The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-23
HnIsborough Highland County, Ohio, Thursday
TWho1e No. 1778.

grown many of the fOlIies which were in
deed fair objects for any mans satire, we
look back with wonder on the protests
which these bright, crisp "Notes" drew
from American readers. The same keen
eve that discovered Mr.. PecksnifF in Eng
land could not easily keep itself shut
while Mr.. Dickens was making his MEM
orable tour through the Northern and
Southern States. The absurditv and
wrong he saw among us he treated in the
same spirit with which be had treated the
sins and shams of his own people,-writl
ing of New York or Boston as he would
have written of London, or Dublin, or
Paris, if the same opportunity had arisen. Z.
But the "Ameriean Notes. were not. at
the period of their issue, considered pleas
ant reading. Possibly it was a saving
suspicion on our own part, that we were
not entirely faultless as a people; that
rendered US so sensitive in the year of
grace 1912.
"Martin Chuzzlewit" appeared in num-
bers in 1874, and in the summer Of that
year the author visited Italy. He return
ed home after an absence of several
months, to assist in founding a cheap
daily newspaper of liberal politics. Hav-
ing organized large literary staff, and
enlisted the services of many of the ablest
writers of the day, he issued in January,
1887, the first number of the Daily News,
acting as editor-in-chief, and contributing
to its columns the results of his Italian
journey, subsequently reprinted in book
form as Pictures from Italy" The Daily
News we'll under way, Mr.. Dickens retir-
ed from the editorial management in or
der to devote himself to pursuits more
cOngenial and important.
| 1t was in 1913 that he gave US the first of
his inimitable Christmas books, "a Christ
mas Carroll" the second, 1.-The Chimes" in
| lS45; and the third, ",The Cricket on the
| Hearth" in 1916. To this catalogue the
reader can add the title of many a charm
/ ing holiday volume, wholly or in part
| from Mr.. Dickens pen. 1t has been pleas
autly said that Christmas in England owes
most of its cheer and kindly usage to
| Charles Dickens-that it is his good heart
which beats in England's bosom at Christ
mas time.
"In 1878 Mr.. Dickens published
"DOmbey and SOM" in 1S49-5O "David
COpperfeId:" "Bleak House" in 1858;
"Hard Tines in 1854; and 'Little Dor
ritz in 1856. .
! In 1850 Mr.. Dickens started Household
! Words, weekly miscellany of popular
/ literature, which he conducted until 1859
when, in consequences of misunderstand-
/ ing that had arisen between him and his
publishers, he discontinued the journal
and in its place established All the Year
Round, which he still edits. "A Tale Oi
Two Cities, "The Uncommercial Papers, y
and "Great Expectations" first appeared
in the pages of All the Year Round.
! In 1864 Mr.. Dickens published "OuT
Mutual Friend in the old familiar green
covers that have become dear to the pub
lie. Since then he has written nothing,
except a brief sketch, or an occasional es-
/ say for his journal until now, when we
have the pleasure Of laying before ouI
readers the first installment Of s'The Mys-
| terry of Edwin Brood"