New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-11
DEATH OF CHARLES DICKENS.
Continued from First Page.


get some OF the incidents of that five months visit for
did many foolish thing In the extravaganza Of
adulaon, and got gentle castgation for IL after
wards that it took twenty years 10 forgive The Dos
ton Transcript gave the keynote for subsequent Wild
pursuit Of the great Boz, when published the following
rather exalted paragraph a few days after his arrival
owe are requested that Charles Dickens, esq.
will be at the fremont Theater this evening. The desire
10 see this popular author WILL no doubt attract large
evening. and found him OF the most rank sood1s.
nobiehearted gentlemen zee erer met T,h perIeeIyyT"
from all hduJhtiness or apparent seJtDportdnte In
fact he ia just such person as we had supposed MN to
Se almost TS@ s %ad T hs v county, n
lady, too, Is most beautiful and occoDpshed and dp
tnguiShed husband"
There was Boz banquet In Boston the lst Of
February, at which Josiah Quincy, jr presided, and
nearly all the principal literary men OF Boston wero
present Mr. Dickens made excellent speech In reply
to a tOast-f0r he was remarkably happy "a table
speaker,-and said something about his writings ~
characteristic of the and interesting a. con
trbution 10 literary history that shall quote from IL
pretty freely:
There other point connected with the labors f
may can then so 1na b SDu M SIV helm
expressing the delight the more than happiness was
to me to nnd 80 strong an a~1kened on ,ns ste
whom your President has made ausoD who died in her
youth. had letters about that child In England, from
the jewellers in oghuts among The morasses and swamps
and densest forests and deep sOudcs OF the Far west
Drowned by the summers SUM- has taken up the pen aaf
written 10 me little history OF domestic JOY OF sorrow
always coupled, proud to say, with something OF
interest that little tale, comfort happiness
derived from it and the writer has always addressed
or five thousand miles away, but friend to whom 10
might freely mpart the joys and sorIows OF us own
h IiSs; aSd G has told me how she lost such
buried and how good she was and how in this or THAI
respect, she resembled Nell do assure you mat no
n mt
of the qualification have derived from this source
was wayerng at the time whether or not 70 Wind up my
me. feel as II It were positive duty as II wero
end and even UP now h9ve such an odd sensation In
connection with these things that you have no chance OF
spelling me. feel as though we were agreeng-as in
deed we are we substitute for fictitious characters tho
classes from which they are drawn-about thlrd pate.
in whom we had a common interest. 1t every act
Of Kindness on your part say to myself That's for
OiyerI should not wonder If that was meant for smks
i have doubt that it intended for Nell and 80
became much happier, certainly. but more sober ana
retiring man than ever was before
From Boston he came to NewYOrk, and here the Ies
tivities redoubled There was dinner at the CITY
Hail. where Washington Irving presided, and blushed at
hearing his panegyrc from the guest OF the evening"
There was grand Boz Ball." where ladies and gentle
appeared fancy costumes OF the
characters in the Boz novels But shall not give tho
journal OF the Mr.. Dickens gave 1t himself afer
he returned home in volume Of American Notes ior
General Circulation, and angry enough we were when
who consttutionay and babtually saw the ludicrous
side of things that he had written much harder things
of his country than he ever wrote OF ours and ho
said nothing about which was not in the main true
Our temper was not improved when Martin Chuzzie
wit" appeared in 1874, and set all England laughing
at the eoquence OF spread-eagle Congressman
and the vagares Of our female philosophers Not even
for the sake of Pocksn and Mrs. Camp could we par
don Gen Choke and Mrs. Hominy The Ango-Bengaes
DISTINGUISHED Loan and Life Assurance Company could
not palliate the 1Ourishing settlement OF Eden Inc
dinner at Todgcrss, where Mr.. Peeksnif Tutoring In
rather airy the top Of the staircase proposed
TO contemplate existence "the marriage feast Of Char
ity which had such an inimable termination, hardly
seemed funny 10 Us when we found In the same book
good honest the slavery Of free America,
and pictures OF New-YOTk newspapers and boarding
houses But If OF this calow period had
not died out with tie growth of national good sense 1t
must have been extingushed when in later years Mr.
Dickens uttered those frank and words at tho
time of his second visit Ia America: 1t IL q duty
with which henceforth charge myself, not only hero
but on every suitable occasion whatsoever and whereso
ever express my high and grateful of my second
reception in America and to bear my honest testimony
TO the national generosity andmagnanimity Tie spoke
of his surprise the physical and social changes whicha
quarter OF century had wrought in country OF which
his impressions he confessed TO have been extreme
and whatever he might have said in the past he pledged
himself that in every future copy of the two offending
as an appendix, "not in mere love and thankful
ness but because regard it act OF plain justice
and honor" So let dismiss the only unpleasant TO
membrance which Americans can associate with tho
name OF Charles Dickens. We were in the wrong and
most of were long ago sorry for it,
Before the appearance OF Martin Chuzzlewit Mr..
Dickens began a series of works Of which we need
say but te for who Of there that knows them not
by heart The Christmas CAROL in is4s the forerun
ner of little bundle Of annual books, which chanted the
hymn OF tankunes OF generosity of domestic virtue OF
patience and brotherly love, few even OF Englands
rarests poets had chanted before These perhaps
II not the best of his writings the creations which
most clearly as Tackeray says, rank as personal bene
fits Filled with "sweet store OF gracious thoughts"
and figures elghtfu that one feels happier and bet
ter knowing them does for being brought into
the society of very good men and women Tho
Christmas Carol" 1.-THE Chimes" and "The Cricket on
the Hearth" books which the world must be
better and happier for owning 1t is a hard man
who lay aside the first OF these little gems without
wping off tear and praying with Tiny Tim, God bless
U.S. every one 20 Il is stony heart which does not beat
faster after reading "The Chimes :" or in the poem of
Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter Dot Peerybinge
and her honest husband, does not warm towards home
and kindred The last two annual Volumes The Battle
of Life" and The Haunted Man, showed progressive
deterioration, and Mr.. Dickens wisely broke of his
Christmas gfts-at least that idylic form The theme
but simple and he seemed to have exhausted
his ingenuity in devising variations.
During part of the years 1874 and ls45 he Travelled with
his family Italy, and it very curious 10 note how
that land of poetry impressed him. Poet as he is. no
viewed Italy almost exclusively Misunderstanding II
we are not mistaken the only Of genius who has
ever done So yet this just what one might nave ea
pected for the simple that the manners ana ona
acters of living men and women have always been inc
chief study OF his life or historical aSSoeaton no ~
never shown very keen sense, and with all
bis unrivaled movers Of description, there -