As Sketches by Boz may be looked upon as the first volumein a set of Dickens's works, so EDWIN DROOD may be lookedupon as the last.According to Longfellow, EDWIN DROOD is "the mostbeautiful of all Dickens's works."The fact that he never lived to finish it casts a shadow ofsadness over the story. He dh~d at the comparatively earlyage of fifty-eight. .At the time he was planning the outline of the novel,symptoms of paralysis began to show themselves. Hissecond American tour had overtaxed his strength. In aletter to Forster, during his farewell readings, he writes:"I laid aside the fancy I told you of and have a very curiousand new idea for my new story. Not a communicable idea-or the interest of the book would be gone-but a verystrong one, though difficult to work."I t has been definitely stated that the idea for the storysprang from a Rochester mystery. A bachelor residing inthe High Street was trustee for his nephew. This nephewwas living in About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a...

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