What the dickens shall I say?" I restrained my impatience with an effort.

"It's having the dickens of a time.

"Jeeves," I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, "what the dickens is all this?" "Mr. Fink-Nottle is not quite himself, sir.

" "Then what the dickens did he talk about?" "Newts, sir.

The new social spirit has changed the critical viewpoint concerning authors as different as Wordsworth, Keats, Ruskin, Dickens, and Tennyson.

Charles Dickens.

The streets of London are a commentary on the novels of Dickens.

London is not only Dickens Land and Thackeray Land, but also the "Land" of many other writers.

Kitton's The Dickens Country.

In fiction, Sir Walter Scott introduced a new era, soon followed by Bulwer, Dickens, and Thackeray.

[Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir

* CHARLES DICKENS Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens, son of a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was born at Landport on February 7, 1812.

* CHARLES DICKENS Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens, son of a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, was born at Landport on February 7, 1812.

With all their efforts, they failed to keep out of distress, and at the age of nine Dickens was employed at a blacking factory.

In the meantime, his father had obtained a position as reporter on the "Morning Herald," and Dickens, too, resolved to try his fortune in that direction.

"Barnaby Rudge," the fifth of Dickens's novels, appeared serially in "Master Humphrey's Clock" during 1841.

"The raven in this story," said Dickens, "is a compound of two originals, of whom I have been the proud possessor."

Dickens died at Gad's Hill on June 9, 1870, having written fourteen novels and a great number of short stories and sketches.

* * Bleak House "Bleak House," a story with a purpose, like most of Dickens's works, was published when the author was forty years old.

Dickens himself admitted the resemblance; but only in so far as none of Skimpole's vices could be attributed to his prototype.

* * David Copperfield "David Copperfield"published in 1849-50will always be acclaimed by many as the best of all Dickens's books.

Dickens never forgot his early degradation, as it seemed to him, in the blacking warehouse at Hungerford Stairs, or quite forgave those who sent him to an occupation he so loathed.

Much of "David Copperfield" is familiar in our mouths as household words, and Swinburne has maintained that Micawber ranks with Dick Swiveller as one of the greatest characters in all Dickens's novels.

"Copperfield" comes midway in the great list of works by Charles Dickens.

"What the dickens are you looking like that for?" he demanded.