ANALYTICAL BOOK REVIEW

Analytical Book Review

Analytical Book Review

In feeling Dickens as a admirer we should not ever overlook him as a combatant, and a combatant for a creed; but really there is no other kind of fighter. The geniality which he disperse over all his creations was geniality disperse from one centre, from one burning peak. He was eager to apologise Mr. Micawber for being extravagant; but Dickens and Dickens's doctrine were firmly to conclude how far he was to be excused. He was eager to like Mr. Twemlow in spite of his snobbishness, but Dickens and Dickens's doctrine were solely to be referees of how far he was snobbish. There was not ever a more didactic writer: therefore there was not ever one more amusing. He had no signify up to date idea of holding the lesson doubtful. He would have considered this as a meagre part of slovenliness, like departing the last sheet illegible.

It is here more than any location additional that the sternness of Dickens appears as distinct from his softness; it is here, most conspicuously, so to talk, that his skeletal components attach out. There are really numerous other publications of his which are in writing better and in writing in a sadder tone. Great Expectations is melancholy in a sense; but it is very improbable of everything, even of its own melancholy. The Tale of Two Cities is a large tragedy, but it is still a sentimental tragedy. It is a large drama, but it is still a melodrama. But this tale of Hard Times is in some way harsher than all these. For it is the sign of a righteous indignation which will not condescend to wit and which will not even condescend to pathos. Twenty times we have taken Dickens's hand and ...