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A LOVING STUDY
OF DICKENS' HALF-TOLD TALE,
RICHARD A. PROCTOR.
"" THE INFINITIES
" " THE GREAT PYRAMID, "“ OTHER SUNS
THE AMERICAN CYCLOPÆDIA."
“The rest is silence."-Shakespeare.
PALL MALL. S.W.
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1887,
By RICHARD A. PROCTOR,
THE “ Mystery of Edwin Drood” is regarded by many as the least interesting of Dickens's works. The present work is based on the opinion expressed by Longfellow that the story, though unfinished, is certainly one of Dickens's most beautiful works, if not the most beautiful of all.”
I do not know whether Longfellow ever gave his reasons for thinking thus of Edwin Drood; but I have little doubt that the poet admired what many critics contemned, because his true ear enabled him to interpret the tones in which Dickens unconsciously revealed the real interpretation of the Mystery.