The morning call., 1891-01-25

any nation by a single work
of fiction was effected by the
Z " Nicholas Nickieby OF
Charles Dickens.
turing me early part OF inc present cen
ulIy Inc PRIV a'e StHoels' ana particularly
me boys s'HuoiS Oh Enslahu' WIN lew
lo'"Ule exceptions Ike lilat oil hus0y, were
me most infamous IN the World IL there
Eau oe SUI eHoIHy IN hIamy, orkSmre
Stoou hFSl ana pest DICKENS himself said
oil lis private schoolmaSters: Traders in
Tue aVarice, indifference or lmoecllity OF par
cuts ana the helplessness OF children;
ignorant sord1d, brutal men, to whom few
eonSlderate persons would have entrusted
.le poard ana IedSlug oil a. horse or dog;
uiey formed the worthy cornerstone OF a
'u' 'u'e which, LOT aoSurdlty ana magnl-
hceht nlSh-mlnded lalssez-aller neglect, has
"ITiS oetn exceeded IA tAe world.
no" DICKENS grand ana humane genius
came 10 eSpOuSe the cause OF the host Of
helpless and outraged children in England
IS q pleasing "Reminiscences If his MAGNIFICENT
literary career The FncJisb sna,l,i,,,
yor,,i No. I'm IN -,,,4, 80, h., g..
" -. - Al 'ut09 'e4 us Ms SUI
80 uu"eI 'le "o'u ue pune Oh DoZ' us
publishers, Chapman X Hall OF LOudOn
had Immediately engaged another work
from his pen TO appear in part, rs nlan
and scope were still Subjects for diScrssto,
"a - 49,, - Iot u.s. "SS'oH,
-. -''l'" lhil' 'S'''oho VI
'No uuHs "u'HoI : new IeI3tlon 10 men
ana things, a SrleycuS and desperate anxiety
20 Dickens himself In this condition oF
unrest and nartnrratf,r ,b.r. att 49,
his mind - ,,is+,, r,t,I;1t.o+fI g ~; u NJ
10 w u'tS't I'ndo'"'aIloh ul MS own
N"S"e OII4'sH IdlciVS regarding OTkShire
SchoolS. lie tells OF these in his own inmit-
able way in the last preface written by him
for nicholas Nickleby." He saws. ~
cannot call 10 mind navy how cana 70 baar
about YorLshira schools whom y,os ,,a+
very ro bust chilli sit,ing in .,,rooos 80
Ro,bas+or. cal III, -, ~ -
ia ~ ~" " -,''u i''' % par
tt'usr' IMP LON iIle ana Sancho rama;
out L KNOW NY inst Impressions OF them
were pick ed ND at that time. and that ,har
were somehow ct other connected with q
summarized abscr.s tb.t son,a 1,o,, E,5 ,a,,.'
~, III, - IN 'oS .'u 'u.he
= -, IL OT''9' q"Su'e VI MS oihNhlte
.u'ae, FHIgSopHeT ana friend having ripped
ID Tpth "!lu an IuhE penknlie.
- - UP tuh!1y LOT great and
p 1eiC4Iu. IA9IIHt III Ic-Nh' VIII a boon
= Hl,1H'oh' H3olo1 browne, Dickens left
i i0-.u" ~ leW weeks o,Inre CHRISTMAS Of
~, ne wv il1ur thorough pilgrimage
- oIkNIlfe on the 0d p0St-cAaise routes,
7athtiIuS Gnirr all manner Of preteuses
eN'IN poSSlole1act nearing on the accursed
sy>tfn consulting hleS Of old newspapers
~ orr ana neIShb5rlng cities for records
- G%lila-e suns oTousht against pToprietors
~ 60 v'fst ScnoolS LOT cruelty wheeling his
Wy lulo ms obscure den and forcing his
Ny tnio that one ana at last In tae remot-
W 80 80 ms HIIe"t5 poitIoh ot NoIthefn
S'i,i (, toiiIluS upon htsI OF lle dread
FL, pie T. 81 anu HedI ne men tufl!hS VII
age Oh bIWeS. deTe DICKENS rem 'lhei Tor
Tune. lie had letters TO a ytoman OF the
ptace, soon 10 ShIhe As one oil the lamoTJaIS
vi Hc.l"h as honest John brIWdie. lie rep
ttSFilTu H!Hi>eiI as agent q a poor WHO"
uesl'ou' Vi plAe'"E heI Only hoy III
QUIET COUNTRY SCHOOL.
In this wav he secured admission 10 A num-
her in the vicinity. though shut out Of some
bv the wary masters. TIE school" seem
r.. most suitable as . prototype Of them all.
his family. with Wild and des6fata ibrsicaI
SUR uaings in keeping with the bouelesS-
ness Of the school life If tba nIacn itsalf
was the Dathcboys Hall. still standing in
Doves where Nicholas Nickl-bv. his pro-
tapa i'm misery the v-refched Snil-a ~,
sc7ras If otbar baI-ia.s ,,,,, L. Gu
nicfrd a. uu,Iar-oifg an afrnzt o.
H. ~ f..-f-,,i -. O., .tiD5l ~ ouS1l a.
inyestirations sbo.Dai ttot H., 80 a-riJf
49, s ~ - "a '""1 inc !oiIlU't
f.C''''r - -, u va NO. du eAdEScIdLioh, ana
80 ~ DlSNeh9 o"H Statement IN the
-itat preface mat -hr. SqIrerS and
,,rss 1871 a'e Ia.Ht anu Ietoe pct
- VI an FAI'tiH5 realty, pur-
'TavF SuuIueu ana Kept down lest they
o,Is'5H Io oe 4eelng9 impossible ms, Dick
"a, .N' 'uu III sumo respects us great
So 49, - hrSul IN April 1888, and
H,t'etlcu i'' OttjoeI, 1859. At the al y -aranCe
VI me -lst pttI ne ran away from London,
- y re n'Mays uil' 10 remain lie hiding until
~ measure OF puOhc 1ayor or dis
%icill M S'iG"H' IN NE case OF Nicholas
IN m -, m'9 l rrisNdpie skulkng was OF
FIRST mart eTcsoi ~ ~ 49, ~ uay SUE OF the
~. P"it SACFtI-d 2"UD copies. Not six
cl -it,s l3I Plsoea before the torture and
H7l.4 10 ueip'tss scholars in these remote
pi',oiii-ptnS were ahated. and before the
eteh read public feeling, which in MANY
poallGhs OF the country barely escaped ex
IN s IA no, uau annLhlated every child
nel VI me Dotne0oys Hall variety In Enc
Ea,no,,,,
Bowes few in FnlInat as Dlckens made
heard If ibn VILE '' n Idu ever before
learned p,,,,,a !" me hllllonS who
touudings and a,arS,, UoJetI IN u, IT'S sur
Hall, 10y heart hooi' IN ~ D'eheooys
town asked over zoo int. Hiule,S nctiohai
England ,ybara y .t NV Inlelil9ent people in
an individual who knsw n "nii never ct found
klrkby Stephen. in the moorland I'D w :
Northeastern Westmoreland, sixteen MIA a.
away Even in that town nobody seemed to
know, until found rustic antiquarian
"ho hSq at one time discovered an old Ro-
man com at bowes. and who, after a hard
You'd wild old Stanemoor Mountain. dead
in its SHE'LL" as he puts it. in ending an adj
Duration not to cross Stanemoor that dav
unless willing to risk being blown from
the road into the rock-beds OF its passes"
or worse, meeting the bowling. ferociou:
warlOek hays which. during everv wild
: mountain storm. wayIay beIated travellers
at the lonely site of Rere Cross. But the
pilgrimage was to rescue from ohlivion the
actual site Of a national tnfamv and fy in
the real geography Of literature The location
and enylrOns of a suot. dim dna,in@ and
phantom-like in the minds of miIIions n % ,l.a
Old World and the New Motive stamt Anal srio
can legs could shrink from this. even thnnob
the wind fairly shrieked in its mad ~" "
from SOlway Firth to the German Ocean
pounding the sides of WestmoreIand T n,ooI
and fells with ''-
MIGHTY BALLS OF FOG.
Which slid and rirochstad o,or LAVA,
Fell and Brownber Fdpe m rahonp d'a,sl ait
The sides of the Ioftier St,nemonr be;,,,H