Dickens's Boys.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 15 October 1888, Page 3

Dickens's Boys.

Dickens is always excellent in his boys, ui whom lie litis drawn dozens of types, all capital. There is Tommy I Twiddle for example, And how can people sny that Dicke.is could not draw a gentleman ? Tho boy who shouted " Shamo J.Steerforth!" was a gentleman, if one may pretend to hard'an opinion about athome'so difficult. The Dodger and Charley Bates arc delightful boys, especially Bates. Pip, in the good old days, when ho was tho prowling boy, and fought Herbert Pocket, was not loss attractive; and llerbort himself, with his theory and practice of the art of self-defence-could Nelson hare been more bravo, or Shelley (as in Mr Matthow Arnold's opinion) more" ineffectual ?" Even the boys at Dothoboys Hall are quite distinct. Dickens' boy's arc almost as dear to mo as Thackeray little Bawdon himself. There is one exception. I cannot interest myself litto Doinboy, ! Little Dayid Copperfiold is a jewel of I a boy with a turn for books. Doubt- | less he is created out of a Dickens' I memories of himself as a child, Can anything be inoro truo than the picture of the little fellow going about armed with a part of a broken bootjack, like Captain Somebody of his Majesty's navy, beset by savages, and determined to sell his life at a great price? That is trno pathos again, and not over-wrought, when David is sent toCreakle's, and his poortroublod mother dare hardly say farewell to him.—Andrew Lang, in Good Words.

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