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...know," replied Mr. Pickwick in the same tone. "Hush, Don't ask questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what...
...Widener Memorial Library a notable collection, of interest to book-lovers, of first editions and autograph manuscripts and letters of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. In the Dickens case are a second issue of the first edition of "Oliver Twist," illustrated by George Cruikshank, a presentation copy of "Pickwick Papers"; original drawings by the author and by Cruikshank for "Oliver Twist," and a contract with Dickens' publishers, Chapman and Hall...
...anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, with whose amiable characters nearly all of us are familiar. In New York a committee of which T. Roosevelt '80 is chairman, last night gave a banquet at which the best known writers of the country paid tribute to the author of "Pickwick". This evening the same committee will organize a mass meeting where Dr. Van Dyke, H. W. Mabie, and William Watson, of London, will speak. Were it not for Professor Copeland, it is doubtful if any of us would take an interest in Dickens today other than to hear that William...
...clock this evening in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland will give his fourth reading from "Wits and Humorists." Among the selections will be a chapter from "The Pickwick Papers," Thackeray's "Ballad of Bouillabaisse," Lowell's "The Courtin'," and several of Holmes's poems. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland will give his second reading from the "Wits and Humorists," and in particular form the works of Sterno, Smollett and Dickens. His selections will be from "Tristram Shandy," "The Sentimental Journey," "Pickwick Papers," and "David Copperfield." The reading will be open only to members of the University...