The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3Various
Philosophy
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844: Volume 23, Number 3
Various
Periodicals
The Ghost of Christmas to Come is the third spirit. It is a stately
figure, surrounded in black and impenetrable drapery. It leads SCROOGE
into the heart of the city, and he hears his acquaintance talking
jestingly of one departed; into the Exchange, and he sees another standing
against his peculiar pillar; into a haunt of infamy, where wretches are
dividing the spoils and hoardings of the dead; into a wretched room, where
a corpse lies shrouded, whose face Scrooge dares not uncover; into
dwellings made miserable by the grasping avarice of those who had wealth
they could not use; into his nephew's house, shorn of its comforts, where
the inmates, care-worn and weary, are wringing their hands with distress;
into poor BOB CRATCHIT'S abode, made cheerless by death; and lastly, into
a sad churchyard, where, on the stone of a neglected grave, is inscribed
his own name! He implores the spirit to say whether these shadows may not
be changed by an altered life. Its trembling hand seems to give consent.
He pleads earnestly for a more decisive sign, and while he does so, the
phantom dwindles down into a bed-post, and SCROOGE sits upright in his
bed. Who cannot imagine the conclusion? It is broad day. He looks out of
the window: the bells are ringing; the people are going to church; all
proclaim it as Christmas Day. The future is yet before him, and he is
resolved to make the most of it. The prize turkey is got in haste from the
neighboring poulterer's, and sent by a cab to BOB CRATCHIT'S; and SCROOGE
hastens off to his nephew's to dinner, where he finds the vision of the
spirit realized. SCROOGE from that hour is another and a better man. We
have in conclusion but three words to say to every reader of the
KNICKERBOCKER who may peruse our notice of this production: READ THE WORK.
WANDERINGS OF A JOURNEYMAN TAILOR THROUGH EUROPE AND THE EAST. Between
the years 1824 and 1840. By P. D. HOLTHAUS, Journeyman Tailor, from
Werdohl, in Westphalia. Translated from the third German edition, by
WILLIAM HOWITT. J. WINCHESTER: 'New World' Press.
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