ld. The houses correspond almost exactly with
Phiz's drawing.

Pickwick, it has been often pointed out, is full of amusing "oversights,"
which are pardonable enough, and almost add to the "fun" of the piece. At
the opening, Mr. Pickwick is described as carrying his portmanteau--in
the picture it is a carpet-bag. The story opens in 1827, but at once Mr.
Jingle begins to talk of being present at the late Revolution of 1830.
The "George and Vulture" is placed in two different streets. Old Weller
is called Samuel. During the scene at the Royal Crescent we are told
that Mrs. Craddock threw up the drawing-room window "just as Mr. Winkle
was rushing into the chair." She ran and called Mr. Dowler, who rushed
in just as Mr. Pickwick threw up the other window, "when the first object
that met the gaze of both was Mr. Winkle bolting into the sedan chair"
into which he had bolted a minute before. The late Charles Dickens the
younger, in the notes to his father's writings, affects to have
discovered an oversight in the account of the scene in the Circus. It is
described how he "took to his heels and tore _round_ the Crescent, hotly
pursued by Dowler and the coachman. He kept ahead; the door was open as
he came _round_ the second time, &c." Now, objects the son, the Cresent
is only a half circle; there is no going round it, you must turn back
when you come to the end. Boz must have been thinking of the Circus.
Hardly--for he knew both well--and Circus and Crescent are things not to
be confused. The phrase was a little loose, but, as the Circus was
curved "round," is not inappropriate, and he meant that Winkle turned
when he got to the end, and ran back.

It must have been an awkward thing for Winkle to present himself once
more at Mrs. Craddock's in the Crescent. How was the incident to be
explained save either at his own expense or at that of Mr. Dowler? If
Dowler were supposed to have gone in pursuit of him, then Mr. Winkle must
have fled, and if he were supposed to have gone to seek a friend, then
Dowler was rather compromised. No doubt both gentlemen agreed to support
the one story that they had gone away for mutual satisfaction, and had
made it up.

Then, we are told, if it were theatre night perhaps the visitors met at
the theatre. Did Mr. Pickwick ever go? This is an open question. Is
the chronicler here a little obscure, as he is speaking of "the
gentlemen" _en bloc_? Perhaps he did, perhaps he did'nt, as