Response to First Number in The Athenaeum

We have now before us the first brick of Mr. Dickens’s new literary edifice; and confess, for the disappointment of the quidnuncs, that we have no anticipation from the brick—as some of our contemporaries may perhaps have—of the ultimate character and complete proportions of the structure. We have no objection, however, to hand about the specimen, in case any of our readers may possess a better gift for divination than ourselves.

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