CHAPTER IX

IN PERIODICAL HARNESS

Trollope’s one work in the Thackerayan vein--_Brown, Jones, and Robinson_--Its failure--Thackeray’s two efforts to enter official life by a side door--Trollope’s opinion of “untried elderly tyros”--And of Thackeray’s limitations--His _Life of Thackeray_--Philippics against open competition in the Civil Service--A Liberal by profession, but a Tory at heart--Anthony’s _bon mot_--_The Pall Mall Gazette_--Hunting life in Essex--Sir Evelyn Wood to the rescue--Trollope’s cosmopolitanism--_The Fortnightly Review_, an English _Revue des deux Mondes_--Its later developments 160