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THE CI-IAI{L(TI‘TE'I‘OWN GUARDIAR , PAGE SEVENTEEN " " "w ' ' "w" " d"? ' “ "" " _—“—”°" , »

Popularity of Dickens!

G. K. CIIESTERTON ln The [Anion Bpoctstw

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fig, command a ship, under our “m, . when a lhlp is “lye multicelltular steel. structure I n. W! '

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, we us: attempt w‘ treat a victor-Yawn" and finding m 11096 mine _ ‘ inn hero as a whitedpepulchrc, and orig ' ' , ‘ l creole a cnsatlon by acrapliig oil‘ Fol. lllls lellsolll l“ {c1113.

the u-niteavash, tailed in 9. special omersl l llllnk m“ Dunn-l‘ ' degree for a special reason. It lulled” larlly ls secure; l; w,’ we; ‘ not only because the whiteness wawmndllllons ln wlllcll lllenl l“: not merely whitewash, but evenlmle populllrllyl unfilled“; more because it was not enough oflls called publlclly and d‘

a sepulchre. Dickenr was not exact-l called plllwcmclh ma" h" '

ly what is implied, either among the lest’ lll an Amerlzul ll ' ' iconoclusts or the idolntors. by aill-hel-e llle bcsbsellel- j, bu’; . Victorian hero. Hc was" not evenlbulc m llle lmsl sale-Swami“;- really Victorinn. let alone heroic. l-lelcvel. we recover llllytlllng 15¢; ha‘. did not. ‘really belong to that worldlml-lll (lulu l" ‘vlllcll people an m” i?! wYllllllnefilvhli-‘h "m5. m" vlcflthenzselves think. I have nb ma: Wm". WlwH-Uwl’ "lea" "m" Ten-l mm. they will think it more fun to lnysonian. IIe had no more real re-. mm, Dlcllens llllll-l lo read Dl-elsel; lspect for ivhat Mr. ‘Garvin has aptJ

but eased when they have a purticiency 0f finer-tended

~ i 90mm: blibdhindliiqi in Qhe some Omlfldy were his two com. one-mas- ter of the Raphael‘ and the other

COITHIIIIRIOTS _W€T¢ $18.10!"!!! him at. the WP He was mica.»

retiring 0f the

s __ l _ be the dea- "my tame held ln store {or the $81‘- tain. ' \ ' - "

be’ no doubt that at crown or 1111mm‘; radmuvl

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utoentcroneoithef wloneao badbn.

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=otbcr hmatlantlc trades took MM- o: her. “He was." says the owners. cr-oarey and he wmllwi "i"? " mow WhWWMJ-he tlimifor lite‘. He was well esteemed modore of our fleet." That was ‘ by his employers And when a wm- something for a‘ mlWs wlie and sons mend tell vacant he was in duem be proud or wasn't ltlLA man "source appointed in a seamanb my make several million dollars ma: ' -

' linkrby um time, bailing out of 'vd_flibollnaahlp.iiflimbdfln€ffl water-painter (auchbo l

use oi-lflmloonmanyl 01 91m’ lnqlflqulred most/of the features union w Atlantic sblmbamfi

l | v ' down the bay? WHAT WAS COMING

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son, and wrapped him in swaddllng cloth- es .fl.._lld»l'fllld.l,llllfi' in a manger, because there wits no room for them in the inn.

‘fidndmtlhiere were in the same country’ V

shepherd! abiding in the field, keeping," watchl _p_ve1' their flock by night.

-‘_‘Anrl l0, the angel of the llord came upon them; and theglory 0t the Lord shone round aboutvthem: and they were- afraidv‘ = -.“A1'1d*t_.11le;a;1igel said unto them, Fear not: foifbéliold, I bring you good tidings

ofigreut joy, which shall ;belto all pccplc.

“For unto-you is born tiller-day. in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. '

“And this shall be a. sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying" in a manger.

“And suddenly there ivas with the an- gel a multitude of the heavenly host prais- ing God, and saying. ll

“Glory to God in the highest; » and on oarth peace, good will _t.oward lmenf’,

ly celled “the blue blood of the brain" than hc had for any other sort of blue blood. What he really represented was rcd blood: and he got. it from Hmollett and Fielding and men who lived before the deli- ‘cnie compromise of Victorian virtue

faiterwards that Carlyle begun to lllll the land with the solemn litan- lcs oi Hero-Worship: and the en- tirebY new and rather German uo-l ‘lion of taking men of genius ser-l iously. This idea of gravity about great men did not greatly possess the drinking and dicing England of the eighteenth century; and it did not possess Dickens at all. He had‘ not even enough hero-worship; and; hlslproapccta in life did not partic- ularly encourage hlm to be a hero. Butlthe point to seize is that the nt- mosphere of the beginning of ihc nineteenth century in England wasl rather an atmosphere of the gro-l tesquc and a Jolly ugliness. it wasl theend of the nineteenth century that has lcit us, for good and evil, with the memory of a Tennysoniai: prettinesa. "Her court “was pure. her- llfe serene”. does not exhaust the! ways in which the first volumes of l Punch talked about the Court. Iil<‘l deed. the very figure of Punch is typical of the change. There is‘ something pathetic in the efforts oil ,the last Victorian‘ artists to irrad- iotc the face~of Mr. Punch with the ‘moist pious and idealistic emotions}

But men who lmd sct out lntcnrllngl

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Ito express all the gcliloscn a figure like Mr. Punch ui. a .

l Now the first thing to realize bout the mnkci- of Pickwick is; that‘

lhc originally breathed thc fifllllc ulr as the makciu of Punch. whilc he =rosc in tllc social scale and took on lsolnc of the Mid-Victorian conven- Atlons. and generally gained n sober

colouring from a world that “us; be?

ling toned down by the high-toned fluskin and the rest. Lhcrc rc- lmalned in him something that was lllfllffll‘ quitmscrious. any moi-u than 1011c of his favourite showman or fchcagjucks were quite serious. H1.- fhad any nmount of anger and van- rity; he boasted and picked quarrels as chcapjacks do; but he did not really sec himself iu o mophcrr; flllilllllf.‘ us Carlyle and Ru>kiu and Tennyson dld. It is characteristic rthat tradition would vaguely imag- inc the other three men as tall;,bul; jwe do not think of Dickens as tall. lthough he was not abnormally short. We think of him as n vivac- llouc little figure-making cverybozly laugh. chiefly with him. but occas- l=ioually at him. Ho. was Sam Weller; lhe was the English poor man, wl c lweapon is humour. He was alivuv: lin a sense the comic servant mock- llng the solemn muster. like Sancho Panza following Don Quixote. Anti . the serious charges against him have lfalled: not only for the simple reas- 3 on that they were false, but. also for tho more subtle reason that ihcy

lit is said that many have no pa?

hence to read Dickens: it ‘would bi! [Tlltl to sny that they have no who to read Dickens; their time bein’: occupied with wasting their time. on things they do not really wallow read. But if we ever see again the phychological miracle of liberty’, thlt

In many way; he was singularly free from the illusions oi’ his time; much more free than a good many lwnple in our time. He did not imagine. l8 so many men much better educated

cud inlagiue. that Parliament. wasja. .

pattern to the whole ivorld. He has left on record words that might have been ivrittciz by a Fascist or Syndi- calist in thc twentieth c1 ntury. ra- ther than a respectable Radlcalia the nlnetccrlth. Much of his satlrc can be cost understood in relatlon to much more recent sat ' ' have been accused of 016' egg

by much more rcccnt_ erltlcbl Venccring's Election had itigf. mediate sequel in Mr. Olutierb ‘B Election. and anyone \' Little Dorrit. and the ll _- the great affiliated fanlllies "or; nacle and Btlltstalking} um

that Dickens discovered ram before what Mr. B01100 dlscov forty yours irftcrwnrds. only ' critics have not discovered ‘it; n now. But Lhc point t. touching popularity. Dickens ._ l not suffer with the changu only» tumcs. He will gain by'l,he_deo_l o! disguises. Thnriccrny thought " I little too luuch of Major Pcndcnnla

ideals of the “ld-[bccausc lic was lhcn in the height ylls of the King" would never huvdof fashion. Dickens did not. can»

button about Major Baggslbck: BBQ u will not mutter whether he isqld- fasliioncd. This poteritIaT vlcwfy over time ccmcs from the same pop- ularity. Sum" Wcflcr nmy have grovm inorv decorum, as MI.

wick grow more grave: bull

still Snln: he ls still making fun ,0!’ cvcwthing. including Mr. Pickwiéf. Hc was not born ti butler. llliflfl solemn servants of llic Merdles, the Vance-rings. It ls not for ' _l' 1 that hc mu wild in the siroctd Wm; o wnggonnfs boy and a

boy bcloru hc vvcr put on livery. there was something in Dickens t. had run wild with tliu old

and candid and popular satire o! the past. "iic could not rloocrlbb a. gr-ixllvnvul"; ‘NlllCll means tllathe could never quite kccp a strslfllii face while describing one. He served the ideals of his generation btjhflll that was best in them. wlillbrl-lr 11am courage and zeal; humanity and liberty and tenderness to fly! fallen and hope for all. But he no g er really served the M6518, _ generation: or he could them without shilling; he, _ ' t4 side the cl-rEs and the‘ clllfflélthiid the constitutional movements. 1111M lS what was ulcant by calling hurl h caricalurist. To him these Whit‘; were still strange things, like mob.- sters. He had his! weaknesses. th y they were small beside his cn£h___-_ usm nnd his pity: but. helwaa. l ' iously without n. weakness of m

_ l ll Wonder iryoqgcvd- think

-’ ‘ _ . or little-hues you iuww _ , N’ her '80) I. .-' . . .. l rbcttbr lotllu! ‘_ ‘immllllll; ‘M. ; l“ will A. Romance and Tragedy of the Bruduicll lggoygllgloplly lmgcymg, The , - - gr‘ comparatively 1am mens-

lm m“ mdl onmlnlhlcmmry Perhaps "Eddie child iéllcrylng ‘w’

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were serious. You cminot tear the stronger men: lic was not really de- uzask off Dick Suivnllcr! ii is lilz- ccivcd bv the bombs and vanities Bf ltrylng to tcar the wig of l Ml‘. Mi» this K'l('k('(l world. ‘ l

H ' ‘ -' ~ ‘ th. ‘land lfpromlsehAhrllips béglhtopbu the” Md “wumjln t In filifllfiwofiibllutill°elfil§ri§s ZZZ fr: gee: on weillnd" SahdsWHc cailnot Play outside wdny WW1 udmcuuu"....c~.=i.-.» . . tam» wit». wd- o“... haw m» " Mp g ' 01 - Wifli- 3hd.f5°."°d "P t . “mm”?! mum ‘nu ‘lath: Vwéagnglihgeltlzfgwréi-hqljs some little girl i5 sud tiny Review) ‘lesser lucn than Gaiumllcl K.‘ and '0 . ' ' "“l'l:‘°l“‘f§l§§“§lfl§'§§§1li§g'nkn°i'3 gamhwie-nmtlie dayuwhen he ugould And Mother’?! lléllfl i8 85ft " E l d l5 d ' l- l-llls mm, !L°“' "r Mudsvum‘ M9” . _ "m; ~ l P911, P11. . .- » .. -’ _ -_ l l Pa- v ‘n; lb maven ' . 118311 011° °1‘- _ l-llmun than Mrs. Khllllil. '9 w“ “in yfmzxliavfnijltuwriggnghbetgghmfiioizglfullzdmgrewiaduewbgf Anld Ebert: Egmes no lmore, . which . uncLi r1 Heidelberg, Wis“ o w‘ edbhcnefldforn-dlomllfyw‘? ~ ' ' ’ ‘ should help rzrullshmcn w @- “W”

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the auld folk! comfortably satucawmnfe diner mu are unornnt l d A ll h, l, l Run“)... ‘ ~ . _ . . _ - . . “m” h” ha“ ‘hymn may o! Joys that Clix-mm“ bflnus‘ lads gen‘: at‘: arrogautlgma fgflszhlf,‘ . l.“ looted ‘Mn u ‘ “n. d m a l“ _ “l? pmllplkfimellsnqd ldclhtosh own little home. but they lwfu l. l - gty-rant the concession o! democrneslou, heads w mm;- _ - .. i an,iAhxl_'B, ' _ l . m’ m mm“ yd __' be ' ‘gm ‘which scattered the proud Antinde. Ml, lull-slaw .. . l l _ l _ l a; elm ayalwl yllu .. . m . . l . m __ w“ on l glm- aulin or relglgily-l _ '

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