The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-01-18

Mr.. DIcsrNs IN Bosrox.-Last evening Mr.. Dick
ems gave us first reading ut the Hub. in the
fremont T.mple, where were assembled all the
beauty. faskon and talent of the literary emporium
"A vast artiencc, who were moved TO alternate
smiles and tears n. the wizard will of the reader.
! The TTib~e put the telegraph in requiSition for the
occasion. AMI gives its readers to-day a despatch of
two column. devoted TAI the Incidents OF this event
=. Although SAYS the reporter. - tickets for readings
carry twice repeated on their face the request that
=" the audience would all be seated punctually ~ :
o'clock" IL WIS nearly sis before the vast crowd
siInmered dovn tn "a state of comparative quiescence.
And il was indeed \ vast audience-such a crowd
as - seldom gathered in a single hall to meet any
single man. The line of carriages ran down all
manner of streets and lost itsel: in the suburbs.
All the cars l,ading IRON the outlying towns brought
IN fresh recruits 70 the great army, and the snow
thai had beei falling all the afternoon ut last gave
up trying TO get To the pavcment. and wen; 20 some
other place. while the moon shOne out and helped
the gas lamIs light the gay. struggling %swarming
multitude that was trying to get inside the doors
watched by u long faced. silent multitude that
crowded roInd the doorways without tickets and
no hope Of getting in at all. Inside the house the
scene was striking enough. Few cities. anywhere.
could show an audience ofsuch character. Hardly
"A notable man in Boston. OF 81 miles about. but was
there. and ~ doubt if in London itself Mr.. Dickens
ever read before such an asScmblage.
LongfelOs. DR.. Homes. Edwin Whipplc. the poet
Dana. now in his SOih year, Lowell. Professor
Norton. BiSLop Eastburn-in fact. all the eeiebri-
ties in American literature who radiate around
Boston were there-all entering as heartily into the
enthusiasm of the scene as the most eXcitable
among the crowd. For a Boston audience con-
tinues the report, (" his reception is remarkably
enthusiastic. Seldom does the polished ice OF this
proper community crack rs loudly. and Us cheerily.
under the tLawing beams of any intellectual sun. as
il did tom ght when Dickens stood before them. and
while cheer after cheer broke forth. aud cries of
welcome and ~clapping of innumerable kids. rose
and fell ard rose again in a friendly roar tried To
speak and was defeated, and returned g~allantly to
the charge again. but had scarcely got rs far as
q" Ladies' when nc was obliged To succumb. and
made another dash at &" Gentlemen" and gave it up.
and at last saw that one EBgliShmln was nothing
to so many hundred Yankees. and waited smiling
and bowling until they had had their will. and were
ready To Let him have his" In reading. Mr.. Dick
ems neither follows the original text. nor adhcres
closely by my means to the text of the pretty aud
convenient handbooks which he has himself con-
densed and prepared. lie leaves out n good deal,
changes WORDS. mistakes words sometimes. and
really much of it seems impromptu. / thought.
now and then. that he was thinking of his present
audience. and putting in what he iancied would suit
better here than in London. His delivery has
marked ptculiaTiiies, and Is thoroughly original.
lie deals much in the rising infection at the end of
sentences. i sometimes mOnOtonous, and keeps up
old recommendations that we seldom hear on this
side Of the water. \ Boston paper says one man
who speculated in the Dickens tickets cleared
So .O0O by the operation. Here spectators are
holding tickets for one lecture at $50 apiece.