The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-07-11
VISIT OE DICKENS
is TOLD ABOUT
BY Ambassador Reid at a
Dinner Given in the
City of London.

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the visit to America OF Charles DlcR-
ems, at "a dinner given by the goz
Club in celebration Of the centenary
E-af the birth of the great novelist
The dinner was presided over by ths
Bishop OF London and the COMPANY
included the surviving children
grandchildren and other relative,
OF Dickens. pt
AS so often happens at functions
Of the kind in England, the United
states Ambassador was. the CHIEF
speaker. After paying "a tribute 10
Dickens who he said was recognized
in America almost as soon as in his
own country. Mr.. Reid mentioned
that he was one Of a small number
who Remembered and participated n
the farewell banquet TO Charles Dick
ems. IN the old fourteenth street Del.
tnonico's in New York at the close
of his second visit to America In Ap-
Eril. 1886.
"1t was banquet" said Mr.. Reid
mot only to n great. novelist. who
had written many things about our
people too near the truth TO be pop.
ular at the time. but also to a Sreal
editor in his own country. from great
editors in the country which he Wis.
t1ted; and 1t was presided over by the
greatest OF them. an editor of i'm.
mortal memory in the history OF the
!; country which he served in It's gray
est crisis and in Its grandest achieve
ment. Horace Greedy. At his right
sat Charles Dickens, and next to the
guest sat spotless chevaher In tho
warfare OF opinion that preceded, the
civil war-George William Curtis. a.
man OF letters worthy TO be assoclat-
4 ed with Mr.. Dickens, and an orator
worthy to speak on the same plat
form. There was long list OF rep.
rese4itatlve members of the profes.
! sion. and all cordial and eagey 10
make the honored guest feel wei.
come and at home-Sas- eager as II
Jefferson Brfch had never been
painted from the life from the occu.
pant OF a New York editorial Office"
Referring to disregard, in the alb.
sence OF International copyright, Of
4 picKens's moral right to the receipts
from the sale ofShIs books, Mr.. Reid
asked: Docs anyone happen to re.
member the precise terms OF the Brit
tish copyright account. with Mrs. Har.
riet Beecher Stowe, for a novel that
was read here almost as widely rs
some OF Mr.. Dickens and GTas cred.
tied with almost as great an effect
on the progress OF the, world-a work
that was translatedS into all lam
guages and sold In all lands? Can
we see the settlement of the English
copyright Tor the works OF a poet
named Henry Waidsgofth Lonstsi-
low. who sold here as widely as Al
3}ffed7 Tennyson; or Of the similar ar-
count for the contribution to DIR
common noble English literature ny
Nathaniel Hawthorne. washington
/, Irving. Ralph Waldo EMERSON James
Rusself Lowell or John Lathr6p Mot.
Iiey?" Il t
| The ambassador thought It wiser 70
forget these mutual Shortcomings
and recall instead the spirit in which
Dickens dealt with them in that
bauquet. at Delmonico's forty years
ago. and his promise to have repro
dneed in every subsequent edition Of
4 Martin chuzzIewit and the American
Notes the words he used on that ot-
easien--a ,apledge most hon6fably
Kept by, his publishers TO this day.
| The spirit seems to me sim OF good
omen for both England and Atnst-
lea: kItNsfl
i '+t1t would be better for this, globe
to be riWep by an earthquake. fired
by "a comet. overrun by an icebsFB.
land abandoned 70 the arctic fox and
bear. than II should present bic Hpet-
tacie OF those two great nations. each
of which has. in its own way and
hour. striven SO hard and SUCCESS
/ fully Tor freedom, ever again being
arrayed the one against the other"
.CottaEe life, which used to be pie
!. tutesque, feature of rural England.
promises to become a thing Of the
past The cottages are falling ihtp
| ruins and no new ones are being
built. This condition ia also havltg
4 a serious effect on rhatflaSe in the
j rural districts Bridal couples OF the
| working class cannot tina homes-aBd
the ovefcrowding has reprOdueea7 10
4 the country, where space should be
ample for all residential reauss-
ments. IT is said that the owners
i OF bhe land are declining TO build On
the ground that the nawly enacted
land taxes make The. future Of the
holdings ,precarious
In Essex there are parishes where
I no marriages have taken place ftr
i fourteen years. In other places IN
rural exodus is taking place on az
count of the condemnation and col
lapse OF. the old cotlages. In the
/ neighborhood OF small holding DIS
trict Of Berkshire. several couples
t,wete recently forced TO Take lodgihFs
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