New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-24

Jerrold Memorial Fund, know that the dramatic
years We're the rPened fruit Of long and nt 1o%
admiration for and leaning To the stagc Inc noss
tioUsF"an the ew~Biii Skies the murderer and his
vctimhad their germ in the deneaton u % tne cIius
expressly for his friend; ard some OF the most Ho
tent Judges declared that the English shge ot a VA
by Charles Dickens succeeding as an author ana naA"s
literature his profession
METuoDICAL HAmTs-DAuY LIFE.
Whatever, says TIE Daily Sews, he said shcuio 10
done. those who knew him regarded ~ accomph'heu
There was no forgetfulness no procrasinatoh 10 GA
crse when the time for granting q promised lavor
came His hours and days were spent oy Ig nonS mo-
1rcc sian II was not often that his arrange ineh,s
varied His hours ur 1qr wr' nnd When there
was work TO be done no temptation was sulcen di
strong 70 cause to 9e the day His mind was
sentay methodca and In his long walks IN hS %
Sr Himself by himself rules well studied beforehand
and rarely departed HOm
DIcKESs's FIRST GREAT SUCCESS
Tho cartcatrst Seymour had begun set OF setches'
IN which the germ Of "Pickwick" lay hid. Charles
nctcns consented to "wrte up these designs and no
had not long been occupied with the work when sey-
niours melancholy death by his own hand caused Crisis
h eo however assured from tho first. well substan,
goied aneedote illustrates tho and unexpected
SafSssD Il mes the Chapman SSTs Han and
binder Mr. Bone, whether a. greater OF igss
Instead OF hundreds IL soon became necessary TO pro-
vide for the sale Of thousands and the green covers 81
"Pickwck were seen all the country: SEYMOUR
death set the publishers eager quest after eoPe
tent artist Iackeray has humorOusly narrated now c
an Obscure man at the time, and rather seeking 70 MAXI
himself a place In art than in literature, caued on tue
yonnr author in Furnvars Inn, and submitted oI ap
nroyal sketches which not approved Inc h,is, s
Engaged TO take SeymOur's place were ilIst MT ss
then Mr. Hablot Knight Browne, who had, IN Noou
cut illustrated small pamphlet by Mr. Charles niShtiS
now ont of print and extremely scarce, on te
sunday i'm London. For very many years the sano
artist under the quaint signature OF Phlz apprsnS
Intended TO match the authors own nom Ge RtmW,e,
Boz - continued to etch the plates FOR Mr Dchens
monthly numbers. That the rise OF the new WIer naS
rand will be inferred from the fact that ms anohy
sketches i'm the Chronicle made their first hit III te year
1s96 and that the name of Charles Dickens as the
of The "Pickwick Papers" was publicly announced III
1888 - ,,,, ,,r,yr
Mr. Edmund Olier writes as follows to Inc Lonuoh Hes
In your obituary notice Of Mr.. Dickens, you mention
that some of the external characteristics or slpOe
were taken from Leigh Hunt This Is rue but IL SHOULD
he added that the character In its tOaty was never
meant for the kindly and lOyabe old essayst ana poet
To suppose So as do is to do an injustice 10 Ihe
meln6ries of both Leigh Hunt and Dickens Inc
latter himself corrected the msapprehenslOn IN paper
i'm An The Year Round toward the close OF 1872 aIter
Hunts DEATH and during Hunts life, and after he pun
catlOp of "Blcak House." he wrote most genial paper
about him in Household Words. II Is also within my
knowledge that he expressed to Leigh Hunt personally
his regret AT the SkimpOle mistake.