Chapter XVIII: 1848-1851

Pages 403-441.

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Louis Philippe dethroned 403
French missive from C. D. 404
Aspirations of Citizen Dickens 404
At Broadstairs 405
By rail to China 405
The Junk 406
Mariners on deck and in cabin 406
Perplexing questions 406
A toy-shop on the seas 407
Type of finality 407
A contrast 408
Home questions 408
Temperance agitations 409
The temptations to gin-shop 409
Necessity of dealing with _them_ 409
Stages anterior to drunkenness 410
Cruikshank's satire 410
Realities of his pencil 411
Its one-sidedness 411
Dickens on Hogarth 412
Cause as well as effect 412
Exit of Gin-lane 412
Wisdom of the great painter 413
Late, but never too late 413
Dickens on designs by Leech 414
Originality of Leech 414
Superiority of his method 415
The requisites for it 415
Excuses for the rising generation 416
Intellectual juvenility 416
A dangerous youth 417
What Leech will be remembered for 417
Odd adventures 418
Pony-chaise accident 418
Parallel to Squeers 419
Strenuous idleness 419
French philosophy 420
Hint for Mr. Taine 420
The better for idleness 421
A favourite spot 421
At Brighton 421
With mad folks and doctors 422
A name for his new book 422
At Broadstairs 422
Troubles in his writing 423
A letter in character 423
At Bonchurch 425
The Rev. James White 425
Mirth and melancholy 425
Mrs. James White 426
First impressions of Undercliff 426
Talfourd made a judge 427
Dickens's affection for him 427
Church-school examination 428
Dinners and pic-nics 428
The comedian Regnier 429
When acting is genuine 429
Doubts as to health 429
Arrivals and departures 430
A startling revelation 431
Effects of Bonchurch climate 431
Utter prostration 431
Difficulties of existing there 432
Distrust of doctors 433
Other side of picture 433
What I observed at the time 434
From the _Copperfield_ MS. 434
Mr. Browne's sketch of Micawber 435
Accident to John Leech 435
Its consequences 435
Depressing influences 436
At Broadstairs 436
Railway travellers 437
The exhibition year 438
A _Copperfield_ banquet 438
C. D. on money values 439
His leisure reading 439
A correction for Carlyle 440
Good criticism 441
Thoughts of a new book 441
The old restlessness 441
Beginning on a Friday 441