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...Those private friendships that have for years upon years made Boston a memorable and beloved spot" to Charles Dickens will be cemented in the centennial celebration of the "Pickwick Papers", the first book to bring him fame. This-celebration will be in the nature of a Dickens American Pilgrimage tomorrow the day that Mr. Pickwick opened his shutters of his rooms in Goswell street to the newly-radiant sun 100 years ago and speculated upon his adventures, and will include visits to the State House, where Governor Fuller will receive the "Commodore Coach" and its members, and Harvard, where President...
...Samuel Pickwick, Tracy Tupman Nathaniel Winkle Augustus Snodgrass and Alfred single impersonated by John Cumberland, Harry. Plimmer Ralph Bunker, MacKenzie Ward and Hugh Miller, distinguished English and American actors now appearing in "Pickwick", the Dickens play at the Majestic Theatre, will sit stop the famous old 'Commodore Coach" surveying the favorite city of the man who created them and paying their sincere respects to the haunts and friendships he chose from the multitudes proffered him on his two American visits at the height of unprecedented popularity...
...Harvard Square, students will welcome the coach within the campus gates. Driving directly to the Administration Building, Mr. Pickwick will be met by President Lowell in an official greeting for the educational institution from which Dickens drew many affectionate confreres...
After the Harvard reception, Mr. Pickwick as Dicken's contemporary representative will go to Craigie House, the Cambridge home of his dearly loved Longfellow. Because of the regard with which they held each other as evidenced in affectionate letters and frequent visits Mr. Pickwick will approach the shrine with humble retrospect that here, upon one glorious occasion, Dickens dined with Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Bayard Taylor...
...whole tone of the new Lampoon, however, is not ironic but kindly. It beams with benevolence, like the Christian Science Monitor. It is the Pickwick among college funny papers; a smiling old philanthropist, with a fondness for old friends, old wine and old jokes. Only at intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean...