Berlin. Christmas Carol. Not even Scrooge was mean enough
to throw stones at Christmas trees. But last week in Ber
lin, East German Yopos pegged rocks at the twinkling
colored lights strung on some 800 Christmas trees set up
along the West Berlin side of the hated Wall dividing the
cityTime 29 December 1961
In Haarlems Dagblad lazen wij kortelings deze kleine adver
tentie: te koop aangeboden: The Pickwick Papers, 1ste uitg.
1837- Br, G. 3892.
De New York Herald Tribune van 20 Februari 1.1. wijdde bij
na een gehele pagina aan de nagedachtenis van Dickens, o.a.
met foto's van de Bull Inn te Rochester, the Leather Bottle
te Cobham, de College Gate in Rochester en de Old Curiosity
Shop nabij Lincoln's Inn Fields te Londen, Het artikel voert
dan ook als ondertitel: To Study Novelist's Life It Is
Necessary To Follow His Many Journeys.
Wellicht beluisteren wij hierin eveneens een opwekking om
naar Boston te komen.
s Als illustratie bij een artikel over het nut alcoholhouden
de dranken met mate te drinken, in Time (24 November 1961)
fungeerde een prentje van de gebroeders Cheeryble elkaar
een welgevuld glas toedrinkend. Het onderschrift luidde:
A drink a day keeps the doctor away.
News from Cornell University Press. A selection of essays
about the novels of Charles Dickens will be available in
one volume when „The Dickens Critics", edited by George H,
Ford and Lauriat Lane, Jr., is published by Cornell
University Press on December 26. The essays included were
published between 1841 and i960 as book reviews, articles
in journals, or chapters in books on Dickens. They have
been culled from the writings of such wellknown literary
figures as Henry James, Anthony Trollope, George Orwell,
Graham Greene, and Lionel Trilling. The subjects of the
articles vary from Dickens' humerous characters, the jolly
Christmas scenes, and Dickens as a writer for children to
his social criticism and his desoriptions of corrupt
courts, prisons, and poorhouses. Included also are dis
cussions of plots, characters, form and symbol.
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