| Show DULLNESS OF DICKENS READINGS his Pers personal oual appearance the story is a going I 1 ng the rounds of the press that dickens is engaged to go to the states and read for of course it is is a lie but if any speculators have hav gone egone in for one third that amount I 1 they will lose money tor for after the papers in in new lew york have honestly spoken out that his readings are mo and dreary I 1 fancy that the crowds will not care to give their dollars simply to see the great novelist I 1 went with some bome friends a few ever evenings n since to st martins hall to hear bear him a and anns we left in twenty minutes with an unanimous opinion that it did not pay dickens is very young looking tor for a man of whom we have read and heard so much the king of J japan an may be for what I 1 know two hundred ret years old with a venerable sweeping white beard but it would not surprise me A at all if in meeting him he should prove to be a handsome youth with the virgin down on his cheek but who could have supposed that the author of pickwick the elight delight of my boyhood and of copperfield and bleak house the pleasant friends of manhood would appear before us fa fashionably S hion ably dressed with raven hair and moustaches mou staches reminding one of those dapper shining fellows fellow s who most frequent the steps of the st nicholas and the corners of prince street and broadway J london letter |
