25 JANUARY 1908, Page 41

The Dickensian. Edited by B. W. Matz. (Chapman and Hall.

4s. net.)—We welcome the third annual volume of this very entertaining periodical. It is quite impossible to give an account of its contents ; they are various, and almost unfailingly inter- esting. On p. 37 there is a brief reminiscence of a Dickens reading. The writer thinks his pathetic better than his comic scenes, and sees a possible reason in his failing strength. The writer of this notice heard him read extracts from "Martin Chuzzlewit," and was greatly struck by his histrionic power. He had a marvellous command over the facial muscles. His get- up as Jonas Chuzzlewit seemed like a reproduction of "Phis."