Our School 1851 --
Out of the Season 1856 --
_Sketches by Boz_ 1835-6 _S.B._
Characters -- _S.B.C._
Our Parish -- --
Scenes -- _S.B.S._
Tales -- _S.B.T._
_Sunday under Three Heads_ 1836 --
_Sketches of Young People_ 1840 --
_Sketches of Young Gentlemen_ 1838 --
_Tale of Two Cities, A_ 1859 --
_Uncommercial Traveller_ 1860-9 _U.T._



CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSIC




CHAPTER I

DICKENS AS A MUSICIAN


The attempts to instil the elements of music into Charles
Dickens when he was a small boy do not appear to have been
attended with success. Mr. Kitton tells us that he learnt the
piano during his school days, but his master gave him up in
despair. Mr. Bowden, an old schoolfellow of the novelist's when