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A SELECTION FROM THE
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
ISSUED BY
THE ROXBURGHE PRESS,
CONDUCTED BY
Mr. CHARLES F. RIDEAL,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, etc.
DICKENSIANA.
CHARLES DICKENS' HEROINES AND WOMEN FOLK: Some Thoughts concerning them. A Revised Lecture. By Charles F. Rideal, with Drawings of "Dot" and "Edith Dombey" by Florence Pash. Second Edition. Cloth, Eighteenpence.

"A delightful little book."—Institute.

THE LAW AND LAWYERS OF PICKWICK (With an Original Sketch of "Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz"). By Sir Frank Lockwood, Q.C., M.P. Second Edition, slightly revised. Manilla, One Shilling; Cloth, a veritable Edition de Luxe, Eighteenpence.

"The lecture itself is full of that genial humour characteristic of Mr. Lockwood, who is acknowledged to be the most jocular of Queen's Counsellors, and the cleverest caricaturist at the Bar. He has been a devoted student of the works of Charles Dickens, and has selected with much discrimination those passages that most strikingly exhibit the novelist's acquaintance with legal men and affairs fifty years ago."—Dundee Advertiser.

"The effort was well worthy of permanent inclusion in Dickensian lore, and, as it is published at the price of one shilling, the title brochure is likely to find an extended field of readers. It is prefaced by an original pen-and-ink sketch of Serjeant Buzfuz by Mr. Lockwood, who is, as is generally known, an adept at characteristic portraiture of this kind."—Umpire.

"WELLERISMS," from "Pickwick" and "Master Humphrey's Clock." Selected by Charles F. Rideal, and Edited with an Introduction by Charles Kent, Author of "The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens." Third Edition. With a new and original drawing, by George Cruikshank, Junr., of Mr. Samuel Weller. Cloth, Half a Crown; Manilla, Eighteenpence.

Contents:—Sam Waller's Introduction; Old Weller at Doctor's Commons; Sam on a Legal Case; Self-acting Ink; Out with it; Sam's Old White Hat; Independent Voters; Proud o' the Title; The Weller Philosophy; The Twopenny Rope; Job Trotter's Tears; Sam's Misgivings as to Mr. Pickwick; Clear the Way for the Wheelbarrow; Unpacking the Lunch Hamper; Battledore and Shuttlecock; a True Londoner; Spoiling the Beadle; Old Welter's Remedy for the Gout; Sam on Cabs; Poverty and Oysters; Old Weller on "Pikes"; Sam's Power of Suction; Veller and Gammon; Sam as Master of the Ceremonies; Sam before Mr. Nupkins; Sam's Introduction to Mary and the Cook; Something behind the Door; Sam and Master Bardell; Good Wishes to Messrs. Dodson and Fogg; Sam and His Mother-in-Law; The Shepherd's Water Rates; Stiggins as an Arithmetician; Sam and the Fat Boy; Compact and Comfortable; Apologue of the Fat Man's Watch; Medical Students; Sam Subpœnaed; Disappearance of the "Sausage" Maker; Sam Weller's Valentine; Old Weller's Plot; Tea Drinking at Brick Lane; The Soldier's Evidence Inadmissible; Sam's "Wision" Limited; A Friendly "Swarry"; The Killebeate; Sam and the Surly Groom; Mr. Pickwick's Dark Lantern; The Little Dirty-faced Man; Old Weller Inexorable; Away with Melancholy; Post Boys and Donkeys; A Vessel; Old Weller's Threat; Sam's Dismissal of the Fat Boy; Is she a Widder? Bill Blinder's Request; The Watch-box Boy.

". . . The best sayings of the immortal Sam and his sportive parent are collected here. The book may be taken up for a few minutes with the certainty of affording amusement, and it can be carried away in the pocket."—Literary World.

"It was a very good idea; . . . the extracts are very numerous . . here nothing is missed."—Glasgow Herald.


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