Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 45: June, 1910 I cannot help wondering how many of the readers of this journal there may be who are not yet familiar with Dickens books. But few I trust. Yet when I look back on the debt I have incurred to the great author, for the hours of enjoyment his works have given me, I must confess to a sense of envy for those who have these pleas ures yet in store. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.