Show dickens as an n actor carlyle referred to dickens as in an actor ac having seen him in one of liia his ama amateur tour performances lie ile gave it as his opi opinion men that dickens genius was essentially histrionic and mimetic that with liis his faculty ot of keen and minute observation liia his general alertness of mind and body hir bl mobile power poker of ge gesture ture and expression lio lie had ill the requisites of a successful actor and that had lie lived at a groat great period of tile drama in tho the elizabethan age for instance liia his genius would have found its appropriate ate outlet on oil the stage he would have become a popular comic actor writing a humorous piece now and then perhaps as was uio the custom of such actors in those days but while living under different cc and working with his poll pen his books still retained and revealed tho the native genius of their author they had the sustained it if rather jerky liveliness tho the pleasant pleas allt tricks and in mannerisms anneris ms of humorous por 1 fraiture tra iture upon the stage stae he was in short a born bom actor the |