Eureka Reporter | 1902-11-28 | Page 4 | Dickens and the Coronation

dickens an I 1 ta the ae coronation an interesting contribution to the evening meeting of the tile boz club an association composed of those who knew and loved dickens deping his lifetime held at london was narrated by a peer who himself has received it horn the mouth of one who was pres pre a ent with bis his peers at the coron coronation atlon of queen victoria they had assem assern bled in the abbey at six 0 clock in the morning with the prospect of remain ing in their places for ten hours but twenty two peers came provided with copies of a paper c gevered installment published the previous evening of a story by boz less fortunate peers pe rs demanded that the number geould be read aloud but this proposal being ob ejected to as inconsistent with the sane city of the place they waited as pa as they could until each in lit his turn rec received elved the coveted chapters the point of the story says the london graphic Is that there was at that thit time in england a novelist who though only twenty six years of age could command the public interest to such an extent that no fewer than twenty two copies of his work were to be found in one gallery of that au all gust assembly V iba