"The Man who Half-made Christmas."

An appreciation of the works of Charles Dickens, and his mastery of characterization, creation of atmosphere, and style.

Bates explores how Dickens effectively uses atmosphere and style to create memorable characters , despite the fact that those characters are "flat, as flat as omelettes... they are types — types which we recognise as soon as they appear on the page."

In The New Clarion (December 3, 1932, i, 26, p. 606, attached).