[E. S. Dallas], from an unsigned review, The Times

Dallas (1828–79), author of The Gay Science and other notable critical books and reviews, was certainly acquainted with Dickens in 1862, and in August 1865 Dickens supported his application for the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles-lettres at Edinburgh. He reviewed the All the Year Round Christmas Numbers very warmly in The Times (3 December 1863, 12; 2 December 1864, 12; 6 December 1865, 6: see No. 115): also Our Mutual Friend (No. 130).