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Show CHARLES DICKENS. The prcat novelet is dead ! The brain whose creations have charmed, instructed and amused so many millions, milli-ons, lias ceased its years of work. The particulars of Lis decease and brief eulogies from the London press, will be found in our dispatches received last night. The greatness of Charles Dickens is univcri-ally accorded. If his pen-pictures were not always true to actual life, ihey were so vividly life-like that they seemed realities of existence and not the coinage of a powerful and fertile fer-tile mind. As a worker he had few compeers, whether in the reporter's' gallery in earlier years, or as a serial writer, or one of the master novelists and readers of the age. Ever brilliant with the scintillations of true genii!--, J) is proline brain was industriously engaged en-gaged to the last. By his death one more great name is added to the pages of history, and one, too, whose writings writ-ings will long live, "familiar in our mouths as household words. |