Newton's lantern slide catalogue: section 9 -- art, literature, and miscellaneous (circa 1920)

37, King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2 969 U B CHARACTERS FROM DICKENS. Cheap Series Painted 5s. ) Beautifully Painted, 11a. j Platn Sltdes > 2 »- each - As impersonated by Me. BRANSBY WILLIAMS. 1 Sidney Carton. “ Keep your eyes upon me, dear child, and mind no other objeot. They will be rapid. Fear not.” 2 Dan’l Peggotty. “ He stood, long after I had oeaBed to read, still looking at me." 8 Uriah Heep. " I am well aware that I am the 'nmblest person going, let the other be where he may.” 4 Waokfora Sqaeers. “Let any boy speak a word without leave and I'll take the skin off his back.” 6 Fagin (“ Oliver Twist ”). “ He had only one more night to live He had spoken little. • . He had sat tnere awake, but dream- ing. Now he started up every minute, and, with gasping mouth and burning skin, hurried to and fro, in suoh a paroxysm of fear and wrath, that even they-used to suoh sights * —recoiled from him with horror." 6 Bill Sikes (“Oliver Twist"). “None of your 1 Mistering.' you always mean mischief when you oome that. You know my name—Bill Bikes I out with it. I shan’t disgraoe it when the time oomes.” 7 Mr. Mantalini (“Nicholas Nickleby"). "My dear, will you follow me ? Ha 1 ha I They all follow me, Nickleby; always did, demmit always." 8 Newman Nogga (“ NioholasNickleby ”). “Niok- lebyl I served you faithfully. I served you beoause I was proud; because I was a lonely min with you, and there were no other drudges to see my degradation; and because nobody knew better than you that I was a ruined man—that I hadn’t always been what I am.” 9 The Grandfather (“The Old Curiosity Shop"). “He never told them what he thought, or where he went. He would sit with them at night, pondering with a seoret satisfaction, and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, ‘ Lord, let her oome to-morrow.’ ” Photographs from Life. 10 Sergeant Buzfuz (" Pickwiok Papers"). “Ser- geant Buzfuz now rose with more importance than he had yet exhibited, if that were possible, and said ‘Call Samuel Weller.' " 11 Montague Tigg (" Martin Chuzzlewit"). "And so. sir, not for myself, who have no olaim upon you, but for my crushed, my sensitive and independent friend, wno has—I &Bk the loan of three half-crowns, distinctly and with- out a blush. I ask it almost as a right.’ 12 Barnaby Rudge. “Ha, ha I Why how muoh better to be silly than as wise as you 1 you don’t see shadowy people there, like those that live in sleep—not you. ... I lead a merrier life than you with all your cleverness." The following are particularly fine character drawings by F. Barnard. 13 Caleb Plummer and his daughter 14 Rogue Riderhood 15 Little Nell and her grandfather 16 Betsy Trotwood 17 Mrs. Gamp 18 Bill Sykes 19 Mr. Pecksniff 20 Little Dorrit 21 Mr. Pickwick 22 Uriah Heep 23 Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness 24 Alfred Jingle, Esq. 25 Mr. Micawber. 26 Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim. 27 Captain Cuttle 28 Sydney Carton 29 The two WellerB 80 Mr. Peggotty Nos. 31 and 32 are jrom drawings by James Greig. 31 Trotty Veck aud Toby (“The Chimes”). “It's Tripe I" 32 The Cricket on the Hearth The following are Photographs from original Life Impersonations by Mr. E. H. Lucas and Miss E. M. Lucas. 88 Mr. Scrooge, from “ Christmas Carol,” full- length figure. 84 Mr. Scrooge, half-length only. 85 Miss Mercy Pecksniff, from “Martin Chuzzlewit.’’ 86 Uriah Heep, from “ David Copperfteld,” full- length figure. 87 IMah Heep, half-length only. 88 Mr. Micawber, from “ David Copperfield,” full- length figure. 89 Mr. Micawber, half-length only. 40 Little Nell’s Grandfather, from “ Old Curiosity Shop,” full-length figure. 41 Little Nell’s Grandfather, half-length only. 42 Dick Swiveller, from “ Old Curiosity Shop." 48 Bill Sikes, from “ Oliver Twist,” full-length figure. 44 Bill Sikes, half-length only. 45 Fagin, from " Oliver Twist." 46 “What are the Wild Waves Saying " ? Paul and Florence Dombey. (C. W. Nicholls.) AN EVENING WITH DICKENS. A most interesting lecture on this subject can be given by anyone knowing his Dickens well, by using some of the Slides in the set on “ Charles Dickens’,” page968, together with some from “ Scenes from Dickens' Land," page 967, shewing the scenes’ which he chose as backgrounds for his different characters, and also some of the characters themselves selected from the great variety in the series “ Characters from Dickens,!’ detailed above ; more particularly as several of the characters have been portrayed by two or three different artists, and it is interesting to observe the various impressions produced on different mind 1 ; hv niekent;' Hpllnp-iimnc of