In issuing in a convenient form the readings from the Works of Dickens
which the novelist himself arranged and used at all his public recitals
in this country and in America, the publishers are conforming to a
repeated demand from admirers of Dickens's writings and from
elocutionists in general.
These readings were issued some years ago, but have long been out of
print.
The unique value of the works of England's most popular novelist for
platform recital is becoming more and more generally realised, and no
better guide for this purpose can be found than these extracts arranged
especially for public performance, and used before so many thousands by
their "only begetter" himself.
*TO HELP THE CRIPPLES*
*Lord Mayor Treloar's Edition of*
*A Christmas Carol*
*By
CHARLES DICKENS*
*IN PROSE*
*Being a Ghost Story of Christmas*
_With 13 Coloured and other Illustrations by_ JOHN LEECH _and_ FRED
BARNARD _and an Introduction by_ SIR WILLIAM TRELOAR, BART., _Lord Mayor
of London_.