The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-02
The House MT GsdshsIl.

From the London Daily Nct0s, June 81.
proposal has been started at Rochester-proos-
bly, consequent upon the reported early sale OF the
Gadshill house and grounds-having for its object
the purchase and preservation OF Charles Dickens
favorte abiding place as national memento OF this
popular author 1t is suggested that the house
should be retained by Mr.. Dickens family for
term, to be named by themselves, at the expiration
in trustees Dickens passed the morning aud after
OF his last day on earth in the chalet, presented
to him by a few Swiss admirers two years since,
which is erected in the shrubbery opposite his resi-
dence, and approached by tunnel underneath the
foliage Of some very fine trees, stands upon an emf
nence commanding magnificent view or the
Essex. 1t was favorite retreat of Dickens.
Dickens ms Pedestrian.
From the Cheltenhdnt [Eng.) Gazette June 16
At one time OF his life Mr.. Dickeus was a great
pedestrian. That he was a great walker was borne
witness to by much that he wrote. In the wander
ines Of Little Nelly and her grandfather Mr. Dickens
own experiences crop up. The Punch lane and Judy
graphs Of people the author had met and OF places
where he had BEEN The same may be said of the
London to Kent, and the inimitabe paper on
'TIamps," which we are never tired of reading,
could have been written by no man who had not
had opportunities of closely studying the bagging
fraternity, their habits, and modes OF expression.
Indeed, scattered through his works are scenes and
ausions that bespeak the practice of pedesriansm,
If not OF humber modes of travelling. 1t is hard to
believe that the description Of the Journey in that
night wagon in 'The Old Curiosity Shop" and the
morning picture, the passengers cherries, cold,
ugly, and disconnected with three months growth
of hair in one nigl was not realistic sketch that
grew out of Mr.. Dickens own personal experience.
His Name in France.
From the London Negs, June 81.
NJ. Louis Blanc contributes an article on Dickens
to the Paris RGppei, in which he specially refers to
the light estimation in which cosmopolitan France
holds her national celebrities and contrasts 1t with
the patriotic admiration Engshmen display for
their feow-countrymeD who have become distin-
guished. Citing a criticism on Charles Dickens
from London paper in which expression is given
to this admiration lie says that, although other
papers have spoken in more sober language, the
general tone has been marked by the sane exagge
ration NJ. Louis Blanc considers "that Mr.. Dickens
was a humorist with less originality than Shak-
speare, less sensibty than Cervantes, less gdepth
than Jean Paul. and less bonhonsie than Sterne He
did not, Nj. Louis Blanc thinks, regard the vices
he describes quite seriously enough ane weakened
the moral effect of his pictures by The comic colorng
given to them. The influence Of his novels was,
however, highly sautary on the whole, and In his
waitings he always respected himself and respected
his readers, while the sanctlty OF the domestic
hearth never had more reverential painter or a
more charming apostle"