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do Valley State College, cordially invite you to attend a
DICKENS EXHIBITION. April-May, 19^2. Honoring the 150th
Anniversary of Dickens' Birth. The exhibition, one of the
most comprehensive ever assembled in Southern California,
elucidates Dickens' life, art, and influence, and includes
many hundreds of portraits, autograph letters, photographs,
carucatures, special editions, illustrations, schoolbooks,
toys, manuscripts, imitations, songs, documentsmementos and
other items. Assembled and annotated by Dr.Harry Stone,
assistant professor of english Admission free.
o There was something to him, inexpressibly improper about,
a king who spoke like Sam Weller. (island, by Aldous Huxley,
page 123).
o Wij ontvingen van de uitgeverij Longmans te London een cir
culaire waarin het verschijnen wordt aangekondigd van „The
Dickens Library" en waarin o.m. te lezen staat; The books in
this new series are edited and adapted by Doris Dickens.This
venture has the warm approval of LESLIE STAPLES, editor of
The Dickensian. JOHN GREAVES, secretary of the Dickens Fellovw-
ship and a well-known lecturer on Dickens, has also helped to
formulate the scheme. Furthermore each book will have illu
strations and a pictorial cover by Ronald Searle, who de
scribes his interpretation of Dickens's characters as "tra
ditional and fresh". His drawings revivify the text as well
as embellishing the books. Doris Dickens, who is a great-
granddaughter of Charles Dickens, teaches in a Secondary Mo
dern school THE DICKENS LIBRARY originated as a result of an
experiment with a mixed class of thirteen-year-olds. Each
week she prepared two chapters of Great Expectations - re
shaping difficult phrases, cutting where Dickens had clearly
"padded" for serialization, but always keeping the even flow
of the narrative and the original style. When she read these
to the class, they followed eagerly and there was no need to
break the thread of interest by pausing for explanationsThe
same reaction was reported from other classes and from other
schools; it was obvious that there was a need, not for potted
versions or retellings, but for straight adaptations of the
original stories which a young person could understand and
