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Show iymnml; jiacsu:iits. TltE USS. Of 'TJ1E ITW.CS llEri-" AMI OTIICtt I.1TK3LKY fKOI--EKTY OF DICKIISS AMI C01AJS8 TO EE SoLI in lu.sio.s-. On June IS there is to be notable ale of autograph inanutcripU ol Cliaih Dickeib and Wilkfas Col liiw In JoiiIon. Thbj will be a splendid oj portunlty, aud jitii the only one for America ii.t'in, ins of the great novelists toobtamvala-slile toobtamvala-slile aua of Ukkeiw and Colli. if. KnfJ'tlug to John Furster.tu h houi he ako wcjueathed many of his maiiuscrijiis, UicKeusiii lii llfttiiuv gaveawayS'ery few ol liiswrHluxs. lullinsuas uuuuuMidiy the nust favjnd of Ills frieliuV, alii he tribunal trib-unal the tokens rt Dickeuk7 friend snip to the hour of his death. Comt Coliiue' luanucripUarelo go uiu.er tiie hauituer, and ot neceKy the bring with tht:u thrssn which Utrv Civeu to him by Dicien?. One of ttie must important ruanu-sciljits ruanu-sciljits lauikrgued foe this mlc is a .lay in three aits, entitieu "Tne Ffbzru D.-ep," by Wilkie ColHm, uliirh was i.rfonnud by Diekt.uk aud some fricutis it Tavhtock Huumt on Jan. 0, ls-J7. Tneaduitious aud currectioiiK to (hie phy urenujr by Dickens. Iho imviliUus, niilig other things, inserted iu the names of the at lor, amun lr.m were .Mark Lemon, Uilkie Collins, Charlie (Mr. Charlts Dickuji. Jr.), .Vlfrtl Dhkeii", liq., Lilward Hogarth, Freli.rlfk l.vaux, Mary Gebixiaua (Mim llosartlij, ICatie (Ur-.Cha'iea Dhkeiu) Miss J'.ll u Hogarth, Mrs. WllM and lilmself. file nu-t careful ilea rlptioiia u! thesivii. s. t.-ttlur uitli Uiicctiuus ft- the iitn js .f the aLtur-, art given throughout. Tne Fn-iirii Detp' provtsl to b-a b-a nuu'ess ami was r , rentttl o commaitJ Ufore her Maju4y. Collins Col-lins rt,-rote jt in the form c-ra"Jra-uiUchtoO,"au!j in: I it lii a fare-Hull fare-Hull realms in America. Tht uauuscript of this story will bo sol I at the forthcoming aui Hon, anti. hat Is Hill more interesting frum a literary li:t of vnw, it n com-jiinic-r byColins' oh a Rrc.unto! tiie -veral iri rmaucesof llic p'ay. riic "Introduction." a-it is called, is dated -Liuduii, Apiii, Io71:" "As long ago as llto tar IS30 1 ivrote a play catietl llic Frun i. Direji,' winch work was fhst pre-euteJ pre-euteJ by ainsusir actors at ! i hou-c of the late Charlts Dica-eiji Dica-eiji on January 0th, lb57. .Mr. D rkeus himself plaj ed the prim i pal part, and placed it Willi a trun:. vi.nir and pithus never to be for goiua by til "ee in iro foriU:1 1' i-nouh to witness II. l ; erforiuslice. The nestr;5ieaniacecf 'The Frozen Dc--ji' (;.!a.e.l by an amateur ti ui ion ) tuuk pure at the Ualiery " 1 l!ia.-lrut'jn, bifore the Q-itfn and Royal tamiiy, by the Quct n's ovt n cemmaud. At Mainhtstcr ti.l-pUiy ti.l-pUiy was twice rfumiel fur the U'liofit of the family of Douli-Jerrold, Douli-Jerrold, ou the second evening I fore .TO.FI nple. This was. 1 think, the finest of all the reprer- utati(.ns. Tuc eslRt'irJInary intelligence jUj eiilhusiasni of tbe gnat auditnee -tiir.uiitcil us all to do our Ltst. DickLns surjias t-d hhnv If. He literally ck- trifled tin. juUicnce. 'Ten yea's Liter the id yum pro dnced at the Olympic Theatre, Lon-Jon. Lon-Jon. Seven 3 ears wssed, ami tht Hie I'ruzen Ifcep' apjinrtd In anotiirr country than Kngland, ami under a totally nc w form. 1 oc.-u pled the autu'un and int-r nf lbJS-74 lbJS-74 most agreeably to myself ly ." tur m Uk Ciiitci SU!t, rectiin f.-iim the generous eople of U. .;irtt country a recetJoii with ii 1 s'lail remenibcr proudly and 3rj'-e-fully Ui tiie t uti of my life. 'CoiitluuinR my uu in Ito'on, I -a a ad vised by Irieinisto iv-, i osfll'le, a pes ial farcweti r. o- In n America by preSft.LuK 1 .; . audience a new work. W itii tins ojuct I n -wrote ' The Frozen ifcep' (the play lmd never leu ibilsliui) in narrative foim for a public re-id-iug. ltociupinl nearly two h-Kirs in its ! livery, b-it kept iu Itolu from first V last 0:1 the interest am. syinjathy of the audience. The stry a 1 noar print it is consider -.lily luneer Uian the story as I read It. I add, lor the bem-ft of tl'. who have Stcn aud notforgcie.. 1 p'ay, that the s.rrati ei-i 11 The Frt. a Deep' de;iris wh't-l. from the day in tiie Citt ui la. fallows it ai closely as i.m ie i-the i-the succeeding art. V. C." It Is a remrukabl- .lu. '.i-.-nr. that at this very time, when Its J ue ft ill bo most a-reciaiei . at 1 aU-d as it is in a men- ure -1 ..' '.!. sale of the Dickens' rmnm nU faiud among Collins' eOeet , iliat Mr. F. C. Kittou has pyt uj 011 1L1 market the thirteenth t&it i f 1 L-'Diciens L-'Diciens by Pen and Pencil " 1 1 it Mr. F. Loikir Lamon dtv. ri'f-tlie ri'f-tlie iiuiet way in which the baritl of tiie great novelist was accoi plislieJ. "The mornliig cf the funeral v 1-a 1-a viry fine nioruing,'hesjys. -A-o naehed tho eutrnuce to t!it IXan's Yani, an ! as St. St' ph -i. clock diimcd tiie bnf 1 our. 3d, a hear-e and mourning conches -rei I round the Ilroad San'-tairy. Tht stemei b bring with tiieni an ni. ii-nal ttillmss, aid !h u tiu srea! ln.li begrfii tu toll as ti.t y tJrove u -d r the archway into Dean's YarJ. There was hardly acnatureln the slreetoriii licabby, aui no one Uit ourselves knew whose fumral Iiad fasstsk or for whom the great UI1 was tolling. What weto IHe gentlemen of Uie press doing wt shDUlit hhe to know?" Ex. |