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FROM THE DICICENSIAN no.340
KRANSo Op pagina 131 wordt vermeld dat aan de kransleg-
ging op het graf van Dickens, ter herdenking van zijn sterf
dag onder de vele belangrijke aanwezigen ook de Heer en Mevr.
Overbeek namens de Haarlem Branch hebben deelgenomen.
IMMORTAL MEMORY. Op pagina 133 is de „Immortal Memory",
de grote tafelrede die Philip Collins op de Conference te
Folkestone heeft gehouden, afgedrukt. Wij citerens There have
been distinguished speakers from overseas, like our friend
Mr.Bomans, impressive at once for his loving knowledge of
Dickens and his skil in handling the English language,
„Copious and trying to Strangers" though it issSuch tributes
would particulary have pleased Dickens, for, intensely
English though he was, he did not share Mr.Podsnap's opinion
that "other countries" are "a mistake", nor was his command
of their languages limited, like that of the yougish
sallowish gentleman in spectacles, with a lumpy forehead, or
(I confess) like mine, to that usefull but incomplete
ejaculation Esker. - Some of the Speakers, like Mr.Bomans,
have been literary mens authors, scholars, journalists. But
many have been distinguished in other areas of public life,
and their praises of Dickens, and their often astounding
knowledge of his works, are particulary valuable as a re
minder of that unique affection in wide he is held,
FOLKESTONE. In de verslagen van de Folkestone Annual
Conference is bij herhaling sprake van de Hollandse bijdragen
aan dit festijn. B.v. Sunday afternoon was occupied by a visit
to Dover Castle, and the evening by a hastily arranged show
ing of slides of last year's Conference, and films by
Netherlands members, as Mr.Augus Wilson was, at the last
moment, unable to be present to give his long anticipated
lecture on Dickens, (pag.183) The toast to the Dickens
Fellowship was in the hands of Mr.Bruce Greame, author of
EPILOGUE, the novel solution of Edwin Drood, to wide Messrs.
Marius and Joe Beek, of Haarlem, Holland, made character
istically humorous reply, (pag.184)
