... from her the Dickens received the rudiments of Latin. Before Charles was 12, the boy had read the contents of the paternal library, which consisted of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," "Humphrey Clinker," "Tom Jones," "The Vicar of Wakefield," "Don Quixote," "Gil Blas," "Robinson Crusoe," "The Arabian Knights," "Mrs. Inchbald's Farees," and "Tales of the Genii." He was an attentive student and so ... " appeared between April, 1838, and October, 1839. He resigned his editorship of "Bentley's Miscellany," and started a new publication entitled "Master Humphrey's Clock," the first numb...

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