Prefaced  by  the  following  editorial  remark  : —
"As  an  earnest  of  our  disposition  to  do  Mr.  Dickens  justice,
and  to  let  him  have  fair  play,  we  give  two  notices  of  his  Notes
—one  from  the  North,  the  other  from  the  South,  by  which  he


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may  perceive  that  they  do  not  pass  current  in  either  section." —
Ed.  Sou.  Lit.  Mess.
Extracts  from  First  Notice.
".  .  .  In  this  work,  we  see  a  young  and  ardent  Englishman,
with  a  sensitive  and  benevolent  heart,  and  a  fancy  which,  with
balloon -like  expansibility,  inflates  itself  by  vaporizing  the  smallest
fact,  and  gives  itself  to  the  wildest  and  most  rapid  wander-
ings. .  ."

".  .  .  It  is  impossible  that  such  a  writer  can  be  really  truth-
ful, however  great  his  determination  to  be  so  ;  truth  may  be  his
purpose,  but  imagination  involuntarily  touches  the  point  of  his
pen.  .  ."

Extracts  from  Second  Noikce.
