The reports published in the press were divergent. Thomas Carlyle was enthusiastic, which made the author "heartily delighted".[38] On the other hand, Mrs. Oliphant found "little of Dickens" in the novel.[39] The critic James Fitzjames Stephen called it a "dish of puppy pie and stewed cat which is not disguised by the cooking" and "a disjointed framework for the display of the tawdry wares, which are Mr Dickens's stock-in-trade.[40]
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