| Show Xotc to a Lift MADE TV VIIfE COLLINS 1 > THE HARQIX OP 1113 COIl OK POKS TEBS un OP DICKtNS Forsterconsidered thatln Olive Twist there was The Interest of a story simph but well I told llereU llkie j Collins vlgorou criticism Nonsense the onuaJcfect In that wonderful book teifie hoptlewh IJ tad vontruetion of the story The character of Nancy is the Jluu > thIng heeverdld l He never After wares saw all sides of a womans charaeter saw all round her That he same man who could oeatu Nancy ercated the tecond Mrs iombeyis the most Incomprehen ibu anomaly that I know 01 in lit trature Forster cougraiulalea himself ou laving persuaded Sickens to alter he fure l JJarnaby Kudge t5 letlioughttbeoriglucl idea weak Wllkle Collins write Where t the unsoundnets of It callJta flee idea Now lower jl hi I fhlv I tlramntlfj ntiil nt ll urltftj tuibg limits of truth to nature li t would havo greatly strengthened he weakest book Dickens etr wrote Dickens wrote iu ISti to Kort ir Chuzzlen It w itli its small salr Mut mo up DomUjs largesale umbled medownu Wllkie Collins comment Tlut Chuzzlewll In tome ro spects the Uutst DonI he ever u rule i lighted his readen and en led to a arge tale of hU next book Dom t > ej I do not doubt 1UH the lAttrr h > lf of Domliei uolntelhgeiit lcr son can have rend without atoniih ment and the disappointment that ulloned lowered Uie sale of the ncJtt l < ok CopperfleU Incom larably superior to Dombey as it certain is Another note relates how Dickens bnd told Wllkie Collins that Leigh luut had protested strongly to him whllu dlnlug lit his bou ea aiiut tho character of Harold bkimpole of which Hunt was clearly the original Jfurster ha Ing compared the description in Kdwin Urood wilh the dialogue Oliver 1 wfct Vllkie Collins writer Ue would hae pointed out tho contrast more fairly if he had coin aml diiloguw with dialogue or cscrlptlou with dcecrirUon iu both cases A novelist knons what rorterdld not kooJwh3t dialogue I more easily written than discrip tioD To my mind itwas cruel to compare Dickens in tho radiant irinie of his grulus 1lh Dickens ost Labored U ttthe melancholy work of a omout brain Of tho perwin > I relations between ickensand KcrUr we I Itam from I note lu the third volume tliatj More than once there were tierce uarrels between thcn GlI1ctlm SlIt orsters own table which tool 1Incc in my presenec Dickens MHH of what he owed to Fon > ters I evotion rightly oDrseu proi > erly a rong sente vras often fulijicted to severe trial byTortttr himself London Truth |
