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The Boston Post thus sketches the
famous English novelist: 4 III

Il famous FEnSii H0SCA0C'I It'd III Hs
Mr.. Dickens having concluded his
first series of readings in Boston, de-
parts for 2 New York. He has been
/ treated with courtesy and kindness in
| our city. In the attentions given him
no one has particularly stopped over nor
pushed riotously. He has dined out,
lduring his three weeks sojourn in the
city, about dozen times; partly in
Cambridge, but mostly in Boston. He
has entertained small and select par
ties at the Parker House, about the
same number of times. On Sunday last
he gave nice party to ten people,
largely of the female persuasion, all Of
whom were captivated by the Bozzian
soups and sentences. With the excep-
ton of these dinings and winnings, most
ly among the creme de la creme of the
literati, Mr.. Dickens has devoted him.
self to business. He meant it in get
ting $4,000 for his four readings at
fremont Temple At ii A. NJ, he gives
his muscles lively play in the shape of
eight or ten mile walk-the constitu-
tional." Two or three gentlemen have
tried this turn into the suburbs with
Mr.. Dickens, and most of them have
been glad before getting back to turn
into some horse or steam car, or some
other method of conveyance. He is a
rapid walker and keeps up his speed to
the end. He and Fields were account
cd on pedestrian wager few days
since, while speeding it over the mill
dam in most energetic manner. Dick
ems came in at the stand ON School
street, dry and blooming; his compel
itor putting and blowing and in a gen
eral state Of looseness. To these daily
walks he attributes in no small degree
his vigorous health. He eats-does
Dickens. He also says that at the
Parker House the cooking is good"
Let him remember this important fact,
and not say something else in Vol. 2 of
American Notes 1t may or may not
be known, but the fact is fact that
Dickens is particular as to his food.
what Englisliman is not? He wants
what he wants, and as he wants it.
Otherwise there is conversation of n
pointed character. This is right enough.
Mr.. Dickens pen has been busy from
the moment Of his arrival in the city.
He has at least three papers on which
he is hard at work. One is to see day
light first in the Aaantic Monthly and
the others at home He has been sought
almost necessarily. Cards by the bush
el in the aggregate have been sent him,
and notes soliciting autographs have
fallen or rather flown to him, as it were,
in showers. Of course these imperti-
nences have gone unanswered; in fact,
have not even reached him at ALL His
assistants are doomed to the task of
seeing the purpose of the billet, and are
authorized to dispose of them in the best
manner, which manner and way is that
of waste basket Persuasive papas
and mcllihuous mammas have sent Sc
ductive invitations to dinner, to the end
that snowy and ambitious daughters
might feast through their eyes on the
great novelist and reader But it
wouldn't do. Mr. Dickens no doubt has
a profound and abiding respect for all
these parents anG their promising fe-
male offspring, but he didn't come to
America to get dinners, or compliments,
or nonscnsc-but good, Substantial
money. He has his cyc-both his eyes
ON the main chance and he will keep
them there till next April, when he will
have baggcd full 100000 net. These
figures are not figures Of speech, but
those others from tie table known as
multiplication. There is a practical
way about Dickens which shows him
to DC a MAJ. Of tho world. He is, in
truth, a practitioner; he practices on
THE public's pocket, and with a success
which must be very gratifying to him
self. The public, we believe, have no
fault to find They believe hisreadings
worth the money, or they wouldn't at
tend them. Thatis selfcvident. New
York will Of course go raving with
Dickens The great city has no stabil-
Iity, and its inclination to slop is dread
full If Mr. Dickens gets back to Bos-
ton alive, ten days hence, let him be
thankful.