CHAPTER XIV

AMERICAN MISSIONS AND COLONIAL TOURS

Trollope’s third visit to America--That of 1868 about the Postal Treaty and Copyright Commission--Mr. and Mrs. Trollope’s Australian visit (1871) to their sheep-farming son--Family or personal features and influences in the colonial novels suggested by this journey--Trollope as colonial novelist compared with Charles Reade and Henry Kingsley--Why the colonial novels were preceded by _The Eustace Diamonds_--Rival South African travellers--Trollope follows Froude to the Cape--What he thought about the country’s present and future--How he found out Dr. Jameson and Miss Schreiner--John Blackwood, Trollope’s particular friend among publishers--Trollope, Blackwood’s pattern writer--_Julius Cæsar_--Anthony’s birthday present to John--The South African book--What the critics said--Well-timed and sells accordingly 269