, 1872-12-01
AS FIRST tisit to Ameriea...The "imerii.
eau Notes ".::fhe Suppressed In.
tr'dectory Chapter.
f'0w He Felt and Acted While coo.
po$'0s-''His shakspeareanism.
as an Actor---aS Sarah,
ainp' Again---The Start.
"s Of the London
Daily News.

8t'JEaTGQ inst a H.
told Us Of '0'A "so' H. fofste
LIE GREAT SovELIsTs Bo1Hoop:
- lose-analr with the lady WHO had the for
u: not to be Mre. Dickens to be intro
80 10 the world, and com
osaoeo su7a to posterity as Mrs. Copper.
reio NO. 1:-dear. delightful silly little Dora
80 1e4ates Dickens hopeless despairs at beinf
~aAen lron school and condemned to the drude
cry Q. olaeklng manufactory, in order that mr.
ano -Afs NlcaWber Dickens might be relieved a
eoine o. Inc burden OF their multiplying fam
ly- e"''ne AsNn4
"hen Dickens WAS visiting America. Dania
webster said he had done more to better thf
conoltaon nj English poor than all Enrlist
statesmen combined-a Pogramist ra-
marx, perhaps, but 1eavened with nm lii.
tie truth ) and, though Dickens p;tied himself
most patheticaly for his early trials. it is essy
1or Us to see how his faculties were sharpened
20 keener observation and brighter caricature
ana how his fathers imprisonment for debt and
1he detention of the family in the Marshalsea,
and his own bad clothes, hard work, coarse com
Panaons IN the backing workmen, and all his en-
forced familiarity with the low watersde of Lon
con. nave all reappeared. to our delight and
Proht, II his noTels which are so strikinSl auto
ploGraphlc. for Dickens can be read between the
Lines Of them all. ~NN
The first volume ends with an account of the
visit Of Dickens to America when he took lila
"AMER1cAS NOTES."
The Americans took notes OF him at the same
time \ young lady Of Cincinnati, who was
st Judge Walkers, described him as dressed in
q style which gave him an unpleasant
likeness to 3 London Jew dressed for q
half holiday. The gentlemen present, g Boz II
wrote Forster, ought to have been seen by him,
+1,aro vaS Traceo1 in h1co1- 1o+11
splitting, on the carpet st evening par
boring him beyond measure, This was
xsn xac, the ena Aa Ebaa the e.. sa &ecsd Of
as deserter from the British aristocracy, and
when Cleveland paper, as Dickens was ap-
proaching the city, predicted that " Hail Column
bin - would be sung IN Westminster Abbey before
tie Mayor, who came to pay the belligerent
respects Of Cleveland- In short, this WIS the
America of the ArkanBas Traveller and 1912.
In the first chapter of the second volume, there
is priuted for the first time the
SUPPRESSED INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
to tie American Notes." Of which the most
significant paragraphs follow
# this book shorld fall into hands Of any seusi-
tire american who cannot bear to be tod that the
perfect hat in spite OF the advantage she has over Ill
other nations the elastic freshnees and vigor Of her
xoath she is far from being model for the carh TO
ccny md that in those pictures Of the national
r:anncrs With which be qunrrels most there still
arv I've si3de n'en n as
-, ~ just and true at this hour-ie. him
T. down now, for shall not please him or tie in
sc5Sent rejecting, and educated among his country
see1. have no fear; for have ample reason to be-
to be forgotten, that there are very few toncs ~
eny} On which tcir sentiments differ materially from
mine ~
Disappointed II America and are assured Beforehand
taat tie ezpt7cEion Of your disappointment will eiye
is int went there exoectne erea:er thints
5nan ieund and resolTea as far in lay, to do
ew nsaEe CT prsadced Statements III t6st IN ;gt y
E.sE len 1s41.' &c its Giep1rcgeleut Coming hn1no
with co-re2;cd ad soaerel judgment, consider my
SELF no less bound to do Justice to what aecordnr to
IiE tesf 1aan: Of judgment. found to be the truth
The sane inirep:tlity that ilapelled Air. Dick
eos At fa'i';.er given him in this country, to
denounce .ho Flracleg Of our publishers on the
literary properly Of European writers, led him
to c;-cose 1R Z motto for American Notes."
t,o fl 7i-5, r.. II. saR AaEply rejected by his
r.:EGsses:
IF .i:: !: aaeztca from tie Bench, tho Soil
cr:=oa si1e most e1tSn4iye; il, those pcrts Of tie
Hsro,t
Public curiosity to get within the arcana of
the }i:ec OF greet men il iutatiable. Not the
least Interesting OF LII. Fo-sters pages are those
TEe.e Ec 1l3i.n:.; US
Ri,E1:'D DICKENS FACES
E4Lp kEe IGGu WILLIE Li4E. were written. and |
SLOWS ,s ovscal to Lin wero lis OWE creatures,
II1s..G k:-r viii tie power which lie first gaya
fn1112. a. slat he was i'll manner compelled to |
sit 20" lrlcas while they spin themselves ont Of |
MS Lrain. iCr instance, when be Wrote
. TIL: CHR1sTa.As CAROL
ont CT ncmt.:is Of leisure snatched from
- Ma-sin Clsu2ztewit.'' it seemed to master him
b. Power wil.ila AID still above him. Forster
tsas sow -2 hs w5rt o1eE Il ard laughed md
ordinary degree. and how he walked, thinking of
1t. fifteen 212 twenty m;leB about tie black
streets OF London: many and many a night after
an sober folks had gone to bed And when it
Was done, as lie told or friend, Mr. FELTON,. in
America. he let himself loose like mailman"
WHILE co,IrcsIsa - THE CHIMES"
be wrote 10 IT Forster. " It has great hold
on me, and Las affected me in the doinp in
divers strong wtys. deeply, forcibiy."
In another letter, lie says: "I am in regular.
ferocious excitement With The Chimes ; Get m
at 7; Lave Z cold bait before breakfast :: and
blaze away, v7atLful and red hot, until o'clock
or so, whcu usually knock OF. unless it rains,
for tile day. I am fierce to finigh in
spirit hca:ing affinity to those Of truth and
mercy, and to shame the cruel and canting. I
bare nos forgotten my C. eateelliszn- Yes, verily,
Again: r hope you Will like the little book
Since conceived, attho beginning Of the secord
part, what must hepp=n in the third.
t ha7o undergone .as much sorrow
nd ;zitation ,:.oa a. if if tls thing. were
- obliged TO LOCK- mJEc!f ii when finished it
for M face 1:as swollen for the time
to twice its proper size, and was hugely ridicu-
DIcESs' uLre1EAToEs.
Dickens gave the artists who illustrated lis |
BOOKS no little trouble. His requirements we're |
sxactiag He built up temples in Lis mind that
vere not always rrRk:ble with hands. He over /
;ery vigorous il his demands for their artistic I
There h27e been ridiculous