Chapter 138

_Nickleby_ completed at, i. 176; Dickens's house at, i. 205; writing _American Notes_ at, ii. 23; pony-chaise accident, ii. 418, 419; smuggling at, ii. 439.

Brobity's (Mr.) snuff-box, iii. 297.

Brooklyn (New York), scene at, iii. 411; readings in Mr. Ward Beecher's chapel, iii. 417.

Brougham (Lord), in Paris, ii. 316, 317; the "_Punch_ people" and, ii. 469.

Browne (H. K.) chosen to illustrate _Pickwick_, i. 115; accompanies Dickens and his wife to Flanders, i. 135; failure of, in a _Dombey_ illustration, ii. 354, 355 (but see 348, 349); sketch by, for Micawber, ii. 435; his sketch of Skimpole, iii. 53.

Browning's (R. B.) _Blot on the 'Scutcheon_, Dickens's opinion of, ii. 46.

Bruce (Knight), ii. 97.

Brunel (Isambard), ii. 469.

Buckingham Palace, Dickens at, iii. 508.

Buffalo (U. S.), reading at, iii. 432.

Buller (Charles), ii. 53.

Burdett (Sir Francis), advocacy of the poor, i. 250.

Burns festival, Prof. Wilson's speech at the, ii. 136.

Buss (Mr.), _Pickwick_ illustrations by, i. 115.

Byron's (Lord) Ada, ii. 469.

ÇA IRA, the revolutionary tune of, iii. 129.

Cambridge, reading at, iii. 317.

Cambridge (U. S.) and Boston contrasted, iii. 390; the Webster murder at, iii. 402, 403.

Camden-town, Dickens with Mrs. Roylance at, i. 55.

Campbell (Lord), i. 322 note; on the writings of Dickens, iii. 72 and note; death of, iii. 247 note.

Canada, emigrants in, ii. 28, 29.

Canal-boat journeys in America, i. 358-380; a day's routine on, i. 366, 367; disagreeables of, i. 367; a pretty scene on board, i. 390-392.

Cannibalism, an approach to, ii. 326.

Cannon-row, Westminster, incident at public-house in, i. 63.

Canterbury, reading at, iii. 264.

Car-driver, an Irish, iii. 225, 226 note.

Carlyle (Lord), ii. 469.

Carlisle (Bishop of) and Colenso, iii. 248 note.

Carlyle (Thomas), ii. 110, 135, 160, 162, 174; a strange profane story, i. 130; on international copyright, i. 332-334; Dickens's admiration of, i. 334 (and see ii. 470); a correction for, ii. 440; on Dickens's acting, iii. 72; grand teaching of, iii. 204; inaugural address of, at Edinburgh University, iii. 308; hint by, to common men, iii. 326; on humour, iii. 342; a hero to Dickens, iii. 520; on Dickens's death, iii. 514, 515 (and see ii. 110).

Carlyle (Mrs.), on the expression in Dickens's face, i. 119; death of, iii. 308; Dickens's last meeting, iii. 309.

Carriage, an unaccommodating, ii. 232; a wonderful, ii. 270.

Carrick Fell (Cumberland), ascent of, iii. 170, 171; accident on, iii. 171.

_Castle Spectre_, a judicious "tag" to the, ii. 471.

Catholicism, Roman, the true objection to, ii. 299.

Cattermole (George), i. 181, 197, ii. 113 note; imitation of a cabstand waterman by, ii. 423 note.

_Caudle Lectures_, a suggestion for the, ii. 136 note.

Cerjat (Mr.), ii. 232 (and see iii. 567), 252.

Chalk (Kent), Dickens's honeymoon spent at, i. 108; revisited, i. 119.

Chambers, contemplated chapters on, i. 194.

Chamounix, Dickens's trip to, ii. 253-256; revisited, iii. 76, 77; narrow escape of Egg at, iii. 77.

Chancery, Dickens's experience of a suit in, ii. 97-99; originals of the abuses exposed in _Bleak House_, iii. 49, 50.

Channing (Dr.) on Dickens, i. 302, 308, 309.

Chapman and Hall, overtures to Dickens by, i. 109; advise purchase of the _Sketches_ copyright from Mr. Macrone,