Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 199 all, however, it must be remembered that to this timebelong the Sketches by Boz (1836) and the Pick-wick Papers (1837-38). Of the latter, the Atliencemnnot unwisely remarked that they were made up of three pounds of Smollett, three ounces of Sterne, ahandful of Hook, a dash of a grammatical Pierce Egan ;the incidents at pleasure, served with an original sauce jjiquante We earnestly hope and trust that nothing we have said will tend to refine Boz. Onecould hardly expect a critic to be ready at once toacknowledge that here was a genius, original, totallyunlike
Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 199 all, however, it must be remembered that to this timebelong the Sketches by Boz (1836) and the Pick-wick Papers (1837-38). Of the latter, the Atliencemnnot unwisely remarked that they were made up of three pounds of Smollett, three ounces of Sterne, ahandful of Hook, a dash of a grammatical Pierce Egan ;the incidents at pleasure, served with an original sauce jjiquante We earnestly hope and trust that nothing we have said will tend to refine Boz. Onecould hardly expect a critic to be ready at once toacknowledge that here was a genius, original, totallyunlike any of his predecessors, who knew the great artof drawing from life, and depicting nothing but whathe knew. As for Thackeray, he was still in the chr3^salisstage, though his likeness appears with those of thecontributors to Frasers Magazine in the portraitgroup of Fraserians published in 1839. His firstindependently published book, I think, was the ParisSketch Book, which was not issued until the year1840. Here,
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