Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — Dickens at Thirty. [ARTICLE]

Dickens at Thirty.

Charles Dickens, when he first visited Washington, in 1842, was just entering his thirtieth year. He was a middlesized, somewhat lieshy person, his hair, which was long and darki grew low upon the brow, had a wavy kink where it started from the head, and was corkscrewed as it fell on either side of his face. His forehead retreated gradually from the eyes, without any marked protuberance save at the outer angle, the upper portion of which formed a prominent ridge a little within the assigned position of the organ of ideality. The eyeballs completely filled their sockets. The aperture of the Eds was not large, nor the eye uncommonly clear or bright, but quick, moist and expressive. The nose was slightly aquiline, the mouth of moderate dimensions, making no great display of the teeth, the facial muscles occasionally drawing the upper Up most strongly on the left side as the mouth opened in speaking. His features, taken together, were well proportioned. i