STED SCROOGE IN DICKENS' "CHRISTMAS
CAROL." (8, Craven Street, Strand.)]

In every article which deals with the curiosities of London, the name of
Dickens must figure very largely. The last knocker of our collection is
the most remarkable one of all, inasmuch as Dickens derived his idea of
Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" from its hideous lineaments. Look at our
photograph and then read Dickens' own description of the unamiable
Scrooge:

"Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge; a
squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old
Sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out
generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose,
shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait.... He carried his own low
temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days;
and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."

[Illustration]

OUR MONTHLY GALLERY OF BEAUTIFUL AND INTERESTING PAINTINGS.

[Illustration: A CUBAN BELLE.

_From the Painting by Gabriel Ferrier._

_By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

[Illustration: SUMMER.

_From the Painting by W. Reynolds Stephens._

_By permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

[Illustration: MAKING A MARRIAGE IN THE OLDEN TIME.

_From the Painting by A. T. Vernon._

_By permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

[Illustration: THE WATER CARRIER.

_From the Painting by J. W. Godward._

[_By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

[Illustration: WHICH WINS?

_From the Painting by Arthur J. Elsley._

_By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

[Illustration: A BURDEN OF LOVE.

_From the Painting by N. Sichel._

_By Permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., London, W._]

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