Gunnison Valley News | 1919-05-16 | Page 3 | Dickens' Love of Humanity

Dickens' Love of Humanity. Dickens' love for humanity, his desire de-sire to right wrong and relieve suffering, suffer-ing, were some of the reasons given by Sheriff Lyell, a talented member of the Scottish bar, speaking before the Glasgow Dickens society, for the admiration admi-ration that writer had won. "The Barristers Bar-risters of Dickens" was the speaker's subject. He referred to Mr. Voles, Eugene Eaeburn, Tommy Traddles, Sidney Carton, Sergeant Buzbuz and other characters well knoivn to Dickens' Dick-ens' readers. "One must leave behind the spirit of criticism and give oneself up to a whole-hearted enjoyment in reading Dickens," he said. "There might, at times, be exaggeration or forced sentiment, sen-timent, but there is also genius. I don't know why he made Tommy Traddles Trad-dles a lawyer, unless it was to show that we barristers are not all as black es we are painted. Dickens was at his best in depicting deep and genuine pathos, free from sentimentalism."