Edmund Yates, Anthony Trollope, James Payn, R.H. Haine and
many others have written readable reminiscences.
For the home life of Dickens and his haunts see F.G. Kitton's
_The Dickens Country_; Thomas Fort's _In Kent With Charles
Dickens_ and H.S. Ward's _The Real Dickens Land_. Of poems on
Dickens' death the very best is Bret Harte's _Dickens in
Camp_. _The Wisdom of Dickens_, compiled by Temple Scott, is a
good collection of extracts.
THACKERAY
Almost as many editions of Thackeray's works have been
published as of Dickens' novels, and the reader in his
selection must be guided largely by his own taste. In choosing
an edition, however, always get one that contains Thackeray's
own illustrations, as, though the drawing is frequently crude,
the sketches are full of humor and help one to understand the
author's conception of the characters. The best general
edition is _The Biographical_, with introductions by his
daughter, Mrs. Richmond Ritchie (London, 1897-1900). The
Charterhouse edition of Thackeray in twenty-six volumes,
published in England by Smith, Elder & Co. and in this country
by Lippincott, is an excellent library set containing all the
original illustrations.
No regular biography of Thackeray has ever been written
because of his expressed wish, but his daughter, Mrs.
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