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Show Dickens In Australia. It Is said that when a Scotsman leaves old Scotia to mako his home In some other land he solaces his exile with the book ot Robert Burns' poems, and that the Scot abroad comes to be even better versed In tho rhymes ot the peasant poet than tho Scot who has remained at home. It has been remarked that tho Bamo Is truo as regards the Englishman and Charles Dickens, W. M. Hughos, acting prime minister of Australia, goos further than this and asserts that Dickons had an Important tnfluonco on Australian Austra-lian domocracy, and through men who read htm and loved him, men Imbibed his hatred of shams and humbugs, who wanted freer and bettor conditions, to havo some otbvr placo to look to than tike workhouso, had made Australia Austra-lia what It Is today. |