New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-01
N PRAISE OF DICKENS
Hearty Tributes to Novelist at
Boz Club Dinner.
NOTABLE PERSONS PRESENT
Occasion Was Centenary of Birth
of Great Master of Pathos
,.... and Humor.

soror Of the centenary Of the birth Of
-.a-Iae Dickens. on the occasion Of the
orryal dinner given by members Of the
o. club" SAYS The London Daily Tele-
graph.
supporting the Bishop Of London, who
.-ns,dsd were the following relatives ~
the great novelist:
Miss Hogarth, sster-in-law 70 Charles
r,ic,ens: Mrs Perugini and II. +. Dickens
Y c. daughter and SOM. II. c. Dickens,
Mrs. HaUkesley. {. C. Dickens, Miss Olive
. dickens. Miss Elaine Dickens, P. c. Dick
ems. Miss Ethel Dickens. Mrs. Whitney
,erandchndren). and the Misses Florence
and Kate Dickens Cnleccs).
The other guests included
His excellency. the American Amba SD
6or. Lord Nersey, Lord Lilford, the Hon.
Mrs. Drewitt. Lord and Lady CharnWood
the Hon Charles y. Lawrence the Hon
Mrs Charles Lawrence the Hon. Il.
Farquharson. Sir Luke Fildes. r. A; Lad
Ti!des, Lord Justice Fletcher Mouton. Hr.
and Mrs Hugh F. Moutor Mrs. Henry :.
Dickens the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton. Sir
John and Lady Hare, Sir Squire Bancroft.
e. Z. Perugini, Sir Arch!tald Ge!Hie, p-es!-
dent Of the Royal Society, Sir Charles and
Lady Mathews. Sir Walter Lawrence. LAZY
Lawrence, PETIT Ridge. Sir a. Cr!tchett, Lady
Critchett NJ. and Mrs. ". ". Jacobs,
James Buchanan David Murray, r. a;
Admiral Sir Arthur Moore Sly Robert Hud-
son. Sir Douglas Straight Mr. and Mrs
Clement Shorter. SIR II. Seymour King
Mrs. B.and-Sutton Sir Frederick and Lady
Macmillan. the Hon. Sir Francis MacL3aa
Lady MacLean, Major General Sir Henry
Bushman. Lady Bushnlan, Sir George and
Lady Hastings, the reverend president Of
S. Johns NJ Rriton Riviere, R. A. Mrs..
.Briton Riviere and the Provost Of Kings
e.. THE chairman, proposing The Immortal
Memory Of Charles Dickens explained
why he had been induced 10 take the char.
He wanted he said, 10 he everybodJs
Bishop in London. He liked 70 feel not only
that the 'churchy people wanted him. but
20 make all feel, whether church people or
not If they wanted any little duty dom
by their Bishop, that h would try and do II.
In submitting the toast h asked them
70 picture him speaking 10 them that night
from the old slum parish priest point Of
view In East London. The first point for
which he was eternallv grateful 10 Charles
Dickens was the cleanness OF his humor
When ones thoughts went back to tho
Sums OF Bethnal Green, il was marvellous
TO think Of the way in which Dickens could
. enter into the sorrows, the hopes and the
Joys OF a child Oliver Twist as dram.
etized, was 70 be presented to-day a His
Majestys Theatre, and he meant 10 take q
large party there on Wednesday. by the
kind invitation Of sir Beerbohm IRE.
'Pickwick was lately drsmatized in Parts
end he was told that Of oil English au-
thors the one most loved in Denmark was
Charles Dickens He entered absolutely
into the sorrows and JOYS OF child life H
would have loved 70 paint scene out 4
his (the Bishops old East End days
What wonderful power Dickens had q
making uninteresrng people Interesting
His lordship recalled garden parties he
used 70 give in East London in order 20
ge' 70 know ten thousand peopIs H.. said
. he had rum collection At his garden l-s g.
tles but he found them more interesting
tnan his garden parties al Fulham Palace
Dlckenss uav Of interesting pc ,plo
helped him immensely 70 find an irteres, in
mese people. II one had only the insight
Of their great author they would find
something TO care for and TO love I'm every
human being that lived
AMBASSADOR Reid was then INTRODUCED
and spoke as follows:
Il am not mere 10 make q speech about
CnariTS Ulchens. l have no purpose Of at
selHplius 10 knd reflueu sod, or 10 est
Nlotf LOT AT EnEIiSn audience oho a. fnoir
srtdjEsl men 81 letters M ono Of jneir
sleatesl modern literary periods, the VIC
. tousn
lt1 10,
20 our call Is far more simple ana nat.
traL i an nero on this centennial TO rem
Ger my homage, as well as tnst Of thou
tanoS OF my grateful country men 10 q
world of Hter9 ture, VINO was recognized IN
my country almost a. soon rs in MS own
and read even more widely. When tina;
Is said, all Is SAID that seems special,
Appropriate 70 me
II has been minated however, from
various quarters tnat two other things
other p"nitenual i happens that | an
one OF the small nurnber-it must, at any
late, be very small in London, II not I'm
England-Wbo remember ana participated
IN the farewell banquet 10 Charles Dickens
IN the Old l+th street DeImJLico s, i'm New
York, at the close Of his second meulora Die
yist 10 the United States, in April. 1858
u vas banquet not only to a great novel
I Isl, who had written many things about
our people too near the truthful 20 e
popular az the time. but also 10 great
NulIOI N tbs own country. from great Cfi
TORS IN the country which he visited: and
was presided over b. one Of the great
a Of item, an editor of immortal memory
Y the history OF the country h. served i'm
gravcst crisis and I'm it's grandest
shevement. Horace Greeley He was sup
.Nred by other editors whom their co n
Union remember with Pride. At his right
tSt Charles Dickens and next 10 the guest
At spOtlesS Chevaler In the warfare Of
SpiniCn that preceded our Civil War
george William curtis. man Of letters
WORTHY 10 he associated with Mr.. Dickens,
ana an orator WORTHY 10 speak on the
zane platform Among others was an ad-
+. -mre0 politician and editor, Henry J. Ray
mono, who was destined still 70 an i'm
Rrsnt professional and en- important Do.
NsLcdl role Another had been an editor
End o soldier. and wa 70 die many years
iaiel an h~nored Senator ~ tho United
sdtes. Another was d man of letter OF
n.sselnatlng accomplishments, as brliliani
1nFers atiOnahst as our guest himself. with
III unhappy future awaiting him IN foreign
iands, william Henry HUrburt There was
2 long list Of men Of less prominence, but
III repre- entative m mCsrs of tn rr2fss-
son. and all cordial and eager to make the
IGNORED guest feel welcome and al home -
as eager AZ II Jefferson Brick had never
oefn PAINTED from the lie from an occ"-
Pant 0! a New York edito1ai once.
remember that Nj Dickens showed a
,emporary lameness from an ailment which
make bold 70 say that he dld not con-
Tact IN America, and that ne was some
What apprehensivc abou; his voice. az
Which. 81 his quaint phrase. ne thought
wore than enough had lately been heard ~
NC land. His lecture tour had. In fact
left him with what he told Us ne had been
'ptondly assured was true American ca D.
urn. There was many a neat Coinpl-
soent turned in his honoC by his American
s n.osis. bat ! thought rho one mat Ment
sraighteSt 70 his heart vas that Of Gen
era! Haw!ey, who expressed the PROBES
Aonal gratitude L. Mr. Dickens for an m
Naludole kind Of editoris! shorthand winch
elabcd the able editor 20 dispose OF an
opponents pretentious professions ~ "a
wore instead o. q half column, as PECK