One unfortunate result of Charles Dickens's great popularity and of the lack of an international copyright law in his time was that many publications were wrongly attributed to him in the United States. Mr. B. W. Matz in the Dickensian for 1925, gives an excellent account of the articles reprinted in America from Household Words with Dickens's name fraudulently attached; and many other similarly erroneous publications could be added to Mr. Matz's list. The greater number of these appeared during the 1850's, and their style and content are so patently uncharacteristic of Dickens that without question they were merely unscrupulous attempts to trade on his reputation. More plausibly an error was the ascription to Dickens of “Some Passages in the Life of Francis Loose-fish, Esq.,” published with the “Tuggs's at Ramsgate” and other tales by Carey, Lea, and Blanchard in 1837. In reality, “Francis Loosefish” was the first of several sketches about that character by Charles Whitehead, and appeared in the second number of the Library of Fiction* which he edited, and to the first and third numbers of which Dickens contributed. If Carey, Lea, and Blanchard knew only that “Francis Loosefish” was by an unidentified editor, their error in ascribing it to Dickens is conceivable, as the characters' names and the style of many passages are distinctly Dickensian. Whitehead and Dickens were closely associated at this time; the styles of their sketches bear a marked resemblance; and the possibility of their indebtedness to each other has not been adequately considered.