Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
CELEBRATING
DICKENS BIRTH

THERE is double page OF illustrations
in our next SUNDAY MAGAZINE that are
likely to give you more pleasure than any
YOU have seen in long time. especially ii you
happen TO love Charles Dickens. That de-
ponds very much upon Your age. If you are
moderately young, YOU probably adore him.
If you are fairly along in years and blase as
result OF Your wide and varied experience,
say between the ages OF eighteen and twenty
five. YOU probably regard Dickens with toll
Grant superiority that proves how wise you
are When you have lived long enough to
have forgotten the profound wisdom OF
twenty or twenty-five, YOU turn to Dickens
again with profound affection that is tinged
with wondrous awe. 1t takes deep under
standing really TO appreciate him.
You probably know that next week-on
February = to be cxact-will be the centen-
NAL OF Dickens birth. The day will be OBJ
served all over the world. Really. the cele
brations will not be confined to one day, but
will be continued pretty much throughout
the year. You are likely to learn many
things about this popular writer that you
never knew. Some critics will tell you he
was a great storyteller, but not novelist
Others will inform you that he was novelist.
but that he wrote only one long story, his
other works being merely sketches strung to-
gether on thread of a tale. But they will
all agree that writer ever possessed such
Astounding animal spirits, or ever created so
many wonderful characters.
Of course, our SUNDAY MAGAZINE will cele-
brate the Dickens anniversary; but it will do
it little differently Also it will celebrate a
little more eloquently and appealingly,-
pictures alone. The double-page drawing
presents a modern artist S ideas of the famous
Dickens characters. When you know the
artist is Joseph Gle ment Coll you will inn
mcdiately lose your fears and become eager
to see his drawings.
1t is an interesting fact that modern artists
haven't dared illustrate Dickens to any ex-
tent. And il isn't any wonder. Those pic
lures OF Cruikshank, of Barnard of Browne
(who signed himself !" Phiz y, OF Seymour of
Fildes. are almost as famous as the tales and
sketches they pictured. The original plates
are highly priced by collectors.
The Coll drawings will be highly priced.
too because his work is remarkable for its
imagination, its feeling. and the daring of his
artistry He has the blessed gift OF original
ity, and yet he has the spirit Of the Dickens
folk
THERE is mighty good reading in our next
! SUNDAY MAGAZINE, even If there is no
article about Dickens. In fact, the reading is
nearly all fiction. You may think the leading
article is fiction story; but it isn't. 1t is fact;
but you have to know the author in order to
be sure of it.
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
is a faithful narrative OF the boyhood of
Paul West. When Mr.. West tells the truth
about himself in his youth nobody will ever
believe he is presenting facts. When he
draws upon his vivid imagination and pre-
sents pure fiction, it is accepted as having the
hallmark OF truth. Really it doesn't matter
whether you accept ALL THE MONEY
IN THE WORLD as fact or fiction. 1t is
bully anyway you take it. But you must
have been a real boy, or the mother of one.
truly to appreciate it. 1t is SO human, SO
significant, that it is startling.
DAGOBERT'S CHILDREN appear again
- III our forthcoming SUNDAY MAGAZINE
after a long absence. INTERCESSION IS
one OF the strangest and strongest stories of
the series by L. ]. Beeston. The tale has
real background and moving drama, and it is
wonderfully well told; SO admirably in fact.
that one is hardly conscious OF the words.
A COWARD'S STAIRS. by Owen Oliver.
"A is a study OF that subject OF perennial
interest, physical bravery as opposed to cow