Cover -- CHARLES DICKENS: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction -- THE EARLY WORKS FROM PICKWICK TO NICKLEBY -- 1. From an unsigned review of Sketches by Boz, Metropolitan Magazine: March 1836, xv, 77 -- Pickwick Papers (1836-7) -- 2. From unsigned reviews of Pickwick Papers, Metropolitan Magazine: May 1836 - May 1837 -- 3. Unsigned review of Pickwick Papers Nos. I - IX, the Athenaeum: 3 December 1836, 841-3 -- 4. From an unsigned article, 'Some Thoughts on Arch-Waggery, and in especial, on the Genius of "Boz" ', Court Magazine: April 1837,x, 184-7 -- 5. Miss Mary Russell Mitford on Pickwick Papers: 1837 -- 6. [John Forster], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Papers, No. XV, Examiner: 2 July 1837, 421-2 -- 7. W. M. Thackeray on Pickwick Papers, in The Paris Sketch Book: 1840 (Works, Biographical Edition (1898-9), v, 80) -- 8. C. S. Calverley, from 'An Examination Paper: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club': Fly Leaves (Cambridge, 1872), 121-4 -- 9. '[Arthur Locker?]' from 'Charles Dickens' Graphic: 18 June 1870, 687 -- Oliver Twist (1837-9) -- 10. From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist in the Spectator: 24 November 1838, xi, 1114-6 -- 11. Queen Victoria, from her diaries 1838-9 -- 12. [W. M. Thackeray], from 'Going to see a man hanged', Fraser's Magazine: August 1840, xxii, 154-5 (Works, iii, 436-7) -- 13. From an unsigned article, 'Literary Recipes', Punch: 7 August 1841, i, 39 -- Nicholas Nickleby (1838-9) -- 14. [John Forster], from an unsigned review of Nicholas Nickleby, Examiner: 27 October 1839, 677-8 -- Estimates of Dickens's early works -- 15. [Charles Buller], from 'The Works of Dickens', London and Westminster Review: July 1837, xxix, 194-215.

16. [Abraham Hayward ?], from an unsigned review of Pickwick Nos. I-XVII, and Sketches by Boz, in the Quarterly Review: October 1837, lix, 484-518 -- 17. [G. H. Lewes?], from a review of Sketches, Pickwick, and Oliver Twist, in the National Magazine and Monthly Critic: December 1837, i, 445-9 -- 18. From an unsigned review, 'Boz and his Nicholas Nickleby', Spectator: 31 March 1838, xi, 304 -- 19. [Thomas Henry Lister], from a review of Sketches (1st and 2nd Series), Pickwick, Nickleby, and Oliver Twist, Edinburgh Review: October 1838, lxviii, 75-97 -- 20. Unsigned notice, 'Loose Thoughts', Fraser's Magazine: October 1838, xviii, 500 -- 21. From an unsigned review of Oliver Twist, Literary Gazette: 24 November 1838, 741 -- 22. [Richard Ford], from, an unsigned review, Quarterly Review: June 1839, lxvi, 83-102 -- 23. From an unsigned notice, 'Charles Dickens and his Works,' Fraser's Magazine: April 1840, xxi, 381-400 -- MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK: 4 April 1840 - 27 November 1841 -- 24. From unsigned reviews, Metropolitan Magazine: 1840-1 -- 25. [Thomas Hood], from an unsigned review of Master Humphrey's Clock, Vol. I, in the Athenaeum: 7 November 1840, 887-8 -- 26. W. C. Macready, in his diaries and in a letter to Dickens: 1841 -- 27. John Ruskin on The Old Curiosity Shop: 1841, 1883 -- 28. Henry Crabb Robinson on Barnaby Rudge in his diaries: 1841 -- 29. [Thomas Hood], from a review of Barnaby Rudge, Athenaeum: 22 January 1842, 77-9 -- 30. Edgar Allan Poe, from a review in Graham's Magazine: February 1842, xix, 124-9 -- 31. Dickens's Reception in America: 1842 -- 32. From an unsigned article, 'The Reception of Mr Dickens', United States Magazine and Democratic Review: April 1842, 315-20 -- AMERICAN NOTES AND PICTURES FROM ITALY: October 1842, May 1846 -- 33. [Samuel Warren], from a review in Blackwood's Magazine: December 1842, lii, 783-801.

34. [James Spedding], from a review in the Edinburgh Review: January 1843, lxxxvi, 497-522 -- 35. [Cornelius C. Felton], from a review in the North American Review: January 1843, lvi, 212-37 -- 36. [John Wilson Croker], from an unsigned review, Quarterly Review: March 1843, lxxi, 502-28 -- 37. From an unsigned review of Pictures from Italy, The Times: 1 June 1846 -- 38. From an unsigned review, Gentleman's Magazine: July 1846, n.s. xxvi, 3-21 -- THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS -- 39. Lord Jeffrey on A Christmas Carol, in a letter to Dickens: 26 December 1843 -- 40. [W. M. Thackeray], from 'A Box of Novels', Fraser's Magazine: February 1844, xxix, 166-9 -- 41. From a review of R. H. Horne's A New Spirit of the Age, Westminster Review: June 1844, xliv, 374-7 -- 42. From an unsigned review of The Chimes, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: 21 December 1844, n.s. vi, 401-3 -- 43. From an unsigned review of The Chimes, The Times: 25 December 1844, 6 -- 44. From an unsigned article, 'A Christmas Garland', The Northern Star: 28 December 1844 -- 45. From an unsigned review of The Chimes, Christian Remembrancer: January 1845, ix, 301-4 -- 46. [John Forster], from a review of The Chimes, Edinburgh Review: January 1845, lxxxi, 181-9 -- 47. From an unsigned review of The Chimes, the Economist: 18 January 1845, 53-4 -- 48. From an unsigned article, 'Boz versus Dickens', Parker's London Magazine: February 1845, i, 122-8 -- 49. 'Bon Gaultier' [Theodore Martin], from 'Nights in the Martello', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine: April 1845, xii, 239 -- 50. From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal: 17 January 1846, n.s. v, 44-8 -- 51. From an unsigned review of The Cricket on the Hearth, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal: February 1846, i, 71-5.

52. From an unsigned review of The Battle of Life, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine: January 1847, xiv, 55-60 -- 53. [Coventry Patmore?], from a review, 'Popular Serial Fiction', North British Review: May 1847, vii, 114-17 -- 54. From an unsigned review of The Haunted Man, Macphail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal: January 1849, vi, 423-31 -- MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT: January 1843 - July 1844 -- 55. [John Forster], from an unsigned review, Examiner: 26 October 1844, 675-7 -- 56. [Thomas Cleghorn?], from 'Writings of Charles Dickens', North British Review: May 1845, iii. 65-87 -- 57. From an unsigned article, National Review: July 1861, xiii, 134-50 -- 58. R. H. Horne, from his The New Spirit of the Age: 1844, i, 1-76 -- 59. Thomas Carlyle on Dickens: 1844, 1856, 1870, 1880 -- 60. William Howitt, from 'Charles Dickens', The People's Journal: 3 June 1846, i, 8-12 -- 61. [W. E. Aytoun], from 'Advice to an Intending Serialist', Blackwood's Magazine: November 1846, lx, 590-605 -- DOMBEY AND SON: October 1846 - April 1848 -- 62. From an unsigned review of No. I, the Economist: 10 October 1846, 1324-5 -- 63. Lord Jeffrey, from letters to Dickens: 1846-7 -- 64. Edward Fitzgerald, in a letter to Thackeray: January 1847 -- 65. From an unsigned article, 'Inquest on the late Master Paul Dombey', The Man in the Moon: March 1847, i, 155-60 -- 66. From a review (signed 'H') of Nos. I-VI, Westminster Review: April 1847, xlvii, 5-11 -- 67. [Charles Kent], from a review in the Sun: 13 April 1848 -- 68. [John Eagles], from 'A Few Words about Novels-a Dialogue', Blackwood's Magazine: October 1848, lxiv, 468-9 -- 69. [John Forster], from an unsigned review, Examiner: 28 October 1848, 692-3 -- 70. Harriet Martineau on Dickens: 1849, 1855 -- 71. [Edwin P. Whipple], from 'Novels and Novelists: Charles Dickens', North American Review: October 1849, lxix, 383-407.

DAVID COPPERFIELD: May 1849-November 1850 -- 72. From an unsigned article, 'Charles Dickens and David Copperfield', Fraser's Magazine: December 1850, xlii, 698-710 -- 73. [David Masson], from 'Pendennis and Copperfield: Thackeray and Dickens', North British Review: May 1851, xv, 57-89 -- 74. Thackeray, in a letter to David Masson: 6(?) May 1851 -- 75. Samuel Phillips, from 'David Copperfield and Arthur Pendennis', The Times: 11 June 1851, 8 -- 76. From an unsigned review, 'David Copperfield and Pendennis', Prospective Review: July 1851, vii, 157-91 -- 77. Matthew Arnold, from 'The Incompatibles', Nineteenth Century: June 1881, ix, 1034-42 -- 78. From Thomas Powell, Pictures of the Living Authors of Britain: 1851, 175-82 -- BLEAK HOUSE: March 1852-September 1853 -- 79. Henry Crabb Robinson, in his diaries: 1852 -- 80. G. H. Lewes, from an open letter in the Leader: 5 February 1853, 137-8 -- 81. [Henry Fothergill Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 17 September 1853, 1087-8 -- 82. From an unsigned review, Illustrated London News: 24 September 1853, 247 -- 83. George Brimley, from an unsigned review, Spectator: 24 September 1853, xxvi, 923-5 -- 84. Unsigned review, Bentley's Miscellany: October 1853, xxxiv, 372-4 -- 85. [John Forster ], from an unsigned review, Examiner: 8 October 1853, 643-5 -- 86. [James Augustine Stothert ], from 'Living Novelists', The Rambler: January 1854, n.s. i, 41-51 -- 87. John Stuart Mill, from a letter to Harriet Taylor: 20 March 1854 -- 88. Ruskin on the mortality rate: from 'Fiction, Fair and Foul', Nineteenth Century: June 1880, vii, 945 -- HARD TIMES: Household Words, 1 April-12 August 1854 -- 89. [John Forster], from an unsigned review, the Examiner: 9 September 1854, 568-9 -- 90. [Richard Simpson], from a review in The Rambler: October 1854, n.s. ii, 361-2.

91. From an unsigned review, Westminster Review: October 1854, n.s. vi, 604-8.