ADELPHI THEATRE. We have already given a slight sketch of this happy dramatic adaptation from Dickens's admirable “romance of real life;” we will now proceed to illustrate it, more through the graphical agency of our artist, than by anything we could ourselves indite. Of the production itself, from which the theatrical representation has emanated, we have nothing to say, but "plaudit" from beginning to end: it exhibits the author not only as a caricaturist, but a philanthropist, a satirist, and, unlike the censors of old. a moralist. Neither Horace, Juvenal, nor Persius, could “touch the pitch” they wanted to make appear more black, “without defiling their own fingers;” but Dickens is never corrupted by his subject; he stands aloof and “shoots Vice as well as Folly” when it obtrudes itself upon his universal surveillance, with —
An arrow shot by Virtue — barb'd by Wit.
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Illustrated London News 4 (January-June 1844). Online version at the Hathi Triust Digital Library of a copy in the University of Michigan Library.
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