《博茲札記》(Sketches by Boz),英國作家狄更斯的第一部散文集,1836年出版,當時他還是英國《晨報》的國會記者,專門採訪英國下議院的政策辯論,也時常採訪各種選舉活動。這段時間他經常在期刊上發表文章、短篇作品,並以「博茲」為筆名,文章筆調輕鬆,內容詼諧的風格,後來兩次結集出版為「博茲札記」,第一版由政治連環漫畫家克魯克香克(George Cruikshank)插圖。博茲札記雖未讓狄更斯名躁一時,但引起一家出版商的青睞,請他為「運動員畫冊月刊」寫說明文字,他原本不懂玩球、獵狐,但期間因原畫家猝逝,使得狄更斯反客為主、掌握主動,騁馳想像空間,於是出現後來的「匹克威克外傳」(The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club)。
博茲札記(Sketches by Boz)的內容:
- Our parish
- The beadle. The parish engine. The schoolmaster.
- The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain
- The four sisters
- The election for beadle
- The broker's man
- The ladies' societies
- Our next-door neighbour
- Scenes
- The streets - morning
- The streets - night
- Shops and their tenants
- Scotland Yard
- Seven Dials
- Meditations in Monmouth-Street
- Hackney-coach stands
- Doctors' commons
- London recreations
- The river
- Astley's
- Greenwich fair
- Private theatres
- Vauxhall Gardens by day
- Early coaches
- Omnibuses
- The last cab-driver, and the first omnibus cad
- A parliamentary sketch
- Public dinners
- The first of may
- Brokers' and marine-store shops
- Gin-shops
- The pawnbroker's shop
- Criminal courts
- A visit to Newgate
- Thoughts about people
- Thoughts about people
- A Christmas dinner
- The New Year
- Miss Evans and the eagle
- The parlour orator
- The hospital patient
- The misplaced attachment of Mr. John Dounce
- The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition
- The dancing academy
- Shabby-genteel people
- Making a night of it
- The prisoners' van
- Tales
- The boarding-house; Chapter the first.
- Mr. Minns and his cousin
- Sentiment
- The Tuggses at Ramsgate
- Horatio Tparkins
- The black veil
- The steam excursion
- The great Winglebury duel
- Mrs. Joseph Porter
- A passage in the life of Mr. Watkins Tottle
- Chapter the first
- Chapter the second
- The Bloomsbury christening
- The drunkard's death