A Bibliography of the Literature relating to CHARLES DICKENS and his
Writings, compiled by FRED. G. KITTON, author of “‘Phiz’ (Hablot K.
Browne), a Memoir,” and “John Leech, Artist and Humourist,” with a
portrait of “Boz,” from a drawing by SAMUEL LAURENCE.
“This book is honestly what it pretends to be, and nothing more.
It is a comprehensive catalogue of all the writings of Mr. Charles
Dickens, and of a good quantity of books written about him. It
also contains copious extracts from reviews of his works and from
sermons on his character. The criticisms are so various, and some
of them are so much at variance with others, that the reader of
them can complain of nothing less than a lack of material on which
to form his judgment, if he has not formed it already, on the claim
of Mr. Dickens to occupy a front place in the rank of English
classics. Assertions, if not arguments, are multiplied on either
side.”--_Saturday Review._
“Mr. Fred. G. Kitton ... has done his work with remarkable
thoroughness, and consequently with real success. It is a subject on
which I may fairly claim to speak, and I may say that all I know,
and a great deal I did not know, about Dickens is to be found in Mr.
Kitton’s work.”--“Atlas,” in the _World_.
“DICKENSIANA.”
“If with your Dickens-lore you’d make
Considerable headway,
The way to be well-read’s to take
This book brought out by REDWAY.
’Tis clear, exhaustive, and compact,
Both well arranged and written;
A mine of anecdote and fact,
Compiled by F. G. KITTON.”--_Punch._
_In preparation._