[330] These passages are given by kind permission of Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, who has obligingly allowed us to make free use of this portion of the Memoir of his father. We refer the reader who is desirous of seeing more, to that ably-written biography.—Ed.
[334] The Village Coquettes: a Comic Opera in Two Acts. By Charles Dickens. The music by John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
[336] Produced for the first time at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Saturday, December 10, 1842. We would fain have given this fine prologue entire, had we felt authorized in doing so.
[337] In “A New Spirit of the Age.” (Lond., 1844), Vol. I., pp. 65–68.
[341] The Keepsake for 1844. Edited by the Countess of Blessington, pp. 73, 74.
[349] The reader who desires to further renew his recollections of Mr. Dickens’s Readings is referred to Miss Kate Field’s admirable “Pen Photographs,” published in Boston, in 1868. The little volume is a valuable estimate of the readings recently given in America.
[353a] Extracted (by kind permission) from a criticism by Mr. Edmund Yates.
[353b] Written in 1868.