ABSTRACT
‘It has been too much the habit, following the key-note given by the sneering reviewer in The Times, to undervalue Mr. Dickens’s book on Italy,’ wrote Shelton Mackenzie in his Life of Dickens (Philadelphia, [1870], 175). That this review should be thus remembered over twenty years after publication suggests that it indeed had an effect. The reviewer is the man who had been slamming the Christmas books: see No. 43.
