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Show Dickens In Australia. It Is said that when a Scotsman leaves old Scotia to make his homo In Bomo other land ho solaces his exilo with tho book of Hobort Hums' poems, and that tho Scot abroad comes to bo even better versed In tho rhymes of tho peasant poet than tho Scot who has remained at homo. It has been remarked that tho samo Is truo as regards tho nngllBhmnn and Charles Dickens. W. M. Hughes, acting prima minister of Australia, goes further than this and assorts that Dickens had an Important Inlluenco on Australian Austra-lian democracy, and through men who rend him and loved him, men Imbibed his hatred of shams nnd humbugs, who wanted freer and better conditions, to havo somo other place to look to than tho workhouso, had made Australia Austra-lia what It la today. |
