Excerpt from Charles Dickens and the Stage: A Record of His Connection With the Drama as Actor and Critic Cannot be said that any one of them possesses distinctive dramatic merit; but all were the work of his 'prentice hand, written, probably, at a time when he was anxious and willing to write any thing that would be likely to bring him before the public and to set him going on a much coveted literary career; and it is quite certain that all would have been forgotten had they not been associated with the name of Boz It is quite likely, indeed, that it was the magic of that name, though then only in its infancy, that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.