even the horse can't cough without Lis owner's hearing him; the stable being close to the dining-room windows. See LOVETOWN, MR. ALFRED.

PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE (ONCE MAYOR Of Mudrog).

[From "Bentley's Miscellany," January, 1837.]

Jennings, Mr. A gentleman with a pale face and light whiskers, whom Mr. Tulrumble imports from London to act as his secretary. Sniggs, Mr. Predecessor of Mr. Tulrumble in the mayoralty of Mudfog.

Tulrumble, Mrs. Wife of Mr. Nicholas Tulrumble; a vulgar, ignorant woman.

Tulrumble, Mr. Nicholas. A coal-dealer, who begins life in a wooden tenement of four feet square, with a capital of two and ninepence, and a stock in trade of three bushels and a half of coals. Being industrious and saving, he gradually gets rich, marries, builds Mudfog Hall (on something which he endeavors to delude himself into thinking a hill), retires from business altogether, grows vain and haughty, sets up for a public character and a great gentleman, and finally becomes mayor of Mudfog.

...

Mudfog is a pleasant town... situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which [it] derives an agreeable scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope-yarn, a roving population in oil-skin hats, a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen, and a great many other maritime advantages. There is a good deal of water about Mudfog; and yet it is not exactly the sort of town for a watering-place either. In winter, it comes oozing down the streets, and tumbling over the fields; nay, rushes into the very cellars and kitchens of the houses with a lavish prodigality that might well be dispensed with. But in the hot summer weather it will dry up and turn green; and although green is a very good color in its way, especially in grass, still it certainly is not becom ing to water; and it cannot be denied that the beauty of Mudfog is rather impaired even by this trifling circumstance.

Having, when in London, been present at the lord-mayor's show, Mr. Tulrumble determines to have one of his own in Mudfog, which shall equal if not surpass it. He makes arrangements, therefore, for a grand procession and dinner; but the day of his inauguration is dim and dismal, the crowd is unreasonable and derisive, the show is a failure, the dinner is flat, and Nicholas is deeply disappointed. Getting statistical and philosophical, he exerts himself to prevent the granting of a new license to an old and popular inn, called "The Jolly Boatmen," and commences a

general crusade against beer-jugs and fiddles, forgetting the time when he was glad to drink out of the one, and to dance to the other. He soon finds, however, that the people have come to hate him, and that his old friends shun him; he begins to grow tired of his new dignity and his lonely magnificence; and at last he dismisses his secretary, goes down to his old haunt, "The Lighterman's Arms," tells his quondam companions that he is very sorry for having made a fool of himself, and hopes they will give him up his old chair in the chimney-corner again, which they do with great joy. Tulrumble, Nicholas, junior. Their son. When his father becomes rich, he takes to smoking cigars, and calling the footman a "feller." Twigger, Edward, called BOTTLE-NOSED NED. A merry-tempered, pleasant-faced, good-for-nothing sort of vagabond, with ar invincible dislike to manual labor, and an unconquerable attachment to strong beer and spirits. He is engaged to take part in the procession in honor of the election of Mr. Tulrumble as mayor of Mudfog, and is to make his appearance in a complete suit of ancient brass armor of gigantic dimensions. Unfortunately, however, he gets drunk, makes a most extraordinary exhibition of himself, as well as a laughing-stock of the mayor, and has to be conducted home, where his wife, unable to get the armor off, tum. bles him into bed, helmet, gauntlets, breastplate, and all. Twigger, Mrs. His wife.

THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE.

[Published in "Bentley's Miscellany" March, 1827.]

Do 'em. A confederate of Captain Fitz-Whisker Fiercy, acting as his livery-servant.

Fiercy, The Honorable Captain Fitz-Whisker. A swindler, who struts about with that compound air of conscious superiority and general blood-thirstiness, which is characteristic of most military men, and which always excites the admiration and terror of mere plebeians. He dupes all the tradesmen in his neighborhood, by giving them orders for all sorts of articles, which he afterwards disposes of to other dealers by means of his confederate Do 'em.

THE LAMPLIGHTER'S STORY.

MR. JOHN MACRONE, the publisher of the "Sketches by Boz," died in 1841, leaving his wife and children in straitened circumstances. For their benefit, Mr. Dickens undertook to procure and supervise the publication of a series of voluntary literary contributions. These were issued in three volumes, by Henry Colburn, under the following title: "The Pic-Nic Papers. By various hands. Edited by Charles Dickens." The work was illustrated by George Cruikshank and “Phiz." It served the purpose for which it was intended, and brought Mrs. Macrone the sum of three hundred pounds. Mr. Dickens wrote the Preface, and furnished the openIng tale, called "The Lamplighter's Story," which is a narrative version of a farce that he wrote in 1838 or 1839 for the manager of the Covent-Garden Theatre.

Barker, Miss Fanny. Niece to an old astrologer, who takes Tom Grig to be pointed out by the stars as her destined husband. He describes her as having "a graceful carriage, an exquisite shape, a sweet voice, a countenance beaming with animation and expression, and the eye of a startled fawn." She has also, he says, five thousand pounds in cash; and this attraction, added to the others, inclines Tom to marry her; but, when he finds that her uncle has borrowed and spent the whole sum in an unsuccessful search for the philosopher's stone, he alters his mind, and declares that the scheme is "no go," at which the uncle is enraged, and the niece is delighted; she being in love with another young man. Emma. Daughter of a crazy astrologer who has spent fifteen years in conducting fruitless experiments having for their object the discovery of the philosopher's stone. Her father designs marrying her to his partner, "the gifted Mooney;" but he utterly refuses to take her, alleging that his "contemplation of woman-kind" has led him to resolve that he "will not adventure on the troubled sea of matrimony."

Galileo Isaac Newton Flamstead. The Christian names of the son of the crazy astrologer who takes Tom Grig to be "the favorite of the planets." He is a tall, thin, dismal-faced young gentleman, in his twenty-first year; though his father, absorbed in chimerical projects, considers him "a mere child," and has n't provided him with a new suit of clothes since he was fourteen. Grig, Tom. A lamplighter, who, on going his rounds one day, is accosted by one of the strangest and most mysterious-looking old gentlemen ever seen. This person proves to be a very learned astrolo ger, who is on the point of discovering the philosopher's stone, which

will turn every thing into gold. He imagines that he has found in Tom a noble stranger, whose birth is shrouded in uncertainty, and who is destined by the stars to be the husband of his young and lovely niece. He therefore takes him into his house forthwith, and introduces him to the lady. She is greatly disturbed, and suggests that the stars must have made a mistake; but is silenced by her uncle. After this, Tom accompanies the old gentleman to the observatory, where Mr. Mooney-another scientific gentleman-casts his nativ ity, and horrifies him by predicting his death at exactly thirty-five minutes, twenty-seven seconds, and five-sixths of a second, past nine o'clock, A.M., on that day two months. Tom makes up his mind, that, while alive, he had better be rich than poor, and so assents to the proposed marriage. The preliminaries are nearly concluded, when suddenly the crucible containing the ingredients of the miraculous stone explodes with a tremendous crash, and the labors of fifteen years are destroyed in an instant. Moreover, a mistake is discovered in the old gentleman's computation; and it turns out that Tom is to live to a green old age, — eighty-seven, at least. Upon this, not caring for a portionless bride who does n't love him, he utterly refuses to marry the lovely niece, whereupon her uncle, in a rage, wets his forefinger in some of the liquor from the crucible that was spilt on the floor, and draws a small triangle upon the forehead of the young lamplighter, who instantly finds himself in the watchhouse, with the room swimming before his eyes.

Mooney, Mr., called THE GIFTED. A learned philosopher, with the dirtiest face we can possibly know of in this imperfect state of existence. He is so very absent-minded, that he always has to be brought to by means of an electric shock from a strongly-charged battery

Addenda.

PAGE 20.-"As this letter is to be historical, I may as well claim what Hittle belongs to me in the matter; and that is the figure of Pickwick. Seymour's first sketch was of a long, thin man: the present immortal one he made from my description of a friend of mine at Richmond, - a fat old beau, who would wear, in spite of the ladies' protests, drab tights and black gaiters. His name was Johu Foster."- Extract from a letter of Mr. Edward Chapman (of the firm of Chapman and Hall) to Mr. Dickens, as quoted in FORSTER'S Life of Dickens, vol. i, ch. 5 (Philadelphia edition).

Page 90.- In the New-York Round Table for November 11, 1865, Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie published a statement, that the plan and the main characters of Oliver Twist originated with Cruikshank the artist, who, previously to the writing of that novel, had made a series of drawings, containing portraits of Fagin, Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger, &c.; the intention being, to show, in this way, the life of a London thief without a single line of letter-press. He further stated, — on the authority of Mr. Cruikshank,- that Dickens, on seeing these drawings, changed the whole plot of a story he had in contemplation, and obtained permission to "write up to as many of the designs as he thought would suit his purpose." Mr. Forster, in his Life of Dickens, styles this a "wonderful story," and says that it calumniates the distinguished artist on whom it is fathered, and that it is only to be fitly characterized by an unpolite word of three letters. Mr. Cruikshank, how. ever, in a letter to the London Times, under the date of December 21, 1871, defends Mr. Mackenzie from "such a gross imputation," acknowledges that he did tell that gentleman that he was "the originator of the story of Oliver Twist," and proceeds to substantiate his claims to the honor.

PAGE 166.-The Garlands in The Old Curiosity Shop are portraits of a family with whom Dickens, when a boy, had lodgings during a portion of the time tha his father was confined in the Marshalsea Prison. Mr. Garland was an insolventcourt agent, who lived in Lant Street, in the Borough: "he was a fat, goodnatured, kind old gentleman. He was lame, and had a quiet old wife; and he had a very innocent grown-up son, who was lame too."- See FORSTER'S Life of Dickens, vol. i, pp. 59, 60.

PAGE 172. In the same novel, the character of the Marchioness is also drawn from life. She represents an orphan-girl, from the Chatham Workhouse, who waited on Mr. John Dickens and his family in the Marshalsea, and who was remarkable for her sharp little worldly yet kindly ways. See FORSTER'S Life of Dickens, vol. 1, p. 59.