# Household Words, No. 11, June 8, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78176

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+Words%2C+No.+11%2C+June+8%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The history and adventures of the ‘great diamonds’ of Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western potentates, have been often chronicled; their several values have been estimated at hundreds of thousands, and at millions; but not a syllable has ever been breathed of their utility. The reason is tolerably obvious; these magnificent diamonds are of _no_ practical use at all, being purely ornamental luxuries. Now, it has occurred to us that the diamonds indigenous to England, are the converse of these brilliant usurpers of the chief fame of the nether earth (to say nothing of the vain-glories on the upper surface) being black, instead of prismatic white—opaque, instead of transpicuous; and in p...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.—THE COAL EXCHANGE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-11-june-8-1850-78176/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-11-june-8-1850-78176/chapters/5/index.md)
- [did. The first sight of this respectable couple, middle-aged, business](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-11-june-8-1850-78176/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-11-june-8-1850-78176/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.—THE DIAMONDS.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-11-june-8-1850-78176/chapters/1/index.md)