The history and progress of the world . After his return The Mystery of Edwin Drood beganto appear, but was not completed. He died June 8, 1870,and was interred in Westminster Abbey. The general quality of Dickens works remained thesame from first to last, though animal spirits predominatein the earlier. His enormous humor and exaggeratedsentiment gave immense popularity to his pictures of lowand middle class life, especially in London. His sym-pathies were with the honest poor; he made all theworld share in their joys and sorrows and ridiculed class pretensions, but he never rea
The history and progress of the world . After his return The Mystery of Edwin Drood beganto appear, but was not completed. He died June 8, 1870,and was interred in Westminster Abbey. The general quality of Dickens works remained thesame from first to last, though animal spirits predominatein the earlier. His enormous humor and exaggeratedsentiment gave immense popularity to his pictures of lowand middle class life, especially in London. His sym-pathies were with the honest poor; he made all theworld share in their joys and sorrows and ridiculed class pretensions, but he never really under-stood the upper classes. He was fond of the theater fromchildhood, and took part in private theatricals, but hewrote no dramas, probably because he was always kepttoo close at other writing. Yet in actual life he wasa constant actor, eager for the worlds applause. He washandsome, with waving brown hair, and dressed in gaudystyle. He was hard-working, painstaking, fertile inschemes, and fond of novelty and excitement. The con-. ENGLISH 75 tinued strain made him restless and irritable, and tooexacting of those around him. The wonder is that noneof this irritability escapes into his works. There heexhibits not precisely what he observed, but with artisticand humorous exaggeration the effect of that as trans-formed by his peculiar genius. In youth his exuberanceof fun partly concealed his intolerance of wrong, but ashe grew older, though his humorous characters are asabundant as ever, his serious moralizing becomes plainerand stronger. David Copperfield represents his pow-ers at the best; the works before it still excel in popular-ity those that followed that masterpiece. For pureamusement we still go back to the Pickwick Papers. THACKERAY Though Thackeray was born a year before Dickens,he was more than a decade later in reaching popularity,and even then it was by no means equal to his great com-petitors. He belonged to a wealthy Yorkshire family,but first saw the light i
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