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LIST OF SONGS, &c., MENTIONED BY DICKENS 135

INDEX OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 164

INDEX OF CHARACTERS 165

GENERAL INDEX 169

LIST OF MUSIC TITLES, &c., FOUNDED ON DICKENS' CHARACTERS 172

LIST OF WORKS REFERRED TO

CHARLES DICKENS AND MUSIC

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 he was at Wellington House Academy, in Hampstead Road, says that music used to be taught there, and that Dickens received lessons on the violin, but he made no progress, and soon relinquished it. It was not until many years after that he made his third and last attempt to become an instrumentalist. During his first transatlantic voyage he wrote to Forster telling him that he had bought an accordion.

The steward lent me one on the passage out, and I regaled the ladies' cabin with my performances. You can't think with what feelings I play 'Home, Sweet Home' every night, or how pleasantly sad it makes us.

On the voyage back he gives the following description of the musical talents of his fellow passengers:

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