"Admirable!" quoth Mr. Jasper, handing back the paper.

"You approve, sir?"

"Impossible not to approve. Striking, characteristic, and complete."

The auctioneer inclines his head, as one accepting his due and giving a re ceipt.

(Ch. iv, xii, xiv-xvi, xviii.)

Tartar, Lieutenant. An ex-officer of the Royal Navy, who has come into possession of a fortune, and has retired from the service.

A handsome gentleman, with a young face, but an older figure in its rotustness and its breadth of shoulder, — say a man of eight and twenty, or, at the utmost, thirty,- so extremely sunburnt, that the contrast between his brown visage and the white forehead, shaded out of doors by his hat, and the glimpses of white throat below the neckerchief, would have been almost ludicrous, but for his broad temples, bright blue eyes, clustering brown hair, and laughing teeth.

He becomes the friend of Neville Landless, and makes the acquaintance of Rosa Bud, whose husband, it is probable, Mr. Dickens intended him to become. (Ch. xvii, xxi, xxii.)

Tisher, Mrs. A deferential widow, with a weak back, a chronic sigh, and a suppressed voice, who looks after the young ladies wardrobes at the Nuns' House, Miss Twinkleton's seminary at Cloisterham. (Ch. ii, vii, ix, xiii.)

Tope, Mr. Chief verger of Cloisterham Cathedral. (Ch. ii, vi, xii, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxiii.)

Tope, Mrs. His wife. (Ch. ii, xii, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxiii.)

Twinkleton, Miss. Mistress of a boarding-school for young ladies in Cloisterham, attended by Rosa Bud and Helena Landless. (Ch. iii, vi, vii, ix, xiii, xxii.)

In the midst of Cloisterham stands the Nuns' House, a venerable brick edi. fice, whose present appellation is doubtless derived from the legend of its con ventual uses. On the trim gate enclosing its old courtyard is a resplendent brass plate, flashing forth the legend, "Seminary for Young Ladies. Miss Tinkleton." The house-front is so old and worn, and the brass plate is so shining and staring, that the general result has reminded imaginative strangers of a battered old beau with a large modern eye-glass stuck in his blind eye.

Miss Twinkleton has two distinct and separate phases of being. Every night, the moment the young ladies have retired to rest, does Miss Twinkleton smarten up her curls a little, brighten up her eyes a little, and become a sprightlier Miss Twinkleton than the young ladies have ever seen. Every night, at the same hour, does Miss Twinkleton resume the topics of the previous night, comprehending the tenderer scandal of Cloisterham, of which she has no knowl edge whatever by day, and references to a certain season at Tunbridge Wells (airily called by Miss Twinkleton, in this state of her existence, "The Wells "), notably the season wherein a certain finished gentleman (compassionately called by Miss Twinkleton, in this state of her existence, "Foolish Mr. Porters") re vealed a homage of the heart, whereof Miss Twinkleton, in her scholastic state of existence, is as ignorant as a granite pillar.

Reprinted Pieces.

UNDER this name, thirty-one sketches, all of them originally published in "Household Words," between the years 1850 and 1856, were first brought together In 1858, and published in the twelfth volume of the "Library Edition" of Dickens's works, issued jointly by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and Messrs. Bradbury and Evans. In the pages here devoted to these "Reprinted Pieces," several are wholly left out of view; the characters in them being nameless, and therefore not falling within the scope of this Dictionary.

CHARACTERS INTRODUCED.

THE LONG VOYAGE.

(Containing recollections of various incidents of travel.)

Bligh, Captain. Master of "The Bounty;" turned adrift on the wide ocean in an open boat.

Brimer, Mr. Fifth mate of "The Halsewell."

Christian, Fletcher.

mutineer.

One of the officers of "The Bounty;" a

Christian, Thursday October. A native of Pitcairn's Island; son of Fletcher Christian by a savage mother.

Macmanus, Mr. A midshipman in board of "The Halscwell," an East-Indiaman wrecked on the island of Purbeck.

Mansel, Miss. A passenger on the same ship.

Meriton, Mr. Henry. Second mate of "The Halsewell."
Pierce, Captain. Master of "The Halse well."

Pierce, Miss Mary. His daughter.

Rogers, Mr. Third mate of "The Ha'sewell."
Schutz, Mr. A passenger in the same ship.

THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER.

Southcote, Mr. One of the many aliases of a professional swindler, who writes letters soliciting money for the relief of his necessities.

Southcote, Mrs. His wife.

OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE.

Mills, Miss Julia. A sentimental novel-reader, who figures alsc in "David Copperfield" as the bosom-friend of Dora Spenlow.

She has left marginal notes on the pages, as " Is not this truly touching?— J. M." "How thrilling!-J. M.” "Entranced here by the magician's potent spell.-J. M." She has also Italicised her favorite traits in the description of the hero, as "His hair, which was dark and wavy, clustered in rich profusion around a marble brow, whose lofty paleness bespoke the intellect within." It reminds her of another hero. She adds, "How like B. L. Can this be mere coincidence?-J. M."

Peepy, The Honorable Miss. The beauty of her day, but long deceased.

OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE.

Loyal Derasseur, M. Citizen, town-councillor, and landlord. He is an old soldier, and a stanch admirer of the great Napoleon.

His respect for the memory of the illustrious general is enthusiastic. Medallions of him, portraits of him, busts of him, pictures of him, are thickly sprinkled all over the property. During the first month of our occupation, it was our affliction to be constantly knocking down Napoleon: if we touched a shelf in a dark corner, he toppled over with a crash; and every door we opened shook him to the soul. Yet M. Loyal is not a man of mere castles in the air, or, as he would say, in Spain. He has a specially practical, contriving, clever, skilful eye and hand. His houses are delightful. He unites French elegance and English comfort in a happy manner quite his own. He has an extraordinary genius for making tasteful little bed-rooms in angles of his roofs, which an Englishman would as soon think of turning to any account as he would think of cultivating the desert. We have ourselves reposed deliciously in an elegant chamber of M. Loyal's construction, with our head as nearly in the kitchen chimney-pot as we can conceive it likely for the head of any gentleman, not by profession a sweep, to be. . . . M. Loyal's nature is the nature of a gentleman. He cultivates his ground with his own hands (assisted by one little laborer, who falls into a fit now and then); and he digs and delves from morn to eve in prodigious perspirations-"works always," as he says, but cover him with dust, mud, weeds, water, any stains you will, you never can cover the gentleman in M. Loyal. A portly, upright, broad-shouldered, brown-faced man, whose soldierly bearing gives him the appearance of being taller than he is. Look into the bright eye of M. Loyal, standing before you in his working blouse and cap, not particularly well shaved, and, it may be, very earthy, and you shall discern i M. Loyal a gentleman whose true politeness is ingrain, and confirmation of whose word by his bond you would blush to think of.

Feroce, M. A gentleman "in the bathing line;" immensely stout, of a beaming aspect, and of very mild and polished manners.

BIRTHS. MRS. MEEK, OF A SON.

Bigby, Mrs. Mother of Mrs. Meek, and a most remarkable woman. Her son-in-law says of her,

In my opinion, she would storm a town, single-handed, with a hearth-broom, and carry it. I have never known her to yield any point whatever to mortal man. She is calculated to terrify the stoutest heart.

Meek Augustus George. Infant son of Mr. George Meek. Meek, Mr. George. The narrator of the story; a quiet man, of small stature, a weak voice, and a tremulous constitution. He is made utterly miserable by the manner in which his infant child is smothered and rasped and dosed and bandaged by the nurse, aided and abetted by his wife's mother; and he is betrayed into expressing himself warmly on the subject, notwithstanding his wish to avoid giving rise to words in the family.

Meek, Mrs. His wife.

Prodgit, Mrs. Mrs. Meek's nurse; considered by Mr. Meek to be "from first to last a convention and a superstition," whom the medical faculty ought to take in hand and improve.

One afternoon. . . I came home earlier than usual from the office, and, pro ceeding into the dining-room, found an obstruction behind the door, which prevented it from opening freely. It was an obstruction of a soft nature. On looking in, I found it to be a female, who stood in the corner, behind the door. consuming sherry-wine. From the nutty smell of that beverage pervading the apartment, I have no doubt she was consuming a second glassful. She wore a black bonnet of large dimensions, and was copious in figure. The expression of her countenance was severe and discontented. The words to which she gave utterance on seeing me were these, "Oh! git along with you, sir, if you please. Me and Mrs. Bigby don't want no male parties here."

LYING AWAKE.

Winking Charley. A sturdy vagrant in one of her Majesty's jails, who, like her Majesty, like the author, like everybody else, has bad many astonishing experiences in his dreams.

THE POOR RELATION'S STORY.

[One of the tales in "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire," the Christmas number of Household Words " for 1852.]

Chill, Uncle. An avaricious, crabbed old man; uncle to Michael. Christiana. An old sweetheart of Michael's, to whom he imagines that he is married.

Frank, Little. A cousin of Michael's; a diffident boy, for whom he has a particular affection.

Michael. The "poor relation," and the narrator of the story, which hinges upon a fancy of what might have been. Premising that he is not what he is supposed to be, he proceeds, in the first place, to state what he is supposed to be, and then goes on to tell what bis life and habits and belongings really are. He is thought to be very poor: in fact, he is rich. He is thought to be friendless; but he has the best of friends. He is thought to have been refused by a lady whom he loved: it is a mistake; he married the lady, and has a happy family around him. He is thought to live in a lodging in the Clapham Road: in reality, he lives in a castle-in the air. Snap, Betsey. Uncle Chill's only domestic; a withered, hardfavored, yellow old woman.

Spatter, John. Michael's host, whom he feigns to have been first his clerk, and afterwards his partner.

THE CHILD'S STORY.

[One of the tales in "A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire," the Christmas number of "Household Words " for 1852.]

Fanny. One of the prettiest girls that ever was seen, in love with "Somebody."

THE SCHOOL-BOY'S STORY.

Cheeseman, Old. A poor boy at a boarding-school, who is a general favorite with his fellows, until he is made second Latin master; when they all agree in regarding him as a spy and a deserter, who has sold himself for gold (two pound ten a quarter, and his washing). After this, his life becomes very miserable; for the master and his wife look down upon him, and snub him; while the boys persecute him in many ways, and even form a society for the express purpose of making a set against him. One morning, he is missed from his place; and it is thought at first, by the pupils, that, unable to stand it any longer, he has got up early, and drowned himself. It turns out, however, that he has come into a large for tune, a fact which puts a very different face upon matters, making the master obsequious, and the scholars afraid for the consequences of what they have done. But “Old Cheeseman" is not in the least puffed up or changed by his sudden prosperity, addresses them as "his dear companions and old friends," and gives them a magnif cant spread in the dining-room.