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Show oo TELLS INCIDENTS OF DICKENS' LIFE London, July 6. Whitelaw Reid, the United StateB ambassador, recalled re-called some Interesting Incidents of th visit to America of Charles Dickons Dick-ons at a dinner given by the Boz Club In colebratlon of the centenary of the hlrth cf the great novelist. The dinner was presided over by the Bishop of London and the oompany Included the surviving children, grandchildren grand-children and other relatives of Dickens. Dick-ens. As so often happens a.t functions of the kind In England, the United States ambassador was (he chief speaker. After paying a tribute to Dicken?. who he said wns recognized In America Amer-ica almost as soon as In hlB own country, Mr. Rold mentioned that he was on of. a small number who remembered re-membered and participated in the garowell banquet to Charles Dickons In the old Fourteenth Street Del-monlco's Del-monlco's In New York at the close of his second visit to America in April, 186. "It was a banquet," said Mr. Reid, "not only to a great novelist, who had written many things about our people too near the truth to be popular pop-ular at the time, but also to a great editor In his oirn country, from great editors in the country which he visited; and It was presided over by the greatest of them, nn editor of Immortal Im-mortal memory In the history pf tho country whloh be corvnd Jn Its grave3t crisis and In its grandest achievement, achieve-ment, Horace Greeley. At his right sat Charles Dickens, and next to the guest sat a spotless chevalier In the warfare of opinion that preceded the civil war George William CurtlB, a man of letters worthy to be associated associ-ated with Mr Dickens, and an orator worthy to apeak on the same platform plat-form There was a long list of representative rep-resentative members of the profession and all cordial and eager to make tho honored guest feel welcome and at home as eager as if Jefferson Brick had never been painted from the 11 fo from tho occupant of a New York editorial office." |