Publisher's Synopsis
Kate Dickinson Sweetser, whose article "Dining with Dickens at Delmonico's," is published in this number of The Bookman, is the daughter of Charles H. Sweetser, a founder of the New York "Evening Mail," and also of "The Round Table," one of the earliest literary weeklies of American printing. She is also a cousin of Emily Dickinson, the poet, and of so many other men and women in some way connected with literature or journalism that she declares she ought to be a very giant in achievement, instead of a writer of juveniles! Her name has been closely linked with that of the great novelist, in whose honor her father and her uncle, Henry E. Sweetser of the New York "World," worked to make the Press dinner a success. Miss Sweetser was in her early 'teens when she wrote "Ten Boys from Dickens," doing it merely for the benefit of her young comrades whom she had tried in vain to interest in the Dickens characters she herself was so fond of.
In this volume called "Ten Boys from Dickens," she presents, partly in her own language and partly in the original, ten separate stories, from the lives of Tiny Tim, Oliver Twist, Tommy Traddles, "Deputy," David Copperfield, Paul Dombey, and some others.
-The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, Volume 49
