Pickwick Lives Forever
The Pickwick Papers, that book of perennial Christmas laughter, has been reissued this autumn in a handsome new edition by Simon and Schuster. For the volume, CLIFTON FADIMAN, for many years the literary critic of the New Yorker, has written a foreword from which we have drawn the following essay. The characters in Pickwick have come down to us in the famous drawings by Phiz; now they reappear in the creative interpretation of a British artist. Frederick Banbery, who has contributed the black and whites and the cover panel for this issue.