Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-07 | Page 7 | Birthday of Chas. Dickens

BIRTHDAY OF CHAS. DICKENS 9 NEW YORK, Feb. C "The one hundredth hun-dredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens was celebrated hero tonight with a banquet at which more than 500 personB, prominent In tho literary, professional and social Jifo of New York City wero present. Former Mayor Soth Low presided, and addresses were made by Kate Douglas Wlggln, F. Hopkinsou Smith, i -. n nrinlnn PnvorH T-Tntft Agnes iteppiiti, "'""" -.- , and others A poem by Edward Mark-ham, Mark-ham, written for the occasion, was read, two lines of which echoed the sentiment of tho speakers: "You raised for human rights a worldwide world-wide cry .. That still Is sounding on from SK to sky." , , W Bavard Hate offered Dickons as a man "who, unaware of tho modern woman's side of things, only concerned con-cerned himself with those honest, simple vomcn who only fall in loo before thoy are married." Dickens was unable to paint men and women In their complexity of nn-turc nn-turc as we now sec them and I as lie tlou now portrays them, ho addod. . oo