Anthony Trollope; His Work, Associates and Literary Originals

CHAPTER XV

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CLOSING ACQUAINTANCES, SCENES, AND BOOKS

Trollope on the third Earl Grey, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon and the Colonies--Intimacy at Highclere and its literary consequences--Trollope and _Cicero_ 1879--Fraternally criticised by T. A. Trollope and others--Fear of literary fogeydom produces later up-to-date novels beginning with _He Knew He was Right_--A similarity between Trollope and Dickens--Trollope and Delane--The editor’s article and novelist’s book about social and financial scandals of the time--_Mr. Scarborough’s Family_, Trollope’s first novel for a Dickens magazine--Retirement from Montagu Square to North End, Harting--Last Irish novels, _An Eye for an Eye_ (1879), _The Land Leaguers_ (1883), _Dr. Wortle’s School_--General estimate--Last London Residence--Seizure at Sir John Tilley’s--Death in Welbeck Street--Funeral at Kensal Green.

The intimacy with the fourth Lord Carnarvon, and the warm welcome awaiting him, on his frequent visits to Highclere in or after 1878, were the direct social results of Trollope’s colonial travels and books, especially of his South African experiences. “My own Post Office work,” Trollope once said to me, “together with my own ideas of colonial administration, naturally attracted me to a colonial Minister who, before becoming the head of the department, had a hand in abolishing the old Australian mail service, in creating the Encumbered States Act for the West Indies, in improving England’s African relations with France by the exchange of Albuda for Portendic, in terminating the Hudson Bay monopoly, and of creating British Columbia as an imperial dependency. I could not but contrast Lord Grey’s colonial policy between 1846 and 1852 with Lord Carnarvon’s, which immediately followed. To do this was to see that Carnarvon understood what Grey had always missed,

the vigorous aspiration for self-government natural to an Anglo-Saxon community side by side with the weakness that must beset an executive representing a democracy.” Like other colonial observers, Trollope had been struck by certain resemblances between the condition of New Zealand and the Cape, in that they both required English protection from the natives. “In New Zealand,” continued Trollope, “I saw enough to be sure that there could never have been any chance of quiet for ourselves or safety for the natives until our troops were recalled, and the colonists, forced to rely on their own resources, tried mild and just measures instead of violent ones.” In due time the last regiment was withdrawn, and the trouble with the Maoris ceased. “Generally,” maintained Trollope, “a colony soon becomes a nation, and a spirited nation will not tolerate the control of its internal affairs by a distant Government.” Admitting this in the course of their many conversations on the subject, Carnarvon accepted Trollope’s view that the first business of the Colonial Office was to secure a maximum of profit from the connection. This, the Minister and the novelist agreed, must constitute a moral guarantee that separation, when it comes, will be on mutually amicable terms.

The fourth Lord Carnarvon’s Hampshire hospitalities during the nineteenth century’s last quarter were the social expression of an intellectual idea. Without any parade of preparatory effort, they seemed naturally to reproduce something that was characteristic of Cicero’s country-house parties at his Tusculum and much more that reminded many, Matthew Arnold included, of Falkland’s week-end feast of reason and flow of soul at Great Tew. At Highclere, Trollope frequently met not only the leading colonial politicians of the period, but scholars, lay or clerical, as J. R. Green, J. R. Seeley, Charles Kingsley, H. P. Liddon, as well as representatives of the rising talent and the new learning from Oxford and Cambridge, and sometimes from the foreign Universities. On these occasions he took an innocent boyish pleasure in displaying the Wykehamist hall-mark, liked to feel, and quietly letting it be known that he could read at least Roman authors otherwise than after Colonel Newcome’s manner--in a translation, you know, in a translation. It was in the Highclere smoking-room that, capping one of Trollope’s familiar quotations, Robert Browning added, “My dear Trollope, this display of classical lore really reminds one of Thackeray’s scholar who had earned fame and the promise of a bishopric by his masterly translation of _Cornelius Nepos_.” Trollope’s earliest magazine work--for the _Dublin University_--had given him the opportunity of rubbing up and trotting out his juvenile acquaintance with _Cæsar_. This afterwards expanded itself into the volume gratuitously contributed, as already described, to Blackwood’s series. Rather less than ten years later, some classical small talk with his host, Robert Herbert, Robert Browning, and an Eton master, Mr. Everard, at Highclere recalled to him his early interest in Cicero, as well as of certain notes made from much miscellaneous reading on the subject. These Ciceronian studies furnished forth the two volumes issued by Chapman and Hall in 1880.

“An unconventional attempt to clothe an ancient Roman with modern interest,” were the words aptly used by Sir William Gregory, Trollope’s old Harrow contemporary, himself a Ciceronian student, to characterise this book. Approaching his subject, not as a scholar or historian, Trollope treats it in a style lively and amusing throughout. The sympathy with Cicero, especially in exile, is as delightful and refreshingly genuine as if Trollope were describing the difficulties of Phineas Finn or the troubles, during his wife’s absence, of Mr. Furnival in _Orley Farm_. There are the same enlightening good sense and shrewdness in the description of Roman political parties and their leaders as form the best portion of the novels describing the rivalries of Daubeny and Gresham, and analysing the personal or political situations so severely testing the wisdom and the patience of Mr. Palliser and the Duke of Omnium. Of course, _Cicero_ brought criticisms from a few experts. T. A. Trollope, Anthony’s elder brother, as well as severe disciplinarian in their Winchester days, had been a classical master under Jeune at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. He had therefore cultivated a more exact kind of learning than Anthony. “You ought,” he said after _Cicero_ came out, “to have let me correct the Latin words in your proof. As it is, having, in your first volume, tried successively Quintillian and Quintilian, in your second you finally relapse into Quintillian. In another error you are at least consistent; for Pætus is always given for Pœtus. Indeed,” he continued, “these diphthongs have been among your worst enemies, because œdile is your standing version for ædile, while by Œschilus I know--what others could only guess--that you mean Æschylus.” More sympathetic censors ignored these literal slips, but could not be blind to so serious an error as occurs in vol. ii. 20, placing the Rostra in the Senate instead of the Forum. It was to be expected also that so keen a censor as Trollope’s Winchester contemporary, Robert Lowe, Lord Sherbrooke, would have had something to say about the proprætor Verres being loosely described as invested with prætorian or consular powers.

Whatever its merits or defects, _Cicero_ at least resembled most of Trollope’s books in being the literary expression of his personality. From _The Warden_ in 1855 to _Cicero_ in 1880 nearly everything in Trollope’s work--character, incident, description, dialogue--was a natural emanation from the man himself, fresh, spontaneous, and unforced. If, by comparison with those which preceded them, there seems something artificial in the stories still to be mentioned, the reason is that he had never lived in the same intimacy, as he himself put it, with his new personages as he had done with the old. He had set himself to describe no longer friends, but strangers. Since he began with _The Macdermots_ in 1847, he had seen many changes in the popular taste for fiction. He had himself encountered successfully many rivals. Wilkie Collins, Whyte-Melville, Miss Braddon, and Shirley Brooks had successively come on. Against all he held his own; he did not even suffer from Charles Lever’s competition. The creator of _Harry Lorrequer_ and _Charles O’Malley_ began writing books that took ground, and were in a vein, which Trollope had already made his own. The later Leverian novels, beginning with _The Daltons_ and continuing with _Sir Brook Fossbrooke_, seemed to many, if actually they were not, bids against Trollope’s _The Claverings_, _Orley Farm_, and _Can You Forgive Her?_ They did not diminish the demand for those of Trollope’s books that were variations upon the Barchester series.

Meanwhile, the social conditions of the time had changed as well as the writers. The old exclusive _régime_ in which Trollope had been born and bred was already doomed. The time-honoured class and caste barriers were broken down. The new social fusion was all but complete. The Stock Exchange and Lombard Street had overflowed into St. James’s. The new wealth had possessed itself of the same acres, and the typical country-house was a glorified edition of the Piccadilly palace. At the same time domestic and social scandals, to be particularised hereafter, semi-detached couples, elderly bucks, being also professional lady-killers, and loveless marriages with all their tragic results, became so common as no longer to attract notice.

As Bacon took all nature for his province, so Trollope had no sooner overpassed the limits of country-house and rectory than he began to make his novel a complete mirror of English life on all levels up-to-date. He may have been occasionally mortified by a passing decline in the demand for Christmas stories and for magazine serials from his pen. He never thought much about the posthumous vitality of his works; although nineteenth-century pictures, clerical or secular, of town or country, of club or drawing-room, of the covert side, of the Government office, of barrister’s chambers, and of the law courts, could not but have, at some future time, the same value for the historian as Fielding and Smollett possessed for Macaulay and Lecky. He realised the necessity, above all things, of guarding himself against the charge of literary old-fogeydom. Before completing his sixtieth year he had been continually at work during more than a generation. He must therefore show that he had moved with the times by modernising his themes and their treatment. The anxiety to convince the public that he had as keen an eye as ever for the very newest actualities of the time is especially noticeable in _He Knew He Was Right_ (1869)[33] and _The Way We Live Now_ (1875).[34]

The former of these first came out in sixpenny parts during 1867. As originally designed by Trollope it was intended, on something the same scale as had been done by Dickens in the Steerforth episode of _David Copperfield_, to illustrate the tragical results, to social life and personal character, of unbridled and obstinate self-will--a quality, be it noted, equally characteristic of both novelists. Dickens, however, pointed his moral by the single case of Steerforth. In Trollope’s story, each of the chief personages is opinionated and dictatorial to the same degree; in other words, all go wrong simply because all in turn know they are right. So, it has been seen, in _Can You Forgive Her?_ the heroine’s need of pardon was shared by more than one other lady, as well as by at least two men.

In _He Knew He Was Right_, Colonel Osborne, the wealthy, middle-aged rather than elderly, Conservative M.P. and professional lady-killer, has known Mrs. Trevelyan from girlhood. He therefore thinks it the correct thing to laugh at old Lady Milborough’s description of him as a serpent, a hyena, or a kite, and, by his attentions to attractive young maidens, to provoke, in Lady Milborough’s phrase, such domestic break-ups as he brings about under the Trevelyans’ roof. On the other hand, Mr. Trevelyan feels convinced beyond a doubt that, while wronging his wife by no suspicions of the worst kind, it is his duty to warn her strongly against the Colonel, and risk one of Lady Milborough’s break-ups, rather than allow Osborne’s visits.

The best piece of character drawing is Colonel Osborne. After this the neatest touches come in the Devonshire scenes describing Mrs. Trevelyan’s movements after the flight from Curzon Street. The pictures of the quiet home life, in or near Exeter, reproduce as regards places and persons the same originals which were used in _Rachel Ray_. In the later, as well as in the earlier novel, are reflected the same central figure, the old-world maiden lady, and some of the same young people whom in real life she gathered about her. The hostess, known by Trollope from his childhood, was Miss Fanny Bent. Her youthful visitors were Rachel Hutchinson, the doctor’s daughter, and Lucy Bowring, with perhaps one or two schoolfellows brought by her from the neighbouring paternal roof known as Claremont. Here Sir John Bowring passed his closing years. Here, too, Anthony Trollope first studied the feminine types who afterwards grew into Lily Dale, Lucy Robarts, Grace Crawley, Florence Burton, and Julia Brabazon. The last of these characters, as she appeared in the first chapter of _The Claverings_, was, indeed, no other than Lucy Bowring herself, photographed from life. Without exception probably, the portraits of English girls that have made half Trollope’s fame are from Devonian or other West of England models. Stiffness and wrong-headedness were infirmities to which Trollope himself frankly confessed. Of those defects he has entirely compacted the brilliant, wealthy, but suicidally perverse and obstinate Oxonian, Louis Trevelyan. The gloomy and painful plot derives no pleasant relief from the comic or lighter business, centred round the irritatingly vulgar detective, Bozzle. This debased descendant of Inspector Bucket in _Bleak House_ fools the miserable and infatuated husband to the top of his bent; at times he shows off his sharpness by insinuations so fanciful and odious against the runaway wife, that, without the novelist saying so, one knows it is as much as Trevelyan can do to keep from knocking him down.

Like one or two other of Trollope’s feminine characters, who show their independence by sailing dangerously close to the wind, Mrs. Trevelyan is thoroughly equal to taking care of herself, and, from the ethical point of view, never comes near reproach. With a little more tact, patience and wisdom, on her husband’s part, she would never have been piqued into allowing Osborne’s attentions. She has been exasperated by Trevelyan’s unreasonable exactions. So too, in _Phineas Finn_, Kennedy’s conjugal accusations make Lady Laura return to her father; but Emily Trevelyan has not been really compromised by her mature admirer. Had her lord and master been less self-conscious and more a man of the world than he is, he would not have fallen a victim to his own groundless jealousy.

When treating feminine subjects, Dickens and Trollope are equally given to represent their subordinate heroines as playing with fire, or forced by circumstances into situations calculated to soil virtue itself or to set malicious tongues wagging against purity incarnate. Sometimes, as with Sir Leicester Dedlock’s wife, and Sir Joseph Mason’s widow, the case is that of a lady with a past. Punishment when due is not escaped entirely, but the wind is generally tempered to the shorn lamb, while both novelists upon occasion invoke special providences for mitigating, if not averting the penalty due to the actually fallen. Thus, in _David Copperfield_, ruin comes indifferently to little Em’ly and Martha; but it seems only in accordance with the fitness of things that the catastrophe should not be equally full of horror in both cases. Poetical justice, therefore, and the kindlier influences of her early nurture ordain Em’ly’s partial rescue from the hideous blackness of poor Martha’s fate. Trollope’s later and less known novels contain no better character than Lady Mabel Grex in _The Duke’s Children_. But for her own fine nature and great qualities she would assuredly have been doomed to the irreparable ruin, her deliverance from which comes equally from superhuman guidance and her own heroic self-discipline. Edith Dombey cannot be said to have been allowed by Dickens a narrow escape, because she was never in any real danger. Her mother’s training could not but make her an adventuress; her husband’s short-sighted pride had to be humbled by an elopement which would indeed disgrace his name, but whose circumstances could bring no stain on her. In chastising, by their flight, their respective husbands, Dickens’ second Mrs. Dombey and the Mrs. Trevelyan of _He Knew He Was Right_, to some extent, resemble each other; while in both cases the wifely vengeance recoils with nearly equal severity upon the lady. Generally, however, Trollope lets off more easily than does Dickens his fair triflers with the hearts of men. Thus, in _Great Expectations_, Miss Havisham’s adopted daughter, Estella, is punished as she deserves for trifling with Pip’s affections by being paired off with the surly and ill-conditioned Bentley Drummle. The arch-jilt of _Can You Forgive Her?_, Alice Vavasor, issuing scatheless from all her escapades, is not punished at all, but may well thank her stars in becoming the mistress of a comfortable Cambridgeshire country-house as the talented, well-to-do and long-suffering John Grey’s wife.[35]

Trollope’s next attempt at satirising the most malignant social tendencies of the time exposed the idolatry of the golden calf, and in its conception owed something to the pregnant remarks of one of the most influential among his contemporaries. During the season of 1875, Trollope’s hitherto slight acquaintance with Delane of _The Times_ matured into intimacy. At this time the great editor was much impressed by the growth of extravagance and the increase of reckless speculation in the overgrown and mischievously mixed conglomerate of London society. The subject was one on which he and Trollope thought exactly alike. With equal disgust and indignation both observed the acceptance of mere wealth as a passport to the company of men and women who were social leaders by right of birth. In their many talks about these subjects originated both Trollope’s _The Way We Live Now_ and a certain _Times_ article presently to be mentioned. On resettling in London after his colonial expeditions, Trollope had established himself in Montagu Square. The first piece of work he did here was the novel in whose most prominent figure, Melmotte, a grotesque and nauseating monstrosity, he personified the commercial corruptions of the time with all their brutalising effects upon character, as in private, so in public life.

Grouped round, and more or less associated with the over-coloured financier, Melmotte, were many smaller personages representing or suggesting other vicious propensities of the period. The bloated and ferocious plutocrat has a vulgar but otherwise unobjectionable daughter whom, when she dares any details to cross his will or stand in the way of his villainies, he cuts into pieces--in plain English, horsewhips within an inch of her life. There are other young ladies as unattractive as Marie Melmotte, but less inoffensive. These are the girls who expend their energies and innocence in intrigues to get husbands, not for love, but for the enjoyment of greater freedom and more pocket-money. Melmotte himself carries about him a certain suggestion of Baron Albert Grant in the past, and of Whitaker Wright in the days that were then yet to come. The deterioration of Club life is shown by the blackguard interior of the Beargarden, where stripling debauchees, who sponge on their polite paupers of mothers, and venal and pretentious newspaper hacks eat, drink, and rampage at unholy hours.

Chronology might deny the statement that the Printing House Square manifesto already referred to supplied Trollope with a brief for this book; but both the novel and the article came out in the same year. Each, in its different way, was a commentary on a state of things in which the editor and the novelist would have willingly co-operated in bringing to an end. Trollope’s Melmotte was an exaggerated type of the French, German, and American adventurers who, in Delane’s words, gorge like vultures on the country. These, said the editor, were the men whom English gentlemen of family and station competed with each other in helping to fleece society. These, too, were the qualities concentrated by the novelist in the mammoth speculator of Grosvenor Square, who, before the crash, made himself the demi-god of the season by his splendid hospitalities to no less a person than the “Emperor of China.”

One of the incidents which had chiefly moved Delane, breaking through his editorial custom to pen with his own hand his lay sermon, was this. During the early seventies an English nobleman of ancient title and descent, but of diminished territorial wealth, partly by games of chance in which there seemed some suspicion of foul play, and partly by City speculation into which he was enticed, had lost something like £10,000 to a Californian colonel, long since kicked out of all decent company. This swindling Midas, who had winged Delane’s pen, gave Trollope more than a hint for Melmotte in _The Way We Live Now_. Any resemblance borne by Melmotte to another fraudulent and glorified capitalist, the Merdle of _Little Dorrit_, is purely fortuitous. Trollope’s intimate friend Sir Henry James once, in my hearing, mentioned the matter to him, to be told “_The Way We Live Now_ appeared in 1875; I only read _Little Dorrit_ for the first time on my way to Germany in 1878.”

During their founder’s and original editor’s life, Trollope wrote for none of Dickens’ magazines. After 1870 _All the Year Round_ was carried on by Charles Dickens the second; his very capable manager G. Holsworth urged him to secure a novel from Trollope. This was written and published; and _Mr. Scarborough’s Family_[36] was the most deliberately and elaborately satirical of all Trollope’s stories. Mr. Scarborough has conceived and nursed, till it becomes something like a monomania, a detestation of legal restrictions generally and of those imposed by the law of entail in particular. He has therefore, with an ingenuity which highly delights him, contrived his own independence of primogeniture by going through two marriage ceremonies with the mother of his eldest son. One of these rites has been celebrated before that son’s birth, and one after. There are also of course two marriage certificates, each relating to the same nuptials, but each bearing a different date.

According therefore to the document he displays, he can at will prove his eldest son legitimate or illegitimate. This son, Mountjoy, a reckless but amiable spendthrift, has a heartless, calculating and mercenary younger brother, Augustus. Mountjoy, by post-obits and things of that sort, has pledged the paternal property to the Jews. At any cost Scarborough resolves that his fine estate, Tretton Park, shall be kept from the money-lenders. He therefore declares Mountjoy a bastard, and so disqualifies him for inheriting. Thus the younger of the two brothers, Augustus, feels no doubt of soon possessing the acres that, but for the blot on his scutcheon, would have gone to Mountjoy. Meanwhile Mr. Scarborough says nothing, but buys up all Mountjoy’s apparently valueless post-obits. He thus, at comparatively slight expense, gives his alleged natural son a pecuniarily clean slate.

This done he dashes to the ground the hopes of his younger son Augustus by suddenly displaying his first marriage certificate as proof of Mountjoy’s birth in wedlock. Having thus tricked successively all whom it suited his humour to deceive, Mr. Scarborough has no more to do than quietly breathe his last.

The irony and Mephistophelian fun of the story are not confined to the situations now described, but overflow very effectively into the amusingly drawn scenes with the duped and furious money-lenders.

The life at Waltham Cross had been more that of an Essex squire with sporting tastes than of a hard-working author or a busy official. It was an existence whose charm, as years went on, Trollope found himself bent on tasting once more. While casting about for a suitable place, he heard of what seemed as near perfection as possible, in West Sussex. North End, or, as it is to-day known, The Grange, lies in Harting parish, some twelve miles from Chichester and four from Petersfield. At one time two farmhouses, but now joined together, it is among the best and prettiest buildings in the district. Surrounded by an estate of nearly seventy acres, its long line of windows and doors opens on a delightful lawn, with a background of copse, studded with Scotch firs and larches. Under these a long walk, worthy of Windsor or Kensington, starting from the garden gate, leads through fields up to a South Down hill. On the lawn itself might have been seen, even since Trollope’s day, at one end, the greenhouse, whose flowers he used to tend. Nor were his North End days passed less industriously than those in Montagu Square, where he had pitched his tent on his return from Australia. His hours were, nominally, almost the same as in the strenuous days when he first cultivated the habit of very early rising, so as to get through the daily task of authorship before being due either at Post Office inspection or a meet of hounds, as the case may be. A cup of hot coffee and milk carried him on till a solid breakfast at about nine; when he sat down to that meal the day’s literary labours had generally been altogether finished.

Only some time after leaving the Post Office, in 1868, did he extensively use dictation for his novels. Good fortune gave him, while still at Montagu Square, for his amanuensis a niece, Miss Bland. Apropos of her sympathetic co-operation, he once said to me: “However early the hour, however dull and depressing the dawn, we soon warm to our work and get so excited with those we are writing about, that I don’t know whether she or I are most surprised when the time comes to leave off for breakfast.”

Trollope seemed in excellent health on settling at North End, Harting, as well as throughout his stay there. But gradually he left his bed later than formerly, and often reduced the number of words forming the diurnal task. Together with this he increased his local hospitalities, as well as enlarged his active interest in all parish concerns whether of business or pleasure. Penny Readings were in those days still popular. Trollope not only patronised and assisted at them, but delighted his rural neighbours by securing on the platform, or in the body of the room, some of his well-known London visitors, notably Sir Henry James and J. E. Millais; while the picturesque surroundings of his Sussex home inspired another guest, the Poet Laureate, Mr. Alfred Austin, with one among the most charming of his later works, _The Garden that I Love_. Not once during his stay at Harting did Trollope see the Goodwood or Hambledon foxhounds “throw off”; and he did not spend more time in the saddle on the South Downs than he would have done during his equestrian constitutionals in Hyde Park.

Ireland first had, in 1847, made Anthony Trollope a novelist. His pen was being exercised on an Irish subject when death took it from his fingers. Before, however, beginning _The Land Leaguers_, he had, in 1879, published a short story, _An Eye for an Eye_, whose scene is laid in county Clare.

Mrs. O’Hara’s life had been ruined by a marriage with a drunken and cruel husband, from whom she has fled. To avoid him, she lives with her daughter Kate in an obscure corner of the Clare coast. To the barracks at the neighbouring town, Ennis, comes Fred Neville, heir to the Scroope earldom, a handsome, charming, morally weak, but altogether irresistible scamp. His acquaintance with Kate leads to an engagement, the declared prelude of an early marriage. Neville’s English relatives succeed in preventing this, but not before Kate’s personal surrender to her lover. The hateful husband now renews his persecutions of the lady who has the misfortune to be his wife. Mrs. O’Hara, maddened by these fresh troubles and by her daughter’s ruin, contrives with her own hand Neville’s fatal fall over a cliff. After this Kate goes abroad to take care of her father, now a broken invalid. Mrs. O’Hara loses her wits and passes the rest of her days in a mad-house. This unpleasant and painful story has no other interest than that of mere horror. It is as depressing and sombre as _The Kellys and the O’Kellys_ without any of the humorous sidelights which in parts relieve the earlier work.

The other Irish novel was written almost concurrently with a very slight sketch, _An Old Man’s Love_--his last completed story--a year after _The Land Leaguers_. The writing of _The Land Leaguers_ had been prepared for by his final stay, during some weeks, on the other side of St. George’s Channel, in the spring of 1882. To that period belongs his decisive separation from Gladstonian Liberalism. His warm friendship with W. E. Forster had made him reluctant to leave the Liberals even after he had begun to distrust their policy; but during his stay on the other side of St. George’s Channel in the spring of 1882, he had penetrated the artificial, purely American, and Anti-British origin of Irish Nationalism. The professional agitation-monger against the British connection, as described in _The Land Leaguers_, was a Yankee, perhaps with some Hibernian strain in his blood, but, from the Giant’s Causeway to Cape Clear, equally ignorant of and indifferent to the welfare and the wants of the population whether from a national or local point of view. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none, he appeared one day as the plausible and patriotic champion of oppressed Erin on the platform; the next, as the promoter of a bogus land company at a Galway market; and then, by a complete change of part, as the insinuating concert or theatrical impresario, who philanthropically puts young ladies with pretty faces, good figures, and voices in the way of making their fortunes and enriching their families. The literary contrasts thus suggested are worked up in _The Land Leaguers_ with pathos and power, as well as old humour.[37]

Trollope’s two greatest contemporaries, Thackeray and Dickens, did not live to finish their last novels, _Denis Duval_ and _Edwin Drood_ respectively. So, too, it was with Trollope himself. After a journey to Italy about a year before his death he prepared himself for writing _The Land Leaguers_ by two tours in Ireland. This was one of the only two books--_Framley Parsonage_ having been the other--whose publication began before the closing chapter had been written; it was therefore destined to remain a fragment.

Of the practically unknown stories belonging to this period, the only one which it would be fair, however briefly, to recall is _Dr. Worth’s School_ (1881). That contains a last addition to the long clerical portrait gallery--a pedagogue in holy orders, in whom, to judge from his temperament, the artist must have taken an autobiographical interest. For Dr. Wortle has the same reputation as Trollope himself for blustering amiability, an imperious manner and a good heart. With the rectory of Bowick he combines schoolmastering of a very select and remunerative kind. Of course Dr. Wortle himself is too busy, and his wife too preoccupied with parochial or social duties to bestow much personal attention upon the boys. All this is therefore left to the assistant master, Mr. Peacocke, and his wife.

Peacocke, an ex-Fellow of Trinity, has spent much time in America. Here he first met Mrs. Peacocke, a young and beautiful woman, married while a mere girl to a worthless and cruel profligate, Ferdinand Lefroy, who soon afterwards disappears, killed, it is said, in a drunken brawl. The first husband, as will at once be guessed, is not dead but, as he soon shows, very much alive. Peacocke has thus to choose between deserting the defenceless woman, whom, however vainly, he has done all he could to make his wife, or brazening it out, risk the consequences, and refuse to give her up. Adopting that latter course, he makes much trouble for himself, even in such a paradise of matrimonial laxity as the United States. He therefore recrosses the Atlantic with the hope of beginning a new life in his native land. At Dr. Wortle’s, Peacocke is doing well when the story of his own and his wife’s past becomes known. Pressure is now placed on Dr. Wortle to dismiss his immoral usher. His generous refusal to do so loses him nearly all his pupils, and determines Peacocke to search America for evidence that, by conclusively establishing Lefroy’s death, will clear both Dr. Wortle and himself. His errand succeeds. Peacocke brings back with him proof of his having violated neither the marriage law nor the decalogue. The way is therefore open for an indisputably legal union with Mrs. Peacocke. That is followed by the return of prosperity to all persons concerned. The parents who have withdrawn their sons rally round Peacocke’s loyal chief. The curtain falls on the entrance upon the new lease of prosperity of Dr. Wortle’s school and all connected with it.

Few novelists have beat out their gold leaf so thin as was systematically done by Trollope. None but himself have persisted in the practice for years without encountering signs of weariness in their public that have caused them to change their ways. Trollope never felt, or, at least, practically acknowledged such a compulsion. _Dr. Wortle’s School_ only attained to the dimensions of a book, because the story that gives the title to the volume receives the addition of incidents and characters, organically quite unconnected with the central personages and plot. Trollope, therefore, consistently and to the last, in the structure of his novels persevered with a method somewhat apt to try his readers’ patience. In other words, by distracting attention from the creatures of his imagination originally placed in the foreground, he weakens their hold upon the mind. The legitimate or the most serviceable purpose of an underplot is to illustrate from another part of the stage, or on a stage entirely different, those evolutions of character or course of action belonging to the maiden narrative. This was almost as entirely ignored by Trollope as it was thoroughly understood by Dickens.

In _Dombey and Son_ the gipsy underplot is a close parallel to, as well as an apposite commentary on, the principal theme of Mr. Dombey and his second wife. Like Edith Skewton, Alice Brown is a tall, handsome girl, out of whose beauty a grasping and worthless mother makes what capital she can. Alice’s outlook on life is in every particular Edith’s also; one of scorn for herself and her mother, and a weary defiance to the world. Alice, too, resembles Edith in being a much less strong-willed mother’s passive instrument, not from any sympathy with her, but from an utter indifference to good or ill. Further, the personal likeness between the two is explained by the fact of Alice Brown’s being Edith Dombey’s illegitimate sister. Again, it is through Alice’s mother, Mrs. Brown, that Dombey discovers the continental whereabouts of the defaulting Carker and of his own wife. The analogy appears still closer when one remembers that, after the mother’s death, Alice rises above the level to which she had been degraded, without knowing what happiness means. With Dickens, the whole episode is not the less significant because it is shadowy, and its vagueness at no point interferes with the central narrative.

Another quality distinguishing Trollope from most other novelists is a literary style, shown from the first and retained to the last, exactly suited to his subject-matter, appealing at once to the cultivated and the general reader. Writing not for a limited circle--like his junior in years, but, in work, almost his contemporary, Meredith, or his avowed master and idol, Thackeray--with his pen, as in his pursuits, habits, and tastes, he was, after the English manner, essentially masculine. Yet he knew more of the feminine mind and nature than any author of his generation. His descriptions of mixed society in drawing-room or Club may occasionally lack lightness in handling, polish and point. His scenes, humorous or pathetic, serious or trivial, between women alone in seaside lodgings or in country houses, unite with a vividness of presentation a fineness of touch, unique in English fiction. That was the quality apropos of which a London hostess once said to him, “Mr. Trollope, how do you know what we women say to each other when we get alone in our room?” A few hours before this question, being at the Athenæum, he had heard a member of the Club complain that in _The Last Chronicle of Barset_ Mrs. Proudie was still allowed to live. “Feeling sure,” said Trollope, “from this, that the bishopess was beginning to pall on the public, I went home and killed her.” Add to this width, depth, and variety of the interest he excited the fact that he never risked being dull in the affectation or effort of being profound and that, from first to last, his bold, clear, if sometimes diffuse style was tainted by no symptoms of the modern euphuism known as preciosity, Trollope’s claim to the description of a national novelist cannot be denied.

The advance of the story, prose or verse, narrative or dramatic, from the Attic stage to Samuel Richardson, as from the creator of Clarissa to the creator of Hetty Sorrel, has been from incident to character. Character analysis and character casuistry naturally go together. Hence, to some degree it has been already possible to see in Trollope the progenitor of the twentieth-century problem novel. From that point of view, the man, whose development has been traced in these pages, was the typical product, not of a great creative, but of a reflective and critical age. Thus he illustrated, in however different form, the same influences of his age as showed themselves, among prose writers, not only in Meredith, but in Matthew Arnold or Carlyle, in A. W. Kinglake or in Laurence Oliphant; and among poets, in Browning.

The turn for psychological puzzles together with the dissection of human motive and action common to the two men made Trollope Browning’s favourite among contemporary writers. Socially, during the last half of their careers the novelist and the poet led much the same lives, visiting at the same houses and most easily unbending in the same company. One of the latest occasions on which the two met each other was in the grounds of Lambeth Palace in 1882. Their host upon that occasion was Archibald Campbell Tait. By something of a coincidence, before the year was out both the archbishop and that literary guest who was more closely associated by his writings than any English author with the higher and lower orders of the Anglican clergy were dead. Tait died on December 3rd, Trollope on December 6th.

During the two years passed by him at Harting there had been no great decline in his health. After leaving his Sussex home, he saw little again of Montagu Square. With that place, however, those who knew him best always most pleasantly connected his name. There the book-room or study, the scene of nearly all his literary toils, with Miss Bland for his amanuensis, was on the ground-floor behind the dining-room. Above that his books had overflowed into a double drawing-room; one of its chief features was a capacious recess at the north end, fitted with some book-shelves, but chiefly used by him for visitors with whom he wished some special talk. The contents of the shelves now mentioned had a history highly characteristic of their owner. Robert Bell, the once universally known book-lover, critic, and author, had left to his widow a smaller estate than was expected. His library was announced for sale at Willis and Sotheran’s. “This,” said Trollope, “must not be. We all know the difference in value between buying and selling of books.” He at once saw the executors; the auction arrangements were cancelled. Trollope bought all the volumes at a price, fixed by himself, much above their market worth.

This was only one instance of the kindly and unselfish actions unostentatiously performed by one among the broadest-minded, kindest-hearted of men. Not unreservedly a man of peace himself, he more than once acted as peacemaker, in reconciling to each other friends of his long at variance. Thus a difference originating in the newspaper office (_The Daily News_) with which they both had to do, kept apart for nearly a generation two of his intimates, Edward Pigott and Edward Dicey. Neither would probably have spoken again to the other but for Trollope’s genial and tactful intervention. This happened during the last eighteen months of his life. His manner in doing it reminded both men of a sixth-form boy who, separating two juniors engaged in fisticuffs, bids them, with a gentle kick, go about their business.

When, in 1873, Trollope had taken the Montagu Square house, it was for the purpose of ending both his days and his work there and there only. The fates, however, had decided against that. In the late autumn of 1882 Trollope reappeared in London, but took up his abode at Garland’s Hotel, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall. On the 3rd of November, while dining at the house of his brother-in-law, Sir John Tilley, he had a paralytic seizure. He was removed to a nursing home at 34 Welbeck Street, and attended by Dr. Murrell with Sir William Jenner in consultation. For a fortnight his condition improved; then came a relapse. Death followed after an illness which had lasted about a month. On the following Saturday, December 9th, he was laid to rest, not far from Thackeray’s grave, in Kensal Green. Among those present at his funeral were: the most famous survivor of his literary generation, Robert Browning; J. E. Millais, his artistic colleague in so many novels; Mr. Alfred Austin; Frederick Chapman, the head of the publishing firm Chapman and Hall, with which during many years previously he chiefly had to do, his own small interest in which he bequeathed to his family; and an Australian friend, Mr. Rusden, as the representative of those colonies where he had long found some of his most loyal readers.

On the same day that Trollope died there died also, at Cannes, the French socialistic writer Louis Blanc, known to Trollope during the years of his London exile, and, it might have been thought, long forgotten by his English acquaintances. Nevertheless the London papers of December 7th, 1882, devoted a larger space to their comments on the French Radical’s career than to the English novelist’s works. The newspaper verdict was generally represented by _The Times_, which, after a passing reference to his miscellaneous literary activities, correctly enough reflected the public estimate by emphasising Trollope’s sustained hold on his readers and the uniform level of merit during thirty-five years of unceasing work.

His death was immediately followed by some fall in the demand for his writing. Since then, however, time has redressed the balance after so marked a fashion that, among the leading literary features of the twentieth century, a permanent revival of popular interest in the novels and in the man who wrote them will have a place.

* * * * *

A BIBLIOGRAPHY

OF THE

FIRST EDITIONS OF THE WORKS

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

COMPILED BY MARGARET LAVINGTON

WITH NOTES DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM HIS _AUTOBIOGRAPHY_ AND FROM INFORMATION KINDLY GIVEN BY HIS SON, HENRY M. TROLLOPE

1847

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 345; Vol. II., pp. 382; Vol. III., pp. 743 (sic). [This figure is plainly a misprint for 437, as the preceding page is numbered 436.]

The plot, which Trollope considered to be as good as any he ever made, of this book, was conceived during a walk with his friend, John Merivale, around the village of Drumsna, Co. Leitrim, in the course of which they came upon the modern ruins of a country-house, as described in Chapter I. It was begun in September 1843, and finished a year after his marriage, which took place in June 1844. His mother, Mrs. Frances Trollope the novelist, arranged for its publication with Mr. Newby, who neither paid the author anything nor rendered an account of the sales which were presumably very small. The sum of £48, 6_s._ 9_d._ mentioned in the Autobiography as received for this book was probably therefore in respect of the new edition of 1859. Mr. Henry Merivale Trollope kindly informs me that another copy of the first edition in his possession contains a new and different title-page, as though the publisher, seeing that another novel had been issued, hoped to help the sale of his remaining copies by the additional words, “Author of _The Kellys and the O’Kellys_.” The book is in all other respects the same. This later title-page reads as follows:

1848

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 298; Vol. II., pp. 298; Vol. III., pp. 285.

For this book Colburn agreed to pay the author half profits, but actually incurred a loss which amounted to £63, 10_s._ 1½_d._ Only 375 copies were printed, and 140 sold. The sum of £123, 19_s._ 5_d._, recorded as received for this work, was therefore probably in respect of later editions. The influence of a friend obtained a short notice in the _Times_ to the effect that the book was like a leg of mutton, substantial, but a little coarse, but before this notice appeared Trollope had made up his mind never to ask for, or deplore, criticism; never to thank a critic for praise, or quarrel with him for censure. To this rule he adhered with absolute strictness, and recommended it to all young authors.

1850

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv (preface pp. iii-iv), 320; Vol. II., pp. 330; Vol. III., pp. 313.

According to the agreement for this book Trollope was to receive £20 down; £30 when Colburn had sold 350 copies; and £50 more should he sell 450 within six months. The £20 was received, but no more, so that the sales were presumably no larger than before. No reviews of it seem ever to have met Trollope’s eye.

1855

THE | WARDEN. | By | ANTHONY TROLLOPE. | London: | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. | 1855. |

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. iv, 336.

Conceived while wandering around Salisbury Cathedral during his work in establishing rural posts, _The Warden_ was begun by Trollope at Tenbury in Worcestershire on July 29, 1852, and finished in Ireland in the autumn of the following year. This was the first book of the series of novels of which Barchester was the central site. He received a cheque for £9, 8_s._ 8_d._ at the end of 1855, and £10, 15_s._ 1_d._ a year later. A thousand copies were printed, and of these about 300 were converted into another form five or six years later, and sold as belonging to a cheap edition.

A review in the _Times_ rebuked the author for indulging in personalities in the matter of one Tom Towers, introduced by him as a contributor to the _Jupiter_. But though Trollope had certainly thus alluded to the _Times_, he was at that period entirely ignorant of the _personnel_ of its staff.

1857

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 305; Vol. II., p. 299; Vol. III., pp. iv, 321.

Written chiefly in railway trains while investigating the rural postal system of England, _Barchester Towers_ was the second of the series dealing with the bishops, deans, and archdeacon of Barchester. It was published by Longman, after a refusal on the author’s part to curtail the work, on the half-profit system, with the payment of £100 in advance from the half-profits. Writing in 1876, Trollope records a small yearly income from this and the preceding book, _The Warden_, making together at that date a total of £727, 11_s._ 3_d._

1858

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv, 340; Vol. II., pp. iv, 322; Vol. III., pp. iv, 334.

An autobiographical interest marks this book, for the story of how Trollope was admitted into the Secretary’s office of the General Post Office in 1834 by Henry and Clayton Freeling, the sons of Sir Francis, is told in the opening chapters under the guise of Charley Tudor’s admittance into the Internal Navigation Office. The whole scheme of competitive examination is deplored, and its supporters, Sir Charles Trevelyan and Sir Stafford Northcote (afterwards Lord Iddesleigh) appear respectively as Sir Gregory Hardlines and Sir Warwick West End. The book gave official offence.

As Longman was not prepared to buy it outright, Trollope took it to Bentley, who paid him £250 for all rights.

1858

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv, 305; Vol. II. pp. iv, 323; Vol. III., pp. iv, 340.

The plot of this book was sketched for Trollope by his brother, Thomas Adolphus, whom he was visiting in Florence in 1857. This was the only occasion on which he had recourse to other brains for the thread of a story. While writing it in Dublin early in 1858, he was asked to go to Egypt to arrange a postal treaty with the Pasha. He sold his book, when passing through London, to Chapman and Hall for £400, Bentley refusing to give more than £300; and finished it in Egypt, writing his allotted number of pages every day, even during sea-sickness on the terribly rough voyage to Alexandria.

By the sales, he judged this to be his most popular book.

1859

8vo. In One Volume: pp. iv, 395. With coloured map.

When Trollope was asked to go to the West Indies to reconstruct the whole of its postal system, he proposed this book to Chapman and Hall, asking £250 for the single volume. The contract was made without difficulty, and he returned with the completed work. His view of the relative position of white men and black was upheld by three articles in the _Times_, which made the fortune of the book. Trollope regarded it as the best he had ever written.

1859

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv. 335; Vol. II., pp. iv. 344; Vol. III., pp. iv. 331.

Begun the day after finishing _Doctor Thorne_, this book was written under very vagrant circumstances at Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar, Glasgow, at sea, and finished in Jamaica. It was sold to Chapman and Hall for £400, but never attained the popularity of _Doctor Thorne_.

Trollope says that he never heard it well spoken of.

1860

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 303; Vol. II., pp. iv, 300; Vol. III., pp. vi, 289.

Declined by George Smith in November 1859 for the _Cornhill Magazine_, which was to appear for the first time some eight weeks hence, on the ground that it was an Irish story, this book was published later by Chapman & Hall, as originally intended, after _Framley Parsonage_ had been running in the _Cornhill_. This was the only occasion on which Trollope had two different novels in his mind at the same time. He asked and obtained £600 for it on the success of _The West Indies_.

1861

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 333; Vol. II., pp. 318; Vol. III., pp. 330.

There are two illustrations in each volume, the list being on page iv. (unnumbered) of Vol. I.

Messrs. Smith & Elder, having offered Trollope £1000 for the copyright of a three-volume novel to appear serially in their new venture, the _Cornhill_, declined _Castle Richmond_ on account of its Irish character, but begged him to frame some other story, suggesting the Church as a theme peculiar to his powers. He thereupon fell back on his old Barchester friends and wrote a tale that became increasingly popular as it proceeded. _Framley Parsonage_ appeared in the _Cornhill_ from January 1860 to April 1861. The author himself doubted the possibility of making a character more life-like than Lucy Robarts.

1861

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. 312.

This is the First Series; for the Second, see under 1863.

CONTENTS

La Mère Bauche. _Republished from Harper’s New York Magazine._ The O’Conors of Castle Conor. _From the same._ John Bull on the Guadalquivir. _From Cassell’s Family Paper._ Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica. _From the same._ The Courtship of Susan Bell. _From Harper’s New York Magazine._ Relics of General Chassé. _From the same._ An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids. _From Cassell’s Family Paper._ The Château of Prince Polignac. _From the same._

Some of these stories reflect Trollope’s own adventures. The second is based on his early days in Ireland, and the third on the chief incident in a journey to Seville.

1862

8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 320; Vol. II., pp. viii, 320. Each volume contains twenty illustrations.

Completed before he started for America in 1861, this appeared in twenty shilling numbers, and Trollope obtained £3135. While rating the plot highly he thought it declared itself too soon. Of the illustrations by Millais he wrote: “I have never known a set of illustrations so carefully true, as are these, to the conceptions of the writer of the book illustrated. I say that as a writer. As a lover of art I will add that I know no book graced with more exquisite pictures.” The drawing of Orley Farm itself, in the frontispiece, depicts in reality the farmhouse at Harrow in which the Trollope family lived during the author’s boyhood.

1862

8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii.; folding map, 467; Vol. II., pp. viii, 494 (Appendices A, B, and C, pp. 467-494.)

On the outbreak of the War of Secession in 1861 Trollope applied for nine months’ leave of absence from the Post Office and visited America, writing as he went from State to State. It is interesting to note that, contrary to the very strong feeling in England in favour of the South, he felt with and prophesied the victory of the North. The book met the demand of the moment; second and third editions were published in the same year, and Trollope received £1250.

1863

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. 371.

CONTENTS.

1. Aaron Trow. 2. Mrs. General Talboys. 3. The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne. 4. George Walker at Suez. 5. The Mistletoe Bough. 6. Returning Home. 7. A Ride Across Palestine. 8. The House of Heine Brothers in Munich. 9. The Man who kept his Money in a Box.

Republished from various periodicals.

For the first of this series see under 1861. For these two books and (probably) for _Lotta Schmidt_, virtually one of the same series, though the title was discontinued, Trollope received a total sum of £1830. The tales reflect much of his own experiences.

1863

Small 8vo. Vol I., pp. iv, 319; Vol. II., pp. iv, 310.

Written at the request of Dr. Norman Macleod for _Good Words_, _Rachel Ray_ was partly printed by him, and then returned with profuse apologies as unsuitable--as Trollope had predicted it would be. It therefore appeared in ordinary volume form. A later and cheaper edition contained one illustration by Millais. Trollope received a total of £1645.

1864

Octavo. Vol. I., pp. 312; Vol. II., pp. 316.

Vol. I. contains ten illustrations; Vol. II., eight.

On the conclusion of _The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson_, this far more popular work appeared serially in the _Cornhill_ from September 1862 to April 1864. Published in book form in 1864, it ran into a third edition within the year, and Trollope received a sum of £3000. Sir Raffle Buffle, a hero of the Civil Service, was intended to represent a type, not a man; but the man for the picture was soon chosen. Trollope, however, had never seen, and never did see, the supposed prototype.

1864

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 320.

This story was partly formed on a comedy, _The Noble Jilt_, written by Trollope in 1850 and refused by George Bartley, the actor-manager. It became very dear to the author as the first of a series that continued with _Phineas Finn_, _Phineas Redux_, and _The Prime Minister_. _Can You Forgive Her?_ appeared in twenty shilling numbers from August 1863, and Trollope received £3525.

Each volume contains twenty illustrations. Those in the first volume were by “Phiz” (Hablot K. Browne), but Frederick Chapman, the publisher, considered them so bad and incongruous that the remainder were made by a Miss Taylor.

1865

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 312; Vol. II., pp. vi, 313.

Issued in ordinary volume form in the early spring of 1865, _Miss Mackenzie_ was written with the desire to prove love an unessential element in a novel, but the attempt broke down before the conclusion. It brought the author £1300.

1865

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. 115.

CONTENTS.

The Man who Hunts and doesn’t Like it. The Man who Hunts and does Like it. The Lady who Rides to Hounds. The Hunting Farmer. The Man who Hunts and never Jumps. The Hunting Parson. The Master of Hounds. How to Ride to Hounds.

1866

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv, 284; Vol. II., pp. iv, 308; Vol. III., pp. iv, 276.

This was the first serial to appear in the new _Fortnightly Review_, established by Trollope and others in May 1865, under the editorship of G. H. Lewes. It brought in a sum of £1757.

1866

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. 112.

CONTENTS

The Family that Goes Abroad because it’s the Thing to Do. The Man who Travels Alone. The Unprotected Female Tourist. The United Englishmen who Travel for Fun. The Art Tourist. The Tourist in Search of Knowledge. The Alpine Club Man. Tourists who Don’t Like their Travels.

1866

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. 130.

CONTENTS

I. The Modern English Archbishop. II. English Bishops, Old and New. III. The Normal Dean of the Present Day. IV. The Archdeacon. V. The Parson of the Parish. VI. The Town Incumbent. VII. The College Fellow who has taken Orders. VIII. The Curate in a Populous Parish. IX. The Irish Beneficed Clergyman. X. The Clergyman who Subscribes for Colenso.

These sketches incurred the wrath of a great dean, and were the subject of a hostile review in the _Contemporary Review_.

1867

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 313; Vol. II., pp. vi, 309.

This was the last book written for the _Cornhill_ in which it appeared serially from February 1866 to May 1867. The total sum received was £2800, being the highest rate of pay ever accorded to Trollope. It was offered by George Smith, the proprietor of the magazine, and paid in a single cheque.

1867

8vo. Vol. I., pp. 384; Vol. II., pp. 384.

The shilling magazines having interfered greatly with the success of novels published in numbers without other accompanying matter, George Smith made the experiment of bringing this book out in monthly parts at sixpence each. The enterprise was not entirely successful, but the author received £3000 for the use of the MS.

He killed off “Mrs. Proudie” in consequence of a conversation he could not help overhearing between two clergymen at the Athenæum Club.

1867

8vo. In One Volume: pp. 403.

The half-fly-leaf bears the words, “Reprinted from ‘Good Words’ and other Magazines.” There is no list of contents, but the titles of the tales are as follows:

Lotta Schmidt. The Adventures of Fred Pickering. The Two Generals. Father Giles of Ballymoy. Malachi’s Cove. The Widow’s Mite. The Last Austrian who left Venice. Miss Ophelia Gledd. The Journey to Panama.

Trollope himself appears to have regarded this as the third of the series of _Tales of All Countries_, though the actual title had been abandoned. The stories reflect in some degree his own adventures, and for the three books he received a total of £1830. An edition, dated 1870, contains slight bibliographical variations.

1867

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 228; Vol. II, pp. 215.

Begun in 1865, and published anonymously in _Blackwood’s Magazine_ in 1866, the authorship was discovered by Hutton of the _Spectator_ from the repetition of some special phrase peculiar to Trollope. The total sum received for this book was £450.

1868

Small 8vo. In One Volume, pp. 322.

CONTENTS

On Horse-Racing. On Hunting. On Shooting. On Fishing. On Yachting. On Rowing. On Alpine Climbing. On Cricket.

Of these eight papers, which appeared in _St. Paul’s Magazine_, only the second, “On Hunting,” pp. 70-129 inclusive, is by Trollope, though the Preface, pp. 1-7 inclusive, is also his.

1868

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 216; Vol. II., pp. 215.

Page v. (unnumbered) of Vol. I. contains a list of the persons of the story.

Written in June and July 1867 for _Blackwood’s Magazine_, in which it appeared anonymously. Neither this nor _Nina Balatka_ was a success, and Blackwood declined the third such tale which was ready for him. (See _The Golden Lion of Granpère_, 1872, below.) Trollope received £450, which was probably not more than half the sum he would have obtained had he allowed his name to appear.

1869

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 328.

The total sum received for this book was £3200. Completed in May 1867, it appeared in the following October in the new _St. Paul’s Magazine_, founded by James Virtue, and edited by Trollope for three and a half years at a salary of £1000 a year. He attended the gallery of the House of Commons for two months in order to describe correctly the ways and doings of a Parliamentary member. It ran till May 1869. See also note to _Can You Forgive Her?_ above.

1869

8vo. In Two Volumes. Vol. I., pp. ix, 384; Vol. II., pp. ix, 384.

First appeared in thirty-two weekly parts (the first four parts being sewed in one); from November 7, 1867 to May 22, 1868.... Price Sixpence each. The paper cover had an illustration by Marcus Stone, and the publishers were Virtue & Company, 294 City Road, and 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; New York: 12 Dey Street, the proprietors of the _St. Paul’s Magazine_. The total sum received for this book was £3200. It was finished during the negotiations for a postal treaty undertaken by Trollope at Washington.

1870

Small 8vo. In One Volume. With frontispiece and vignette title page before title page as given above; pp. iv, 254.

This ran serially in the _Cornhill_ from August 1861 to March 1862. It was Trollope’s only--and unsuccessful--attempt at a humorous work. He received £600 for it.

The illustrations were by [Illustration: symbol]

1870

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. vi, 182.

John Blackwood having started a series of _Ancient Classics for English Readers_ under the editorship of the Rev. William Lucas Collins, he invited Trollope to write the fourth book of the new venture. Trollope chose his subject and finished the book in three months, giving it as a present to his friend the publisher. It was outside his usual line of work and was coldly received.

1870

8vo. In One Volume, pp. xvi (Preface vii-ix inclusive), 481.

Begun at Washington in 1868 during the negotiations for a postal treaty, the day after finishing _He knew He was Right_, this book was intended for publication in _Once a Week_ in 1869. Owing, however, to the dilatoriness of Victor Hugo, _The Vicar of Bullhampton_, and the translation of _L’Homme qui Rit_ would thus have appeared together, and this the proprietors, Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, naturally deemed unsuitable. They offered Trollope publication in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, but he refused with some heat, and they then issued the work in eight parts, paying him the sum of £2500.

This book was written with the intention of exciting pity and sympathy for a fallen woman, and the author so far departed from his usual principle as to affix a preface, which he reprinted in his _Autobiography_ (Vol. II., 177), in support of his subject.

1870

8vo. One Volume: pp. 375.

CONTENTS

The Turkish Bath. Mary Gresley. Josephine de Montmorenci. The Panjandrum. The Spotted Dog. Mrs. Brumby.

Republished from the _St. Paul’s Magazine_, of which he was editor, these stories reflect in an indirect manner Trollope’s own experiences. He himself considered _The Spotted Dog_ the best of them. The total sum received for this book was £378.

1871

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. vii, 323.

Begun in November 1868 on the conclusion of _The Vicar of Bullhampton_, and written on the same plan as _Nina Balatka_ and _Linda Tressel_, this story was sold to _Macmillan’s Magazine_ for £750, in which it appeared serially without any marked success. It was then sold by the proprietors to Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, who proposed bringing it out in two volume form. Trollope, however, had his own ideas as to the proper length of a volume, and persuaded them to print it in one.

A new edition was published by Macmillan & Co., London and New York, in the same year.

1871

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 342; Vol. II., pp. 338; Vol. III., pp. 347.

This ran serially through the _St. Paul’s Magazine_. Trollope thought it one of the worst novels he had ever written, but the plot of it was afterwards used by Charles Reade for his play, _Shilly-Shally_.

The total sum received for this book was £2500, and it was re-issued in the same year by another firm, as follows:

8vo. In One Volume: pp. iv, 434.

1872

8vo. In One Volume: pp. 353.

Written in September and October 1867, this story was intended for anonymous publication in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, but as Blackwood had not found this arrangement profitable in the cases of _Nina Balatka_ and _Linda Tressel_, it lay by until it appeared in _Good Words_ and the author received £550.

1873

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 354; Vol. II., pp. viii, 363; Vol. III., pp. viii, 354.

This appeared in the _Fortnightly_ from July 1871 during Trollope’s absence in Australia. The legal opinion as to heirlooms which it contains was written by Charles Merewether, afterwards M.P. for Northampton, and Trollope was told that it became the ruling authority on the subject. As regarded sales, this was the most successful book since _The Small House at Allington_. The author received £2500.

1873

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 533. With coloured map as frontispiece; Introduction, pp. 1-22: Queensland, pp. 25-181; New South Wales, pp. 185-348; Victoria, pp. 351-515; Appendices I-V, pp. 516-530; Index, pp. 531-533.

Vol. II., pp. vi, 516. With coloured folding map of Tasmania; Tasmania, pp. 1-76; Western Australia, pp. 79-150; South Australia, pp. 153-250; Australian Institutions, pp. 253-297; New Zealand, pp. 301-494; Conclusion, pp. 497-500; Appendices I-III, pp. 501-512; Index, pp. 513-516.

This was the outcome of a visit to the Antipodes. Trollope, with his wife, left England in May 1871, and returned with the MS. practically finished in December 1872. About 2000 copies of the first edition were sold, and the book again did well in small four-volume form. Trollope received £1300.

1874

Small 8vo. In One Volume, pp. 313.

Written in 1873 by request of the proprietors of the _Graphic_, who paid him £450, _Harry Heathcote_ reflects many of the experiences of Trollope’s second son, who was a sheep farmer in Australia.

1874

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 317; Vol. II., pp. viii, 314.

This story was written on the voyage to Australia in 1871, at the rate of sixty-six pages of MS. a week for eight weeks, each page containing 250 words. Trollope records that he missed one day’s work through illness. It appeared in the _Fortnightly_ in 1873 on the conclusion of _The Eustace Diamonds_.

The total sum received for this book was £1200.

1874

Octavo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 339; Vol. II., pp. v., 329.

This story, with _An Eye for an Eye_, was left behind in a strong box by Trollope when he visited Australia in 1871-2. It was subsequently sold to the proprietors of the _Graphic_ for £2500, in which paper it appeared in 1873.

The illustrations, twelve in each volume, are by Frank Holl.

See also the note under _Can You Forgive Her?_ above.

1875

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 319.

The illustrations are by L. G. F.

This was a vigorous piece of satire, written in Trollope’s new home, 39 Montagu Square, in 1873. It appeared in shilling numbers from February 1874 to September 1875.

The total sum received for this book was £3000.

1876

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 337; Vol. II., pp. iv, 342; Vol. III., vi, 346; Vol. IV., pp. vi, 347.

This book appeared in eight parts at five shillings each, with an illustration in medallion on the paper covers, which were engraved by Dalziel. It was in most respects a failure, worse reviewed than any novel Trollope had written. He was especially hurt by a criticism in the _Spectator_. The total sum received for this work was £2500.

See also note under _Can You Forgive Her?_ above.

1877

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 293; Vol. II., pp. viii, 293; Vol. III., pp. vii, 284.

First appeared in _Temple Bar_ in 1875, while Trollope was engaged upon his _Autobiography_. The total sum received for this book was £1800.

The author himself regarded it as inferior to _The Prime Minister_, but it was more favourably received.

1878

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vii, 301; Vol. II., pp. vii, 297; Vol. III., pp. vii, 319.

First appeared in _All the Year Round_ in 1877.

The total sum received for this book was £1600. It was written immediately after _The Prime Minister_.

1878

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vii, 352; Vol. II., pp. vii, 346 and index, pp. 347-352 inclusive.

Written during a visit to the colony in 1877. The total sum received for this book was £850.

1879

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 290; Vol. II., pp. vi, 296; Vol. III., pp. vi, 302.

The total sum received for this book was £1800. It appeared first in _Blackwood’s Magazine_.

1879

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 215; Vol. II., pp. vi, 208.

This was written before the visit to Australia in 1871-2.

1879

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 219; Vol. II., pp. viii, 222.

1879

Small 8vo. In one Volume: pp. vi, 210.

This was one of the English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley.

1880

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 320; Vol. II., pp. viii, 327; Vol. III., pp. viii, 312.

First published in volume form.

1880

8vo. Vol. I., pp. vii, 419, with Introduction, pp. 1 to 40 inclusive; and Appendices A, B, C, D, E, pp. 401-419 inclusive; Vol. II., pp. vii, 423, with Appendix, pp. 405-410 inclusive; and Index, pp. 411-423 inclusive.

1881

8vo. Vol. I., pp. iv, 280; Vol. II., pp. iv, 272; Vol. III., iv, 277.

Published in volume form only.

1881

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 237; Vol. II., pp. vi, 246.

Published in volume form only.

1882

Small 8vo. In One Volume: pp. vi, 416.

CONTENTS.

Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices. The Lady of Launay. Christmas at Thompson Hall. The Telegraph Girl. Alice Dugdale.

This was also issued in two volume form, with the same pagination, Vol. I. containing pp. vi, 1-197; Vol. II. pp. 201-416.

1882

Small 8vo. In One Volume; pp. 220 (index, pp. 215-220).

1882

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 200; Vol. II., pp. 203.

Originally published in _Blackwood’s Magazine_.

1882

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 253; Vol. II., pp. 239.

1882

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 303; Vol. II., pp. viii, 282; Vol. III., pp. viii, 271.

1883

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vii, 308; Vol. II., pp. vii, 326; Vol. III., pp. vii, 325.

First appeared in _All the Year Round_.

1883

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. xiv, 259; with a portrait frontispiece and Preface, pp. v-xi, by Henry Merivale Trollope, dated September 1883. Vol. II., pp. 227.

Trollope died on December 6, 1882. His _Autobiography_, which had been written about 1876, was published by his son in 1883. It is on this authoritative work that most of the notes in this Bibliography are based.

1883

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vii, 280; Vol. II., pp. vii, 296; Vol. III., pp. vii, 291.

The following note by Henry M. Trollope appears in the first volume:

“This novel was to have contained sixty chapters. My father had written as much as is now published before his last illness. It will be seen that he had not finished the forty-ninth chapter; and the fragmentary portion of that chapter stands now just as he left it. He left no materials from which the tale could be completed, and no attempt at completion will be made. At the end of the third volume I have stated what were his intentions with regard to certain people in the story; but beyond what is there said I know nothing.”

In the preface to the _Autobiography_ Mr. Trollope further states this to have been the only book, beside _Framley Parsonage_, of which his father published even the first number before completing the whole tale, and its unfinished condition weighed heavily upon his mind. It appeared in a weekly paper called _Life_, beginning in the autumn of 1882.

1884

Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 226; Vol. II., pp. 219.

Vol. I. contains the following note by Henry M. Trollope: “This story, _An Old Man’s Love_, is the last of my father’s novels. As I have stated in the preface to his _Autobiography, The Landleaguers_ was written after this book, but was never fully completed.”

THE BARSETSHIRE NOVELS

The combined republication of the novels dealing with the fictitious county of Barsetshire was undertaken by Chapman and Hall in 1879, under the collective title of _The Chronicles of Barsetshire_. This includes--

The Warden. Barchester Towers. Doctor Thorne. Framley Parsonage. The Small House at Allington. The Last Chronicles of Barsetshire.

They filled eight volumes, large crown 8vo.

There is a short introduction in the first volume, and an illustration to each novel, but to _The Last Chronicles_ there are two. Most of these are signed F. A. F(raser). Trollope told his son that he did not really think _The Small House_ belonged to the series, but he was pressed by Frederick Chapman to include the book and therefore he consented.

FUGITIVE ARTICLES

Although this is a Bibliography of First Editions only, some brief indication of Trollope’s more fugitive work may be given.

In 1848-9 he wrote a series of letters to the _Examiner_, under the editorship of John Forster, on the condition of Ireland and in defence of the policy of the Government. No remuneration for these was ever offered him.

In 1855-6, or thereabouts, he wrote several articles for the _Dublin University Magazine_, one on Julius Cæsar, one on Augustus Cæsar, and another, savage in its denunciation, on Competitive Examinations.

Shortly after Thackeray’s death, Trollope wrote an appreciative sketch of his late edition for the _Cornhill_, and this was reprinted, together with an “In Memoriam” article by Charles Dickens, in _Thackeray, the Humourist, and the Man of Letters_, by Theodore Taylor, published by D. Appleton, New York, 1864.

On the establishment of the _Fortnightly Review_ in 1865 he contributed numerous articles, among them one advocating the signature of the authors to periodical writing; another in defence of fox-hunting, in answer to Freeman the historian; and two on Cicero. Many of the reviews are also from his pen.

The _Pall Mall Gazette_ having been founded in the same year (1865), Trollope was for some time a frequent contributor, his Hunting and Clerical Sketches being afterwards reprinted in book form. He wrote on the American War, and reviewed new publications, one of which involved him in a quarrel with a friend. He was also requested to attend the May Meetings at Exeter Hall and give a graphic description of the proceedings. This resulted in only one article, _A Zulu in Search of a Religion_, for Trollope flatly refused to go again.

From 1859 to 1871 he records that he “wrote political articles, critical, social, and sporting articles, for periodicals, without number,” and during the journey to Australia, in 1871-2, he supplied a series of articles to the _Daily Telegraph_. These sundries, when he wrote his _Autobiography_, had brought him a sum of £7800.

UNPUBLISHED AND PROJECTED WORKS

In 1850 Trollope wrote a comedy, partly in blank verse and partly in prose, called _The Noble Jilt_, which was declined by George Bartley, the actor-manager. He afterwards made use of the plot in _Can You Forgive Her?_ Nor was this his only attempt at work for the stage, for in 1869 he dramatised a scene from _The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire_ under the title of _Did He Steal It?_--a comedy in three acts. This, too, was declined by the manager of the Gaiety Theatre, George Hollingshead, who had asked for it. It was, however, printed but not published.

He proposed a handbook on Ireland to John Murray, worked hard on it for some weeks, and submitted nearly a quarter of the supposed length, which was returned, nine months later, without a word. This was about 1850.

Trollope read widely with a view to writing a history of English prose fiction, beginning with _Robinson Crusoe_, but when Dickens and Bulwer Lytton died, his spirit flagged, and the project was abandoned. Early English drama, too, interested him greatly, and he left very many criticisms of plots and characterisation written at the end of each play.

In the summer of 1878, at the invitation of John Burns, afterwards first Lord Inverclyde, he joined a party of friends on board _The Mastiff_, one of Burns’ steamships, for a sixteen days’ cruise to Iceland. He was asked by his host to write an account of the trip, and did so, the book being issued, for private circulation only, in quarto form, to admit of the illustrations (the illustrator was also one of the party) and a map. Its title-page reads as follows:

Trollope at different times gave a few lectures, which he had printed but never published. The subjects of these included, among others:

The Civil Service as a Profession. The War in America. English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement. The Higher Education of Women.

(With regard to the last it may be noted that he was always opposed to female suffrage.)

AMERICAN ROYALTIES

As Trollope was commissioned by the Foreign Office when in America in 1861 to make an effort on behalf of international copyright, it is worthy of note that he himself was pirated widely. One book (perhaps _Is He Popenjoy?_), for which he received £1600 in England, was sold by his publishers here to an American firm for £20, the highest price they would give, considering the chance of piration by other houses. In the American form it was published at 7½_d._ For a list of actual sums received, see p. 272.

ARTICLES OF BIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST GIVEN IN POOLE’S INDEX

+-------------------------+----------------+-----------------------+----+----+ | Title | Author | Periodical |Date|Page| +-------------------------+----------------+-----------------------+----+----+ |Anthony Trollope |W. T. Washburn |North American Review |1860| 292| | “ “ |A. V. Dicey |Nation (New York) |1874| 174| |Anthony Trollope (with | | | | | | portrait) | ...... |Once a Week |1872| 498| | “ “ “ | ...... |Appleton’s Journal |1871| 551| |Anthony Trollope | ...... | “ “ |1879| 275| |Anthony Trollope | | | | | | (portrait of) | ...... |Galaxy |1871| 451| |Anthony Trollope |T. H. S. Escott |Time |1879| 626| |Death of Anthony Trollope| ...... |Spectator |1882|1573| | “ “ “ |James Bryce |Nation (New York) |1883| 10| |Obituary of Anthony | | | | | | Trollope |R. F. Littledale|Academy |1882| 433| |Anthony Trollope |M. Schuyler |American |1883| 152| | “ “ | ...... |Saturday Review |1882| 755| | “ “ | ...... |Month |1883| 484| | “ “ |J. Hawthorne |Manhattan |1883| 573| | “ “ |E. A. Freeman |Macmillan’s Magazine |1883| 236| |Anthony Trollope | | | | | | (same article) | “ |Eclectic Magazine |1883| 406| | “ “ “ | “ |Littell’s Living Age |1883| 177| |Anthony Trollope | ...... |Good Words |1883| 142| |Anthony Trollope | | | | | | (same article) | ...... |Littell’s Living Age |1883| 567| | “ “ “ | ...... |Eclectic Magazine |1883| 531| |Anthony Trollope | ...... |Blackwood’s Magazine |1883| 316| | “ “ | ...... |Westminster Review |1884| 83| |Anthony Trollope | | | | | | (same article) | ...... |Littell’s Living Age |1884| 195| |Anthony Trollope |B. Tuckermann |Princetown Review |1883| 17| | “ “ |H. James |Century |1883| 385| | “ “ | ...... |Knowledge |1882| 475| | “ “ | ...... |Literary World (Boston)|1882| 456| | “ “ |Donald Macleod |Good Words |1884| 248| |Anthony Trollope | | | | | | (with portrait) |W. H. Pollock |Harper’s Magazine |1883| 907| |Anthony Trollope and | | | | | | the _Times_ | ...... |Knowledge |1882| 462| |Anthony Trollope as a | | | | | | Critic | ...... |Spectator |1883|1373| |Anthony Trollope compared| | | | | | with Daudet | ...... |Atlantic Monthly |1884| 426| |Autobiography of Anthony | | | | | | Trollope | ...... |Spectator |1883|1377| | “ “ “ | ...... |Literary World (Boston)|1883| 442| | “ “ “ | ...... |Saturday Review |1883| 505| | “ “ “ |R. F. Littledale|Academy |1883| 273| | “ “ “ | ...... |Atlantic Monthly |1884| 267| |Autobiography of Anthony | ...... |Littell’s Living Age |1883| 579| | Trollope | | | | | | “ “ “ | ...... |Blackwood’s Magazine |1884| 577| | “ “ “ | ...... |Macmillan’s Magazine |1884| 47| | “ “ “ |A. Tanzer |Nation (New York) |1883| 396| | “ “ “ | ...... |Athenæum |1883|II.457| |Boyhood of Anthony | ...... |Spectator |1883|1343| | Trollope | | | | | |Anthony Trollope’s Mode | ...... |London Society |1883| 347| | of Work (with portrait)| | | | | |Literary Life of Anthony | ...... |Edinburgh Review |1884| 186| | Trollope | | | | | |Literary Life of Anthony | ...... |Littell’s Living Age |1884| 451| | Trollope (same article)| | | | | |Last Reminiscences of | ...... |Temple Bar |1884| 129| | Anthony Trollope | | | | | |Last Reminiscences of | ...... |Critic |1884| 25| | Anthony Trollope (same | | | | | | article) | | | | | |Anthony Trollope’s Place |F. Harrison |Forum |1895| 324| | in Literature | | | | | |Anthony Trollope |D. P. Trent |Citizen |1896| 297| |Anthony Trollope (with |H. T. Peck |Bookman |1901| 114| | portrait) | | | | | |Anthony Trollope |G. S. Street |Cornhill |1901| 349| |Anthony Trollope (same | “ |Littell’s Living Age |1901| 128| | article) | | | | | |Anthony Trollope |Leslie Stephen |National Review |1901| 68| |Anthony Trollope (same | “ “ |Littell’s Living Age |1901| 366| | article) | | | | | |Anthony Trollope | “ “ |Eclectic Magazine |1902| 112| | “ “ |G. Bradford, Jun.|Atlantic Monthly |1902| 426| |Recoming of Anthony | “ “ |Dial |1903| 141| | Trollope | | | | | |An Appreciation and |T. H. S. Escott |Fortnightly |1906|1905| | Reminiscence of Anthony| | | | | | Trollope | | | | | |The Trollopes: a famous |A. B. M‘Gill |Bookbuyer |1900| 195| | literary clan | | | | | +-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------+----+----+

INDEX

[_The names of characters in Trollope’s novels are distinguished by an asterisk_]

_Academy, The_, on _South Africa_, 287

Addison, Joseph, 162

Ainsworth, Harrison, illustrated by Cruikshank, 138

Albany, literary associations of the, 174-6

Albert, Prince, influence of, 256, 260

Albuda, 288

Alexandria, 124

Alison’s _History of Europe_, account of French Revolution in, 87, 88, 98

_All the Year Round_, 139

---- _Mr. Scarborough’s Family_, 298

Alpine Society, the, 155

Althorp, Lord, in the Albany, 176

*Amedroz, Clara, 218

American Civil War, the, Trollope’s impressions of, 200-202

American receipts, Trollope’s, 272

_American Senator, The_, material for, 202, 270

Ancient Classics Series, _Cæsar_, 284, 290

Anderson, James, actor, 146

Anglo-Egyptian postal treaty, Trollope arranges, 122-4

Anne, Queen, 162

Antwerp, 13

*Arabin, Dean, and Mrs., 105, 205, 237-9

*Aram, Solomon, 195

Archdeckne, caricatured by Thackeray, 148

Arlington Club, the, 159

*Armstrong, George, 80

Arnold, Matthew, analytical psychology of, 306

---- at Highclere, 289

Artists’ Rifle Corps, the, 157, 158

Arts Club, the, foundation of, 157, 158

Arundel Club, the, 156

Ashley, Lord. _See_ Shaftesbury

Ashley’s Hotel, 156

Astley’s Circus, 125

_Athenæum, The_, on _Australia_, 275

---- on _Rachel Ray_, 243

---- on _South Africa_, 286

---- on _The Warden_, 111

Athenæum Club, Trollope as member of, 142, 143, 153, 159, 232, 287, 305

Austen, Jane, born at Steventon, 6

---- _Pride and Prejudice_, 25, 53

---- Trollope compared with, 112, 128, 137, 138, 186

Austin, Alfred, attends Trollope’s funeral, 308

---- his politics, 177

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

---- _The Garden that I Love_, 301

_Australia and New Zealand_, estimates of, 275, 276

Australian mail-service, the, 288

Austro-Italian War, the, 256

_Autobiography_, Trollope’s, 4; quoted, 60

*Aylmer, Captain, 218

Aytoun and Martin, quoted, 26

Bacon, Francis, 292

Baden-Baden, 216

*Baker, Miss, 234

*Balatka, Nina, 231

*Ball, John, 234

*Ballandine, Lord, 78, 79

Ballantine, advocate, 194

Barcelona, Hannay at, 163

Barchester novels, the, clerical portraiture in, 102

---- regarded collectively, 205, 220, 269, 292

_Barchester Towers_, clerical portraiture in, 103, 105, 225-8, 235

---- genesis of, 205

---- publication of, 114

Barclay, Captain, pedestrian, 125

Barère, Bertrand, Macaulay on, 95, 96

Barrington, Lord, 154

Barrington, Sir Jonah, _Memoirs_ of, 49

*Barton, Rev. Amos, 133

Bath, Trollope at, 229

Bathe, Sir Henry de, at the Garrick, 145

Bayes, Daniel, 249

Baylis, Judge, on Trollope at Harrow, 17

Beaconsfield, Lord. _See_ Disraeli

Bedford, Duke of, commissions Hayter, 9

Beesly, E. S., at George Eliot’s, 183

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

*Beilby and Burton, 220

Bell, Jockey, 266

Bell, Robert, library of, 307

*Bellfield, Captain, 213

_Belton Estate, The_, publication of, 179, 217, 218, 279

*Belton, Will, 218

Bent, Miss Fanny, 294

Bentinck, Lord George, his revolt against Peel, 5

---- reputation of, 141

Bentley, Richard, loses Trollope as a client, 122

Berkeley, Sir Henry, Governor of Cape Town, 285

Berlin, Trollope in, 173

_Bertrams, The_, 234

---- written in Egypt, 124, 273

Berwick-on-Tweed, Earle, M.P. for, 175

Beverley, Trollope contests, 105, 213, 217, 245-254, 267, 269, 274

Bianconi, Charles, his Irish cars, 44, 45

Birmingham, King Edward’s School, 20, 291

Birmingham League, the, 178

Blackburn, Morley contests, 180

Blackie, Professor, Trollope visits, 126

_Blackwood’s Magazine_, _Scenes of Clerical Life_, 183

Blackwood, John, publishes Trollope’s anonymous work, 231-4

---- Trollope’s relations with, 132, 284, 285, 290

*Blake, Dot, 76-80

Blanc, Louis, death of, 308

Bland, Miss, amanuensis, 300, 306

Blankenberghe, 260

Blessington, Countess of, 127; her retort to Napoleon III, 34

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 11

Boccaccio, 129

Bohemian societies in London, 156

*Bold, John, 107

*Bold, Mrs., 105, 230, 237

*Bolster, Bridget, 193, 198

*Bolton, Hester, 281-3

*Boncassen, Isabel, 268

_Bon Gaultier Ballads_, quoted, 26

*Bonner, Mary, 252-4

*Bonteen, Mr., 261, 280

*Boodle, Captain, 222

Borthwick, Algernon, in Florence, 121

Boulogne, duels at, 260

*Bourbotte, 97

Bowood, 143

Bowring, Lucy, original of Julia Brabazon, 294

Bowring, Sir John, 294

*Bozzle, 294

*Brabazon, Julia, 220, 294

Bradbury & Evans, Messrs., printers, 184

---- issue _Once a Week_, 239

Braddon, Amelia, influence of, 188, 241, 291

*Brady, Pat, 71-5

Brantingham Thorp, 249

*Brattle, Sam, 241, 242

*Brentford, Earl of, 258-263

Bridgwater, disfranchisement of, 251 _note_

Bright, John, in fiction, 265

Bristol, port of, 6

British Columbia, independence of, 288

British Guiana, Trollope in, 127

Broadhead, at Sheffield, 178

*Bromar, Marie, 218, 219

*Bromley, Rev. Mr., 283

Brontë, Charlotte, _Jane Eyre_, 132

Brontë, Emily, _Wuthering Heights_, 62

Brooks, Shirley, influence of, 291

Brougham, Lord, as member of the Athenæum, 143

Broughton, Rhoda, _Not Wisely, but Too Well_, 167

*Brown, Jonas, Fred and George, 76, 77

_Brown, Jones, and Robinson_, critical estimate of, 160, 161, 220

---- its reception in America, 270

Browne, Hablot K., illustrations by, 138, 139

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 119; her preference for _The Three Clerks_, 185

Browning, Robert, at George Eliot’s, 183

---- attends Trollope’s funeral, 308

---- his home in Florence, 119

---- on _The Three Clerks_, 37

---- on Trollope, 290, 306

*Brownlow, Edith, 240

Bruges, Trollope family at, 14, 17, 20, 28

Brussels, 56

Bryce, James, at Washington, 163

Budleigh Salterton, Trollope at, 113

Bull Run, battle of, 201

Bulwer, Sir Henry, in Paris, 34, 255, 256

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, contests St. Ives, 245

---- his opinion of women, 206

---- international sympathy of, 173

---- political element in novels of, 272

---- Thackeray on, 148

---- _The Caxtons_, 275

---- _The Last of the Barons_, 94

---- _What Will He do with It?_, 208

---- _Zanoni_, 88

*Bunce, 107

Burke, Edmund, 86

Burke, Sir John and Lady, 57

Burrell, Sir Charles, 5

Burton, Decimus, architect of the Athenæum, 143

*Burton, Florence, 221, 294

Burton, Sir R. F., as diplomatist, 163

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

Butler, George, headmaster of Harrow, 15

Butt, Isaac, 57

---- cross-examines Trollope, 58-60

Buxton, Charles, as a hunting man, 168

Buxton, E. N., on Trollope in the hunting field, 169, 197

Byron, Lord, his influence, 206

---- his rebellion against Dr. Butler, 15

---- on _Don Juan_, 110

---- Trelawny’s _Reminiscences_ of, 119

Cadiz, 49

_Cæsar_, a gift to John Blackwood, 284, 290

Cæsar, Julius and Augustus, Trollope’s articles on, 165

Cahir, 45

Cairns, advocate, 194

Cairo, Trollope in, 123, 273

Calcraft, Granby, 57

*Caldigate, John, 280-283

Calne, Macaulay, M.P. for, 246

Cambridge, Trollope visits, 84

Cannes, 308

Canning, George, Bentinck secretary to, 141

Canterbury, election at, 260

_Can You Forgive Her?_ critical estimate of, 33, 176, 185, 197, 202, 204-220, 238, 240, 261, 292, 293, 296

---- founded on _The Noble Jilt_, 157, 208

---- illustrations of, 204

---- political element of, 247, 256, 265

Cape Town, Trollope at, 282-7, 289

Cardwell, at Winchester, 17

---- M.P. for Oxford, 164, 246

Carleton, William, his Irish novels, 53, 54

Carlton House, site of, 143

Carlyle, Thomas, 306

---- as a conversationalist, 142

---- his _French Revolution_, 88, 97-100

---- Macaulay on, 121

---- on Trollope, 115, 127

---- Trollope on, 127

Carnarvon, Lord, his South African policy, 285, 287-9

---- Trollope’s friendship with, 288

*Carruthers, Lord George de Bruce, 280

Casewick, Lincolnshire, 28

*Cashel, Earl of, 78-80

_Castle Richmond_, plot of, discussed, 83, 128-131, 206

*Cathelineau, 97

Catherine II of Russia, 207

Cattermole, George, illustrates _The Old Curiosity Shop_, 138

Central America, Trollope in, 127

Cetewayo, war with, 285

*Chadwick, Mr., 107

*Chaffanbrass, 194

Chamberlain, Joseph, secular educationalist, 178

Chapman, Edward, accepts _Doctor Thorne_, 122

Chapman, Frederick, attends Trollope’s funeral, 308

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 177, 179

Chapman & Hall, Messrs., Trollope’s connection with, 122, 173, 179, 199, 228, 239, 257, 275, 285, 286, 308

Charles II, King, 262

Charles X, exile of, 86

Charlotte, Princess, 224

Chartists, the, 38

*Cheesacre, farmer, 213

Cheltenham, Trollope at, 211, 229

Chichester, 299

*Chilton, Lord, 170, 197, 198, 259, 260

Chouans, rising of the, 94

*Chouardin, 97

_Christian Examiner, The_, 53

Christie, James, at the Garrick, 146

Christina of Spain, Queen, 207

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 270 _note_

_Cicero_, analysis of, 290, 291

Cider Cellars, the, 156

Cincinnati, 13

Civil Service, Trollope on the, 166

Civil Service Club, the, 158

Clancarty, Lord, of Garbally, 56

Clanricarde, Lord, his relations with Thackeray, 161

---- his relations with Trollope, 131, 139

Clarendon, Lord, 163

Clarke, Miss, salon of, 34

*Clavering, Captain Archibald, 221, 222

*Clavering, Rev. Henry, 220

_Claverings, The_, critical estimate of, 220-222

---- Julia Brabazon, 294

---- publication of, 165, 220

Clerical portraiture, by Trollope, 101-116, 136, 205, 224-244

Clonmel, Trollope at, 45, 60

Cobden, Richard, in fiction, 265

Cockburn, Sir Alexander, assists Trollope in his _Life of Palmerston_, 255, 256

Colchester, Lord, as Postmaster-General, 118, 222

Coleridge, Lord, 194

Coleridge, S. T., as a Tory, 86

---- as a conversationalist, 142

---- Thomas Anthony Trollope on, 8

_Colleen Bawn, The_, 54

*Colligan, Doctor, 80

Collins, Wilkie, popularity of, 188, 241, 291

---- Trollope compared with, 128, 129, 291

---- withdraws from the Garrick, 149

Cologne, 173

Columbia, Trollope in, 127

Competitive examinations, Trollope on, 166

Congreve, his clergymen, 104

Conington’s translation of Horace, 150, 171, 203, 214

Connemara, 82

Constantinople, British fleet at, 287

Cook, Douglas, 267 _note_

---- editor of the _Saturday_, 176, 243

Coole Park, Trollope at, 49, 54-7, 63

Cooper, Fenimore, influence of, 271

---- _The Last of the Mohicans_, 53

Cork, 48

_Cornhill Magazine, The_, Trollope’s connection with, 129, 131-4, 136, 160, 164, 186, 188, 204, 208, 220, 270

Cosmopolitan Club, the, membership of, 153-5, 172, 173

Cottereau, Jean, 94

Cottery St. Mary, Herts, 28

_Courtship of Susan Bell, The_, publication of, 271

*Cox & Cummins, 107

*Crawley, Grace, 105, 294

*Crawley, Rev. Josiah, 105, 236

*Crinkett, Tom, 281

Croker, John Wilson, as member of the Athenæum, 143

---- original of Rigby, 87

*Crook, 193

*Crosbie, Adolphus, 160, 208

Crosskill, Alfred, 249

Crowe, a Wykehamist poet, 8

Cruikshank, George, illustrates _Oliver Twist_, 138

Crystal Palace, the, 183

Cunningham, J. W., incumbent of Harrow, 30, 54, 83

_Daily News, The_, 307

*Dale, Lily, 137, 160, 187, 205, 294

Dale, R. W., educational policy of, 178

*Daubeny, Premier, 264, 265, 290

Davis, Jefferson, Gladstone on, 201

Davy, Sir Humphry, at the Athenæum, 143

Day, Thomas, educational system of, 6, 30

*De Courcy, Lady Rosina, 267

Defoe, Daniel, _Robinson Crusoe_, 129

---- _The Shortest Way with the Dissenters_, 242

Delane, J. T., on foreign adventurers, 296-8

---- Trollope’s intimacy with, 126, 296

*Denot, Adolphe, 92

Denys, Sir George, 174

Derby, Lord, his ministry, 118, 155, 250, 275

*Desmond, Lady Clara, 130, 131

Devonshire, eighth Duke of, 259

Dicey, Edward, reconciled to Pigott, 307

---- sub-edits the _St. Paul’s_, 257

Dickens, Charles, _All the Year Round_, 158, 298

---- _American Notes_, 202

---- as member of the Garrick, 145, 147-149

---- _Bleak House_, 119, 235, 294

---- character of, 171

---- _David Copperfield_, 8, 12, 20, 293, 295

---- _Dombey & Son_, 222, 295, 296, 304

---- _Edwin Drood_, 302

---- _Great Expectations_, 139, 296

---- _Household Words_, 149

---- _Little Dorrit_, 147, 298

---- _Martin Chuzzlewit_, 202

---- _Nicholas Nickleby_, 101

---- _Old Curiosity Shop_, 138, 236

---- _Oliver Twist_, 71, 76, 138

---- on Dissent, 112, 225, 235

---- on George Eliot, 183, 184

---- on Thackeray, 151 _note_

---- on Trollope, 76

---- _Our Mutual Friend_, 110

---- _Pickwick Papers_, 26, 137, 138, 235

---- refuses to contest Reading, 245

---- _Tale of Two Cities_, 88, 194

---- Thackeray invites to Oxford, 247

---- Thackeray on, 147, 150, 151

---- Trollope compared with, and influenced by, 32, 37, 110, 128, 220, 243, 251, 256, 257, 295

---- Trollope’s relations with, 182, 192

Disraeli, Benjamin, at Gore House, 128

---- _Coningsby_, 17, 87, 143, 172, 260

---- Earle, secretary to, 174

---- _Endymion_, 172, 265

---- _Henrietta Temple_, 252

---- his maiden speech, 61

---- _Lothair_, 259

---- ministry of, 250, 287

---- M.P. for Maidstone, 246

---- on a statesman’s wife, 262

---- on _The Eustace Diamonds_, 280

---- on the revolt against Peel, 5

---- policy of, 155

---- political novels of, 110, 271, 272

---- portrayed as Daubeny, 264, 265

---- reputation of, 141

---- _Vivian Grey_, 245

*Dockwrath, 190-199

_Doctor Thorne_, 105

---- composition of, 124

---- publication of, 122, 173, 241

_Domestic Manners of the Americans, The_, 102

---- Louis Philippe on, 34

D’Orsay, Count, 127

Draycote, Yorkshire, 174

Dresden, 263

Drummond, Thomas, his dictum on property, 43

Drummond-Wolff, Henry, 154

Drury family, the, 29

---- their school at Sunbury, 17

Drury, Joseph, headmaster of Harrow, 15

Drury, Mark, master at Harrow, 15

Drury Lane Theatre, 143

_Dr. Wortle’s School_, analysis of, 302-4

Dublin, Archbishop of. _See_ Trench

Dublin, decay of society in, 65, 67, 82

---- Trollope in, 40

_Dublin University Magazine_, 53

---- Trollope’s articles in, 165, 166

Ducrow, at Astley’s, 125

Duelling, decay of, 260

Duff, Grant, 154

Duffy, Gavan, influence of, 69

_Duke’s Children, The_, publication of, 216

---- Lady Mabel Grex, 295

---- political element of, 257, 268, 269, 271

*Dumouriez, General, 97

Dunkellin, Lord, 82

*Dunstable, Miss, 105

*Duplay, Eleanor, 99, 100

Dyne, headmaster of Highgate, 151

Eames, John, 160

Earle, Ralph, career of, 174, 175

Edgeworth, Maria, fiction of, 6, 53, 61-3, 138, 186

Edgeworth, Richard, his educational system, 30

Edinburgh, 285

---- Trollope in, 126

_Edinburgh Courant, The_, Hannay of, 126

_Edinburgh Review, The_, 95, 121

Edward IV, King, 94

Edward VII, King, 155

Edwards, H. S., on Paris, 89

Edwards, Sir Henry, M.P. for Beverley, 248, 250

*Effingham, Violet, 259-264

Egypt, Trollope in, 273

Eldon, Lord, 118

Elementary Schools Bill, the, 178

Eliot, George, 244

---- _Adam Bede_, 106, 136, 184, 254

---- her influence on Trollope, 183-5, 187, 305

---- _Middlemarch_, 110, 185

---- _Romola_, 183, 184

---- _Scenes of Clerical Life_, 183

Eliot, Lord, as Irish Secretary, 42, 57

Elizabeth, Queen, 207, 287

Elwell, Charles, 249

Ely, Archdeacon of. _See_ Charles Merivale

*Emilius, Rev. Joseph, 280

Encumbered Estates Act, the, 50, 51, 288

_English Churchman, The_, 242

English Men of Letters Series, _Thackeray_, 164

*Erle, Barrington, 261

Escott, T. H. S., acquaintance with Trollope, 113, 115

---- _Masters of English Journalism_, 168 _note_

Essex hunt, the, 168, 197, 278

Eton, 16

*Eustace, Lizzie, Lady, 279

_Eustace Diamonds, The_, analysis of, 279

---- publication of, 218

Evangelicalism, Mrs. Trollope’s attack on, 30, 31, 84, 101

---- Trollope’s dislike of, 101, 210, 223-244, 261, 283

Evans, Marian. _See_ George Eliot

Everard, Mr., at Highclere, 290

Everingham, 248

_Examiner, The_, Trollope’s letters in, 37, 81-3, 128, 182

Exeter, portrayed by Trollope, 229, 233, 294

_Eye for an Eye, An_, analysis of, 301

Faber, F. W., his influence on Trollope, 83-5, 283

Fane, Julian, 172

Faraday, Michael, at the Athenæum, 143

Farmer, George, 147

Farmer, Nurse, 224

*Father John, 75, 76

*Fawn, Lord, 280

Feminist views, Trollope’s, 206-210

*Fenwick, Frank, 240

Fielding, Henry, novels of, 104, 137, 293

---- _Tom Jones_, 25

Fielding Club, the, 156

Fiesole, Landor at, 119

*Finn, Malachi and Phineas, 257

*Fitzgerald, Burgo, 214-17

*Fitzgerald, Owen, 130

*Fitzgerald, Misses, 131

*Fitzgibbon, Laurence, 258

Fladgate, Counsel for Harrow, 15

Fladgate, Mr., at the Garrick, 146

*Flannelly, for, 68, 73

*Fletcher, Arthur, 266

Florence, George Eliot in, 184

---- Mrs. Trollope in, 55, 83

---- Santa Croce, 83

---- T. A. Trollope in, 184

---- Trollope in, 83, 118-122, 140, 184

*Folking, 281

Forman, Buxton, 152

Forster, John, editor of the _Examiner_, 37, 81, 128, 182

---- his friendship with the Trollopes, 27, 37

---- introduces Trollope to Blackwood, 231

---- on Trollope and Thackeray, 164

Forster, W. E., as educationalist, 178

---- his friendship with Trollope, 302

_Fortnightly Review, The_, foundation and policy of, 174-181, 204

---- Trollope’s novels appear in, 217, 218, 279

Fox, Charles James, 86

_Framley Parsonage_, 302

---- clerical element of, 136

---- Lucy Robarts, 131, 138

---- publication of, 135, 137, 186

Frankfort, 173

Fraser, Sir W. A., on Trollope and Thackeray, 165

_Fraser’s Magazine_, 161

Freeling, Mrs. Clayton, her influence on behalf of Trollope, 18, 19, 27

Freeling, Sir Francis, as Secretary to the Post Office, 18, 21, 23, 39

Freeman, E. A., on hunting, 179

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

Freiburg, 173

French Revolution, the, Trollope’s knowledge of, 85-100

Frere, Sir Bartle, 285

Froude, James Anthony, in South Africa, 284-7

---- on Trollope, 48, 49, 133

---- _The Two Chiefs of Dunboy_, 48, 49

*Furnival, Mr., 191, 290

Garbally, 56

Garland’s Hotel, Trollope at, 307

Garrick Club, the, 15, 116, 233

Garrick Club, history of, 143

---- Thackeray as member of, 142, 144, 147-9, 156

---- Trollope as member of, 142-153, 156, 170, 172

Gasquet, Father Thomas, his _Black Deaths_, 129

*Gayner, Bob, 75, 76

_Gentleman’s Magazine, The_, 239

George I, King, 163

George III, King, 143

George V, King, 146

Gibbon’s _History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, 228

Gibraltar, siege of, 18

---- Trollope at, 124

*Gilfil, Mr., 133

*Gilmore, Harry, 240

Gladstone, W. E., as a novel-reader, 280

---- if portrayed by Trollope, 256, 258, 264

---- ministry of, 177, 180, 247

---- on Jefferson Davis, 201

---- Trollope separates from his Liberalism, 302

---- Trollope’s energy compared with, 125

Glasgow, Trollope in, 125

*Glencora, Lady, 214-216, 259, 264

Glenesk, Lord, at the Garrick, 146

---- in Florence, 121

*Goesler, Madame Max, 259-266

_Golden Lion of Granpère, The_, analysis of, 218, 219

Goodwood hunt, the, 301

_Good Words_, returns _Rachel Ray_, 227, 228, 235

*Gordeloup, Madame, 221, 222

Gort, 49

Graham, supports Lord de Grey, 42

*Graham, Felix, 196

Granby, Lord, 141

Grange, the, Harting, 299

Grant, Baron Albert, 297

Grant family, the, 29

Grant, Sir William, Master of the Rolls, 16

Grantham, 115

*Grantly, Archdeacon, 104-9, 205

*Grantly, Griselda, 220

Granville, Lord, 120, 154

---- induced to serve under Derby, 155

_Graphic, The, Phineas Redux_, 257

---- _Harry Heathcote_, 277

_Great Britain_, S.S., 278

Great Exhibition, 1851, 112

Green, J. R., at Highclere, 289

*Greenow, Mrs., 213, 214

Greenwood, Frederick, founder and editor of the _P.M.G._, 168, 171, 172

Greg, William Rathbone, 172

Gregg, Tresham, 57

Gregory, Sir William, his friendship for Trollope, 49, 53, 55-7, 61, 139, 141

---- in Florence, 121

Gregory, Sir William, on _Cicero_, 290

---- on Phineas Finn, 266

*Gresham, Mr., 264, 265, 290

Gresley family, the, 15, 27, 35

*Grex, Lady Mabel, 268, 295

*Grey, John, 211-217, 263, 296

Grey, Lord, colonial policy of, 288

---- his Reform Bill, 246

---- ministry of, 176

---- Trollope on, 287, 288

Grey, Lord de, as Viceroy of Ireland, 41, 57

*Greystock, Frank, 280

*Greystock, Lizzie, 279

*Griffenbottom, Mr., 254

Griffin, Gerald, _The Collegians_, 54

*Grimes, 213

Grimshaw, Rev. Mr., 226

*Grindley, 213

Griqualand West, 285

Guadet, 90

_Guardian, The_, 242

Hadley, Barnet, 28

Hague, the, 56

Hall, F., journalist, 249

Hall, Mrs. S. C., her Irish novels, 53

Hambledon foxhounds, the, 301

*Handy, Abel, 107, 108

Hannay, James, at Barcelona, 163

---- his influence, 172

---- in Edinburgh, 126

Hanover Rooms, the, 141

*Haphazard, Sir Abraham, 107

Harcourt, William Vernon, on the _Saturday_, 172

*Harding, Septimus, 104, 106, 109, 205, 237

*Hardlines, Sir Gregory, 118

_Hargrave, the Man of Fashion_, 33

Harlow, 168

Harper, J. Henry, 272 _note_

_Harper’s Magazine_, Trollope’s work issued in, 271

Harrison, Frederick, supports the _Fortnightly_, 174, 178

Harrow, Trollope at school at, 3, 15-17, 23, 50, 111, 281, 290

---- Trollope family at, 8, 9, 43, 45, 188, 206, 210

_Harry Heathcote of Gangoil_, analysis of, 275 _note_, 276-8

Hart, Mr., 267 _note_

Harting, Trollope’s home at, 299-301, 306

Hartington, Lord, as portrayed by Trollope, 259

*Hartletop, Marchioness of, 220

Harwich, Prinsep contests, 140 _note_

Hawkshaw, Mr., 249

Hawthorn, Nathaniel, as Consul, 163

Hayter, his picture of Lord W. Russell’s trial, 9

Hayward, Abraham, 154

Heckfield Vicarage, Hants, 6, 8, 205

_He Knew He Was Right_, analysis of, 293-6

---- West Indian scenes in, 126

Hellicar family, the, 27

Hennessy, Sir John Pope, as Phineas Finn, 264

Henry of Navarre, King, 94

Herbert, Sidney, his friendship with Trollope, 3, 17

Herbert, Sir Robert G. W., 270 _note_

---- at Highclere, 290

---- at the Cosmopolitan, 154

Hereford, 108

Herries, Lord, 141, 248

Hervieu, Auguste, his friendship with the Trollopes, 13

Heseltine, Mr., of Rotherham, 54

Highclere, Trollope visits, 288-290

Highgate School, 151

Hill, Rowland, Trollope’s relations with, 24, 25, 36, 117, 118, 131, 161, 199, 200

Hirsch, Baron de, 175

Hodgson, Colonel, 250

Hoey, Mrs. Cashel, co-operates with Yates, 149, 150

Holcroft, Thomas, novelist, 187

Holland, Lord, Carlyle introduced to, 127

Holland, Sir Henry, his friendship for Taylor and Trollope, 142

---- influence of, 18

Höllenthal, 173

Holsworth, G., manager of _All the Year Round_, 298

Home Rule, Trollope’s attitude to, 250

Hood, Thomas, on Exeter quarrels, 229

Hook, Theodore, at the Athenæum, 143

Hope, Beresford, owner of the _Saturday_, 243

Hope family, the, 176

Hope’s _Anastasius_, 119

Horace, quoted, 150, 171, 203, 214, 252

Houghton, Lord, 103

---- at the Cosmopolitan, 154

---- his social services to Trollope, 142

---- on Landor, 119

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

Household Franchise Bill, the, 250

Hudson Bay monopoly, the, 288

Hugo, Victor, _L’homme qui rit_, 239

Hull, 250

Hunting, Trollope’s love of, 135, 168-171, 179, 204, 213, 248, 250

Hutchinson, Rachel, 294

Hutton, R. H., detects authorship of _Nina Balatka_, 232

Huxley, Professor, supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

_Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News_, 204

Indiana, Communistic colony in, 11

International Copyright, Trollope’s negotiations for, 273

Ireland, abuses of English administration of, 40-45, 51, 69, 74

---- famine and distress in 1848, 81-3, 128-133

---- novels on, 48, 52-4, 61

---- postal system of, 58

---- sport in, 45, 46, 49, 56, 135

Irish Constabulary, the, 69-74

Irish Nationalism, origin of, 302

Irish people, the, character of, 52, 87

Irving, Washington, in London, 163

Isabella of Spain, Queen, 207

_Is He Popenjoy?_ publication of, 298

Italy, Unity of, 256

Ivry, battle of, 94

Jamaica, Trollope in, 126

James II, King, 207

James, Edwin, original of Stryver, 194

James, Sir Henry. _See_ James of Hereford

James of Hereford, Lord, his friendship with Trollope, 203, 204, 298, 300

Jameson, Leander Starr, Trollope on, 284

Jenner, Sir William, 307

Jeremiah, quoted, 105

Jerusalem, Trollope in, 124, 273

Jeune, Dr., headmaster of King Edward’s School, 20, 291

Jew Bill, the, 141

_John Bull_, 124

_John Caldigate_, 285

---- analysis of, 275 _note_, 278, 280-283

*Johnson family, the, 189

Johnstone, Sir Frederick, 179

Joliffe, Sir William, 5

_Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw_, publication of, 31

Jones, a Wykehamist poet, 8

*Jones, Mary Flood, 258

Jones, Owen, at George Eliot’s, 183

Journalism, Trollope’s portrayal of, 263

Jowett, Benjamin, father of, 38

“Judex,” his contributions to the _Fortnightly_, 180

Julians, Harrow, Trollope family at, 9, 12, 16, 188

Kauffmann, Angelica, 158

Kean, Charles, 146

*Keegan, 73

*Kelly, Martin, 78, 79

_Kellys and the O’Kellys, The_, plot of, discussed, 76-80, 230, 301

---- publication of, 81, 86

Kemble, John, 146

Kennard, Captain, contests Beverley, 248, 250

*Kenneby, 199

Kennedy, Mr., M.P., 259-263, 295

Kensal Green, Trollope’s grave in, 307

Kesteven, Lord, political standing of, 5

Kickham, Charles Joseph, his Irish novels, 34

Kimberley, Jameson at, 284

King Edward’s School, Birmingham, 20, 291

King-Harman, Colonel, 264

Kinglake, A. W., 306

---- at the Cosmopolitan, 155

---- unseated for Bridgwater, 251

Kingsley, Charles, at Highclere, 289

Kingsley, Henry, colonial novels of, 275, 278

Kingston, Jamaica, 126

Knightley, Sir Charles, 5

Knights of the Round Table, the, 156

Knockbane, 82

Lacy, Walter, actor, 146

_Lady Anna_, publication of, 271

Lafayette, General, his friendship with the Trollopes, 12, 27, 88

La Grange, 27

Lambeth Palace, Trollope at, 306

Langalibalele rising, the, 285

Langdale, Charles, 249

_Lancet, The_, 129

_Land Leaguers, The_, 51

---- analysis of, 270, 301, 302

Landor, Walter Savage, as Boythorn, 119

Lane, John, his Trollope reprints, 60 _note_

Lansdowne, Lord, as member of the Athenæum, 143

---- Carlyle introduced to, 127

---- his acquaintance with Trollope, 140

---- his support of Macaulay, 246

Lardner, Dionysius, Thackeray on, 148

*Larochejaquelin, Henri de, 91-4

_Last Chronicle of Barset, The_, 105, 110, 112, 305

---- analysis of, 236-8

_La Vendée_, analysis of, 85-100, 219

---- publication of, 102, 103, 105

Layard, Sir A. H., founds the Cosmopolitan, 153

*Leatherham, Sir Richard, 194

Lecky, W. E. H., his eighteenth-century studies, 104, 137, 292

Leech, Master of the Rolls, 267

Leeds, Bull Inn, 192

Le Fanu, J. S., Trollope’s acquaintance with, 167

*Lefroy, Ferdinand, 303

Leighton, Sir Frederick, illustrates _Romola_, 183

---- in Florence, 120

*Lescure, 91-3

Lever, Charles, as Consul, 163

---- avoids Mrs. Trollope, 55

---- _Charles O’Malley_, 48, 53

---- _Harry Lorrequer_, 53

---- his friendship with Trollope, 48, 50, 166, 167

---- his influence on Trollope, 258, 271, 292

---- illustrated by Cruikshank, 138

---- in Florence, 119, 121

---- _Sir Brook Fossbrooke_, 79

Leveson-Gower, Hon. Frederick, at the Cosmopolitan, 154

---- in Florence, 120

Lewes, George Henry, as a critic, 132

---- edits the _Fortnightly_, 176

---- his influence on Trollope, 172, 182 _See also_ George Eliot

---- on _North America_, 244

Lewis, thrashed by Trollope, 17

Lewis, Mrs. Arthur, 157

Lewis, Wyndham, supports Disraeli at Maidstone, 246

Liddon, H. P., at Highclere, 289

_Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy_, 38

_Life of Palmerston_, publication of, 247, 255

Lincoln, Lord, 141

Lincolnshire, wheat produce of, 5

_Linda Tressel_, analysis of, 233, 234

---- publication of, 230, 233

Linton, Mrs. Lynn, influence of, 185, 254

Lisbon, Embassy at, 172

Liverpool, Hawthorne, Consul at, 163

Liverpool, Lord, his Irish policy, 69

London University, 183

Longley, headmaster of Harrow, 17

Longman, William, as publisher to Trollope, 110, 114, 132

Lonsdale, Lord, his kindness to Trollope, 36

*Lopez, Ferdinand, 265-7, 279

Loti, Pierre, at the Cosmopolitan Club, 173

_Lottery of Marriage, The_, 33

Louis XVI, fall of, 88, 90

Louis Napoleon, Prince, at Gore House, 128

Louis Philippe, Mrs. Trollope’s interview with, 34, 35, 86

Lover, Samuel, _Handy Andy_, 52

*Low, Mr., 257

Lowe, Robert, at Winchester, 17

*Lowther, Mary, 240

Lowther Castle, Trollope at, 36

*Lufton, Lord, 137, 138, 237, 238

*Lynch, Anastatia, 79, 80

*Lynch, Barry, 78-80

*Lynch, Simeon, 78-80

Lytton, Lord, 172

---- in Paris, 34

Lytton, second Lord, Trollope’s acquaintance with, 182

Maberley, Colonel, his opinion of Trollope, 23-25, 36, 39, 40, 144

Macaulay, Lord, 104, 137, 292

---- as a conversationalist, 142

---- as member of the Athenæum, 143

---- M.P. for Calne, 246

---- on Bertrand Barère, 95, 96

---- on Carlyle, 121

*Macdermot, Feemy, 64-77

*Macdermot, Larry, 63-78

Macdermot, Thady, 64-77

_Macdermots of Ballycloran, The_, autobiographical element in, 56

---- plot of, discussed, 61-78, 95, 130, 152, 191, 274, 291

---- publication of, 60, 81, 168

Mackenzie, Dr. R. Shelton, on _Brown, Jones, and Robinson_, 270

Mackintosh, Sir James, 143

*Macleod, Alice, 210

Macleod, Rev. Norman, returns _Rachel Ray_, 227, 228

*Macleod, Sir Archibald and Lady, 210

Madrid, 49

*Maggott, Mick, 281

_Magpie, The_, 29, 32

*Maguire, Jeremiah, 234

Mahoon, Ogorman, duellist, 260

Maidstone, Disraeli M.P. for, 246

Maine, H. S., 172

Malta, Trollope at, 124

Manchester, See of, 114

Manners-Sutton, Archbishop, votes for Dr. Butler, 15

Marie-Antoinette, Queen, death of, 96

*Marrable, Walter, 240, 241

Marryat, Captain, influence of, 271

Marylebone Cricket Club, 145

Mason, seizure of, 201

*Mason, Lucius, 189-198

*Mason, Sir Joseph, 189-198, 295

Maurice, F. D., 167

*Maxwell, 213

Maxwell, Marmaduke, contests Beverley, 248, 250

Maxwell, Sir W. Stirling, founds the Cosmopolitan, 153

Mayenne, Duke of, 94

*M‘Keon, Mrs., 76

Meade, Hon. Robert, 154, 270 _note_

Meath hounds, the, 135

*Medlicot, Giles, 277

Meetkerke family, the, 27, 36

Meetkerke, Penelope, 28

Melbourne, Trollope in, 276

Melbourne, Lord, his Irish policy, 41

---- promises post to T. Anthony Trollope, 19

*Melmotte, 297, 298

Melville, Whyte, influence of, 291

---- Taylor on, 145, 146

Meredith, George, school of, 305, 306

Merivale, Charles, John, and Herman, their friendship with Trollope, 17

Merivale, _History of the Romans under the Empire_, 165

Methodists, the, 223

Methuen, Lord, strength of, 141

*Milborough, Lady, 293

Millais, Sir J. E., his friendship with Trollope, 128, 170, 203, 300, 308

---- illustrates Trollope’s books, 137, 138, 140, 203, 204

---- in Florence, 120

Milnes, Monckton. _See_ Lord Houghton

Milton family, the, 27, 36

Milton, Henry, career of, 7

Milton, John, _Paradise Lost_, 186

Milton, Rev. William, 205

---- as an unsuccessful inventor, 6

---- his wife, 15

Mirabeau, on Robespierre, 98

_Miss Mackenzie_, analysis of, 234

*Moggs, Ontario, 254

Mohl, Madame, salon of, 34

Moliere, quoted, 228

*Monk, Lady, 214-216

*Monk, Mr., 258

Montagu Square, London, Trollope’s home in, 279, 296, 300, 306, 307

Montgomery, Alfred, his social services to Trollope, 140, 142

Moore, A. W., 270 _note_

Moore, Thomas, at the Athenæum, 143

---- on Crowe, 8

Morgan, Lady, her Irish novels, 54

Morier, Sir Robert, founds the Cosmopolitan, 153

Morland, George, 75, 104

Morley of Blackburn, Lord, on the _Fortnightly_, 173, 176, 180

_Morning Post, The_, Stuart, correspondent of, 121

*Moulder, 192-9

Moyville Vandeleur family, the, 121

_Mr. Scarborough’s Family_, analysis of, 298

Mudie’s Library, 113, 137

Murray, Grenville, as diplomatist, 163

---- enters the Foreign Office, 19

---- in Florence, 119

Murray, John, 107

---- on _Don Juan_, 110

Murray, John, the second, his influence on behalf of Trollope, 18

---- Milton, reader for, 7 _note_

Murrell, Dr., 307

Musset, Alfred de, quoted, 130

_Mysterious Assassin, The_, 68

Napoleon I, Whig enthusiasm for, 87, 98

Napoleon III, 34

---- policy of, 201

Nashoba, 13

Natal, government of, 285

_Nation, The_, 68

Neate, Charles, supports Thackeray at Oxford, 246-8

*Neefit, Polly, 253, 254

*Neefit, tailor, 252

*Neville, Fred, 301

Newby, publisher of _The Macdermots_, 61

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Morley, M.P. for, 180

New College, Oxford, Fellowships of, 7, 8, 10, 107, 205

New Forest, the, 3

New Harmony, Indiana, 11

Newman, Cardinal, his influence on Trollope, 84, 85

Newton, Ralph, 251-4

*Newton, Rev. Gregory, 253

New York, Trollope in, 127, 270

New Zealand, Trollope in, 276, 289

_Nina Balatka_, analysis of, 231

---- anonymity of, 232

Nisbet, Hugh, Australian stories of, 278

_Noble Jilt, The_, germ of _Can You Forgive Her?_ 157, 208

Nolan, “Tom the Devil,” 57

Nore, mutiny at the, 19

Norfolk, Duke of, 248

_North America_, critical estimate of, 200-202, 244

North End, Harting, 299, 300

Northwick, Lord, landlord of Julians, Harrow, 10, 14

Nott, Dr., 224, 225

Nottingham Assizes, 199

Nubar Bey, on Trollope, 123, 124

Nuremberg, 233

O’Brien, Sir Patrick, M.P., on _The Macdermots_, 61

O’Brien, Smith, influence of, 66

O’Connell, Daniel, ascendency of, 41, 78

_O’Conors of Castle Conor, The_, publication of, 271

Offley’s Hotel, 156

O’Flaherty, Edmund, 82

*O’Hara, Mrs., 301

_Old Man’s Love, An_, 301

Oliphant, Laurence, 306

---- on _Nina Balatka_, 232

*Omnium, Duke of, 105, 195, 209, 259, 264-8, 290

_Once a Week_, _Vicar of Bullhampton_, written for, 239

*Ongar, Lady, 221

Orange River Free State, 285

_Orley Farm_, analysis of, 188-199, 202, 204-8, 238, 261, 290

---- popularity of, 185, 188

---- publication of, 271

---- quoted, 45

*Orme, Mrs., 198

*Orme, Sir Peregrine, 195-8

*Osborne, Colonel, 293

Ouida, on the _Fortnightly_, 179

Owen, Robert, his land in Indiana, 11

Oxford, contested by Thackeray, 164, 245-8

---- Trollope visits, 84

Page, Robert, _Hermsprang_, 187

*Palliser, Lady Mary, 268

*Palliser, Plantagenet, 214-217, 259, 264, 265, 290

_Pall Mall Gazette, The_, foundation of, 168, 171

Palmer, Roundell, at Winchester, 17

Palmerston, Lord, ministry of, 175, 177

---- on mankind, 207

---- policy of, 42, 201

Palmerston, Lord, Trollope’s monograph on. See _Life of Palmerston_

Paris, Mrs. Trollope in, 28, 33-5, 53

---- social character of, 89

---- Trollope in, 255

*Parker, Sexty, 267

Parnell, C. S., 58

Pattle, Virginia, 140

*Peacocke, Mr., 303

Peel, Sir Robert, as Premier, 166

---- bestows laureateship on Tennyson, 154

---- his Irish policy, 41, 42, 69, 82

---- recalled by Gresham, 265

---- sociability of, 141

---- Tory revolt against, 5

Pelham family, the, 176

Peninsular & Oriental Company, the, 124

Penny Readings, Trollope’s interest in, 300

Petersfield, 299

Petre, H., his staghounds, 169, 197

_Petticoat Government_, 33

_Phineas Finn_, autobiographical element in, 37, 56

---- Duke of Omnium, 195

---- hunting element in, 170, 197

---- political element in, 176, 255-265, 269, 271, 290

---- publication of, 257, 295

_Phineas Redux_, analysis of, 265, 269

---- publication of, 257, 276

“Phiz,” illustrations by, 137

Pigott, E. F. S., at George Eliot’s, 183

---- in Florence, 120, 121

---- on Landor, 119

---- on Trollope and Thackeray, 156, 165

---- reconciled to Dicey, 307

---- supports the _Fortnightly_, 174

Pliny, on plague, 129

Poole, Waring, M.P. for, 174, 175

Poor Law in Ireland, the, 43

Pope, Alexander, _Pastorals_, 186

---- quoted, 67

Portendic, 288

Portrush, 82

Post Office, the, history of, 22

---- its literary lights, 152

---- pillar-boxes introduced by Trollope, 114

---- reorganised by Freeling, 21

---- Trollope as an official at, 21-6, 36, 39, 106, 117, 131, 249, 254, 282

---- Trollope as surveyor of, 57-9, 113, 134, 205, 229

---- Trollope becomes a junior clerk in, 18-20

---- Trollope lectures at, 118

---- Trollope retires from, 231, 256, 257, 270, 300

---- Yates as an official at, 148, 151

Postal Treaty with America, arranged by Trollope, 270, 273

Postal Treaty with Egypt, arranged by Trollope, 122-4, 273

Prague, 231

Preston, 115

*Prime, Mrs., 229

_Prime Minister, The_, analysis of, 265-9, 279

---- publication of, 216

Prinsep, Henry Thoby, his kindness to Trollope, 140

Prinsep, Val, his friendship with Trollope, 140

Prior, Matthew, 163

Probat’s Hotel, 143

*Prong, Mr., 230, 233, 235, 243

*Proudie, Bishop, 220

*Proudie, Mrs., 206, 227

---- Trollope on, 111, 114, 305

_Publisher and his Friends, A_, 18

*Puddleham, Rev. Mr., 241

_Punch_, Bloomerism in, 12

---- _The Naggletons_, 111

Pycroft, Rev. James, on Trollope, 110, 114

Quain, Sir Richard, at the Cosmopolitan, 154

---- at the Garrick, 146, 150

---- his friendship with Trollope, 255, 266

---- on Trollope, 171

Quin, Dr., his friendship with Trollope, 154, 155

*Quiverful family, the, 105

_Ralph the Heir_, analysis of, 251-6, 269

Ramsay, Dean, his _Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character_, 54

*Ray, Mrs., 229

_Rachel Ray_, critical analysis of, 227-230, 234, 294

---- political element of, 247, 256

---- publication of, 227, 228, 236, 294

Reade, Charles, at the Arundel Club, 156

---- _Hard Cash_, 282

---- his relations with Trollope and Blackwood, 284, 285

---- _It’s Never Too Late to Mend_, 275, 278

---- Trollope compared with, 128, 129

Reading, Dickens refuses to contest, 245

Récamier, Madame, salon of, 34

Reform Bill, the, 246

Reform Club, influence of the, 246, 247

---- in Trollope’s political novels, 258, 261

_Relics of General Chassé_, publication of, 271

Reunion Club, the, 156

_Revue des Deux Mondes, La_, 173

*Reynolds, Joe, 72-5

Richardson, Samuel, his analysis of feminine character, 187

---- Trollope compared with, 110, 242, 305

Richmond, Duke of, as Postmaster-General, 21

Ripon, See of, 114

Rivers-Wilson, Sir Charles, at the Garrick, 146

*Robarts, Lucy, 131, 137, 138, 187, 205, 294

*Robarts, Mark, 137, 236

Robespierre, Carlyle and Trollope on, 89, 96-100

Rodney, Admiral Lord, 18

Rogers, Samuel, on Crowe, 8

Roland, 90

Romaine, Rev. Mr., 226

Roman Catholicism, Trollope’s attitude to, 84-7

Romilly, Colonel Frederick, as duellist, 260

Romilly, Samuel, 143

Roothings, the, 169, 197

Rotherham, 54

*Round, 193

Rousseau, J. J., 92

*Rowan, Luke, 230

*Rowley, Sir Marmaduke, 126

*Rubb, Mr., 234

Rusden, Mr., 308

Russel, Alexander, Trollope meets, 126

Russell, Lord John, 30

---- his Irish policy, 82

---- his Jew Bill, 141

---- ministry of, 255

Russell, Lord William, trial of, 9

Russell, Reginald, as duellist, 260

Russell, William Howard, at the Garrick, 146, 149

---- in Dublin, 167

Sala, G. A., as editor, 257

---- on Thackeray, 165

Salisbury, depicted in _The Warden_, 103, 108, 111, 236

Sand, George, Mrs. Trollope on, 14

*Santerre, 96

_Saturday Review, The_, on Australia, 275

---- on _Rachel Ray_, 243

---- on _North America_, 244

---- writers for, 172, 176, 235

Savage Club, the, 156

*Scarborough, Augustus and Mountjoy, 299

*Scatcherd family, the, 105

Schreiner, Olive, _The Story of an African Farm_, 286

_Scotsman, The_, Russel of, 126

Scott, Sir Walter, 53

---- his loose historical method, 94

---- _Ivanhoe_, 25

---- _Waverley_, 62

*Scroope, Earl, 301

*Scruby, 213

Scudamore, F. I., at the Post Office, 151

---- on Trollope, 125

Seeley, J. R., at Highclere, 289

Semiramis, Queen, 209

Seton, Sir Bruce, at the Garrick, 146

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, novels of, 30, 102

Sewell family, the, 107

Seymour, Alfred, career of, 175

Seymour, Danby, supports the _Fortnightly_, 174, 175

Shaftesbury, Seymour, M.P. for, 175

Shaftesbury, Earl of, his friendship with the Trollopes, 37, 38, 83

Shakespeare, William, George Eliot compared with, 185

---- _Hamlet_, 62, 76

---- his art of contrast, 62, 74, 237

---- _Merchant of Venice_, quoted, 277

---- _Midsummer Night’s Dream_, 104

---- _Othello_, 71

*Shand, Dick, 281-2

Sheehan, Remy, 57

Sheffield, 54

---- Broadhead at, 178

Shelley, P. B., Trelawny’s _Reminiscences_ of, 119

Shepstone, Sir Theophilus, 285

Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, Lord, on Cicero, 291

Sherwood, Mrs., novels of, 102

*Silverbridge, Lord, 268

Simeon, Charles, 223

Simpson’s, Strand, 156

Skerrett, Henrietta, 30

*Skulpit family, the, 108

*Slide, Quintus, 263

Slidell, seizure of, 201

Sloane, Mr., his acquaintance with the Trollopes, 83

*Slope, Mr., 112, 114, 225, 227, 228, 230, 235

_Small House at Allington, The_, autobiographical element in, 26

---- Lily Dale, 137, 187

---- publication of, 160, 184, 186, 208, 271

Smith, Albert, 26

---- influence of, 152

Smith, George, finances the _P.M.G._, 172

---- his friendship with Trollope, 140, 161, 168, 172

---- reads _Jane Eyre_, 132

Smith & Elder, Messrs., Trollope’s relations with, 128, 131, 132

*Smith, Mrs., 281

Smith, Sydney, his acquaintance with Trollope, 140

---- on Ireland, 40

---- quotes _The Vicar of Wrexhill_, 30

---- succeeds Coleridge as talker, 142

Smollett, Tobias, novels of, 137, 292

Smythe, George, his duel in 1852, 260

Society Club, the, 143

Somers, Lady, 140

Sotheran, Messrs., 307

_South Africa_, reception of, 286, 287

Southey, Robert, as a Tory, 86

Spain, Trollope in, 124

_Spectator, The_, Hutton of, 232

---- on _Rachel Ray_, 243

---- on _South Africa_, 287

_Speeches of Charles Dickens_, 151 _note_.

Spencer, Herbert, at George Eliot’s, 183

Spenser, Edmund, 25

Spezzia, Lever at, 119, 121

*Sprout, 267

*Sprugeon, 267

Stamford, Trollopes at, 5

_Standard, The_, Tom Austin on, 177

*Standish, Lady Laura, 258-264

*Stanhope, Dr., 224

*Stanhope family, the, 105

Stanhope, Lord, Trollope meets Disraeli at, 280

Stanley of Alderley, Lord, grants Trollope leave of absence, 199

---- supports Lord de Grey, 42

Stapleton, near Bristol, 6

*Staubach, Frau, 233, 234

*Staveley, Madeline, 196-8

*Steinmarc, Peter, 233

Stephen, Fitzjames, 172

Sterling Club, the, Trollope at, 142

Steventon, Hampshire, 6

Stewart, James, 250

St. Helier’s, Jersey, first pillar-box erected at, 114

St. Ives, contested by Bulwer-Lytton, 245

St. Just, denounced by Barrère, 96

St. Martin’s-le-Grand, Trollope at, 21, 39, 55

Stone, Marcus, at the Arts Club, 158

_St. Paul’s Magazine, The_, edited by Trollope, 257

Strangford, George, 7th Viscount, 172

Strangford, Percy, 8th Viscount, 172

_Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, The_, critical estimate of, 160, 161, 220

-- its reception in America, 270

Stuart, James Montgomery, in Florence, 121

*Stumfold, Rev. and Mrs., 234

Suez, postal arrangements at, 124

Suez Canal, the, 125

Sully, Duc de, 207

_Summer in Western France, A_, publication of, 32

Sunbury, Trollope at, 17

Surtees, novels of, 133

Sussex, Duke of, supports the Garrick Club, 143

Sutherland, Sir Thomas, 124 _note_

Sykes, Christopher, M.P. for Beverley, 249

Tait, Archbishop, entertains Trollope, 306

_Tales of All Countries_, analysis of, 85, 124

---- offered to the _Cornhill_, 132

---- publication of, 271

Talfourd family, the, 156

Tallyhosier, a Norman, 3

*Tappitt, Mr., 230

Tasmania, Trollope in, 276

Taylor, Sir Charles, at the Garrick, 145

Taylor, Sir Henry, career of, 18

---- his friendship with the Trollopes, 27, 142

---- in Paris, 34

---- introduces Carlyle to Lord Holland, 127

Taylor, Tom, on Thackeray, 165

Tennyson, Lord, at the Cosmopolitan, 154

---- at George Eliot’s, 183

---- popularity of, 186

---- quoted, 215

Terry, Kate, 157

Tewfik, Khedive, 123

Thackeray, W. M., as a member of the Garrick, 142, 144, 147-9, 156

---- as editor of the _Cornhill_, 164, 257

---- contests Oxford, 164, 245-8

---- death of, 165, 182, 307

---- _Denis Duval_, 302

---- Dickens on, 151 _note_

---- _Henry Esmond_, 120

---- his appreciation of Trollope, 117, 133, 183

---- his attempts to enter official life, 131, 161-3

---- his opinion of women, 206

---- his portrait of Trelawny, 119

---- his title used for the _P.M.G._, 168

---- in America, 163

---- _Lovel the Widower_, 139

---- on Dickens, 150, 151, 187

---- _Pendennis_, 148, 172

---- _Roundabout Papers_, 139, 161

---- satirises Calcraft, 57

---- Trollope compared with, and influenced by, 110, 128, 130, 145, 157, 160, 220, 243, 305

---- Trollope’s estimate of, 161-5, 170, 171

---- Trollope’s relations with, 128-136, 139

_Thackeray_, Men of Letters Series, written by Trollope, 164

---- quoted, 247

Thatched House Club, the, 158

Theocritus, 186

Thiers, Adolphe, at the Cosmopolitan, 155

*Thorne, Mary, 105

*Thorne, Squire, 105

Thorold, Algar, editor of Trollope reprints, 60

_Three Clerks, The_, autobiographical element in, 25, 31, 37

---- incurs official displeasure, 117

---- Katie Woodward, 131, 133

---- popularity of, 183, 185

Thucydides, 129

Tilley, Sir John and Lady, 28, 46, 307

*Tim, 73

_Time_, article on Trollope in, 152

_Times, The_, correspondence in, 103

---- Delane of, 126, 296

---- on _Australia_, 275, 276

---- on _Rachel Ray_, 242

---- on _South Africa_, 286

---- Russell of, 146

---- Trollope’s obituary in, 308

*Todd, Miss, 234

_Tom Brown_, 138

Trades Unionism, Trollope on, 178

Tralee Assizes, the, Trollope attends, 58, 60

Transvaal, the, 285

*Tregear, Frank, 268

Trelawny, literary works of, 119

Trench, R. C., his acquaintance with Trollope, 120

*Trendellsohn, Anton, 231, 232

*Trevelyan, Louis, 294

*Trevelyan, Mr. and Mrs., 293-6

Trevelyan, Mrs., father of, 126

Trevelyan, Sir Charles, as Sir Gregory Hardlines, 118

---- his friendship with Trollope, 166

---- his method of work, 116

Trieste, Lever at, 119

Trollope family, the, origin of their name, 3

Trollope, Admiral Sir Henry, 18

Trollope, Anthony [his literary works will be found under their own titles]

---- his birth, 7

---- his boyhood and education, 12-20

---- enters the Post Office, 18, 21

---- his independence of character, 23, 32

---- his relations with Rowland Hill, 23, 39, 117, 118, 199

---- his classical attainments, 24, 284, 290

---- his literary tastes, 25, 112

---- his mother’s influence, 28-39, 52, 54, 83, 101, 223

---- in Paris, 34

---- his life in Ireland, 37, 40-60, 84, 128, 134, 206

---- his letters in the _Examiner_, 37, 81, 128

---- his love of hunting, 45, 46, 56, 168, 197, 250

---- his officialism, 49, 55, 117, 132, 161, 166, 254

---- his marriage, 54

---- his Post Office inspectorship, 57-9, 73, 81, 113, 137

---- his first novel, 60

---- in Florence, 83, 118-122

---- his religious tendencies, 83-88, 106, 233-244

---- his position as a Victorian novelist, 88, 128, 161, 187, 291, 306

---- his method of work, 101-4, 115, 116, 125, 235

---- his conservatism, 106

---- his clerical portraiture, 106, 111, 114

---- his literary style, 107, 185, 191, 197

---- his postal work in Egypt, 122-5, 273

---- visits Scotland, 125, 126

---- visits the West Indies, 126, 127

---- his friendship with Millais, 128, 140, 203-5

---- his connection with the _Cornhill_, 128-137, 160

---- his home at Waltham Cross, 135, 168, 278, 299

---- his entry into London Society, 139-142, 167, 182

---- as a club-man, 143-159

---- his connection with the _P.M.G._, 168-172

---- his pessimism, 170, 171

---- his continental visits, 173

---- his connection with Messrs. Chapman & Hall, 173, 177, 179, 199, 228, 275

---- his connection with the _Fortnightly_, 174-181, 217

---- his physical appearance, 191

---- his visits to America, 199-202, 270

---- his attitude on feminine subjects, 205-211, 238

---- his work for Messrs. Blackwood, 232-4, 284, 290

---- contests Beverley, 245-251, 267

---- his sentimentalism, 255

---- retires from the Post Office, 256, 270

---- his political novels, 255-7, 264

---- on journalism, 263

---- concludes a postal treaty in Washington, 270

---- his reception in America, 270-273

---- visits Australia and New Zealand, 274-8, 280

---- settles in Montagu Square, 279, 306

---- visits South Africa, 282-9

---- visits Highclere, 289

---- his satirical work, 293, 296

---- life at the Grange, 299

---- his death and burial, 307, 308

---- his kindliness, 307

Trollope, Cecilia, 28

Trollope, Emily, death of, 14

Trollope, Frances, befriended by Taylor, 142

---- _Fashionable Life_, 14

---- girlhood of, 6, 7, 15

---- her attack on Evangelicalism, 223-225, 235, 251, 283

---- her influence on her son Anthony, 25, 27-38, 62, 78, 101, 205, 223, 224, 251

---- in Florence, 55

---- literary career of, 14, 27-38, 54

---- marriage of, 8, 27

---- visits America and writes _The Domestic Manners of the Americans_, 13, 14, 201, 202

Trollope, Henry, death of, 14

---- edits the _Magpie_, 32

Trollope, Henry, travels of, 12, 13

Trollope, Sir Andrew, 3

Trollope, Sir John, 166

---- his interest in his cousins, 27, 28

---- _See_ Lord Kesteven

Trollope, Sir Thomas, 4th Baronet, 5, 18

Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, as a school-master, 20, 291

---- as a conversationalist, 153

---- career of, 9

---- early promise of, 28, 32

---- his influence on Anthony, 45, 113, 188, 245

---- in Florence, 184

---- on _Cicero_, 291

Trollope, Thomas Anthony, as a barrister, 7-10

---- death of, 14, 28, 33

---- failure of, 10-14, 28, 210

---- his _Encyclopœdia Ecclesiastica_, 107

---- his wife. _See_ Frances Trollope

---- Lord Melbourne’s promise to, 19

---- portrait of, 9

*Trowbridge, Marquis of, 241

Turf Club, the, 158, 159

Turnbull, M.P., 267

Twickenham, Pope at, 186

Twyford, 106

Tyndall, John, at George Eliot’s, 183

_Uncle Tom’s Cabin_, 31

*Underwood, Clarissa, 253

*Underwood, Sir Thomas, 252, 254

Upton, William Carey, 250

*Urmand, Adrian, 219

*Usbech, Jonathan, 189

*Usbech, Miriam, 189

*Ussher, Myles, 69-77

*Vavasor, Alice, 210-217, 296

*Vavasor, George, 211-217, 263

*Vavasor, John, 210

*Vavasor, Kate, 212

*Vavasor, Squire, 210

Venables, G. S., on the _Saturday_, 172

Vendean rising, the, 93-9

Vergniaud, 90

Versailles, 92

Viaud, L. M. J., 173

_Vicar of Bullhampton, The_, analysis of, 239-242

---- publication of, 239

---- reception of, 242-4

_Vicar of Wrexhill, The_, attack on Evangelicalism in, 29, 30, 54, 84, 86, 101, 225, 235, 283

Victoria, Queen, 69, 256

---- buys Leighton’s “Cimabue’s Madonna,” 120

Vienna, Mrs. Trollope in, 35

---- Congress, the, 57, 85

Vinerian Scholarship, the, 10

Virtue, Messrs., publish the _St. Paul’s Magazine_, 257

Voltaire, quoted, 92

Voss, Michel and George, 218, 219

Vyner, Sir Robert, 21

Wabash River, 11

Walkley, A. B., 152

Waltham Cross, Trollope’s home at, 135, 142, 168, 278, 299

Ward, Plumer, novels of, 110, 272

Ward hunt, the, 135

_Warden, The_, clerical portraiture in, 102-112

---- journalists in, 263

---- Mrs. Trollope on, 32

---- popularity of, 257, 291

---- publication of, 29, 102, 103, 114, 132, 135, 136, 149, 152, 160, 168

Waring, Captain Walter, 174

Waring, Charles, supports the _Fortnightly_, 174-6

Warwick, the king-maker, 94

Washington, British Embassy at, 163

---- Trollope in, 127, 201, 270, 273

Waterford, 82

Watts, G. F., at the Cosmopolitan, 154

---- in Florence, 120

---- Trollope’s acquaintance with, 140

_Way We Live Now, The_, analysis of, 293, 296-8

*Webb, Mr., 76

Wedgwood, Josiah, 249

Wellington, Duke of, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 69, 83

---- at Cork, 48

---- ministry of, 176

Wesley, John, 223

*Westerman, 97

West Indies, postal treaty with, 127, 288

_West Indies and the Spanish Main, The_, publication of, 127

*Westmacott, Mr., 254

Westminster, Morley contests, 180

Westminster Hall, Watts’ cartoon in, 120

*Wharton, Emily, 266

White’s Club, 141

_Widow Barnaby, The_, 33, 213

_Widow Wedded, The_, 33

William the Conqueror, names the Trollope family, 3

Willis & Sotheran, Messrs., 307

Willis, W. H., rejected from the Garrick, 149

Winchester Cathedral, 224

---- College, Trollope family at, 7, 12, 16, 17, 50, 84, 86

---- St. Cross Hospital, 106

Wood, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn, in the hunting field, 169, 197

Wood, Mrs. Henry, influence of, 188, 241

*Woodward, Kate, 117, 131

Wordsworth, William, 154

---- Thomas Anthony Trollope on, 8

_World, The_, Celebrities at Home, 152

*Wortle, Dr., 303

Wright, Frances, her friendship with the Trollopes, 11

Wright, Whitaker, 297

*Wyndham, Fanny, 78-80

Wyndham, Percy, his Wiltshire estates, 175

Wynne, Sir Watkin William, Methuen’s feat on, 141

Yates, Edmund, as a Post Office official, 148, 151

---- as editor, 257

---- _Black Sheep_, 146

---- _Broken to Harness_, 149

---- coolness between Trollope and, 149-152

---- his feud with Thackeray, 147-9

---- literary method of, 149, 150

Yonge, Charlotte Mary, her fiction, 6, 30, 102, 187, 223, 224

_Yorkshire Post, The_, 249

Young, Arthur, _Tour in Ireland_, 52

*Zamenoy, 231

Zulu War, the, 285

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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM COBBETT IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. By LEWIS MELVILLE. Author of “William Makepeace Thackeray.” With two Photogravures and numerous other Illustrations. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s. net.

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⁂ “Extracts might be multiplied indefinitely, but we have given enough to show the richness of the mine. We have nothing but praise for the editor’s work, and can conscientiously commend this book equally to the student oi manners and the lover of lively anecdote.”--_Standard._

MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND IN 1675. By MARIE CATHERINE COMTESSE D’AULNOY. Translated from the original French by Mrs. WILLIAM HENRY ARTHUR. Edited, Revised, and with Annotations (including an account of Lucy Walter) by GEORGE DAVID GILBERT. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.

⁂ When the Comte de Gramont went back to France and Mr. Pepys decided that to save his eyesight it was essential that he should suspend his Diary, the records of delectable gossip of the ever interesting Restoration Court became, of necessity, sadly curtailed. Indeed, of the second decade of the Golden Days the sedate Evelyn has hitherto been almost the only source of information available to the public. Though the Memoirs of the Countess d’Aulnoy have always been known to students, they have never received the respect they undoubtedly merit, for until Mr. Gilbert, whose hobby is the social history of this period, took the matter in hand, no-one had succeeded in either deciphering the identity of the leading characters of the Memoirs or of verifying the statements made therein. To achieve this has been for some years his labour of love and an unique contribution to Court and Domestic history is the crown of his labours. The Memoirs, which have only to be known to rank with the sparkling “Comte de Gramont” (which they much resemble), contain amusing anecdotes and vivid portraits of King Charles II., his son the Duke of Monmouth, Prince Rupert, Buckingham, and other ruffling “Hectors” of those romantic days. Among the ladies we notice the Queen, the Duchess of Norfolk and Richmond, and the lively and vivacious Maids of Honour. The new Nell Gwynn matter is of particular interest. The Memoirs are fully illustrated with portraits, not reproduced before, from the collection of the Duke of Portland and others.

AUSTRIA: HER PEOPLE AND THEIR HOMELANDS. By JAMES BAKER, F.R.G.S. With 48 Pictures in Colour by DONALD MAXWELL. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.

⁂ The Empire of Austria with its strangely diversified population of many tongues is but little known to English readers. The Capital and a few famous interesting places, such as Carlsbad, Marienbad, the glorious Tyrol, and such cities as Golden Prague and Innsbruck are known to the English and Americans; but the remarkable scenery of the Upper Elbe, the Ultava or Moldau and the Danube, the interesting peasantry in their brilliant costumes, the wild mountain gorges, are quite outside the ken of the ordinary traveller. The volume is written by one who since 1873 has continually visited various parts of the Empire and has already written much upon Austria and her people. Mr. Baker was lately decorated by the Emperor Francis Joseph for his literary work and was also voted the Great Silver Medal by the Prague Senate. The volume is illustrated with 48 beautiful water-colour pictures by Mr. Donald Maxwell, the well-known artist of the _Graphic_, who has made several journeys to Austria for studies for this volume.

TAPESTRIES: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND RENAISSANCE. By GEORGE LELAND HUNTER. With four full-page Plates in Colour, and 147 Half-tone Engravings. Square 8vo. Cloth. 16s. net.

⁂ This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. It is written by a scholar whose passion for accuracy and original research did not prevent him from making a story easy to read. It answers the questions people are always asking as to how tapestries differ from paintings, and good tapestries from bad tapestries. It will interest lovers of paintings and rugs and history and fiction, for it shows how tapestries compare with paintings in picture interest, with rugs in texture interest, and with historic and other novels in romantic interest; presenting on a magnificent scale the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Æneid and the Metamorphoses, the Bible and the Saints, Ancient and Medieval History and Romance. In a word, the book is indispensable to lovers of art and literature in general, as well as to tapestry amateurs, owners and dealers.

FROM STUDIO TO STAGE. By WEEDON GROSSMITH. With 32 full-page Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ Justly famous as a comedian of unique gifts, Mr. Weedon Grossmith is nevertheless an extremely versatile personality, whose interests are by no means confined to the theatre. These qualities have enabled him to write a most entertaining book. He gives an interesting account of his early ambitions and exploits as an artist, which career he abandoned for that of an actor. He goes on to describe some of his most notable _rôles_, and lets us in to little intimate glimpses “behind the scenes,” chats pleasantly about all manner of celebrities in the land of Bohemia and out of it, tells many amusing anecdotes, and like a true comedian is not bashful when the laugh is against himself. The book is well supplied with interesting illustrations, some of them reproductions of the author’s own work.

FANNY BURNEY AT THE COURT OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE. By CONSTANCE HILL. Author of “The House in St. Martin Street,” “Juniper Hall,” etc. With numerous Illustrations by ELLEN G. HILL and reproductions of contemporary Portraits, etc. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ This book deals with the Court life of Fanny Burney covering the years 1786-91, and therefore forms a link between the two former works on Fanny Burney by the same writer, viz. “The House in St. Martin Street,” and “Juniper Hall.” The writer has been fortunate in obtaining much unpublished material from members of the Burney family as well as interesting contemporary portraits and relics. The scene of action in this work is constantly shifting--now at Windsor, now at Kew, now sea-girt at Weymouth, and now in London; and the figures that pass before our eyes are endowed with a marvellous vitality by the pen of Fanny Burney. When the court was at St. James’s the Keeper of the Robes had opportunities of visiting her own family in St. Martin Street, and also of meeting at the house of her friend Mrs. Ord “everything delectable in the blue way.” Thither Horace Walpole would come in all haste from Strawberry Hill for the sole pleasure of spending an evening in her society. After such a meeting Fanny writes--“he was in high spirits, polite, ingenious, entertaining, quaint and original.” A striking account of the King’s illness in the winter of 1788-9 is given, followed by the widespread rejoicings for his recovery; when London was ablaze with illuminations that extended for many miles around, and when “even the humblest dwelling exhibited its rush-light.” The author and the illustrator of this work have visited the various places, where King George and Queen Charlotte stayed when accompanied by Fanny Burney. Among these are Oxford, Cheltenham, Worcester, Weymouth and Dorchester; where sketches have been made, or old prints discovered, illustrative of those towns in the late 18th century savours of Georgian days. There the national flag may still be seen as it appeared before the union.

MEMORIES OF SIXTY YEARS AT ETON, CAMBRIDGE AND ELSEWHERE. By OSCAR BROWNING. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 14s. net.

THE STORY OF DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA. By PADRE LUIS COLOMA, S.J., of the Real Academia Española. Translated by LADY MORETON. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ “A new type of book, half novel and half history,” as it is very aptly called in a discourse delivered on the occasion of Padre Coloma’s election to the Academia de España, the story of the heroic son of Charles V. is retold by one of Spain’s greatest living writers with a vividness and charm all his own. The childhood of Jeromin, afterwards Don John of Austria reads like a mysterious romance. His meteoric career is traced through the remaining chapters of the book; first as the attractive youth; the cynosure of all eyes that were bright and gay at the court of Philip II., which Padre Coloma maintains was less austere than is usually supposed; then as conqueror of the Moors, culminating as the “man from God” who saved Europe from the terrible peril of a Turkish dominion; triumphs in Tunis; glimpses of life in the luxury loving Italy of the day; then the sad story of the war in the Netherlands, when our hero, victim of an infamous conspiracy, is left to die of a broken heart; his end hastened by fever, and, maybe, by the “broth of Doctor Ramirez.” Perhaps more fully than ever before is laid bare the intrigue which led to the cruel death of the secretary, Escovedo, including the dramatic interview between Philip II. and Antonio Perez, in the lumber room of the Escorial. A minute account of the celebrated _auto da fe_ in Valladolid cannot fail to arrest attention, nor will the details of several of the imposing ceremonies of Old Spain be less welcome than those of more intimate festivities in the Madrid of the sixteenth century, or of everyday life in a Spanish castle.

⁂ “This book has all the fascination of a vigorous _roman à clef_... the translation is vigorous and idiomatic.”--_Mr. Owen Edwards in Morning Post._

THIRTEEN YEARS OF A BUSY WOMAN’S LIFE. By Mrs. ALEC TWEEDIE. With Nineteen Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net. Third Edition.

⁂ It is a novel idea for an author to give her reasons for taking up her pen as a journalist and writer of books. This Mrs. Alec Tweedie has done in “Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman’s Life.” She tells a dramatic story of youthful happiness, health, wealth, and then contrasts that life with the thirteen years of hard work that followed the loss of her husband, her father, and her income in quick succession in a few weeks. Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s books of travel and biography are well-known, and have been through many editions, even to shilling copies for the bookstalls. This is hardly an autobiography, the author is too young for that, but it gives romantic, and tragic peeps into the life of a woman reared in luxury, who suddenly found herself obliged to live on a tiny income with two small children, or work--and work hard--to retain something of her old life and interests. It is a remarkable story with many personal sketches of some of the best-known men and women of the day.

⁂ “One of the gayest and sanest surveys of English society we have read for years.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._

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THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN THE XVIIth CENTURY. By CHARLES BASTIDE. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ The author of this book of essays on the intercourse between England and France in the seventeenth century has gathered much curious and little-known information. How did the travellers proceed from London to Paris? Did the Frenchmen who came over to England learn, and did they ever venture to write English? An almost unqualified admiration for everything French then prevailed: French tailors, milliners, cooks, even fortune-tellers, as well as writers and actresses, reigned supreme. How far did gallomania affect the relations between the two countries? Among the foreigners who settled in England none exercised such varied influence as the Hugenots; students of Shakespeare and Milton can no longer ignore the Hugenot friends of the two poets, historians of the Commonwealth must take into account the “Nouvelles ordinaires de Londres,” the French gazette, issued on the Puritan side, by some enterprising refugee. Is it then possible to determine how deeply the refugees impressed English thought? Such are the main questions to which the book affords an answer. With its numerous hitherto unpublished documents and illustrations, drawn from contemporary sources, it cannot fail to interest those to whom a most brilliant and romantic period in English history must necessarily appeal.

THE VAN EYCKS AND THEIR ART. By W. H. JAMES WEALE, with the co-operation of MAURICE BROCKWELL. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ The large book on “Hubert and John Van Eyck” which Mr. Weale published in 1908 through Mr. John Lane was instantly recognised by the reviewers and critics as an achievement of quite exceptional importance. It is now felt that the time has come for a revised and slightly abridged edition of that which was issued four years ago at £5 5s. net. The text has been compressed in some places and extended in others, while certain emendations have been made, and after due reflection, the plan of the book has been materially recast. This renders it of greater assistance to the student.

The large amount of research work and methodical preparation of a revised text obliged Mr. Weale, through failing health and eyesight, to avail himself of the services of Mr. Brockwell, and Mr. Weale gives it as his opinion in the new Foreword that he doubts whether he could have found a more able collaborator than Mr. Brockwell to edit this volume.

“The Van Eycks and their Art,” so far from being a mere reprint at a popular price of “Hubert and John Van Eyck,” contains several new features, notable among which are the inclusion of an Appendix giving details of all the sales at public auction in any country from 1662 to 1912 of pictures _reputed_ to be by the Van Eycks. An entirely new and ample Index has been compiled, while the bibliography, which extends over many pages, and the various component parts of the book have been brought abreast of the most recent criticism. Detailed arguments are given for the first time of a picture attributed to one of the brothers Van Eyck in a private collection in Russia.

In conclusion it must be pointed out that Mr. Weale has, with characteristic care, read through the proofs and passed the whole book for press.

The use of a smaller _format_ and of thinner paper renders the present edition easier to handle as a book of reference.

COKE OF NORFOLK AND HIS FRIENDS. The Life of Thomas Coke, First Earl of Leicester and of Holkham. By A. M. W. STIRLING. New Edition, revised, with some additions. With 19 Illustrations. In one volume. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE. By JOSEPH TURQUAN. Author of “The Love Affairs of Napoleon,” “The Wife of General Bonaparte.” Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ “The Empress Josephine” continues and completes the graphically drawn life story begun in “The Wife of General Bonaparte” by the same author, takes us through the brilliant period of the Empire, shows us the gradual development and the execution of the Emperor’s plan to divorce his middle-aged wife, paints in vivid colours the picture of Josephine’s existence after her divorce, tells us how she, although now nothing but his friend, still met him occasionally and corresponded frequently with him, and how she passed her time in the midst of her miniature court. This work enables us to realise the very genuine affection which Napoleon possessed for his first wife, an affection which lasted till death closed her eyes in her lonely hermitage at La Malmaison, and until he went to expiate at Saint Helena his rashness in braving all Europe. Comparatively little is known of the period covering Josephine’s life after her divorce, and yet M. Turquan has found much to tell us that is very interesting; for the ex-Empress in her two retreats, Navarre and La Malmaison, was visited by many celebrated people, and after the Emperor’s downfall was so ill-judged as to welcome and fete several of the vanquished hero’s late friends, now his declared enemies. The story of her last illness and death forms one of the most interesting chapters in this most complete work upon the first Empress of the French.

NAPOLEON IN CARICATURE: 1795-1821. By A. M. BROADLEY. With an Introductory Essay on Pictorial Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic History, by J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt. D. (Cantab.). With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour and upwards of 200 in Black and White from rare and unique originals. 2 Vols. Demy 8vo. 42s. net.

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NAPOLEON’S LAST CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY. By F. LORAINE PETRE. Author of “Napoleon’s Campaign in Poland,” “Napoleon’s Conquest of Prussia,” etc. With 17 Maps and Plans. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ In the author’s two first histories of Napoleon’s campaigns (1806 and 1807) the Emperor is at his greatest as a soldier. The third (1809) showed the commencement of the decay of his genius. Now, in 1813, he has seriously declined. The military judgment of Napoleon, the general, is constantly fettered by the pride and obstinacy of Napoleon, the Emperor. The military principles which guided him up to 1807 are frequently abandoned; he aims at secondary objectives, or mere geographical points, instead of solely at the destruction of the enemy’s army; he hesitates and fails to grasp the true situation in a way that was never known in his earlier campaigns. Yet frequently, as at Bautsen and Dresden, his genius shines with all its old brilliance.

The campaign of 1813 exhibits the breakdown of his over-centralised system of command, which left him without subordinates capable of exercising semi-independent command over portions of armies which had now grown to dimensions approaching those of our own day.

The autumn campaign is a notable example of the system of interior lines, as opposed to that of strategical envelopment. It marks, too, the real downfall of Napoleon’s power, for, after the fearful destruction of 1813, the desperate struggle of 1814, glorious though it was, could never have any real probability of success.

FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS AMERICANS IN PARIS. By JOHN JOSEPH CONWAY, M.A. With 32 Full-page Illustrations. With an Introduction by Mrs. JOHN LANE. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ Franklin, Jefferson, Munroe, Tom Paine, La Fayette, Paul Jones, etc., etc., the most striking figures of a heroic age, working out in the City of Light the great questions for which they stood, are dealt with here. Longfellow the poet of the domestic affections; matchless Margaret Fuller who wrote so well of women in the nineteenth century; Whistler master of American artists; Saint-Gaudens chief of American sculptors; Rumford, most picturesque of scientific knight-errants and several others get a chapter each for their lives and achievements in Paris. A new and absorbing interest is opened up to visitors. Their trip to Versailles becomes more pleasurable when they realise what Franklyn did at that brilliant court. The Place de la Bastille becomes a sacred place to Americans realizing that the principles of the young republic brought about the destruction of the vilest old dungeon in the world. The Seine becomes silvery to the American conjuring up that bright summer morning when Robert Fulton started from the Place de la Concorde in the first steam boat. The Louvre takes on a new attraction from the knowledge that it houses the busts of Washington and Franklyn and La Fayette by Houdon. The Luxembourg becomes a greater temple of art to him who knows that it holds Whistler’s famous portrait of his mother. Even the weather-beaten bookstalls by the banks of the Seine become beautiful because Hawthorne and his son loitered among them on sunny days sixty years ago. The book has a strong literary flavour. Its history is enlivened with anecdote. It is profusely illustrated.

MEMORIES OF JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER: The Artist. By THOMAS R. WAY. Author of “The Lithographs of J. M. Whistler,” etc. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 4to. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ This volume contains about forty illustrations, including an unpublished etching drawn by Whistler and bitten in by Sir Frank Short, A.R.A., an original lithograph sketch, seven lithographs in colour drawn by the Author upon brown paper, and many in black and white. The remainder are facsimiles by photo-lithography. In most cases the originals are drawings and sketches by Whistler which have never been published before, and are closely connected with the matter of the book. The text deals with the Author’s memories of nearly twenty year’s close association with Whistler, and he endeavours to treat only with the man as an artist, and perhaps, especially as a lithographer. [38] Also an EDITION DE LUXE on hand-made paper, with the etching printed from the original plate. Limited to 50 copies.

HISTORY OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY: A Record of a Hundred Years’ Work in the Cause of Music. Compiled by MYLES BIRKET FOSTER, F.R.A.M., etc. With 16 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ As the Philharmonic Society, whose Centenary is now being celebrated, is and has ever been connected, during its long existence, with the history of musical composition and production, not only in this country, but upon the Continent, and as every great name in Europe and America in the last hundred years (within the realm of high-class music), has been associated with it, this volume will, it is believed, prove to be an unique work, not only as a book of reference, but also as a record of the deepest interest to all lovers of good music. It is divided into ten Decades, with a small narrative account of the principal happenings in each, to which are added the full programmes of every concert, and tables showing, at a glance, the number and nationality of the performers and composers, with other particulars of interest. The book is made of additional value by means of rare illustrations of MS. works specially composed for the Society, and of letters from Wagner, Berlioz, Brahms, Liszt, etc., etc., written to the Directors and, by their permission, reproduced for the first time.

IN PORTUGAL. By AUBREY F. G. BELL. Author of “The Magic of Spain.” Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ The guide-books give full details of the marvellous convents, gorgeous palaces, and solemn temples of Portugal, and no attempt is here made to write complete descriptions of them, the very name of some of them being omitted. But the guide-books too often treat Portugal as a continuation, almost as a province of Spain. It is hoped that this little book may give some idea of the individual character of the country, of the quaintnesses of its cities, and of peasant life in its remoter districts. While the utterly opposed characters of the two peoples must probably render the divorce between Spain and Portugal eternal, and reduce hopes of union to the idle dreams of politicians. Portugal in itself contains an infinite variety. Each of the eight provinces (more especially those of the _alemtejanos_, _minhotos_ and _beiröes_) preserves many peculiarities of language, customs, and dress; and each will, in return for hardships endured, give to the traveller many a day of delight and interest.

A TRAGEDY IN STONE, AND OTHER PAPERS. By LORD REDESDALE, G.C.V.O., K.C.C., etc. Demy 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ net.

⁂ “From the author of ‘Tales of Old Japan’ his readers always hope for more about Japan, and in this volume they will find it. The earlier papers, however, are not to be passed over.”--_Times._

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MY LIFE IN PRISON. By DONALD LOWRIE. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ net.

⁂ This book is absolutely true and vital. Within its pages passes the myriorama of prison life. And within its pages may be found revelations of the divine and the undivine; of strange humility and stranger arrogance; of free men brutalized and caged men humanized; of big and little tragedies; of love, cunning, hate, despair, hope. There is humour, too though sometimes the jest is made ironic by its sequel. And there is romance--the romance of the real; not the romance of Kipling’s 9.15, but the romance of No. 19,093, and of all the other numbers that made up the arithmetical hell of San Quentin prison.

Few novels could so absorb interest. It is human utterly. That is the reason. Not only is the very atmosphere of the prison preserved, from the colossal sense of encagement and defencelessness, to the smaller jealousies, exultations and disappointments; not only is there a succession of characters emerging into the clearest individuality and genuineness,--each with its distinctive contribution and separate value; but beyond the details and through all the contrasted variety, there is the spell of complete drama,--the drama of life. Here is the underworld in continuous moving pictures, with the overworld watching. True, the stage is a prison; but is not all the world a stage?

It is a book that should exercise a profound influence on the lives of the caged, and on the whole attitude of society toward the problems of poverty and criminality.

AN IRISH BEAUTY OF THE REGENCY: By MRS. WARRENNE BLAKE. Author of “Memoirs of a Vanished Generation, 1813-1855.” With a Photogravure Frontispiece and other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ The Irish Beauty is the Hon. Mrs. Calvert, daughter of Viscount Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and wife of Nicholson Calvert, M.P., of Hunsdon. Born in 1767, Mrs. Calvert lived to the age of ninety-two, and there are many people still living who remember her. In the delightful journals, now for the first time published, exciting events are described.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By STEWART HOUSTON CHAMBERLAIN. A Translation from the German by JOHN LEES. With an Introduction by LORD REDESDALE. Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 25s. net. Second Edition.

⁂ “A man who can write such a really beautiful and solemn appreciation of true Christianity, of true acceptance of Christ’s teachings and personality, as Mr. Chamberlain has done... represents an influence to be reckoned with and seriously to be taken into account.”--_Theodore Roosevelt in the Outlook, New York._

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THE SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, with a Topographical Account of Westminster at Various Epochs, Brief Notes on Sittings of Parliament and a Retrospect of the principal Constitutional Changes during Seven Centuries. By ARTHUR IRWIN DASENT, Author of “The Life and Letters of JOHN DELANE,” “The History of St. James’s Square,” etc., etc. With numerous Portraits, including two in Photogravure and one in Colour. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.

ROMANTIC TRIALS OF THREE CENTURIES. By HUGH CHILDERS. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ This volume deals with some famous trials, occurring between the years 1650 and 1850. All of them possess some exceptional interest, or introduce historical personages in a fascinating style, peculiarly likely to attract attention.

The book is written for the general reading public, though in many respects it should be of value to lawyers, who will be especially interested in the trials of the great William Penn and Elizabeth Canning. The latter case is one of the most enthralling interest.

Twenty-two years later the same kind of excitement was aroused over Elizabeth Chudleigh, _alias_ Duchess of Kingston, who attracted more attention in 1776 than the war of American independence.

Then the history of the fluent Dr. Dodd, a curiously pathetic one, is related, and the inconsistencies of his character very clearly brought out; perhaps now he may have a little more sympathy than he has usually received. Several important letters of his appear here for the first time in print.

Among other important trials discussed we find the libel action against Disraeli and the story of the Lyons Mail. Our knowledge of the latter is chiefly gathered from the London stage, but there is in it a far greater historical interest than would be suspected by those who have only seen the much altered story enacted before them.

THE OLD GARDENS OF ITALY--HOW TO VISIT THEM. By Mrs. AUBREY LE BLOND. With 100 Illustrations from her own Photographs. Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ Hitherto all books on the old gardens of Italy have been large, costly, and incomplete, and designed for the library rather than for the traveller. Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, during the course of a series of visits to all parts of Italy, has compiled a volume that garden lovers can carry with them, enabling them to decide which gardens are worth visiting, where they are situated, how they may be reached, if special permission to see them is required, and how this may be obtained. Though the book is practical and technical, the artistic element is supplied by the illustrations, one at least of which is given for each of the 71 gardens described. Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond was the illustrator of the monumental work by H. Inigo Triggs on “The Art of Garden Design in Italy,” and has since taken three special journeys to that country to collect material for her “The Old Gardens of Italy.”

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Henry Milton’s appointment was to the Office of the Secretary of War, before 1854 also the Colonial Minister. The other official of the Milton name, born 1820, was Henry Milton’s son, and consequently Anthony Trollope’s first cousin. He entered the same department in 1840 as his father had done before him. On the organisation of the War Office in 1856 he became Assistant Accountant-General; afterwards, having meanwhile been told off on much special service, he became in 1871 Accountant-General. The successive stages of a most brilliant career were crowned by his knighthood and retirement in 1878-9. His literary judgment and scholarship were of the greatest value to his cousin Anthony, and caused his services as “reader” to be in much demand with the second John Murray.

[2] Sir Henry Taylor survived Anthony Trollope by four years, dying in 1886. Forster died in 1876. Both told the present writer of their unavailing invitations of Anthony Trollope while a Post Office clerk to their house.

[3] Visiting Paris soon after the _coup d’état_ of 1851, his hostess at Gore House during his London exile found herself coldly received by her guest of other days. “Do you,” he carelessly asked, “make any long stay in Paris, Madame?” “And you, Monseigneur?” was the happy rejoinder.

[4] _The Macdermots_, p. 301.

[5] Here, as elsewhere, the reference is to Mr. John Lane’s series of Trollope reprints.

[6] _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_, p. 11.

[7] _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_, pp. 174, 175.

[8] The usual “e” in the last syllable of this historic name is always omitted by Trollope, and so not written here.

[9] _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, v. 1.

[10] Jeremiah vi. 16.

[11] _The Warden_, pp. 72-83.

[12] _Adventures of a Younger Son._ Published 1830. This was republished as recently as 1890, while shortly before his death (1881) Trelawny put forth the revised version of his _Byron and Shelley Reminiscences_.

[13] On this subject I am indebted to the present P. & O. chairman, Sir Thomas Sutherland, for an expression of opinion to this effect. The negotiation, indeed, was before his time, and he knows nothing about any record of it in the Company’s archives; but, he adds, “supposing the question to have been one of accelerating the transit of the mails through Egypt, the Company must surely have favoured an improvement which could, in no way that I could see, have been adverse to their interest.”

[14] _Castle Richmond_, p. 5, line 12.

[15] This was natural enough. Prinsep himself had been a sort of political Ulysses, having contested unsuccessfully several constituencies, till he secured his return for Harwich, only, upon petition, to be unseated.

[16] To see at his best Dickens on Thackeray, one should turn to Messrs. Chatto and Windus’s _Speeches of Charles Dickens_, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author of _David Copperfield_ on him who wrote _Vanity Fair_.

[17] Trollope’s _Thackeray_ (English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.

[18] See _Masters of English Journalism_ (T. Fisher Unwin), p. 244, &c. The account here referred to was that given the writer by the founder and first editor of the _The Pall Mall_, F. Greenwood.

[19] “Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’s _Epistles_, Bk. II., ii. 5).

[20] Reprinted by Chapman and Hall (1865-6).

[21] Messrs. Bradbury and Evans were the well-known printers with whom Dickens had so much to do.

[22] Conington’s rendering for the _grata protervitas_ of Horace, Ode i, 19, 7, more compactly, and perhaps not less faithfully translatable by “sweet sauciness.”

[23] Tennyson, _Lady Clara Vere de Vere_.

[24] Such, and not the usually quoted “tu l’as voulu,” are Molière’s actual words.

[25] _Thackeray_ (Macmillan, pp. 48, 49).

[26] The fact thus referred to by Trollope was this. At the time of his own failure for Beverley the author of _Eothen_ was coming in for Bridgewater, but was promptly unseated on petition, the borough itself being, like Beverley, disfranchised a little later.

[27] Some of these names were celebrated in verses that Trollope loved to quote:

“Mr. Leech made a speech; Learned, terse, and strong. Mr. Hart on the other part, Was glib and neat, but wrong. Mr. Parker made that darker, Which was dark enough without. Mr. Cook cited a book, The Chancellor said, ‘I doubt.’”

[28] Such cases of a state official’s temporary return to a department which he had finally left are quite exceptional. The best known, perhaps, is that of Sir Robert Herbert, who was permanent Under Secretary at the Colonial Office from 1873-1892, was succeeded in that capacity by Hon. R. Meade, but, on Meade’s death, returned for a time to his old room at the Colonial Office till Mr. Meade’s place was permanently filled. In the same year Mr. A. W. Moore retired from the India Office in or about 1880, and reappeared in it after an interval of five years as private secretary to the Indian Minister, Lord Randolph Churchill.

[29] The courtesy of Mr. J. Henry Harper enables me to show exactly how this sum was made up:--

£ Mar. 1, 1859. _The Bertrams_ 25 May 29, 1860. _Castle Richmond_ 50 1867. _The Claverings_ (_Cornhill_) Mar. 12, 1872. _The Golden Lion of Granpere_ 250 1874. _Lady Anna_ 200 Oct. 25, 1866. _The Last Chronicle of Barset_ 150 Dec. 31, 1868. _Phineas Finn_ 100 May 30, 1872. _The Eustace Diamonds_ 200 Feb. 7, 1861, and Apr. 15, 1862. _Orley Farm_ 200 Sept. 23, 1863. _Rachel Ray_ 50 Jan. 19, 1871. _Ralph the Heir_ 200 1870. _Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite_ (Plates, &c.) 750 Oct. 13, 1859. _West Indies_, &c. 30 Aug. 31, 1859. _Relics of General Chassé_, &c. 40 Mar. 13, 1874. _Phineas Redux_ 50 Mar. 13, 1874. _Harry Heathcote of Gangoil_ 50 Apr. 18, 1860. _The O’Conors of Castle Conor_ 40 Sept. 29, 1875. _The Way We Live Now_ (and _Electros_) 200 Feb. 7 and Mar. 10, 1876. _The Prime Minister_ 175 May 19, 1877. _The American Senator_ 70 Apr. 26, 1878. _Is He Popenjoy?_ 20 June 24, 1878. _The Lady of Launay_ 10 July 2, 1880. _The Duke’s Children_ 10 Dec. 2, 1880. _Dr. Wortle’s School_ 10 Dec. 28, 1880. _Life of Cicero_ 100 July 20, 1881. _Ayala’s Angel_ 10 Mar. 15, 1882. _The Fixed Period_ 10 May 16, 1882. _Kept in the Dark_ 50 Oct. 10, 1882. _The Two Heroines of Plumplington_ 10 July 30, 1883. _Mr. Scarborough’s Family_ 10 June 13, 1884. _An Old Man’s Love_ 10 ----- £3080 -----

[30] Trollope’s colonial novels, _Harry Heathcote of Gangoil_ and _John Caldigate_, were both written after his Australasian journey.

[31] _The Merchant of Venice_, Act v, Scene 1.

[32] That great word-painter, it should be said, had also visited South Africa some eight years earlier, had written and lectured concerning it, and by so doing, it may well be, at first set Trollope on going to Africa too.

[33] New edition, one vol.: Chapman & Hall.

[34] New impression, one vol.: Chatto & Windus, 1907.

[35] _Can You Forgive Her?_ vol. i. p. 18.

[36] _Is He Popenjoy?_ also appeared in _All the Year Round_ in 1878.

[37] _The Land Leaguers_, new edition, 1884: Chatto & Windus.

[38] This is Out of Print with the Publisher.