The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-11
SHADOW OF 4 NAME.
BARRY PAlNE'S TRIBUTE TO THE
MEMORY OF CHARLES CHADBAND.

BARRY PAlNE'S TRIBUTE 10 THE
MEMORY OF CHARLES CHADBAND.
Miseries of IA Talented Man who Bore tho
Cognomen of One Of Dickens Celebrated
Characters Wrote Brilliantly, but
Would Not Publish.
AT O'Clock on the morning of Easter
Sunday at his home near Malvern Well
died Charles Chadband.
With the name of Chadband, thanks
to Dickens, the reading world is famil-
lar, 1t is associated with oiliness, by
pocrisy and self seeking At the very
sound of the name the reminiscent grin
starts ON all faces. He is national
joke But we pay for all our laughter,
and we have paid for the Ohadband
jest. l do not mean to say that the UNI
happy accident by which Dickens Sc
lected the name of Chadband for his
imposter was the cause of the death of
Charles Ghadhand 1t was not He died
of an ordinary disease--consump
in fact But that unhappy accident did
oyershadow the whole Of Charles Chad
hands life 1t did prevent him from
taking the place and famo to which he
was justly entitled. 1t has prevented
the general public from reading one sin
gle line of his very excellent works.
As his literary executor | have had
no choice but to destroy every limo of
his manuscript. in accordance with his
orders Nnf ginuIn
taken, and not ono word of his works
that his friends remember may be COM
mitted To writing | do not easily be-
lirve III the existence of genius, but
believe that Charles Chadband had
genius Some, far more competent To
judge than am, Thought the same AS
| watched the last sparks die out i'll the
big pile Of burned paper it seemed
pity that So much work and such Won
derful gifts should be all wasted for
such II stupid ignoble, mnddening rea-
son-hccauso the author had inherited
the name of II character in Dickens
lie was very sensitive, but, unlike
most very sensitive men, he was not
affected or vain When | was first in
troduced 10 him, ho said, laughing,
that he WAS no relation to tho original
Chadband. He reveled in Dickens and
would quote the original Ghadband
freely. | had known him n long time
before | know that the coincidence of
the names gave him any trouble ut all
1t was long before | could make out
why he would not publish anything
He used to give the NEST absurd reasons
for his reticence, and when driven into
Il corner he would say that he was going
to publish. but not yet. Ono night,
when | had just finished long story of
his, | implored him to let mo take it
away with mo to London and see what
could be done. No, " he said. mo
body would publish it. told him that
il might be refused by five men out of
six. but that the sixth would aftcrward
be proud that he had accepted it.
Then, quite unexpectedly, the secret
came out mo serious work, " he said,
could possibly do anything associated
with the name of Ghadhand y He said
1T so light heartedly that Thought no
was once more putting mo off with n
wrong reason, but / soon found that he
was sincere. llo imagined reviewers
making jests about his namo and owned
that he would not DO able to stand it.
This surprised me, for he frequently
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did his friends. He defended himself.
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