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distresses of, iii. 225 note; first portion of second series planned by, iii. 258; serious illness of, iii. 260, 261; death of, iii. 261; touching incident at funeral, iii. 261 note.

Smith (Bobus), ii. 190.

Smith (O.), acting of, i. 174, ii. 96.

Smith (Porter), ii. 476.

Smith (Southwood), ii. 53, 108.

Smith (Sydney), i. 311, ii. 108; on _Nicholas Nickleby_, i. 168, 176 note; death of, ii. 190.

Smithson (Mr.), i. 182; death of, ii. 93.

Smoking party, a feminine, ii. 292, 293.

Smollett (Tobias), a recollection of, i. 128; real people in novels of, iii. 22.

Snuff-shop readings, ii. 336.

Solitary confinement, effects of, i. 345, 346, ii. 234, 235.

_Somebody's Luggage_, the Waiter in, iii. 351, 370.

Sortes Shandyanæ, ii. 242.

Sparks (Jared), i. 304.

Speculators, American, iii. 391, 393, 408, 409, 411, 428.

Spiritual tyranny, ii. 231 note.

Spittoons in America, i. 338.

_Squib Annual_, the, i. 109, 110.

St. Bernard, Great, proposed trip to, ii. 271; ascent of the mountain, ii. 274; the convent, ii. 274; scene at the top, ii. 274, 275; bodies found in the snow, ii. 275; the convent a tavern in all but sign, ii. 276; Dickens's fancy of writing a book about the, iii. 184.

St. George (Madame), ii. 176.

St. Giles's, Dickens's early attraction of repulsion to, i. 39; original of Mr. Venus found in, iii. 374.

St. Gothard, dangers of the, ii. 198, 199.

St. James's Hall, Dickens's final readings at, iii. 532, 533.

St. Leger, Dickens's prophecy at the, iii. 175.

St. Louis (U. S.), levee at, i. 386; slavery at, i. 388; pretty scene at, i. 390, 392; duelling in, i. 396.

Stage-coach, queer American, i. 363, 364.

Stage, training for the, ii. 213, 214, (and see iii. 191).

Stanfield (Clarkson), i. 181, ii. 47 note, 160, 162, 175,