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Some unpublished illustrations connected with Dickens appear in Sir Henry

Dickens' Memories of My Father (G011ancz, 6s.)—We have, for instance, a reproduction of a shorthand lesson which Charles Dickens gave his son, and a picture of him out driving with his family. All the details of his life at Gads Hill show how good and simple and lively he was in his human relationships. At times no doubt, clouds of gloom obscured that brilliant intellect, but it could not have shone as it did (and still does) across all the English speaking world, had not the heart that animated it been one of the truest that ever beat. This is a small book, but very human and interest- ing, and all of us who love Dickens will rejoice in it.