The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-02
CHARLES DICKENS.

sorrow over the whole literary
world, for since the splendid ca
reer of Lord Byron, there is no
name in literature SO bright and
beautiful as that of the author Of
'.Picwick."
Charles Dickens was born in
London in 1912. He soon rose to
distinction, and was scarcely more
than twenty when he was en-
ployed by one of the great news
paper establishments OF the me-
trOpOlis as parliamentary re-
porter. In his career as reporter,
he acquired such high reputation
that he was engaged by one of
the publishing houses of the city
to write a series of sketches, and
his success in these essays led to
his being engaged to furnish a
more elaborate series of sketches,
in which the habits, manners and
customs of the town and country
should be displayed by the char
acters. At first the design was to
adapt the written sketches to pic
lures already drawn, but finally
the result Of the negotiation was
the publication of the Picwick
Papers, which rose to the highest
pop ularity, and eclipsed every
thing that had appeared in Eng
land since the publication of By
ron's "Corsair'' in 1914, of which
the entire edition was sold in q
single day. The "Pickwick Pa
pers'' made Dickens, reputation
as the first of living humorists, and
the most brilliant and facinating
writer of the day. These papers
are as popular now as whom they
first appeared in 1888, for who
shall ever record the death of Mr..
Pickwick7 or Winkle? or Warbler
or Sam Weller7 or tho fat boy7 or
Mr.. Bob Sawyer or Mr.. Ben AL
LENT If you have never read the
"Pickwick. Papers," bless yonr
stars that You have, at least, one
treat in store-a bookstOre-for
you, and we advise you to buy a
copy of that work as soon as you
can.
The publication of tho Pick
succession by Nicholas Nickleby,
Oliver Twist, Old Curiosity Shop,
David Copperfeld, Little Dorrit,
Dombey and Son. Bleak House,
Pictures from Italy Hard Times
and twenty other works, all excel
ent, and all superior to any other
works which have appeafedin En-
gland or the United States, during
the sa1ne period. Who can ever
forget Little Nell and her Grand
fatherf Who does not remember
Little Dorrit But perhaps the
character which is the best drawn,
except that Of Mr.. Pickwick, is the
excellent and philosophical gen
tlemen know as Wilkins Micawber,
Esq, who waited SO patiently "for
something to turn up
Charles Dickens visited the
United States in 1874, his object
being to obtain the passage by
Congress of an international copy
right law. He failed, and tho
consequence was, that on his re-
turn to London, he published his
"American Notes." in which the
American people, or rather the
citizens of the Northern States,
WcIo Il(llCulCu iCAouO AAoASJ
In this, we think that Mr.. Dickens
injured himself, for he had accept
ed the hospitality of the Boston
ians and New Workers, who treat
ed him with greater distinction
than any literary man has receiv-
ed, in any age or any country, fol
we make no exception in the case
of Dante or Voltaire. But it is
due to him to state that q fen
months since-just after his late
visit to this country-he retractet
the censures contain in his t'Notes'
"and so the amend honorable was
made, as it should have been bone
long before.
But death has closed the scene
Of his love and his labors, Ht