"While he lived, he said, he should wish his name to be more and more associated with the place; and he had a notion that when he died, he should like to lie in the little graveyard belonging to the Cathedral at the foot of the Castle wall." Half of his wish had to go unfulfilled; the other half has been realized in a different but a profounder sense than that in which it is conceived. While he lives, in the creations of his humour and pathos, airy things of fun and frolic, tenderness and tears, his name is more and more associated "with the scenes"--to borrow the words of the memorial tablet in Rochester Cathedral--"in which his earliest and his latest years were passed", scenes that "from the associations ... which extended over all his life" have the best right to be known as "Dickens-land". _Printed by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow_ * * * * * Transcriber's note The following changes have been made to the text: Page 19: "by an unbridgable chasm" changed to "by an unbridgeable chasm".