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The famous Dotheboys Hall from Nicholas Nickleby. Here are the well known characters, Nicholas himself, Mr. Squeers, the overbearing schoolmaster, Smike, the unfortunate drudge and others who figure in that immortal work by Dickens. The costumes are historically correct, affording opportunity to see and understand something of the dress, the manners and customs of that time in England. Indeed, the Dickens atmosphere is so carefully reproduced, that for the time one seems to be dwelling in the England of his day. The reproduction of scenes like this deserve commendation. Of course, almost everybody has read Dickens' novels, yet when one sees a series of scenes depicting the main incidents in a novel presented upon a screen they assume a different aspect and the characters which, when reading of them, appeared somewhat shadowy, perhaps, become concrete personalities and one comes to know them almost as real persons. The benefit of such acquaintance is made apparent when one comes to examine one's understanding of the scenes described. The Edison Company has performed a distinct literary and historical service in this production from one of Dickens' novels. - The Moving Picture World, May 14, 1910