Philadelphia exceeded Washington by $300, and Brooklyn went ahead of Philadelphia by $200.

The amount taken at the four Brooklyn readings was $11,128." And only a few years ago there were Americans deploring loudly the shabby financial treatment we gave Dickens, and figuratively and literally passing round the hat! Fifth Avenue's greeting to Charles Dickens, on the occasion of his second visit, was in the form of the dinner that was tendered to him at Delmonico's, on the evening of April 18, 1868.

The hosts were two hundred men of the New York press.

Covers were laid for a hundred and eighty-seven guests.
Five o'clock was the time appointed--we were a rugged, early-dining race in those days--but the guest had a slight stroke of illness and did not appear until after six.

Then it was a limping old man, aged just sixty-six, who, by the aid of a cane, climbed laboriously up the great staircase.