lass="pginternal">207

John Forster ———————— /td>	125
Characters real to himself	125
Sense of responsibility for his writings	126
Criticism that satisfied him	126
Help given with his proofs	126
Writing Pickwick, Nos. 14 and 15	127
Scenes in a debtors' prison	128
A recollection of Smollett	128
Reception of Pickwick	129
A popular rage	129
Mr. Carlyle's "dreadful" story	130
Secrets of success	130
Pickwick inferior to later books	131
Exception for Sam Weller and Mr. Pickwick	131
Personal habits of C. D.	132
Reliefs after writing	133
Natural discontents	134
The early agreements	134
Tale to follow Oliver Twist	135
Compromise with Mr. Bentley	135
Trip to Flanders	135
First visit to Broadstairs	136
Piracies of Pickwick	137
A sufferer from agreements	138
First visit to Brighton	138
What he is doing with Oliver Twist	139
Reading De Foe	139
"No Thoroughfare"	139
Proposed help to Macready	140
CHAPTER VII. 1837-1838.
Pages 141-151.
Between Pickwick and Nickleby. Æt. 25-26.
Edits Life of Grimaldi	141
His own opinion of it	142
An objection answered	142
His recollections of 1823	142
Completion of Pickwick	143
A purpose long entertained	144
Relations with Chapman & Hall	144
Payments made for Pickwick	145
Agreement for Nicholas Nickleby	145
Oliver Twist characterized	146
Reasons for acceptance with every class	146
Nightmare of an agreement	147
Letter to Mr. Bentley	147
Proposal as to Barnaby Rudge	148
Closing of the tale	208
Effect upon the writer	208
Making-believe very much	209
The end approaching	209
The realities of fiction	209
Death of Little Nell	210
My share in the close	211
A suggestion adopted by him	211
Success of the story	211
Useful lessons	212
Its mode of construction	213
Character and characteristics	213
The art of it	213
A recent tribute	214
Harte's "Dickens in Camp"	215
CHAPTER XIII. 1840.
Pages 217-231.
Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs. Æt. 28.
A good saying	217
Landor mystified	218
The mirthful side of Dickens	218
Extravagant flights	218
Humorous despair	219
Riding exercise	220
First of the ravens	220
The groom Topping	220
The smoky chimneys	221
Juryman at an inquest	222
Practical humanity	222
Publication of Clock's first number	222
Transfer of Barnaby settled	223
A true prediction	224
Revisiting old scenes	224
C. D. to Chapman & Hall	224
Terms of sale of Barnaby	225
A gift to a friend	226
Final escape from bondage	226
Published libels about him	227
Said to be demented	227
To be insane and turned Catholic	228
Begging letter-writers	228
A donkey asked for	228
Mr. Kindheart	229
Friendly meetings	229
Social talk	229
Reconciling friends	230
Hint for judging men	230
CHAPTER XIV. 1841.
Pages 232-248.
335
Promise as to railroads	336
Experience of them	337
Railway-cars	337
Charcoal stoves	337
Ladies' cars	338
Spittoons	338
Massachusetts and New York	339
Police-cells and prisons	339
House of detention and inmates	340
Women and boy prisoners	341
Capital punishment	342
A house of correction	342
Four hundred single cells	343
Comparison with English prisons	344
Inns and landlords	344
At Washington	344
Hotel extortion	345
Philadelphia penitentiary	345
The solitary system	345
Solitary prisoners	346
Talk with inspectors	346
Bookseller Carey	347
Changes of temperature	347
Henry Clay	348
Proposed journeyings	348
Letters from England	349
Congress and Senate	349
Leading American statesmen	349
The people of America	350
Englishmen "located" there	350
"Surgit amari aliquid"	351
The copyright petition	351
At Richmond	351
Irving appointed to Spain	352
Experience of a slave city	353
Incidents of slave-life	353
Discussion with a slaveholder	353
Feeling of South to England	354
Levees at Richmond	354
One more banquet accepted	355
My gift of Shakspeare	355
Home letters and fancies	356
Self-reproach of a noble nature	356
Washington Irving's leave-taking	357
CHAPTER XXII. 1842.
Pages 358-380.
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