Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-23

tbjse with your afiliction. Ii is a great salts
faction To me to have been addressed under
similar circumstances by many OF your
countrymen since the Old Curiosity shop
came to a close. Some simple and honest
bearts in the remote wilds OF America, have
written me letters on the loss Of children, so
numbering my little book or rather heroine,
with their household gods; and so pouring
| ont their trials and sources OF comfort III
| them. before me as friend that | nave been
! inexpressibly moved, and am whenever L
| think Of them, | do assure you. You have al
ready ali the comfort could lay before you;
! all. | hope, that the aifectionate spirit OF
your brother, now in happiness, can shed INTO
| yyonr soul On the 4th Of next jan
uary, if 1t pleases God l am coming with my
wife on three or four months visit to Amer
lea. The British and North American packet
/ will bring me, nope, to Boston, and enable
mo In the third week Of the new year to set
INV foot upon the soil have trodden II my
| dsy.dreans many times, and whose sons (and
dauphtera) yearn to know and be among
! hope you are surprised, and, hope, not
unpleasantly. Faithfully yours,
Signed CHARLES DICKENS.
Soon after Mr.. Dickens arrival Mr.. Clark
invited number OF gentlemen to meet him.
I In response to this invitation there were
present W. Cullen Bryant, Fitzgreene
Halleck, Bishop Wainwright, Washington
! Irving. Inmsn, the artist, and other cele-
brated men of the world of literature and
art The occasion is remembered By the
survivors as having been peculiarly delight
full Other attentions were paid to Dickens
in many places, and he gathered material
for his american Notes, which, however,
was not at the time generally regarded as
very happy effort of his pen. In 1884
appeared Martin Chuzzlelot and the Christ
mas Carol was brought out at the end OF
| the first of these years. Our readers will
not care to discuss the question of how far
! Mr. Dickens was justified IN his structures
and caricatures of American life, which
| Chusze1oit contains. They have ceased to
cause irritation, even among those who
deemed themselves i'll repaid for the hospi-
| talities shown to the author. They are,
| indeed, more quoted in this country ttan
! III England, and the work IS one Of the
| most popular Of all that Mr.. Dickens wrote.
AS A JOURNALIST.
In the latter part of 1914 he went with
! his family to Italy, remaining about year.
The following year Mr. Dickens conceived
the idea of founding a liberal morning
newspaper, which SHOULD partake rather
more of the literary character than the es-
tablished dailies, and in accordance with
this scheme the Daily News was establish
ed, with himself a. editor. The enterprise
was not successful in the shape in which 1t
commenced, although the first Numbers
were the medium OF introducing his pic
lures in Italy to the public. Probably the
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traordinary effort of genius, horalded as 1t
was by rather high-hown announcements,
was disappointed, and therefore condemn
ed the new journal more decidedly than
might have been the case. At all events
the editor withdrew, and the paper being
remodeled after the style of its cotempora-
res, continued to exist, and is still pub
lished although its success in pecuniary
sense has often been questioned.
Having returned to his Legitimate sphere
Mr.. Dickens wrote Domby and Son in lS47
8, a work which was as successful as any
Of its predecessors, David Coppertield
was concluded in 1850. This book is fire.
quently alluded to as partial description
of its authors own experiences. Whether
this is really the case is difficult to Judge,
although some of David Copperfield's Strug'
giles in bis literary career constitute par
allel to those of Dickens himself. Bleak
House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Great
Expectations, No Thoroughtare, Our Mu-
tual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities &C., sew.
eral Christmas books and miscellaneous
stories, besides The Life of Grimaldi, which
he edited, complete library of works such
as 10 other man but Sir Walter Scott ever
produced. In addition to all this labor be
founded and edited Household Words, q
weekly periodical Subsequently, disagree.
ing with its publishers, he withdrew and
established All the Year Round, which con-
tinued in his hands. In the former OF these
appeared "A Child's History of England. u
The last of the works of Charles Dickens is
"The Mystery Of Edwin Brood the issue
i of which he was not destined to see com
pleted. 1t is said, however, that he left
the whole manuscript in fit state for pub
lication
! DICKENS AS A READER
It was on Thursday, the 18th Of April,
1861. that Charles Dickens made his first
appearance as a plblic reader in st. James
! Hall, London. The following sketch of
/ nm tuen Is lTOul lHb pen Vi Due WIZ was
present, and communicated his impressions
to IIarpers Magazine;
"AIr. Dickens appeared about o'clock,
| dressed in a sumptuous manner. Thus, the
nosegay at his button-hole was size larger,
and several hues brighter, than that please ut
clnceit Of nature in fashionable circles Is apt
to be. And the area Of frilled linen present
ed by his bosom was in extent great and in
whlteness out of the reach of suspicion. 1t
was, moreover, studded with doubtless ex-
pensiye and SNOWY buttons. In addition to
which ther was that in the tie Of his white
crayat which bespoke faculties Of mind not
developed, so far as | am aware, III any of the
published works Of the author. Indeed,
II was gratifying to The senses to see the
snug fit Of his garments for it told plainly
that youth still holds hopeful and
genial rule in the person OF one of the
worlds best men, and that time has stolen
from him none of the elasticity and strength
which go into all Of his sweet human philoso.
ply, aud give his writings their sympathetic
touch. - | would say, if closely ques.
toned, that the GROWING characteristic of
Boz in print i youthiulness, just so Of Boz
in perspD. He is Eprv, s'auuCh and bright