Durham Street, a little further to the right, leads to the "dark arches," which had attractions for David Copperfield, who "was fond of wandering about the Adelphi, because it was a mysterious place with those dark arches." He says:--"I see myself emerging one evening from out of these arches, on a little public-house, close to the river, with a space before it, where some coal-heavers were dancing." Nearly opposite is the Adelphi Theatre, notable as having been the stage whereon most of the dramas founded on Dickens's works were first produced, from _Nicholas Nickleby_ in 1838, in which Mrs. Keeley, John Webster, and O. Smith took part, down to 1867, when _No Thoroughfare_ was performed, "the only story," says Mr. Forster, "Dickens himself ever helped to dramatize," and which was rendered with such fine effect by Fechter, Benjamin Webster, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, and other important actors. He certainly assisted in Madame Celeste's production of _A Tale of Two Cities_, even if he had no actual part in the writing of the piece. Mr. Allbut thinks that the residence of Miss La Creevy, the good-natured miniature painter (whose prototype was Miss Barrow, Dickens's aunt on his mother's side) in _Nicholas Nickleby_, was probably at No. 111, Strand. It was "a private door about half-way down that crowded thoroughfare." We proceed onwards, passing Wellington Street North, where at No. 16, the office of the famous _Household Words_ formerly stood; _All the Year Round_, its successor, conducted by Mr. Charles Dickens, the novelist's eldest son, now being at No. 26 in the same street. A little further on, on the same side of the way, and almost facing Somerset House, at No. 332, was the office of the once celebrated _Morning Chronicle_, on the staff of which Dickens in early life worked as a reporter. The _Chronicle_ was a great power in its day, when Mr. John Black ("Dear old Black!" Dickens calls him, "my first hearty out-and-out appreciator, . . . with never-forgotten compliments . . . coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew,") was editor, and Mr. J. Campbell, afterwards Lord Chief-Justice Campbell, its chief literary critic. The _Chronicle_ died in 1862. The west corner of Arundel Street (No. 186, Strand, where now stand the extensive premises of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son) was formerly the office of Messrs. Chapman and Hall, the publishers of almost all the original works of Charles Dickens. After 1850 the firm removed to 193, Piccadilly, their present house being at 11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. They own the copyright, and publish all Dickens's works; and they estimate that two million copies of _Pickwick_[1] have been sold in England alone, exclusive of the almost innumerable popular editions, from one penny upwards, published by other firms, the copyright of this work having expired. The penny edition was sold by hundreds of thousands in the streets of London some years ago.