from The Approaching Epidemic ne calamity to which the death of Mr. Dickens dooms this country has not awakened the concern to which its gravity entitles it. We refer t that the nation is to be lectured to death and read to death all next winter.by Tom, Dick, and Harry, with poor lamented Dickens for a All the vagabonds who can spell will afflict the people with "readings"from Pickwick and Copperfield and all the insignificants who have obled by the notice of the great novelist or transfigured by his smile will make a marketable commodity of it now, and turn the sacred ence to the practical use of procuring bread and butter. The lecture rostrums will fairly swarm with these fortunates. Already the signs of ceptible. Behold how the unclean creatures are wending toward the dead lion and gathering to the feast: Reminiscences of Dickens." A lecture By John Smith, who heard him read eight times. Remembrances of Charles Dickens "A lecture. By John Jones, who saw him once in a street car and twice in a barber shop. Recollections of Mr. Dickens * A lecture. By John Brown.who gained a wide fame by writing deliriously appreciative critiques and es upon the great author's public readings; and who shook hands with the great author upon various occasions, and held converse with ral times. Readings from Dickens." By John White, who has the great delineator's style and manner perfectly, having attended all his readings in this and made these things a study, always practising each reading before retiring and while it was hot from the great delineator's lips. Upon essage does the author convey through the use of satire in this passage? - People try to profit off anything. 3. Fame is both a blessing and a curse. - Great writers are soon forgotten. 4. Dickens's immortality is well deserved.