92.

_Satirist_, editor of, hissed from the Covent-garden stage, ii. 50.

_Saturday Review_ on the realities of Dickens's characters, i. 166.

Scene-painting, iii. 166.

Scheffer (Ary), portrait of Dickens by, iii. 148, 149;
reading of _Cricket on the Hearth_ in atelier of, iii. 149.

Scheffer (Henri), iii. 150.

Schools, public, Dickens on, iii. 236.

Scotland, readings in, iii. 232-235.

Scott (Sir W.), real people in novels of, iii. 22, 29.

Scott monument at Edinburgh, ii. 392.

Scribe (M.), dinner to, ii. 469;
social intercourse of Dickens with, iii. 134, 135;
author-anxieties of, iii. 136;
a fine actor lost in, iii. 138.

Scribe (Madame), iii. 136.

Sea-bathing and authorship, ii. 28.

Seaside holidays, Dickens's, ii. 403-441, iii. 97-120.

Sebastopol, reception in France of supposed fall of, iii. 110.

Serenades at Hartford and Newhaven (U. S.), i. 314.

Servants, Swiss, excellence of, ii. 246.

Seven Dials, ballad literature of, i. 230.

Seymour (Mr.) and the _Pickwick Papers_, i. 111 note;
death of, i. 115.

Shaftesbury (Lord) and ragged schools, i. 283, ii. 57, 58 note,
493, 494 (and see 494).

Shakespeare Society, the, i. 185.

Shakespeare on the actor's calling, iii. 191.

Shakespeare's house, purchase of, ii. 392.

Sheffield, reading at, iii. 232.

Sheil (Richard Lalor), ii. 53.

Shepherd's-bush, the home for fallen women at, ii. 488.

Sheridans (the), ii. 468.

Ship news, i. 296.

Short-hand, difficulties of, i. 91.

Shows, Saturday-night, i. 61.

Siddons (Mrs.), genius of, ii. 473, 474.

Sierra Nevada, strange encounter on the, iii. 385, 386.

_Sikes and Nancy_ reading, proposed, iii. 448;
at Clifton, iii. 451;
Macready on the, iii. 451;
at York, iii. 454, and note;
Dickens's pulse after, iii. 532.

Simplon, passing the, ii. 174.

"Six," Bachelor, iii. 124.

_Sketches by Boz_, first collected and published, i. 113;
characterized, i. 114.

Slavery in America, i. 327, 352-354, 388-390;
the ghost of, iii. 419.

Slaves, runaway, i. 389.

Sleeplessness, Dickens's remedy for, iii. 249.

Sleighs in New York, iii. 397.

"Slopping round," iii. 432.

"Smallness of the world," i. 372, ii. 222, iii. 204.

Small-pox, American story concerning, iii. 305 note.

Smith (Albert), _Battle of Life_ dramatized by, ii. 323.

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