CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,

CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

HIS SINGLE AMBITION TO BE JUST, YET ALWAYS MERCIFUL,
HIS STRONG COMMON SENSE,

HIS FAIRNESS IN REASONING AND THE FORESIGHT OF HIS OPINIONS,
HIS INDEPENDENCE AND COURAGE,

HIS HUMILITY IN THOUGHT AND FREEDOM FROM SELF-ASSERTION,
HIS REVERENT LOVE OF NATURE,

HIS TENDER CONSIDERATION FOR HIS RELATIONS,

HIS SYMPATHY FOR THE WEAK AND OPPRESSED,

HIS PROTECTION OF THE POOR,

HIS TRUST IN GOD'S LOVE,

MAY STIMULATE THE SONS OF HIS BROTHERS

TO PRESERVE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH THEIR UNCLE LARGELY POSSESSED

AND WHICH WERE PRE-EMINENT

IN THE RECORDS OF HIS AND THEIR COMMON ANCESTOR,
THE PATRIOT, JOHN HAMPDEN.