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Kitton in his wonderful collection, "Dickens, by pen and pencil," where he has caught Forster's "magisterial" air to the life. Again, the waiter, speaking of Lord Highgate, said he was a most harbitrary gent. This refers to the memorable story of Forster being summoned by the cabman who said he did so because "he were such a harbitrary cove."
Still I cannot entertain an exalted opinion of either the intelligence or morals of a people who will place such a character on a pedestal and prostrate themselves before it. I confess my surprise at the phenomenal popularity of the book among people familiar with Dickens, Scott and Thackeray, triune transcendent of fiction.
Upon reading the sequel of the story, one is irresistibly reminded of the ancient Roman inscription discovered by one of Dickens' characters, which some irreverent rogue subsequently declared to be nothing more nor less than "Bil Stumps His Mark."
There's money at the back of this, enough to make you rich for life, but you'll have to use the brains you both have got and work like the very dickens to get it. I've put some of the necessary directions in a cypher that a child could read, but apart from that you'll have to use your heads.
The contrast is of course the first to strike: the ordinariness, in spite of his fantastic grotesque, of Dickens, and the extraordinariness of Meredith; the almost utter absence of literature in Dickens, and the prominence of it in Meredith divers other differences of the same general kind.
Dickens himself could not remember. He seldom spoke of this time, but he never forgot the misery of it. Long afterwards in one of his books called David Copperfield, when he tells of the unhappy childhood of his hero, it is of his own he speaks. But presently John Dickens got out of prison, Charles left the blacking factory, and once more went to school.
I understand the firm of Barrett, Jones, Barrett, Deacon & Barrett have somewhat leisurely methods?" "Is the firm on trial?" inquired Mr. Jones, sharply. "In a sense, yes. I also understand that although all the Barretts, and also Mr. Deacon, share in the name plate, Mr. Jones does the work?" The lawyer laid down his papers. "Who the dickens are you, anyway, and what do you want?" "That's better.
Dickens kept up one continual shout of uproarious laughter as he went rapidly forward, reading the signs on the shops, and observing the "architecture" of the new country into which he had dropped as if from the clouds. When the two arrived opposite the "Old South Church" Dickens screamed. To this day I could never tell why. Was it because of its fancied resemblance to St. Paul's or the Abbey?
Ruskin's Praeterita, Scenes and Thoughts of My Past Life. Benson's Ruskin: A Study in Personality. Earland's Ruskin and his Circle. Harrison's John Ruskin. Birrell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. Kitton's Dickens, his Life, Writings, and Personality. Gissing's Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. Chesterton's Charles Dickens. Hughes's Dickens as an Educator. Philip's A Dickens Dictionary.
Liston, the famous comedian who had delighted a former generation, was dead, and amateur actors, led by authors in the persons of Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, &c. &c., had come to the front, and were winning much applause, as well as solid benefits for individuals and institutions connected with literature requiring public patronage.
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