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Dickens Lines as Poetry Stir Debates on Mind and Style
A Montreal correspondent notes rhythmic phrasing in Dickens The Cricket on the Hearth with lines broken into verse while debating whether the prose reveals poetic wealth or mere prodigality. The item also covers political shifts, public salaries in New York and a proposed revolutionary monument.
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Dudley Chase
Ramdelpt
New York Telegraph
Dickens
Ali Baba
Purser
C. C. Rice
U. S. Navy
New York
Henry VV. Green
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Joseph
Hornblower
Hudson
Reynolds
Lord Bacon
Point Charenton
Paris
Satan
S. Bay State
Massachusetts
Essex
John A. Lovvell
Cambridge
Mass
Vvill