Of course it was kept as continually in print as the _Latin Grammar_, for the constant use of the class for whom it was provided, and who most assuredly could not have found their way safely through the wonderful intricacies of the Confessional without it.

And equally, of course, the publishers of so largely-circulated a work did not succeed in preventing me from obtaining a second copy of it.
Many of the letters addressed to me by Dickens concerned more or less my contributions to his periodical, and many more are not of a nature to interest the public even though they came from him.

But I may give a few extracts from three or four of them.[1] [Footnote 1: I wish it to be observed that any letters, or parts of letters, from Dickens here printed are published with the permission and authorisation of his sister-in-law, Miss Georgina Hogarth.] Here is a passage from a letter dated 3rd December, 1861, which my vanity will not let me suppress.
"Yes; the Christmas number _was_ intended as a conveyance of all friendly greetings in season and out of season.

As to its lesson, you need it almost as little as any man I know; for all your study and seclusion conduce to the general good, and disseminate truths that men cannot too earnestly take to heart.

Yes, a capital story that of 'The Two Seaborn Babbies,' and wonderfully droll, I think.