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1GHTY-ONE years have passed since Charles
Dickens gave to a delighted wrist the first of
his far too few Christman otorieo, whose ten -
&tires, humoui. and graat-hearted humanity
made him the most beloved of !British authors.
It was in the autumn of 183, when he was
living with hie young family in Devonshire
Terrace, Regent'o Park, that "A Christmas
Carol, in Pro bcfn a Glic3t
story far Christma$," wan written
(like most of Dickens' work) at
high precoure. At the time he was
working on "Chuzzlewit"---- a race
against time; but it was no less
important that the "Carol" should
make its appearance for Christmas.
Thu is week after week he was at
his desk a dozen hours or more a
day, exhausiing himself and his
nerves to a dangerous extent, And
when he could writ no more he wo-ild sally forth on long aimless wallts.thtough.
the London streets, covering a dor% or fifteen miles before, M the early Insure
of the morning, he sought his be ."He never left home," we read, "before the
owls, went out, and led -the Most solimry of lives,". And as with "The Chimes"
a. year later, as he wrote "The Carol" he "laughed and wept again, and excited
himself in the most extraordinary manner."
„tesecaterstze4strstgteseve'Z'smrire0 "The Carol" was quick to find its way into the hearts of the reading public.
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It was a direct appeal of heart to heart web as few, if any,
could tufa. Copiee were sold in thousands, as fast as they
could be produced; Dickens was deluged with letters from all
parts of the world, full of gratitude and admiration.
The manuscript of "The Carol" has had many vicissi
tudeo since Dickeno presented it to his old school -fellow, ,
Thomas Milton. Fifty years ago it was sold for 8250 to
a bookseller,'Mr. Harvey, who resold it to George Churchill,
a collector. In 1882 it -changed hands again for
81,000; and a little later was sold for 81,500
to Stuart Samuel, of Kensington Palaee Gardens.
Of its later history nothing definite is known.
On Nove" mber 4, 1844, Dickens wrote the last
word of "The Chimes," probably the most beau.
tiful and best -loved of hie Christmas stories, and,
as he put down his pen and looked down from '
• this study window on the waters of the Medi.
rerranean, mirroring the blue Italian sky, the
tears began to stream down his cheeks, and;
resting his.heaci•on his hands, he "sobbed like a
chFanodi4
Forster "Half past two, afternooth Thank
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wrote ,these • words to his friend, John
Some minutes later he took up his pen again
God! I have just finished "The Chimes." 1
take up m.y pen only to say that lunch and to
add that I have had what women call a "real
lorweeks he had been writing at high • ores -
sure, "in a fever of inspiration." He had lived
with and for his book; and as his Den flew over
11, the Sheets he laughed and cried with his char -
1 acters, ancl generally. a's he confessed, "behave- like d
an And when at last he hid to say
good.bye to them it was as though he stood bY
the graveside of loved ones, "Day after day,"
he says, "I was in my bath at seven o'clock apd
an hour later I was working at my desk, blazing
away, resolutely and red-hot, for seven or eight
hours at a stretch, until my hand refused to
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NE would think that Christmas shopping and Christmas feeling would be
the same all over the earth where Christmas is celebrated But they are,
funnily enough; just as different for instance, as an Englishman and a
Frenchman. It seems as if the constant moving •
or 'not moving at all in crowds and the also
constant paying out ,of good money calls forth„
themost primitive instincts in people and makers
all nations revert to theie own antediluvian
Behest during the month of Christmas ehopping,
• Take New York for instance. We all know
they have tons of money and great gifts for
advertising. We also know that when we worm
our way through their blazing city in electric
colds 'swarming with Santa Clauses driving real -
imported reindeer and enter their stores, full of
the most luxurious gifts to be had for millions,
we can, with a good conscience kick and punch
ourselves to our caveman's, heart content without
any risk of being ruder than any other people are,
In Paris- people haven't got the physical
strength of the Yankees,.which makes them all
the more vociferous. ilty the time wehave
passed the scolding cursing array of children
aged 1 to 70 years, queueing up to see "Zig and
Puce" and other comic strip heroes bb tip and
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iriy brains as I would and did, I simply could Al
not think of a title, Then one morning as I sat
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down at my desk, the bells of Genoa broke, as to
if by one consent, into a merry, almost deafen. .„,,, r • r
ing peal; and I had it 'The Chimes!' The I
Chimes!" That was the, very title I wanted, A
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A month after Dickens had wiped the tears
off his eyes in Genoa he was reading "The
Chimes" to a group of friends in his study in k
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London, to suCh an accompaniment'ot laughter - ,",-
arid tears as surely no book before had ever, and "iit
a week later all London was talking of the won- As
4 the Holiday Season.
der u I Christmas story and clamourieg for copies. • kt
On the day of publication it is said 20,000 cepies
were sold, and before the year closed the book
had added $7,$00 to Dickens' bank balance.
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A little later the story was dramatised, and
when the play"was read to a group of actors, it
is said, Macready and Gilbert a' Beckett were St
"so overcome with emotion1 that Mr. Forster I. " es )
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So brilliantly successful had his Ant two
Christmas stories been that Dickens set to work
with alight heart on number three, though in
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addition to inuch other work, he was in the thick
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of harassing labour and anxieties of launching a
newspaper—the Daily News. He had hoped to
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start a weekly Paper, which he proposed to Call
the "Cricket" with the motto"A cheerful
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'creature that chirrups on the hearth"; but as
this was impossible with his hands 'so full he r -I " FOR
wrote at a great expenditure of nervous energy,
a Christmas story which he dubbed the "Cricket
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HE universal joy of Christmas is Certainly A
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when great men pass away. Nations have their a
princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge ° 111. at's Pretty Modern
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red letter days, their carnivals and festivals, g
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but once in the year and only once, the whole
life. Only Jesus of Nazareth claims this world-
. world stands still to celebrate the advent of a
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wide, undying remembrance. Yon cannot cut ist'
Christmas out of the Calendar, net% out of the • •
• heart of the world. --Anon. W p
down in the show windows, risking our lives, clothes and watchcham (you never get
home with more than one of the three) and are lucky enough at that! getting through
the cursing -scolding crowd inside; and trying tospersuade the deeply offended shop
girls to let us have the arcels we paxd for; why, even long before then we have
lost whatever self-respect we used to pOssess. ,
e In I3erlin there is no rush. People move around very deliberately -and calculate
in their minds at every new discovery,how much '
cheaper they will be able to buy the thing during
the sale in January. Coosequently Christmas
shopping is a very steady -going affair, while in
January all thrifty German housewives fight
like maenads to get the best bargains.
In England people become ,even more English
than usual during December. Everybody moves
in the crowd as if he were alone in the world,
there are more "Sorrys," more polite holding
the doors for other people, more Conventional
tradition to follow than at any other time the
year.
The festive season has not always heen
associated with turkey, plum pudding, and the
other dainties we now link up with it. I3ut it
has always been a time of good cheer. In the
old days; however, .the boar's head, was the.
traditional Christmas disk.
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