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Show Dickens' Love of Humanity. Pickens' love for humanity, his desire de-sire to rl(;ht WrODg and relieve suffering, suffer-ing, were some of the reasons given hy Sheriff Lyell, n talented member nf the Scottish bar, speaking before the QtaafOW IMckens society, for the admiration admi-ration that writer had won "The It.ir-rlsters It.ir-rlsters of IMckens" was the speaker's Subject He referred to Mr Voles, Bugene llnchurn. Tomtn.v Traddles, Sidney Carton, Serueiint llnzhnz and other ihaiacters well known to ItlcU-ciin' ItlcU-ciin' reaili'rs. "One must leave behind the spirit Of criticism and trive oneself up to it whole hearted enjoyment In reading Hlckens," he said. "There might, at times, be exaggeration r forced sentiment, sen-timent, hut there is also iiiMiiiis. 1 don't know why he made Tommy Traddles Trad-dles a lawyer, unless it was to sm .. that wo barristers are not all as black as we uro painted. Pickens was at his best In depleting deep and genuine pathos, free from seiillmentnlisin." |