was kept bright with the most beautiful
of all kinds of flowers, and flooded with the summer sun:

"And nothing stirred in the room. The old, old
fashion. The fashion that came in with our
first garments, and will last unchanged until
our race has run its course, and the wide
firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old,
old fashion--death!

"Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older
fashion yet, of immortality!"

FOOTNOTES:

[37] This letter has lately been presented by Mr. Charles Kent to the
British Museum.

INDEX.

A'Beckett, Gilbert, i. 134

Actors, Dickens a friend to poor, ii. 134

Affidavit, a facetious, i. 101

Agassiz, Professor, ii. 226, 309

Agate, John, ii. 136;
letter to, ii. 154

Ainsworth, W. H., letters to, i. 43, 75, 92

Alison, Sir Archibald, i. 170

"All the Year Round," commencement of, ii. 83;
"The Uncommercial Traveller" in, ii. 107;
Christmas Numbers of: "The Haunted House," ii. 84;
"A Message from the Sea," ii. 108, 137;
"Tom Tiddler's Ground," ii. 136;
"Somebody's Luggage," ii. 171;
"Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," ii. 187;
"Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy," ii. 209, 210;
"Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions," ii. 224, 239, 246;
"Mugby Junction," ii. 244, 265;
"No Thoroughfare," ii. 268, 300, 327, 332, 334, 338, 350, 356,
361, 362, 384;
and see ii. 386,
and see Charles Dickens as an Editor

America, feeling for Dickens in the backwoods of, i. 40, 41;
Dickens's first visit to, i. 53;
his welcome in, i. 59;
his opinion of, i. 60-64;
freedom of opinion in, i. 61;
Dickens's levees in, i. 66;
change of temperature in, i. 66;
hotel charges in, i. 67;
midnight rambles in New York, i. 67;
descriptions of Niagara, i. 69, 70; ii. 372, 377;
a maid's views on Niagara, i. 72;
copyright in, i. 71, 73, 74;
Dickens's tribute to Mrs. Trollope's book on, i. 81;
press-ridden, i. 97;
absence of quiet in, i. 98;
criticisms of Dickens in, i. 151;
the great war in, ii. 142, 143;
feeling between England and, ii. 240;
Dickens's second visit to--the journey, ii. 302-306;
Dickens's letters on, ii. 306-382;
fires in, ii. 317, 320;
treatment of luggage in, ii. 321;
drinks in, ii. 329, 363;
literary piracy in, ii. 332;
walking-match between Dolby and Osgood in,