, 1870-06-11

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dag readers In The city.
TIE DEATH OF CHARLES DICKENS.
The most widely loved man living for
twenty years past has been Charles Dickens.
HIS influence, intellectual, moral, and aesthet-
ic has entered more houses aud hearts, and
been bowed to by nearly MI with more
universal and unaffected gladness than that
Of any other teacher, certainly since
Shakespeare, possibly since One with whom
mere mo1tals arc not permitted to be COM
pared There is so little of Dickens Life
that YVES mortal, TINT his sudden death
seems scarcely to remove him from Us.
In his innnitable works, his spirit Will not
only be present in al English-speaking
homes, but viii b potent, powerful always
for good, more judicious often even than
parent OF pulpit, school or college, in
moulding the Characters Of millions yet
unborn. One in Thousand has looked in
by chance, and huniediy, upon Dickens,
and has dropped tbs volume, saying he
could SEQ no merit in it; just
IS certain miners delred in the
great Comstock lode for gold, and
could not make it pay, because its wealth
was all IN silver. But those who
followed reaped sudden fortunes from the
supposed dross, which the former had
burned and thrown away as worthless.
Whoever looks IN Dickens for what his own
Ar. Gradgrind calls facts" will find that
Mr.. Dickens has such a contempt for than
that be caricaturss them in = manner to
make them the accessories of hardness
and of an unamiab1a character OF COURSE
such mind cannot infnse into its work
the learning which makes the charm of
Bulwer, or the antiquarian resources by
which Scott transports Us to the ieudl era,
and, touching their unmarked graves with
his magic wand, calls forth thu Knights Of
the Crusadea, and introduces them to the
merce and industry. Dickens attempts but
twice to found narrative on historical
incident Bnt, as piece of history, the
anf-Pope1y riota, In which Lord George
Gordon figures, in 81 Bafnaby Rudge," are
hardly a succea. His Tale OF Two Cities
dealsmore faithfully with the French Rero-
luton.
He attempts but once to describe peo-
pie in its social hAbits and manners but
his description Of the condition Of American
life in g Martin Chuzz1ewit" is as destituto
Of real wit or hu1nor as it Is Of impartial
ity. Some one has said that Dickens never
read anything but !" Ttiishan shandy-. We
may add that this is fortunate, for
one who can produce better books
than had previously bean written
can only spoil his. own work
by any admixturs of that Of others The
range Of Dickens knowledge was small,
whether in history, science, or eren art.
This too, perhaps, was fortunate, for if he
had mixed anything we could Learn from
other sources, with that which ne could only
learn through him, he would have been less
original and, therefore, lees valuable. MIR.
Dickens chnracten were not real men aud
women, painted from observation, but the
imPe1sonation, in flesh and blood,
OF certain attributes Of character which
exist IN less degree in each Of Us We have
seen those succeed in imposing upon othars
by pretentious mann er and good clothes;
but not until We saw Mr.. Tu1veydrop,
Senior, the "model Of gentlemanly deport-
ment, palm himself of upon his drudging
son as the source of his prosperity, instead
Of the spunge upon his industry, did We ever
conceive how fair manners might cover
fraud SO aeceptively that the spunee would
mistake himself, and be accepted bv his
victims, for their kind benefactor.
Every one Of his characters is a revelation
uf some one attribute in its siimplicitv re-
ieved Of the complexity and inconsistency
Of character IN real life. Petty officers
are often vulgar, self-i important and harsh
Mr. Bundle, the parish besdle, is always
80, for he is the essence Of this variety
< men, boiled down to its
essens~l oil School teachers might lose
lne1 es1ntthies with children naturally,
aao siow i'aihl-s hut their hearts must be
INT Il tne VISION = Squeers would not
ineio" tnem fniia-hropic ladies
1: ~Not' Sta eame
ABSTRACT cause
niens 1orget tnen nfes'des aud lose tnen
natutal aaeeuona but the speotacle OF
11s~ eensoJs little young Jelybr neatnens
growing up savage Tor lack OF motnefs
tender care: while he1 thoughts are n1ed on
plans Tor promoting the nanon at Bot1o-
boolahgoah, teaches Lesson OF which many
mother might 1ena1s who'll ignorant,
though she studied JEy morning exercises
VAIN ploas ass1dmts' abandoning all real
duties In devotion to those whose useful
oess was ana'ny naae''i'a
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