the above, which is taken from the _Dict. of Nat.
Biog._

{199} My authorities are:--_The Letters of Charles Dickens_, edited by
his sister-in-law and his eldest daughter, 2 vols., 1882; _The Life of
Charles Dickens_, by John Forster, 8th Edit., 1872; _My Father as I
recall him_, by Mamie Dickens, Roxburghe Press, N.D. The authoress says
that "it is twenty-six years since my father died"; this would make the
date of her book 1896.

{200a} His son.

{200b} M. Dickens, p. 26.

{201} Forster, i., p. 4.

{202a} Forster, i., p. 9.

{202b} In writing to Walter Savage Landor (Letters, ii., p. 48), 1856,
he asks (in reference to _Robinson Crusoe_) if it is not a testimony to
the homely force of truth that--"One of the most popular books on earth
has nothing in it to make anyone laugh or cry. Yet I think, with some
confidence, that you never did either over any passage in _Robinson
Crusoe_. In particular, I took Friday's death as one of the least tender
and (in the true sense) least sentimental things ever written. . . ." He
goes on:--"It is a book I read very much; and the wonder of its
prodigious effect on me and everyone, and the admiration thereof, grows
on me the more I observe this curious fact."

{203} Was it chance or intention that gave his hero the initials D.C.,
an inversion of C.D.?

{205} _Pickwick_, chap. ix.

{206} A corruption of Moses in the _Vicar of Wakefield_.

{208} His sense of the reality of his characters is shown by his
daughter's recollection of her father pointing out the exact spot where
Mr Winkle called out, "Whoa! I have dropped my whip."

{209} William Charles Macready, 1793-1873, the son of William Macready,
actor and manager, was born in London; his mother was an actress.

In 1803 he went to Rugby, the idea being that he should go to the Bar.
In 1810 Macready made his first appearance on the stage, taking the part
of Romeo with considerable success. Mrs Siddons, with whom he acted,
encouraged him--telling him to "study, study, study, and do not marry
till you are thirty." During the four years he remained with his father
he played seventy-four parts. He seems to have failed to agree with his
father, and took an engagement at Bath in 1814. In 1816 he made his
first appearance at Covent Garden. Kean was in the audience and
applauded loudly. His Richard III. (in London 1819) took a firm hold of
the public and established "a dangerous rivalry for Kean." His temper