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Show Charles Reade's Method of Work. Reade's literary work was, Sir Robert Rob-ert Anderson remarks, a rare combination combina-tion of ganius and plodding. A brass scuttle which stood by the fireplace held the illustrated and other papers . which reached him week by week. " From these he culled anything that took his fancy, and the cuttings were thrown into a companion scuttle, to be afterward inserted in scrap books, and duly indexed. Materials for his novels and plays were thus supplied or suggested. The accuracy of his descriptions of events and places was phenomenal. |