Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Charles Dickens. [ARTICLE]

Charles Dickens.

A volume of “Reminiscences of the Stage,” by AVybert Reeves, just Issued in London, gives 'this new anecdote of Charles Dickens, on the authority of IVilkie Collins. It was a dinner party, at which most of the leading representatives of literature and art were present. The conversation turned on Dickens’ last book. Some of the characters were highly pi-aised. Mrs. Dickens joined in the conversation and said she could not understand what people could see in his writings to talk so much about them. The face of Dickens betrayed his feelings. Again the book was referred to, and a lady present said she wondered when and how so many strange thoughts came into his head. “©h,” replied Diokens, “I don’t know. They come at odd r {,imes; sometimes at night, wßen I jump out of bed and jot them down, for fear I should have lost them by the morning." i “That is true,” fiftid’ Mrs. Dickens. “I have know it—jumping out of bed and getting r /p again with his feet as cold a$ p stone. " Dickens left the table Mid Was afterward found sitting iti a small room off the hall, silent and angry.