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...Castings: W. C. Fields as Pickwick in a trilogy based on The Pickwick Papers, to be started by Producer Lester Cowan in London next summer; Paul Muni as Rev. Martin Niemoller, famed German Lutheran preacher, in a Warner Bros, picture to be called The Bishop Who Walked With...
...Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...
...Pickwick's most painful encounters with the rigor of British Justice was located by Charles Dickens at the Ipswich Assizes, but last week it was seen in Ipswich how considerate Justice and the police could be of a wife in search of her second divorce...
...That Mr. Pickwick was not an original creation of Charles Dickens is illustrated by "Maxims and Hints for an Angler," by Robert Seymour. The pictures in this book show a short, pudgy figure with glasses on the end of his nose and with a long tail coat, the exact counterpart of Dickens' famous character. The fact is that Dickens probably derived the idea from the drawings of Seymour...
Another book in the exhibition, "Selections from Robert Seymour," contains drawings of this same figure, one illustration, indeed, having the type of situation in which Dickens constantly placed Mr. Pickwick. It shows this kindly gentleman explaining to an impudent youth behind him how to throw the fishing line into the water correctly. He points out that there was not even a ripple when his fly hit the water, but he fails to notice that the hook is really caught in a limb just over his head and has never reached the stream...