Preface

The title of this book rings in the earwith a pleasant sound. "Stories fromDickens"! "Stories" alone usuallysuggests such delightful rambles in the land ofdreams! And when it is coupled with the nameof a king of story-tellers by divine right, thecharm is increased a hundredfold.

These stories are—as the title indicates—takendirectly from Dickens, very largely in hisown language, and always faithful to his spirit.They are the stories of his most famous boysand girls, merely separated from the big booksand crowded scenes where they first appeared.In stage talk, the "lime-light" has been turnedupon them alone. Their early joys and sorrowsare shown, but always with more of the smilesthan the tears. There is sadness enough in reallife without emphasizing it in books for youngpeople, and so only two of the numerous deathbedscenes found in Dickens are given placehere.

The book is not intended as a substitute,however small, for the complete texts; but isoffered in the reverent hope that it will serveas both introduction and incentive to the bulkyvolumes which so often alarm young people bytheir very size. The compiler has in mind onechild of the "long ago" who looked with aweupon a stately row of fat books kept for show,like mummies in a high glass case, and labelled"Dickens." This child never suspected that thebooks were intended for reading—at any rate,not by children; so he contented himself forthe time with trashy little books with highlycolored pictures "intended for children." What aworl

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