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MAY 15, 1869.

OUR ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE. LONDON, May 1, 1869. MR. CHARLES DICKENS received, a few days since, at Liverpool, a complimentary banquet, which must, in a particular manner, have been gratifying to him. He had been giving there a series of farewell readings, and when the parting hour came, his local admirers begged him to take a stirrup-cup to give as 'twere emphasis to their God speed and God bless you! The banquet was spread in St. George's Hall. We sent down Messrs. H. F. Chorley, Palgrave Simpson, Anthony Trollope, W. Hepworth Dixon, Alphonse Esquiros, A. Trollope, Jr., and I do not add Lord Houghton Charles Dickens, Jr. (Richard Monckton Milnes) and Lord Dufferin, because London can scarcely be considered more than ." The United States their home during "the season.' were represented by Messrs. C. H. Dudley, the Federal Consul at Liverpool, and Charles Eliot Norton, for some time editor of the "North American Review." I have no room for Lord Houghton's and Lord Dufferin's speeches (which, with one exception, were the principal speeches of the evening), but I think I may find room for Mr. Dickens' reply to the toast given in his honor, and which ran as follows:

cause of the brotherhood and sisterhood of letters
and the kindred arts, and on each and all, the re-
sponse had been unsurpassably spontaneous, open-
hearted, and munificent.

"Mr. Mayor, and Ladies and Gentlemen: If I may venture to take a small illustration of my present position from my own peculiar craft, I would say that there is this objection in writing fiction to giving a story an autobiographical form-that, through whatever dangers the narrator may pass, it is clear, unfortunately, to the reader beforehand that he must have come through them somehow, else he could not have lived to tell the tale. Now, in speaking fact, when the fact is associated with such honors as those with which you have enriched me, there is this singular difficulty in the way of returning thanks, that the speaker must infallibly Let me come back to himself through whatever oratorical disaster he may languish on the road. then take the plainer and simple middle course of dividing my subject equally between myself and Let me assure you that whatever you have you. accepted with pleasure, either by word of pen or As the gold is said to by word of mouth from me, you have greatly improved in the acceptance. be doubly and trebly refined which has several "Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen: Although I times passed the furnace, so a fancy may be said to You have, and you have become so well accustomed, of late, to the become more and more refined each time it passes sound of my own voice in this neighborhood as to through the human heart. hear it with perfect composure, the occasion is, be- know you have, brought to the consideration of me lieve me, very, very different in respect of those that quality in yourselves without which I should All that overwhelming voices of yours. As Professor Wil- have but beaten the air. Your earnestness has son once confided to me in Edinburgh, that I had stimulated mine, your laughter has made me laugh, not the least idea, from hearing him in public, what and your tears have overflowed my eyes. a magnificent speaker he found himself to be when I can claim for myself in establishing the relations My literary fellows about me, of whom I he was quite alone, so you can form no conception, which exist between us is constant fidelity to hard from the specimen before you, of the eloquence work. with which I shall thank you again and again in am so proud to see so many, know very well how some of the innermost moments of my future life. true it is in all art that what seems the easiest done Often and often then, God willing, my memory will is oftentimes the most difficult to do, and that the recall this brilliant scene, and will re-illuminate this smallest truth may come of the greatest painsbanquet hall. I, faithful to this place in its pre- much, as it occurred to me at Manchester the other sent aspect, will observe it exactly as it stands- day, the sensitive touch of Mr. Whitworth's measurnot one man's seat empty, not one woman's fair face ing machine comes, at last, of heaven, and ManMr. chester and its mayor only know how much hamabsent, while life and memory abide by me. Mayor, Lord Dufferin in his speech-so affecting to mering, my companions-in-arms know thoroughly me, so eloquently uttered, and so rapturously re- well, and I think it only right the public should know ceived-made a graceful and gracious allusion to too, that in our careful toil and trouble, and in our the immediate occasion of my present visit to your steady striving for excellence-not in any little noble city. It is no homage to Liverpool, based gifts misused by fits and starts-lies our highest upon a moment's untrustworthy enthusiasm, but duty, at once to our calling, to one another, to ourit is the solid fact, built upon the rock of experience, selves, to you. that when I first made up my mind, after considerable deliberation, systematically to meet my readers in large numbers, face to face, and to try to express myself to them through the breath of life, Liver-charge preferred against me by my old friend Lord Now, ladies pool stood foremost among the great places out of Houghton,* that I have been somewhat unconscious London to which I looked with eager confidence of the merits of the House of Lords. and pleasure. And why was this? Not merely and gentlemen, seeing that I have had some few, because of the reputation of its citizens for gene- not altogether obscure or unknown, personal friends rous estimation of the arts; not merely because I in that assembly; seeing that I had some little had unworthily filled the chair of its great self- association with, and knowledge of, a certain obscure educational institution long ago; not merely be-peer lately known in England by the name of Lord cause the place had been a home to me since the well-remembered day when its blessed roofs and steeples dipped into the Mersey behind me, on the occasion of my first sailing away to see my generous friends across the Atlantic, twenty-seven years ago.

Not for one of these considerations, but be-
cause it had been my happiness to have a public
opportunity of testing the spirit of its people.
had asked Liverpool for help towards the worthy
On another
preservation of Shakspeare's house.
occa ion, I had ventured to address Liverpool in
the names of Leigh Hunt and Sheridan Knowles.
On still another occasion, I had addressed it in the

"Ladies and Gentlemen: Before sitting down, I The first is a most singular find that I have to clear myself of two very unexpected accusations.

Brougham; seeing that I regard with some admira-
tion and affection another obscure peer, wholly
unknown in literary circles, called Lord Lytton;
seeing also that I have had for some years some

Lord Houghton, in returning thanks for the toast, "The Houses of Parliament," had said: "As we are here as a conHouse of Lords with occasional pain and regret that, amid the Ifidential party, I may say it has struck the members of the lifelike and admirable portraitures of the class of society in Mr. Dickens' works, the members of the House of Lords apladies and gentlemen, I can hardly speak aloud the designapear in a not very frequent or flattering character. In fact, tion which Mr. Dickens has bestowed upon us. (Mr. Dickens -Oh! do.') Well, I really cannot."

MAY 15, 1869.

Mr.

slight admiration of the extraordinary judicial pro- | Quite recently we have seen the influence of a perties and amazingly acute mind of a certain Lord great writer (J. S. Mill)—an influence, on the whole, Chief Justice popularly known by the name of no less beneficial than powerful-materially weakCockburn; and also seeing that there is no man ened by the vain attempt to reconcile philosophical in England whom I respect more in his public ca- theories with the laws of political action. pacity, whom I love more in his private capacity, Dickens is pre-eminently a writer of the people and or from whom I have received more remarkable for the people. To our thinking, he is far better proofs of his honor and love of literature than suited for the part of the Great Commoner' of another obscure nobleman named Lord Russell; English fiction, than for even a life peerage. To taking these circumstances into consideration, I was turn Charles Dickens into Lord Dickens would be rather amazed by my noble friend's accusation. much the same mistake in literature, that it was in When I asked him, on his sitting down, what amaz- politics to turn William Pitt into Lord Chatham." ing devil possessed him to make this charge, he I regret to say that Mr. Dickens' health has bereplied that he had never forgotten the days of Lord come suddenly impaired. The 22d April he went Verisopht. Then, ladies and gentlemen, I under- down to Preston to give a farewell reading, the stood it all; because it is a remarkable fact that, in same evening. Thousands of visitors had come the days when that depreciative and profoundly into town from the neighborhood, and thronged the unnatural character was invented, there was no grand entrance to the Guildhall. Up to a late hour Lord Houghton in the House of Lords. And there of the day, Mr. Dickens hoped to fulfil his engagewas in the House of Commons a rather indifferent ment; but he was taken so seriously ill that it bemember, called Richard Monckton Milnes. came necessary to summon Dr. F. Carr Beard from London. He went down and found Mr. Dickens' heart and voice so much out of order, a disorder superinduced solely by excessive fatigue," that he forbade his appearing in public, prescribed remedies, and at once brought him up to town. All his engagements have been indefinitely postponed, and the following medical certificate has been published in the newspapers: "We, the undersigned, certify that Mr. Charles Dickens has been seriously unwell, through excessive exhaustion and fatigue of body and mind, consequent upon his public readings, and long and frequent railway journeys. In our judgment, Mr. Dickens will not be able, with safety to himself, to resume his readings for several months to come. THOMAS WATSON, M.D.; F. CARR BEARD, F.R.C.S."

“Ladies and Gentlemen: To conclude (loud cries, 'No, no') for the present (laughter)—to conclude, I close with the other charge of my noble friend;" and here I am more serious, and I may be allowed, perhaps, to express my seriousness in half a dozen plain words. When I first took literature as my profession in England, I calmly resolved within myself that, whether I succeeded or whether I failed, literature should be my sole profession. It appeared to me at that time that it was not so well understood in England as it was in other countries that literature was a dignified profession, by which any might stand or fall. I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand, and by itself, of itself, and for itself; and there is no consideration on earth which would induce me to break that bargain.

"Ladies and Gentlemen: Finally allow me to thank you for your great kindness, and for the touching earnestness with which you have drunk my health. I should have thanked you with all my heart if it had not so unfortunately happened that, for many sufficient reasons, I lost my heart at between half past six and half past seven tonight."

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*The other charge" brought by Lord Houghton, and to which Mr. Dickens alluded, was: "My friend Mr. Dickens has shown little or no interest in the matter of our political life. Why is it he has not taken part in the civic rites of his friends? For my part, I believe any man of letters, however great his individuality may be, would be the better for those duties and those struggles which the life of a citizen engenders. If he had chosen, or perhaps condescended so far, he might have acceded to the honors of Lord Macaulay and Lord Lytton."

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It is announced that Prof. Bosworth hopes to be able to publish in 1871 or 1872 the new 4to. ed. of his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. . . The appearance, in the Windsor Castle pulpit, of Dr. Monsell, best known as the author of religious poetry in great favor with some classes of readers, has attracted some attention. The Queen seems to take more interest of late in literary men. Mr. Richard Morris, whose editions of Chaucer, etc. have introduced him to the favorable notice of the literary world, has been appointed, and has accepted an under-mastership of King's College School, London. There is some rumor that a club of lovers of the Spanish language and literature will shortly be established in London; its style will be "Los Caballeros." The Crown has just issued a commission to Lord Romilly, Earl Stanhope, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Airlie, Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, Sir W. S. Maxwell, Dr. C. Russell, Dr. Dasent, and Mr. T. Duffus Hardy, to make inquiries relative to the existence of manuscripts of historical interest in the possession of public institutions and private persons. A voluminous Bible is now on sale in London; it is in 63 fol. volumes. It was formed by a well-known Manchester printer, collector, and bibliomaniac, the late Mr. John Gray Bell, who for years laid his hands on everything which could illustrate the Bible. He laid them carefully in a folio edition of Macklin's Bible, which gradually swelled to 63 volumes. They contain 360 leaves of old and rare editions of the Bible, more than 1000 photographs and original drawings, and almost 10,000 engravings.

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The public papers of the day will have informed you that Lord Russell has introduced a bill providing for the creation of life peerages. There seems to be little doubt that the measure will become law. If it does, it is generally understood that one of the first peerages created will be offered to Mr. Dickens. His language in rebutting Lord Houghton's other charge is more than usually significant under these circumstances. There seems to be a very general approval of Mr. Dickens' determination. As one newspaper says: "It seems to us that if Mr. Dickens became a professional politician, he would soon lose one of the most pleas- India has sent about $720 to the Franz Bopp ing features of the universality we have just ascribed Fund. The subscription list is curious. English to him. His popularity now affords a common and Hindoo names are in fraternal neighborhood. ground upon which men of every variety of politi- The Danish church at the East End of Loncal opinion can amicably meet, forgetful of their don has been demolished, and on its site some pubdifferences, to unite in doing homage to genius.lic schools will be erected. I mention this removal

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MAY 15, 1869.

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The "London Review" has merged into the "Examiner."... Messrs. Trübner & Co. announce that Mr. James Parton's contribution to the "Atlantic Monthly," "Does it Pay to Smoke?" has been republished in pamphlet form at Melbourne... “Mr. Daniel D. Home," the "spirit medium," has become a public reader. He seems to have any number of strings to his-long-bow!

because in this church or churchyard was a memo- | Daldy); Knight's Pictorial London, $1150 (Hotten); rial of Colley Cibber, and the schools to be trans- Cattermole's Illustrated History of the Civil War, ferred to the proposed scholastic buildings are now $1325 (Mackenzie); Howitt's Queens of Great held in the house memorable as the birthplace of Britain, $1150 (Virtue); The Book of Shakspeare Thomas Day, the amiable but eccentric author of Gems, $275 (Routledge); Brandon's Gothic Archi"Sandford and Merton.". . . Lord Campbell's post-tecture and Parish Churches, $285 (Atchley); the humous Lives of Lyndhurst and Brougham have Directorium Anglicanum, edited by the Rev. F. G. not only given rise to a great deal of ill blood and, Lee, $235 (Hogg); Mrs. Jameson's Beauties of the expenditure of ink, but the following advertise- Court of Charles II., $475 (Hotten); and Humphrey's ment, which appears in the daily papers, would in- and Westwood's "British Moths and Butterflies" Sir John Lubbock is one of the editors of the first dicate resort to legal measures to punish his attacks fetched $330, and were purchased by Mr. Routledge. on those eminent men, and his general inaccuracy: "All persons affected by statements in Lord Camp-number of the Journal of the Ethnological Society. bell's Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham,' and interested in the pure administration of public justice, are requested to favor Miss Ralston Shedden by communicating immediately by letter with her, at 259 Vauxhall-bridge road, S. W.; or, under cover, to Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, solicitors." A few days since this odd paragraph appeared in "The Times:" "We are requested by Mr. H. Baillière to state that he is not the publisher of a prize essay on Kleptomania, lately advertised under his He gave permission to the editor to place his name on the title-page; but as soon as he became acquainted with the contents he asked him to withdraw it, and refused to sell the book." The following day this card was published: "Sir: In your impression of to-day, you say that you have been requested by Mr. Baillière, bookseller, Regent Street, to state that he is not the publisher of the 'Essay on Kleptomania,' for which I offered a prize. I beg to say Mr. Baillière saw the essay in proof, and agreed to publish it, as he had done former publications of mine. I am, etc. D. WILSON, M.D." This advertisement, which appeared in the last "Athenæum," seems very ironical, but it may be merely in earnest. "To be sold, very cheap, Bishop Colenso's autograph. Address S., Messrs. Thomas Snape & Co., 16 Blackstock Street, Liverpool."

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Of forthcoming works we have announced as in the press, Dr. James Clark's "Memoir of Dr. John Conolly" (which will give, moreover, an account of the reforms introduced into the treatment of the insane in England and other countries); John Forster's "Life of Walter Savage Landor;" a translation of Tourguenef's "Unhappy One" (this is a story of Russian life); "The Democracy of Reason, or the Organization of the Press" (the author's name is not given); W. B. Scott's "Albert Dürer and his Works," with a translation of portion of his diary; "The Vicar's Courtship," by Walter Thornbury (a tale of Wiltshire life); Dr. Wm. Smith's "Dictionary of the Church;""Five Years in a Protestant Sisterhood, and Ten Years in a Catholic Convent" (anonymous); Sir H. M. Elliot's "Memoirs on the History, Folk-Lore, and Distribution of the Races of the Northwestern Provinces of India" (this is an amplified edition of the original supplementary "A Glossary of Indian Terms; it is edited, revised, and Nevius's "China and the Chinese" says: new enterprise originated a few years since in the rearranged by John Beames); J. Talboys Wheeler's "History of India from the Earliest Ages" (vol. ii., city of Suchow, and has since been introduced into other places, which cannot but be regarded with containing the "Ramayana"); F. W. Newman's "Miscellanies" (chiefly academical and historiIts express object is the suppeculiar interest. This enterprise has cal); B. Spinoza's " Ethics and Letters" (translated pression of immoral books.' also gained the sanction and concurrence of the from the Latin, with a life of Spinoza, and a sumauthorities, and has already done much towards mary of his doctrine; translator's name not menchecking the influence of this source of demorali- tioned); C. P. Brown's (author of the Telugu zation. The people are not only requested, but re- Dictionary) "Sanskrit Prosody Explained;" Louis quired, to bring such books as have been prohibited Viardot's "Apology of an Unbeliever," with an to the head-quarters of this society, where they re- original letter from M. Sainte-Beuve (translaceive nearly an equivalent for them in money. Not tor's name not mentioned); H. Green's "Shaksonly books, but the stereotyped blocks from which peare and the Emblem Writers of his Age;" E. L. they are printed, are thus collected at a great ex- Hervey's "Our Legends and Lives;" J. Beaumont's pense, and all are together, at stated times, com- (late Chief Justice of British Guiana) "Five Years mitted to the flames. Several of the celebrated in British Guiana;" D. W. Freshfield's "Travels in standard novels of China, which in a moral point the Central Caucasus and Bashan;" J. Gilbert's Cadore, or Titian's Country;" M'Culloch's "Dicof view will bear favorable comparison with some of the current popular literature of our own coun- tionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation" try, have fallen under the ban of this society, and (a new edition, revised throughout, and corrected cannot now be obtained without great trouble and to the present time); Rev. T. P. Dale's "A Life's Instances have occurred in which book- Motto;" "A Peep at Brittany, the Bretons and expense. sellers, who have continued to sell immoral works Breton Literature;" "Married" (a novel by the "Favilla's Follies" (a novel); in the face of these regulations, have become ob- author of "Wondrous Strange"); F. Trollope's "A noxious to public authority, and have incurred a Woman's Error;" and "Cuthbert Krope" (a novel). great sacrifice of reputation and property."

Mr. Pellegrini is said to be the author of the
caricatures of "People of the Day" and "Our States-
He is
men," which now appear in "Vanity Fair."
by birth an Italian, but has, I believe, made England
his home.

The following copyrights and stereotype plates
have been sold at auction, and fetched the under-
mentioned prices: Knight's Pictorial History of Eng-
land, $2775, gold (purchased by Messrs. Bell &

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An American law book had the honor of a compliment from the bench this week, an honor which is the more distinguished as the work referred to tions of the United States press. Mr. Berger, a as an authority is one of the latest legal publicaLondon publisher, sent $25,000 worth of stock to be sold at auction by Mr. Southgate; the publisher had the auctioneer's bills discounted by the City Discount Co. It happened that the auctioneer was

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