SCENES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS by Amadeo Nipasa

uORARY

BciiucatbcO to

Xibran? of tbe

of (Toronto

professor

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SCENES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS BEING EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX PICTURES PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD BLOCKS

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SCENES AOT) CHARACTERS

FROM THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS

BEING EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX DRAWINGS BY FRED BARNARD HABLOT K. HKO\V.\K(l'Hix)

GORDON THOMSON Me

MAHONEV

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ALSTON

H FRENCH .

CHARLES GREEN A FKOST

E. G. F. A.

AND SIR

DALZIEL FRASER

LUKE FILDES

PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL WOODBLOCKS ENGRAVED FOR "THE HOUSEHOLD EDITION"

THE MUSSOJV BOOK LONDON ENGLAND

CO. LIMITED TORONTO CANADA

Printed by BALI.ANTVNE Co. LIMITED Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London

OF WORKS AND ARTISTS

LIST TITLE DESIGN

By Gordon Thomson

SKETCHES BY Boz

THE

PICKWICK PAPERS

Iry

Fred Barnard

Phiz

OLIVER TWIST

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

Mahoney Fred Barnard

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK AND OTHER STORIES 9 THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 39 BARNABY RUDGE 46

Fred Barnard

AMERICAN NOTES

A. B. Frost

Fred Barnard Charles Green

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT

Fred Barnard

CHRISTMAS BOOKS

Fred Barnard

PICTURES FROM ITALY

Gordon Thomson

DOMBEY AND SON

Fred Barnard

DAVID COPPERFIELD

Fred Barnard

ENGLAND

CHILD'S HISTORY OF

McL. Ralston

BLEAK HOUSE

Fred Barnard

HARD TIMES

H. French

LITTLE DORRIT

REPRINTED PIECES

A -

Illustrations

TALE OF Two

CITIES

Mahoney

E. G. Dalziel

Fred Barnard

UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

E. G. Dalziel F. A. Frazer

OUR .MUTUAL FRIEND

CHRISTMAS STORIES

E. G. Dalziel

EDWIN DROOD

Luke Fildes

LIFE OF DICKENS

Mahoney

Fred Barnard

INTRODUCTORY NOTE one question upon which the critics and lovers of Dickens seem never able to get into agreement, and is

THERE

the question of the original illustrations to his works. To the thorough -going enthusiast Phiz and Dickens seem

that

inseparable,

and no edition which does not contain the

old,

Hablot Browne's imagination, or, in the earlier volume, the equally abnormal lineaments portrayed by Cruikshank or Seymour, would be deemed worthy of a familiar grotesques of

place

growing

bookshelf.

his

upon

for

up,

whom

But

younger generation is the time-honoured pictures have

not the charm of long association, and among them it is common to hear the complaint that the natural humour and

pathos of the author's best works are spoiled to modern fancy by the violent caricatures of the illustrator. "Let us abolish "

and illustrate the books these pictures altogether," they say with pretty conventionalities by more fashionable artists." :

At the "

opposite pole stands yet another group of critics the " Superior People who have made up their minds that Dickens

himself was a caricaturist, and that therefore the early illustrations, even if they do a little emphasise his exaggerations, are

only conceived in fitting harmony with- a world of fancy which drowns itself in excesses of the grotesque. Among so many doctors, rate,

and

all

so emphatic,

who

shall decide

is,

at any

no easy task.

It happens, however, that there does exist a series of Dickens

now

some danger of being unduly neglected, which the artists were wonderfully happy in preserving

illustrations,

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

x the

original

Phiz

features

and

Cruikshank's

interpre-

they toned down the more extravagant details and brought imagination into closer harmony with reality. " Household These were the illustrations to the square-shaped tations, while

Edition," published in 1870, just after the great novelist's death

and now reissued that those

who

form what

is,

in this

Dickens picture-book,

love the stories

may

in the

hope

like to possess in separate

perhaps, the best pictorial accompaniment that At the time of its first publication, the novels ever received.

the the

Household Edition

moment the name

enjoyed an enormous success.

of Dickens was on every one's

and

lips,

the fact that this splendidly illustrated reprint was issued in penny numbers and sixpenny parts placed it within reacli of

even the most humbly stocked purse.

and the

Its sale

was stupendous,

familiar green-covered

pamphlets percolated through and where the town English tongue is spoken. every village The original copies may still be met with, under many a country timbered

roof, carefully

treasured as one of the most cherished

household possessions. Undoubtedly, a great part of the success was due to the To begin with, there was an unusually art of the illustrators. the edition, as a whole, containing But more important than the number

liberal display of pictures

upon nine hundred. were the truth and sincerity of the interpretations

qualities

which helped to give a new life to characters already secure of First and foremost, of course, the edition will immortality. always be associated with the memory of Fred Barnard, whose pictures are the outstanding feature of the present volume.

Barnard seemed destined by nature to spirit of

work

"Boz"

illustrate

ran again in his veins.

Dickens

;

the

And

nothing in his more impressively ingenious than the skill with which

he took the types already created by his predecessors, preserved

INTRODUCTORY NOTE so that each

their characteristics,

was unmistakably

himself,

and yet by the illuminating touch of genius transferred them every one from the realm of caricature to that of portraiture.

Not

far

inferior

Charles Green, originals.

him was that admirable draughtsman,

who

exactly adopted Barnard's attitude to the

The reader who

"The Old

Curiosity Shop

how

with interest

notice

compare Green's illustrations with Phiz's, will scarcely fail to

will

often Green has

chosen the same

subject as his predecessor, and all but treated it in the same manner, save that a twisted grotesque suddenly becomes, under

the magic of his wand, a natural human being. His picture of Sally Brass and the Marchioness is a remarkable instance in others equally eloquent of his symNor should the work of pathetic and interpretative method. Mahony, A. B. Frost, Gordon Thomson and others be forgotten, point

but there are

many

has helped to make this volume, what its publishers confidently claim it to be, a collection of Dickens pictures unrivalled for humour, pathos, character, and interpre-

for each in his

tative

skill.

own way

In the certainty that such a gallery of good

work can hardly

fail

to find appreciators, the

offered to all lovers of the

Victorian Era.

volume

now

most widely popular author of the

SKETCHES BY BOZ ILLUSTRATIVE OF

EVERY-DAY LIFE AND

EVERY-DAY PEOPLE,

THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD

THE HALF-PAY CAPTAIN COMPLETELY EFFACED THE OLD LADY'S NAME FROM THE BRASS DOOR-PLATE IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO POLISH IT WITH AQUA-FORTI8 Our Parish, chap.

ii.

"Wiiv THE DEVI

WHEN HE

AMT

vou LOOKING AFTER THAT PLATE?"

Our Parith, clwp.

CAE SURt.

v..

TO LOOK AT THE LODG.NGH, HE INQU.HED MOST PABT.CULARLV WHETHER HP WAS TO BE ABLE TO GET A SEAT IN THE rAEISH C H UBCH-Or vli Pariah, Chap,

'IT IB

DRIZZLING SO LONG, NEARLY ELEVEN O'CLOCK, AND THE COLD THIN RAIN, WHICH HAS BEEN 11. IIKOINNING TO POUR DOWN IN (iOOD EARNEST" Scenes, Chap.

THE GRAVESEND BOAT. 4

Scenes, chap. x.

DIFFERENT WOMEN OF THE HOUSE GOSSIPING ON THB STEIS DIALLERS Scenes, chap. v.

THE NATIVE

TlIK (iF.NTLEM VN DK8CB1BKD LOOKS EXTREMF.LY FOOLISH, i.i

MAY AS WELL GET BOARD, MYSELF

1.1.1

AND

ftctnti,

8QOEEZF.R Hr.R BAND, chap,

AND FEKS THK GlP*T

xil.

AND WASH1N* TILL THEN, OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AS PAY FOB " CONSEQUENTLY HERE GOES Scenes, Chap. XVli.

LODUIN*, ;

IIKIIA

ITJ

POTATO. HE DOES GENTEEL COMEDY-H.S FATHER'S COAL AND DO IT-AT HELL WELL VERY AND LAST THE PIECE, IN ALFRED HIO.HFLTER

HIS LINE

PRICE."

Scenes, chap. xiv.

TUREENS OF BOUP ARE EMPTIED WITH AWFUL RAPIDITY

G|N-8Hor

Scenes, chap. xxii.

Scena, chap. z. IV

THE PAWNBROKER'S SHOP

Scene*, chap, zzill.

CHILDREN WERE PLATING ON THE' GRASS; GROUPS CHATTING AND LAUGHING; BUT THE STEADILY UP AND DOWN, UNHEEDING AND UNHEEDED (Characters, Chap. i. 10 .

MAN WALKED [""

BY THAT, SCOUNDREL?" EXCLAIMED MR. SAMUEL WlLKINH " WITH YOU, YOU LITTLE HuMBUO ? REPLIED WHISKERS Character*,

'WHAT DO VOU MEAN

THE PRISONERS' VAN II

Characters, chap. xii.

"WHAT'S TUB MATTER

chap. Iv.

Hl'RHVlNO ALONG A BY-STUEET, KEEPING AS CLOSE AS HE CAN TO THE AREA RAILINGS, A MAN OF ABOLT FORTY OH FIFTY, CLAD IN AN OLD RUSTY SLIT OF

THREADBARE BLACK CLOTH

Characters, Chap. X.

"I RECEIVED A NOTK." KETL'RNKI)

UK SAID TREMULOUSLY. THK OTIIKH, "Yoi I>I1>,"

IN A VOICE I.IKE "

KXACTLY,"

A PUNCH WITH A COLD YE8 " TYlfct, Chap. I.

"YES,"

'NO WHAT?" INQUIRED MRS. III. OSS WITH A LOOK OP THE MOST INDESCRIBABLE ALARM 'NO STOMACH," REPEATED MRS. TlBBS WITH A SHAKE OF THE HEAD To/e,chap. i.

THE DEAR LITTLE FELLOW, HAVING RECOVERED HIS ANIMAL SPIRITS, TAB STANDING UPON HER MOST TENDER FOOT Talet, chap. III.

i.AAC'lLl

TJiJt

AIR Of TliE MARQUIS," SAID THE MILITARY GENTLEMAN

'Jail*,

cLap.

IV.

"HOW DELIGHTFUL, HOW REFRESHING IT IS, TO RETIRE FROM THE CLOUDY STORMS, THE VICISSITUDES, AND THE TROUBLES OF LIFE, EVEN IF IT BE BUT FOR A FEW FLEETING MOMENTS."

Tale8, Cbap. V.

THE FACETIOUS HARDY, IN FULFILMENT OF HIS PROMISE, HAD WATCHED THE CHILD TO A REMOTE PART OF THE VESSEL, AND, SUDDENLY APPEARING BEFORE HIM WITH THE MOST AWFUL CONTORTIONS OF VISAGE, HAD PRODUCED HIS PAROXYSMS OF TERROR Tales, chap. vli.

ONE GENTLEMAN WAS OBSERVED SUDDENLY TO HUSH FROM TABLE WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST OSTENSIBLE REASON, AND DART UP THE STEPS WITH INCREDIBLE SWIFTNESS, THEREBY GREATLY DAMAGING BOTH HIMSELF AND THE STEWARD, WHO HAPPENED TO BE COMIXG

DOWN AT THE SAME MOMENT

Tales, Chap. Vli.

" SAID THE BOOTS, 'ERE BELL ALONE, YOU WRETCHED LOO-NATTIC SUDDENLY FORCING THE UNFORTUNATE TROTT BACK INTO HIS CHAIR, AND BRANDISHING THE STICK ALOFT Tales, chap. viii.

"LEAVE THAT

THE BLACK VEIL

"WHY," REPLIED, MR. WALKINS TOTTLE EVASIVELY TINGLING THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE FRAME; "WHY " LIKE

;

Tales, chap. vi.

FOR HE TREMBLED VIOLENTLY, AMD FELT A SDDDES MUM I.I) CERTAINLY AT LEAST, I think I SHOULD

Tales, chap. x.

MR. NICODKMUS DUMPS

CROSS, CADAVEROUS, Tales, chap. xi.

ODD AND ILL-NATURED

BROUGHT THIS HERE NOTE," REPLIED THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE PAINTED TOP8 IN A HOARSE WHISPER; BROUGHT THIS HERE NOTE FROM A GEN'l/M'N AS COME TO OCR HOUSE THIS MOHNIN'." Tales, chap. X.

RAISED HIS MANACLED HANDS

IN A THREATENING ATTITUDE, FIXED HIS EYES ON HIS SHRINKING PARENT AND SLOWLY LEFT THE ROOM Talen, rh.ip. xii. ac>

" I'V 2

VOICES LOOKS THAT HE HAD LONG FORGOTTEN WEBE FIXED UPON HIM ONCE MORE OF VILLAGE LONG SINCE HUSHED IN DEATH SOUNDED IN HIS EARS LIKE THE MUSIC ;

BELLS

Tales, chap. zil.

THE BODY WAS WASHED ASHORE, BOMB MILES DOM'S THE RIVER, A SWOLLEN DISFIGURED MASS Tales, chap. xii.

THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB

FIFTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHIZ

COME ON," BAID THE CAB-PRIVER, SPARRING AWAY LIKE CLOCKWORK.

'WHAT! INTRODUCING HIS FRIEND!" 26

"COME ON

Chap.

II.

ALL

FOl'H

ON YOU "Chap.

MR. SNODGRASS AND MR. WINKLE HAD EACH PERFORMED A COMPULSORY SUMMERSET WITH REMARKABLE AGILITY

Chap.

Iv.

THE HORSE NO SOONER BEHELD MR. PICKWICK ADVANCING WITH THE^CHAISE WHIP 27

IN HIS

HAND

Chap.

AND

ILKADlNiJ

SOFTLV TO UMlSKLf. IN THE LITTLE BACK PARLOUR, AND STOPPING NOW HIS KYEH, THE CAPTAIN, IN A TRUE AND SIM1M E SPIRIT, COMMITTED WALTER'S BODY TO THE DEEP Cliap. xxxii.

AND THEN TO WIPE

CERTAIN SKILFUL ACTION OF HIS FINGERS AS HF, HUMMED SOME BARS, AND BEAT TIME ON THE SEAT BESIDE HIM, SEEMED TO DENOTE THE MUSICIAN Chap. XXXiU.

286

" SUE'S

COME BACK UABDER THAN SUE WEST!" CRIED THE MOTHER, LOOKING UP HER FACE, AND STILL HOLDING TO HER KNEES Chap. XXXiV.

287

WITHERS, MEETING HIM ON THE STAIRS, STOOD AMAZED AT THE BEAUTY OF HIS TEETH, AND AT HIS BRILLIANT SMILE Chp. XXXVll.

288

(KAN SNIGGERING OFF TO GET CHANGE, AND TOSSED

AWAY WITH A PIEMAN Chap, xxxviii.

AMD

SAID THE CAPTAIN, AFTER A LONG YOU'RE A-OOIKG TO DESERT YOUR COLOURS, ARE YOU, MY LAD," EXAMINATION OF HIS FACE Cbp. XXxiX.

MB. TOOTS REPLIES BV LAUNCHING WILDLY OUT INTO MlSS DOMBEY S PRAISES, AND BY INSINUATIONS THAT SOMETIMES HE THINKS HE SHOULD LIKE TO BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT Chap. Xli. -

290

"DOMBEY," HAYH COUSIN

h'l.P.MV

"UPON MY -in I AM VERY MUCH HIIOCKKD TO HKC MELANCHOLY OCCASION" Imp. xll. I.

YOt'

-I'

'DO YOU CALL

MANAGING

TIII8 ESTABLISHMENT, MADAM," SAID MR. 1)OMBEY, "TO LEAVE A PERSON THIS AT LIBERTY TO COME AND TALK TO ME " Chap. lllV. I

syi

"MISS DOMBEY." RETURNED Ma. TOOTS, "IF YOU'LL ONLY NAME ONE, YOU'LL YOU'LL CIVE ME AN APPETITE, i'fo WHICH," SAID MR. TOOTS, WITH SOME SENTIMENT, " 1 HAVE LONG BEEN A STRANGER" Chap. Xliv.

292

FLUNG

DOWN, AND TROD UPON THE GLITTERING HEAP

Chap,

xlvil.

THROWN DOWN IN A COSTLY MASS UPON THE UROCND >VAS KVF.KV ORNAMENT SHE HAD HAD SINCE SHE HAD BEEN HIS WIFE; EVERY DRESS SHE HAD WORN; AND EVERYTHING SHE HAD POSSESSED CUap. xlvil.

294

295

WHEN HE HAD

FILLED HIS PIPE IN AN ABSOLUTE REVERIE^OF SATISFACTION, FLORENCE LIGHTED IT FOB HIM Chap. xlix.

BLESSED TWILIGHT STEALING ON, AND SHADING HER so SOOTHINGLY AND GRAVELY AS SHE FALLS ASLEEP, LIKE A. BUSHED CHILD, UPON THE BOSOM SUE HAS CLUNG TO! Chap.

29?

298

299

STILL UPON HER KNEEH, AND WITH HER EVES UPON THE FIRE

300

(

Lap.

liif.

PERHAPS THE MOST HORRIBLE BORE

,567

THE COUNTRY

Book

chap. V.

VISIT TO

A TRAMPS' LODGING-HOUSE

GENOESE WASHERWOMEN

568

Book

chap.

viii.

THE RADICOFANI WIZARD

569

Book

chap.

vli.

g o

3 t- a

570

NEAPOLITAN I.AZZAHONI

MUM;

DOMBKV

'.:

x>k 4, chap, vll.

AT THE SXUFF SHOP

571

Book

5,*ch:ip. vii.

HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE WHAT THEY AHK, BECAUSE ONE OF THE OLD LADIES ALWAYS SITS BEFORE THEM BUT THEY LOOK, OUTSIDE, LIKE VERY OLD HACKU A.MMON BOARDS " Book 5, chap. iv. "I

;

572

"HALLOA, MRS. GAMP, WHAT ARE you UP TO

573

Book

chap.

574.

LIKEWISE AN OLD MAN WHO BAN OVER A MILK-CHILD RATHER THAN STOP! WITH NO NECKCLOTH, ON PRINCIPLE AND WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN TO CATCH THE MORNINU AIR Book 6, chap. vi. ;

575

BYE AND BVE I CAME UPON A POLENTA-SHOP IN THE CLOUDS, WHERE AN OLD FRENCHMAN WITH AN UMBRELLA LIKE A FADED TROPICAL LEAF (IT HAD NOT RAINED IN NAPLES FOR SIX WEEKS) WAS STARING AT NOTHING AT ALL, WITH A SNUFF-BOX IN HIS HAND Book

576

chap.

iii.

" "C'EST VKAI DONC," BAYS THE DUKE, "QOE M MIX Ml: LA DCCUESSE N'EST PLD8 "TANT MIEUX," SAYS THE DUKE, AND WALK8 OFF "C'EST TROP VRAI, MONSEIGNEUR." DELIBERATELY, TO THE GREAT SATISFACTION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE Book 7, Chap. T. 1

577

578

WHENEVER HE FELT TOOTS COMING AGAIN, HE BEGAN TO LACGH AND WIPE HIS EYFH AFRESH; AND WHEN TOOTS CAME ONCE MORE, HE GAVE A KIND OF CRY, AS IF IT WEKK TOO MUCH FOR HIM Book 8, chap. Iv.

579

HE SLIGHTLY COCITED UP HIS EVIL EVE AT THE GOLDFINCH. INSTANTLY A RAGING THIRST BESET THAT BIRD; AND WHEN IT WAS APPEASED HE STILL DREW SEVERAL UNNECESSARY BUCKETS OF WATER, LEAPING ABOUT HIS PERCH AND SHARPENING HIS BILL WITH IRREPRESSIBLE SATISFACTION Book 8, chap. V. .

580

THE UNEDUCATED FATHER

IN FUSTIAN

AND THE EDUCATED BOY

IN SPECTACLES

Book

581

chap. r.

SAM WELLER

IN SIERRA

NEVADA

51-2

Book

chap.

viii.

IN A TRANSPORT OF PRESENCE OF MIND AND FURY, HE INSTANTLY CAUGHT HIM UP IK BOTH BANDS, AND THREW HIM OVER HIS OWN HEAD OUT INTO THE ENTRY, WHERE THE CHECK-TAKERS RECEIVED HIM LIKE A GAME AT BALL Book 10, r!i:l|i. 11.

583

BEG YOUR PARDON,

SIR,"

UE ANSWERED, "BUT

NOWHERE"

'IN

HADN'T BEEN FOR MY Book 11, chap. ill.

IF IT

PIPE, I

SHOULD HATE BEEN

A MISERABLE COURT AT NIGHT," SAYS MR. FIELDS, "WE FOUND A HAGGARD OLD M'OMAN BLOWING AT A KIND OF PIPE MADE OF AN OLD INK-BOTTLE" Book 1, Chap. xil.

584

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