by Nelly, who informs him of the illness of her grandfather, and that he blames Kit him self as the cause. - XI. Quilp, accompanied by Sampson Brass, takes possession of the old man's property; Kit has a secret interview with Little Nell.-XII. The old man recovers, and is warned by Quilp to leave the house; he and Nell leave secretly, not know ing where they shall go. - XIII. Mr. Quilp, opening the door to his wife, falls into the hands of Mr. Richard Swiveller; Mr. Swiveller's astonishment at what has happened; Kit fights with Quilp's boy for the possession of Nelly's bird, and wins. - XIV. Kit minds the horse of Mr. and Mrs. Garland, while their son, Mr. Abel, is being articled to Mr. Witherica, and gets overpaid for the job. - XV. Nelly and her grandfather escape from London and are befriended by a cottager's family.-XVI. They encounter Messrs. Codlin and Short, itinerant showmen, in the graveyard. XVII. Little Nell's interview with the aged widow of a young husband; Codlin and Short invite Nell and her grandfather to go with them to the races; they encounter the stilt-walkers. — XVIII. Arrived at the Jolly Sandboys, they are joined by other showmen, and have supper. - XIX. Codlin makes warm professions of friendship, and both he and Short keep close watch of the fugitives; Nelly and her grandfather escape from their companions. XX. Kit goes to work out the odd sixpence paid him by Mr. Garland. - XXI. He is engaged by Mr. Garland for six pounds a year; Quilp and Mr. Swiveller pursue their inquiries for the fugitives at the house of Mrs. Nubbles; the dwarf draws from Mr. Swiveller the details of the scheme he has formed with Fred Trent, and promises his assistance.-XXII. Kit becomes an inmate of Abel Cottage.-XXIII. Mr. Richard Swiveller bemoans his orphan-state, and is adopted by Mr. Quilp: Quilp and Fred Trent, for different reasons, unite in the scheme for entrapping Nelly into a marriage with Dick Swiveller.-XXIV. Escaped from the showmen, Nell and her grandfather find their way to a quiet village, where they are kindly received by the schoolmaster.-XXV. Nell spends the morning in the schoolroom; the schoolmaster takes Nell to the sick-room of his favorite pupil, little Harry; Harry's death. - XXVI. After leaving the schoolmaster, Nelly and the old man encounter Mrs. Jarley taking tea in her caravan; she gives them some supper, and carries them on their way. - XXVII. Mrs. Jarley explains her business to the child, and, finding they are begging their living, offers her employment, which she gladly accepts; the child is terrified by the sight of Quilp, but, luckily, escapes being seen by him. - XXVIII. Mr. Slum receives an order from Mrs. Jarley; Nell learns the history of Mrs. Jarley's wax figures. - XXIX. Nell and her grandfather, wandering through the fields, are caught in a storm, and take refuge in the Valiant Soldier; the old man becomes excited at the sight of gambling, secures the child's purse, plays, and loses. - XXX. The old man robs Nell of the little she has left.-XXXI. She tells him of the robbery, in the hope that he will confess it; he bids her keep silent about It; Miss Monflathers receives Nell with dignity; she lectures Miss Edwards for her impropriety in doing Nell a kindness, and refuses her patronage to Mrs. Jarley's exhibition.XXXII. The old man gainbles away all Nelly's earnings; Mrs. Jarley's schemes for making her exhibition more popular. - XXXIII. Sally Brass reproves her brother for taking a clerk; he justifies it as the request of his best client, Mr. Quilp; Quilp introduces Mr. Swiveller, who is installed as Sampson Brass's clerk. - XXXIV. Dick defines his position, and tells how he came in it; he lets the lodgings to the Single Gentleman. - XXXV. The new lodger remains singularly silent for a long time; Sampson Brass refreshes Mr. Swiveller's memory in regard to the statement made by the Single Gentleman, who is at length aroused, and expresses his desires to Mr. Richard Swiveller. - XXXVI. Mr. Swiveller finds favor in the eyes of Sally Brass; he witnesses the feeding of the small servant. XXXVII. The Single Gentleman shows an extraordinary interest in Punch shows; he entertains Messrs. Codlin and Short, and makes. particular inquiries in regard to Little Nell and her grandfather. - XXXVIII. Kit's progress in his new place; he meets the stranger gentleman at Mr. Witherden's, who questions him closely about the old man and the child, and enjoins silence thereupon; Dick Swiveller finds Kit can keep a secret. — XXXIX. How Kit and his mother, and Barbara and her mother, enjoyed their half-holiday. -- XL. Kit receives with some surprise the intelligence that the strange gentleman desires to take bim into his service, and declines to leave Mr. Garland; the Single Gentleman informs Kit that Nell and the old man have been found; Kit declines his proposal to take him with Rim to bring them back, on account of the old man's feeling towards him, but recommends his mother instead. - XLI. Kit finds his mother at the Little Bethel, where he is astonishes

to see Quilp also; the Single Gentleman and Mrs. Nubbles start on their journey.-XLII. Little Nell overhears the gamblers tempting her grandfather to rob Mrs. Jarley, until he consents; she sets th's knowledge before him as a terrible dream she has had, and bids himn fly with her from a place where such dreams come. - XLIII. The fugitives are befriended and carried on their way by some rough boatmen. - XLIV. Lost in the busy streets of a manufacturing town, they are taken by a poor workman to a foundry, where they rema'n through the night, in the warmth of the furnaces. XLV. They wander on in search of the open country, Nell growing very weak from hunger and fatigue; she is about to beg of a traveller on the road, when she recognizes in him their old friend the schoolmaster, and falls senseless at his feet. XLVI. The schoolmaster carries her to a neighboring inn, where she is restored; he informs them of his change of fortune, and they accompany him to his new home. - XLVII. The Single Gentleman and Mrs. Nubbles reach Mrs. Jarley's, to find that lady just married to George, and to learn that the child and her grandfather disappeared a week before, and all attempts to find them have failed.-XLVIII. Quilp's appearance at the inn to which the Single Gentleman goes, and how he came to be there.-LIX. Quilp returns home, and interrupts the arrangements Mr. Sampson Bras; and Mrs. Jiniwin are making for the recovery of his body, supposing him drowned.-L. Quilp establishes himself as a jolly bachelor in the counting-house on his wharf; he pays a visit to Mr. Swiveller, whom he finds disconsolate at the marriage of Sophy Wackles to his rival, Cheggs; the dwarf learns from Dick that his friend Fred Trent and the Single Gentleman have met, with no good result; Mrs. Quilp importunes her husbend to return home, but he drives her away.-LI. Quilp has an interview with Miss Brass's small servant; Quilp informs Sampson and Sally Brass that he wants Kit put out of the way, and they agree to do it. LII. The schoolmaster arranges that Nell and her grandfather shall have the care of the church, and they take possession of their new homes; their kind reception by the clergyman and the bachelor; the bachelor introduces the schoolmaster to his new pupils.LIII. Nell's talk with the old sexton.-LIV., LV. The sexton's impatience with old David; Nelly's health fails, and her friends grow anxious about her. LVI. Mr. Swiveller goes into mourning on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Sophy Wackles; Mr. Chuckster complains to Mr. Swiveller that his merits are not appreciated; Sampson Brass calls Kit into his office, and begins to put his plot against him into execution. —LVII. Progress of the plot; Dick Swiveller discovers the small servant eaves-dropping; he teaches her to play cribbage, and bestows upon her the title of Marchioness. LVIII. He learns from her how she is kept by Miss Sally; Mr. Swiveller relieves his melancholy by a little flute-playing; Miss Sally reports to Dick that some small thefts have occurred in the office; she suspects Kit, whom her brother stoutly defends. -LIX. Consummation of the plot, and arrest of Kit for larceny. - LX. Kit begs to be taken to Mr. Witherden's office; on the way they encounter Quilp, who bestows his blessing on the party; astonishment of the Garlands and Mr. Witherden at the charge against Kit. - LXI. Kit in prison is visited by his mother and Barbara's mother; Mr. Swiveller shows his sympathy in a mug of beer. LXII. Sampson Brass visits Quilp in his den; pleasant behavior of the facetious dwarf; he demands the discharge of Mr. Swiveller. - LXIII. Trial and conviction of Kit; Mr. Swiveller gets his discharge. - LXIV. Mr. Swiveller awakes from a delirious sickness to find himself in the care of the Marchioness; she informs him how she came there, and gives him the particulars of his sickness; the Marchioness also relates to Dick the details of the plot against Kit, which she overheard through the key-hole; she goes in sech of Mr. Abel Garland. - LXV. She finds him, and brings him to Dick's lodgings, where she epeats the story to him. - LXVI. The Garlands and their friends take Mr. Swiveller and he Marchioness under their protection; they attempt to draw a confession from Sally Brass, but the conference is interrupted by Sampson, who confesses the whole conspiracy; Dick Swiveller inherits a fortune, which is smaller than it might have been. - LXVII. Mrs. Quilp carries to her husband a letter from Sally Brass, informing him of the discovery of their schemes, and warning him of his danger; he drives his wife away, and groping In the darkness to escape the officers, who are already on his track, he falls into the river, and is drowned. - LXVIII. Kit is released, and welcomed home by his friends; Mr. Garland notifies him to prepare for a journey to meet Nell and her grandfather; Kit has an understanding with Barbara; the Single Gentleman, Mr. Garland, and Kit start on their journey; the Single Gentleman relates his story to Mr. Garland. - LXX. They arrive at the tows

after midnight; the old sexton is disturbed; Kit discovers the old man brooding over the fire. - LXXI. The old man knows neither Kit nor his brother; Nelly is dead. - LXXIL Her burial is kept a secret from her grandfather; the old man is found dead on the child's grave. - LXXIII. Sampson Brass, after serving out his sentence, joins his sister in the wretched neighborhood of St. Giles's; Mrs. Quilp marries again and lives happily; Mr. Abel Garland becomes the head of a family; Mr. Swiveller bestows upon the small servant the name of Sophronia Sphynx, educates, and finally marries her; sad end of Frederick Trent; the Single Gentleman rewards all who befriended his brother; the family history of Kit and Barbara.

Barnaby Rudge.

A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY.

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"BARNABY RUDGE" — which has been called "the most highly wrought, earBest, and powerful " of all Dickens's works — is an historical novel, based upon the Lord George Gordon, or London Protestant, riots of 1780. It first appeared In 1841, in "Master Humphrey's Clock;" and in 1849 it was published apart from the machinery of that serial miscellany. The plan of it was formed, and possibly some part of it was written, before the "Pickwick Papers were com. menced (1836). It was announced, under the name of "Gabriel Vardon" (see VARDEN, GABRIEL, p. 203), as a new novel by the author of "Sketches by Boz;" and it continued to be so advertised until the beginning of 1837, when Macrone (Mr. Dickens's publisher) failed in business, and the advertisement was withdrawn; while the story was laid aside to be taken up and completed at a later day.

In this tale, Dickens inculcates the duty of tolerance. In his Preface he remarks,

"It is unnecessary to say that those shameful tumults, while they reflect indelible alsgrace upon the time in which they occurred, and all who had act or part in them, teach a good lesson. That what we falsely call a religious cry is easily raised by men who have no religion, and who in their daily practice set at nought the commonest principles of right and wrong; that it is begotten of intolerance and persecution; that it is senseless, besotted, inveterate, and unmerciful, all history teaches us: but perhaps we do not know it in our hearts too well to profit by even so humble and familiar an example as the 'No Popery' riots of seventeen hundred and eighty."

The story was also meant to be an argument against capital punishment, of which the author had an intense abhorrence. Formerly, in England, death was the ordinary punishment for every description of felony; and, although at the present day it is actually inflicted only in case of treason or murder, until towards the close of the reign of George III, the criminal code, with almost Draconian Justice, prescribed or implied that penalty for more than a hundred and sixty offences, many of them of a comparatively venial character.

CHARACTERS INTRODUCED.

Akerman, Mr. Head jailer at Newgate. (Ch. lxiv, lxxvi ) Black Lion, The. Landlord of a London inn of the same name; so called because he had instructed the artist who painted his sign to convey into the features of the lordly brute whose effigy it bore, as near a counterpart of his own face as his skill could com pass and devise. He is such a swigger of beer, that most of his faculties have been utterly drowned and washed away, except the one great faculty of sleep, which he retains in surprising perfection. (Ch. xxxi.)

Chester, Mr., afterwards Sir John. An elegant and punctiliously polite, but thoroughly heartless and unprincipled gentleman; intended as a portrait of Lord Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope), who was equally celebrated for his polished grace of manner, his loose morality, and his love of intrigue. Mr. Chester attempts, but unsuccessfully, to break off the match between his son Edward and Miss Emma Haredale, both because the girl is poor, and because he is bent on an alliance which will add to his own wealth and importance. (Ch. x-xii, xiv, xv, xxiii, xxiv, xxvixxx, xxxii, xl, xliii, liii, lxxv, lxxxi.) See HAREDALE (Mr. GeofFREY), HUGH.

Chester, Edward. His son; in love with and finally married to Miss Emma Haredale. (Ch. i, ii, v, vi, xiv, xv, xix, xxix, xxxii, lxvii, lxxi, lxxii, lxxix, lxxxii.)

Cobb, Tom. General chandler and post-office keeper; a crony of old Willet's, and a frequent visitor at the Maypole Inn. (Ch. i, Xxx, xxxiii, liv.)

Conway, General. A member of parliament, and an opponent of Lord George Gordon. [Not a fictitious character.] (Ch. xlix.)

Daisy, Solomon. Parish clerk and bell-ringer of Chigwell; a little man, with little round, black, shining eyes like beads, and studded all down his rusty black coat, and bis long flapped waistcoat, with queer little buttons, like nothing except his eyes, but sc like them, that he seems all eyes from head to foot. (Ch. i--iii, x1 xxx, xxxiii, liv, lvi.)

Dennis, Ned. Ringleader of the Gordon rioters. Having for