DICKENSIANA.
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A Bibliography of the Literature relating to Charles Dickens and his Writings, compiled by Fred. G. Kitton, author of “‘Phiz’ (Hablot K. Browne), a Memoir,” and “John Leech, Artist and Humourist,” with a portrait of “Boz,” from a drawing by Samuel Laurence.
“This book is honestly what it pretends to be, and nothing more. It is a comprehensive catalogue of all the writings of Mr. Charles Dickens, and of a good quantity of books written about him. It also contains copious extracts from reviews of his works and from sermons on his character. The criticisms are so various, and some of them are so much at variance with others, that the reader of them can complain of nothing less than a lack of material on which to form his judgment, if he has not formed it already, on the claim of Mr. Dickens to occupy a front place in the rank of English classics. Assertions, if not arguments, are multiplied on either side.”—Saturday Review.
“Mr. Fred. G. Kitton ... has done his work with remarkable thoroughness, and consequently with real success. It is a subject on which I may fairly claim to speak, and I may say that all I know, and a great deal I did not know, about Dickens is to be found in Mr. Kitton’s work.”—“Atlas,” in the World.
“DICKENSIANA.”
“If with your Dickens-lore you’d make Considerable headway, The way to be well-read’s to take This book brought out by REDWAY. ’Tis clear, exhaustive, and compact, Both well arranged and written; A mine of anecdote and fact, Compiled by F. G. KITTON.”—Punch.
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