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There is one case of Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman...
Cosmo Hamilton, English novelist and dramatist, will visit Harvard tomorrow afternoon, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, the author of many popular novels and the dramatizer of "Pickwick", which will be played in Boston next week, will talk in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock. All students of the University are invited to attend...
Among the exhibits that will probably attract the most interest are original parts from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," and "Christmas Books" and an inkwell, which he used. There will be two volumes printed by the Kelmscott press, that of William Morris's, which holds the reputation of having produced some of the world's finest printing. The one is "Reynard the Fox" and the other an edition of Chauncer illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones...
There are those who drink Pickwick...
...face that the best professional humorists in America are college men who received their training while on scholastic publications. But when one realizes that collegiate humor is not confined to undergraduates but is typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable in his way because each represents a definite spirit. Intrinsically there is no reason why College Humor is not as funny as Punch, and the popularity of each in their respective countries only demonstrates the variances of national tastes...