"So wishing you well in the way you go, we now conclude with the observation, that perhaps you'll go it."--_Our Mutual Friend._ AMONG the many interesting books that have been published relating to Charles Dickens since his death, more than twenty years ago (it seems but yesterday to some of his admirers), there are at least half a dozen that describe the "country" peopled by the deathless characters created by his genius. Probably the pioneer in this class of literature was that comprehensive work, _Dickens's London, or London in the Works of Charles Dickens_, by my friend, that thorough Dickensian, Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton, 1876; this was followed by a very readable volume, _In Kent with Charles Dickens_, by Thomas Frost, 1880; then came a dainty tome from Boston, U.S.A., entitled, _A Pickwickian Pilgrimage_, by John R. G. Hassard, 1881. Afterwards appeared _The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens_, by Robert Langton, 1883, beautifully illustrated by the late William Hull of Manchester, the author, and others--a work developed from the _brochure_ by the same author, _Charles Dickens and Rochester_, 1880, which has passed through five editions. Next to Forster's _Life of Dickens_, Mr. Robert Langton's larger work undoubtedly ranks--especially from the richness of the illustrations--as a very valuable original contribution to the biography of the great novelist. Another handsome volume, containing the illustrations to a series of papers in _Scribner's Monthly_--written by B. E. Martin--entitled _About England with Dickens_, came from the pen of Mr. Alfred Rimmer, 1883, and included additional illustrations drawn by the author, C. A. Vanderhoof, and others. Yet another little _brochure_ recently appeared, called _London Rambles en zigzag with Charles Dickens_, by Robert Allbut, 1886. Lastly, there was published in the Christmas Number of _Scribner's Magazine_, 1887, an article, "In Dickens-Land," by Edward Percy Whipple, in which this veteran and appreciative critic of the eminent English writer's works points out that, "In addition to the practical life that men and women lead, constantly vexed as it is by obstructive facts, there is an interior life which they _imagine_, in which facts smoothly give way to sentiments, ideas, and aspirations. Dickens has, in short, discovered and colonized one of the waste districts of 'Imagination,' which we may call 'Dickens-Land,' or 'Dickens-Ville,' . . . better known than such geographical countries as Canada and Australia, . . . and confirming us in the belief of the _reality_ of a population which has no _actual_ existence." It must not be assumed that the above list exhausts the literature on the subject of "Dickens-Land," many references to which are made in such high-class works as Augustus J. C. Hare's _Walks in London_, and Lawrence Hutton's _Literary Landmarks of London_.