[W. M. Thackeray], from ‘A Box of Novels', Fraser's Magazine

(Works, xiii, 416–8) Signed ‘M.A.T.’, i.e. Michael Angelo Titmarsh. See also Thackeray’s reviews of other Christmas Books: of The Cricket on the Hearth in Morning Chronicle, 24 December 1845 (reprinted in Contributions to the Morning Chronicle, ed. Gordon N. Ray (Urbana, 1966), 86–93), and of The Battle of Life in Fraser’s, January 1847, xxxv, 111–26. Dickens was ‘touched to the quick’ by Thackeray’s review of the Carol (Letters…of Thackeray, ed. Gordon N. Ray (1945), ii, 165).