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Volume III
Part 2
JULY 1964
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Published by the Haarlem Branch of the Dickens Fellowships
Edited by Nico H.Andriessen en Cor Wiegel
Adress of the editors? vanHogendorpstraat 19? Haarlem»
.MAKE A NOTE 0F„
EDUCATION» In de New York Herald van 2 januari 11»schreef
een bespreking van Philip Collins's boek Dickens and Education
(St.'Martins Press,! 8,25). Hieruit citeren wijs Do not be put
off by the austere title of Mr.Collins1s book. It is a
companion piece to his „Dickens and Crime" of 1962 9 and the
two together make the best and liveliest comment on Dickens
since Edmund Wilson's essay in the Wound and the Bow and the
late Humphry House's „Dickens's World".
He says3 justly, that where Dickens excelled was in satirizing
abuses rather that proposing remedies. He was not a thinker
not an innovator. Het was a sentimentalist of generous im
pulse, and in many respects - especially in his depiction of
nice" woman
a Victorian of the Victorians,
MATCH» „II n'est in Edgar Poe, ni Simenon, ni Conan Doyle.
II est Jean Ray. II ne se reconnait que deux maitress Dickens
et Anatole France". (Jean Bueges over Jean Ray in Paris Match
van 21 dec.63
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