title:  Books" />
author: Charles Dickens
description: Perhaps no writer in all of literature was better able to populate his world with memorable characters that immediately seemed so very true to life than Charles Dickens. Dickens&apos; magical touch is evident throughout this delightful collection of stories including Horatio Sparkins, The Bloomsbury Christening and Mrs. Lirriper&apos;s Lodgings. Bringing the stories to vivid life are the wonderful illustrations of Edward Ardizzone.
zlib_text: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
  MISCELLANEOUS
  PAPERS
   BY CHARLES DICKENS
  
  MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
  THE AGRICULTURAL
  INTEREST
  The present Government, having shown itself to be particularly clever
  in its management of Indictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we
  think (keeping in its administrative eye the pacification of some of its most
  influential and most unruly supporters), than indict the whole
  manufacturing interest of the country for a conspiracy against the
  agricultural interest.  As the jury ought to be beyond impeachment, the
  panel might be chosen among the Duke of Buckingham's tenants, with the
  Duke of Buckingham himself as foreman; and, to the end that the country
  might be quite satisfied with the judge, and have ample security
  beforehand for his moderation and impartiality, it would be desirable,
  perhaps, to make such a slight change in the working of the law (a mere
  nothing to a Conservative Government, bent upon its end), as would
  enable the question to be tried before an Ecclesiast