF poems in tho autumn.
Mrs. Harriet Bcecher Stowe has 30 nearly COM
plotted as to have eont to tho printer portions Of
old-time folks in Now England village, fifty or
sixty years ago."
blr. Bayard Taylor is employing his leisure timo
in Germany upon his translation of Goetho's
Faust, aud serial entitled "The By-Ways Of
Europe, which Is to appear in tho Atlantic
Professor Agassiz's "Journal in Brazil" ia com
Pleted and in tho printor's hands, and it's author
n,a1ssa In ,ts
Hunting in the East, by Captain ]. T. NEWALL;
Car Carolina Sport. by Land and Water. by the Hon:
wM ELLIOTT. ThOre arc also, beside, awarm Of
Of %ssU9g pSsS By % i6 9G
Charge, by ". G. RUSSELL; A Terrible Wrong, by
ADA BUItsoN; Little Miss Fairfax, by KRsNEa
CANN1Nq; The Rival Doctors, by FRANK TnoIIopE;
Flora Adair, by Mise DoyELAN. :
:. Among tho how French books enumerated by
tho Paris correspondent Of The Publishers Oircu-
lar, arc the Count DE- BAuLoN's Lord walpole at
the French Court; Z. FALLUE's Political Intrigues
Of Princes Of tho Blood under 'Rtchelieu and Ma
Eclectic School. and tho Destiny OF French Phi
iosophy; Il: p, HHARIos Cur Dous Homo; Disser-
taSen do hiotiyo Inoarnationis; E. PLoN's Thor
FERDINAND FhEHloRArn. the patriot German
poet and exile, "a we explained some timo ago is
Germany subscription intended TO relieve him
from tho pressure of business cares, and enable
him to resume in England the pursuit Of litera-
ture From Bt. Louis the intellectual centre OF the
Germans IN America the Hum OF $12 900 has boon
forwarded to him; $1,000 from Chicago whilo Buff
falo is to add its contribution. In New York. We
publisher Of Fre,lisrath4 w6fRs re6etsss auusdrnr
tions to tho fund. ~. 4.
Qceen Yictorih's book, about which much was
eaid some months ago, is not the just published.
Early Years OF tho Prince Consorf. asince her
mo one could be moro exact In noting daily occur
rences and ovents In diary. In this she was also
assisted by the Prince Consort." II is from this
that is to como the book which is now in the hpnds
Of editor, and is aaid TO giVo many interesting
sketches Of life at Balmoral and tours in the High
lands .-a... :Hs.i -
Mr. Robert Buchanan's volume Of poems, as We
learn from the london Review, opens with Mog
Blame, q story Of fsherwomsn on tho coast Oh
Scotland Tho oth3r three long Scottish poems
are The Northern Wooing, lovo story; ono whose
subject is tho Highland evictions; and Tho Battle
al ,DF1mho Moor DIR. Pnchenan's prose volume
dontainBf bed do the biography David Gray, which
gives name to the book, papers on Rnglish'and
American poets and on tho poetic art In general.
Mrs. 8ARAH AYIoR AUSTIN, who has Just died
in England at tho age OF seyenty.fohr, was ono OF
The TAfLoas Of N6rwichAa family bf some note
Cngar, the death Of ono Of whose members, Mrs.
Acme erAYLoR) GILDxRT, wo mentioned some
months since, and whose literary accomplishments
during several generations another Of the family,
tho Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR, has reoorled In q lately
published two-voume work. MrH. AU8rIN WAS q
| woman whose inherited intellectual power Was
supplemented by all the advantages Of education
and culture, and whose sason aa gathering place
| for mon OF lottors hls boon likened to that Of