《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）。
內容
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.
*** Chapter the second.
** 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
外部連結
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20051127070854/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/dickens/charles/d54sb/ Sketches by Boz] - Easy to read HTML
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