s mind 463
What to be its course and end 463
Merits of the fragment 464
Comparison of early and late MSS 466
Discovery of an unpublished scene 467
Last page of _Drood_ in fac-simile 468
Page of _Oliver Twist_ in fac-simile 469
Delightful specimen of Dickens 470
Unpublished scene for _Drood_ 470-476

CHAPTER XIX. 1836-1870.

Pages 478-526.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. AET. 24-58.

Dickens not a bookish man 479
Books and their critics 479
Design of present book stated 480
Dickens made to tell his own story 480
Charge of personal obtrusiveness 481
Lord Russell on Dickens's letters 481
Shallower judgments 481
Absence of self-conceit in Dickens 482
Letter to youngest son 483
As to religion and prayer 485
Letter to a clergyman in 1856 485
Letter to a layman in 1870 486
Objection to posthumous honours 487
As to patronage of literature 488
Vanity of human wishes 488
As to writers and publishers 489
Editorship of his weekly serials 490
Work for his contributors 491
Editorial troubles and pleasures 493
Letter to an author 493
Help to younger novelists 495
Adelaide Procter's poetry 495
Effect of periodical writing 496
Proposed satirical papers 497
Political opinions 498
Not the man for Finsbury 499
The Liverpool dinner in 1869 500
Reply to Lord Houghton 501
Tribute to Lord Russell