⁂ The author of this book has not solely relied for his materials on a personal intimacy with its subject, during the most active years of Trollope’s life, but from an equal intimacy with Trollope’s contemporaries and from those who had seen his early life. He has derived, and here sets forth, in chronological order, a series of personal incidents and experiences that could not be gained but for the author’s exceptional opportunities. These incidents have never before appeared in print, but that are absolutely essential for a right understanding of the opinions—social, political, and religious—of which Trollope’s writings became the medium, as well as of the chief personages in his stories, from the “Macdermots of Ballycloran” (1847) to the posthumous “Land Leaguers” (1883). All lifelike pictures, whether of place, individual, character of incident, are painted from life. The entirely fresh light now thrown on the intellectual and spiritual forces, chiefly felt by the novelist during his childhood, youth and early manhood, helped to place within his reach the originals of his long portrait gallery, and had their further result in the opinions, as well as the estimates of events and men, in which his writings abound, and which, whether they cause agreement or dissent, always reveal life, nature, and stimulate thought. The man, who had for his Harrow schoolfellows Sidney Herbert and Sir William Gregory, was subsequently brought into the closest relations with the first State officials of his time, was himself one of the most active agents in making penny postage a national and imperial success, and when he planted the first pillar-box in the Channel Islands, accomplished on his own initiative a great postal reform. A life so active, varied and full, gave him a greater diversity of friends throughout the British Isles than belonged to any other nineteenth century worker, literary or official. Hence the unique interest of Trollope’s course, and therefore this, its record.
⁂ The author of this book has not solely relied for his materials on a personal intimacy with its subject, during the most active years of Trollope’s life, but from an equal intimacy with Trollope’s contemporaries and from those who had seen his early life. He has derived, and here sets forth, in chronological order, a series of personal incidents and experiences that could not be gained but for the author’s exceptional opportunities. These incidents have never before appeared in print, but that are absolutely essential for a right understanding of the opinions—social, political, and religious—of which Trollope’s writings became the medium, as well as of the chief personages in his stories, from the “Macdermots of Ballycloran” (1847) to the posthumous “Land Leaguers” (1883). All lifelike pictures, whether of place, individual, character of incident, are painted from life. The entirely fresh light now thrown on the intellectual and spiritual forces, chiefly felt by the novelist during his childhood, youth and early manhood, helped to place within his reach the originals of his long portrait gallery, and had their further result in the opinions, as well as the estimates of events and men, in which his writings abound, and which, whether they cause agreement or dissent, always reveal life, nature, and stimulate thought. The man, who had for his Harrow schoolfellows Sidney Herbert and Sir William Gregory, was subsequently brought into the closest relations with the first State officials of his time, was himself one of the most active agents in making penny postage a national and imperial success, and when he planted the first pillar-box in the Channel Islands, accomplished on his own initiative a great postal reform. A life so active, varied and full, gave him a greater diversity of friends throughout the British Isles than belonged to any other nineteenth century worker, literary or official. Hence the unique interest of Trollope’s course, and therefore this, its record.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. ByEsmé C. Wingfield Stratford, Fellow King’s College, Cambridge. In 2 vols. Demy 8vo. With a Frontispiece to each volume, (1,300 pages). 25s. net.
⁂ This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the substance of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour.The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the leading experts in the principal subjects embraced in this encyclopædic survey of English History.When this work was first announced under the above title, the publisher suggested calling it “A New History of England.” Indeed it is both. Mr. Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how everything of value that nations in general, and the English nation in particular, have at any time achieved has been the direct outcome of the common feeling upon which patriotism is built. He sees, and makes his readers see, the manifold development of England as one connected whole with no more branch of continuity than a living body or a perfect work of art.The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the threads of religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting, architecture, law and commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and absorbing interest.The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas from it, economics examine the gradual fruition of trade, statesmen devise fresh creative plans, and the general reader will feel he is no insignificant unit, but the splendid symbol of a splendid world.
⁂ This work compresses into about HALF A MILLION WORDS the substance of EIGHT YEARS of uninterrupted labour.
The book has been read and enthusiastically commended by the leading experts in the principal subjects embraced in this encyclopædic survey of English History.
When this work was first announced under the above title, the publisher suggested calling it “A New History of England.” Indeed it is both. Mr. Wingfield Stratford endeavours to show how everything of value that nations in general, and the English nation in particular, have at any time achieved has been the direct outcome of the common feeling upon which patriotism is built. He sees, and makes his readers see, the manifold development of England as one connected whole with no more branch of continuity than a living body or a perfect work of art.
The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the threads of religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting, architecture, law and commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and absorbing interest.
The book is a world-book. Scholars will reconstruct their ideas from it, economics examine the gradual fruition of trade, statesmen devise fresh creative plans, and the general reader will feel he is no insignificant unit, but the splendid symbol of a splendid world.
CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. ByFrank Gibson. With a Catalogue of the Lithographs and Etchings byCampbell Dodgson, M.S., Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. With about 100 reproductions of Conder’s work, 12 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net.
⁂ With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines, and one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up to the present has appeared fully to record the life and work of Charles Condor, by whose death English Art has lost one of its most original personalities. Consequently it has been felt that a book dealing with Conder’s life so full of interest, and his work so full of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples of his Art both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already great and increasing number of his admirers.The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his early days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of the artist’s life, is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not only to the delightful character of Conder as a friend, but is also able to appreciate his remarkable talent.The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the addition of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and engravings, compiled by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the Print-Room of the British Museum.
⁂ With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines, and one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up to the present has appeared fully to record the life and work of Charles Condor, by whose death English Art has lost one of its most original personalities. Consequently it has been felt that a book dealing with Conder’s life so full of interest, and his work so full of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples of his Art both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already great and increasing number of his admirers.
The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his early days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of the artist’s life, is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not only to the delightful character of Conder as a friend, but is also able to appreciate his remarkable talent.
The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the addition of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and engravings, compiled by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the Print-Room of the British Museum.
PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. ByLewis Melville. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
⁂ A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet, by some strange chance, though nearly two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius passed away, the present work is the first that gives a comprehensive account of his life. A man of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at once delighted and disgusted his contemporaries. Unstable as water, he was like Dryden’s Zimri, “Everything by starts and nothing long.” He was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, buffoon, and amorist. The son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the Hanoverian dynasty, he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him a duke. He then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by George I. also promoted to a dukedom—while he was yet a minor. He was the friend of Attenbury and the President of the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he was leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking consolation in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of Richardson’s Lovelace.
⁂ A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet, by some strange chance, though nearly two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius passed away, the present work is the first that gives a comprehensive account of his life. A man of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at once delighted and disgusted his contemporaries. Unstable as water, he was like Dryden’s Zimri, “Everything by starts and nothing long.” He was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, buffoon, and amorist. The son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the Hanoverian dynasty, he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him a duke. He then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by George I. also promoted to a dukedom—while he was yet a minor. He was the friend of Attenbury and the President of the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he was leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking consolation in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of Richardson’s Lovelace.
THE LIFE OF MADAME TALLIEN NOTRE DAME DE THERMIDOR (A Queen of Shreds and Patches.) From the last days of the French Revolution, until her death as Princess Chimay in 1885. ByL. Gastine. Translated from the French byJ. Lewis May. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ There is no one in the history of the French Revolution who has been more eagerly canonised than Madame Tallien; yet according to M. Gastine, there is no one in that history who merited canonisation so little. He has therefore set himself the task of dissipating the mass of legend and sentiment that has gathered round the memory of “La Belle Tallien” and of presenting her to our eyes as she really was. The result of his labour is a volume, which combines the scrupulous exactness of conscientious research with the richness and glamour of a romance. In the place of the beautiful heroic but purely imaginary figure of popular tradition, we behold a woman, dowered indeed with incomparable loveliness, but utterly unmoral, devoid alike of heart and soul, who readily and repeatedly prostituted her personal charms for the advancement of her selfish and ignoble aims. Though Madame Tallien is the central figure of the book, the reader is introduced to many other personages who played famous or infamous roles in the contemporary social or political arena, and the volume, which is enriched by a number of interesting portraits, throws a new and valuable light on this stormy and perennially fascinating period of French history.
⁂ There is no one in the history of the French Revolution who has been more eagerly canonised than Madame Tallien; yet according to M. Gastine, there is no one in that history who merited canonisation so little. He has therefore set himself the task of dissipating the mass of legend and sentiment that has gathered round the memory of “La Belle Tallien” and of presenting her to our eyes as she really was. The result of his labour is a volume, which combines the scrupulous exactness of conscientious research with the richness and glamour of a romance. In the place of the beautiful heroic but purely imaginary figure of popular tradition, we behold a woman, dowered indeed with incomparable loveliness, but utterly unmoral, devoid alike of heart and soul, who readily and repeatedly prostituted her personal charms for the advancement of her selfish and ignoble aims. Though Madame Tallien is the central figure of the book, the reader is introduced to many other personages who played famous or infamous roles in the contemporary social or political arena, and the volume, which is enriched by a number of interesting portraits, throws a new and valuable light on this stormy and perennially fascinating period of French history.
MINIATURES: A Series of Reproductions in Photogravure of Ninety-Six Miniatures of Distinguished Personages, including Queen Alexandra, the Queen of Norway, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Victoria. Painted byCharles Turrell. (Folio.) The Edition is limited to One Hundred Copies for sale in England and America, and Twenty-Five Copies for Presentation, Review, and the Museums. Each will be Numbered and Signed by the Artist. 15 guineas net.
RECOLLECTIONS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT. By his ValetFrançois. Translated from the French byMaurice Reynold. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
THE WIFE OF GENERAL BONAPARTE. ByJoseph Turquan. Author of “The Love Affairs of Napoleon,” etc. Translated from the French by MissViolette Montagu. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ Although much has been written concerning the Empress Josephine, we know comparatively little about theveuveBeauharnais and thecitoyenneBonaparte, whose inconsiderate conduct during her husband’s absence caused him so much anguish. We are so accustomed to consider Josephine as the innocent victim of a cold and calculating tyrant who allowed nothing, neither human lives nor natural affections, to stand in the way of his all-conquering will, that this volume will come to us rather as a surprise. Modern historians are over-fond of blaming Napoleon for having divorced the companion of his early years; but after having read the above work, the reader will be constrained to admire General Bonaparte’s forbearance and will wonder how he ever came to allow her to play the Queen at the Tuileries.
⁂ Although much has been written concerning the Empress Josephine, we know comparatively little about theveuveBeauharnais and thecitoyenneBonaparte, whose inconsiderate conduct during her husband’s absence caused him so much anguish. We are so accustomed to consider Josephine as the innocent victim of a cold and calculating tyrant who allowed nothing, neither human lives nor natural affections, to stand in the way of his all-conquering will, that this volume will come to us rather as a surprise. Modern historians are over-fond of blaming Napoleon for having divorced the companion of his early years; but after having read the above work, the reader will be constrained to admire General Bonaparte’s forbearance and will wonder how he ever came to allow her to play the Queen at the Tuileries.
THE JOURNAL OF A SPORTING NOMAD. By J. T. STUDLEY. With a Portrait and 32 other Illustrations, principally from Photographs by the Author. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.
⁂ “Not for a long time have we read such straightforward, entertaining accounts of wild sport and adventure.”—Manchester Guardian.⁂ “His adventures have the whole world for their theatre. There is a great deal of curious information and vivid narrative that will appeal to everybody.”—Standard.
⁂ “Not for a long time have we read such straightforward, entertaining accounts of wild sport and adventure.”—Manchester Guardian.
⁂ “His adventures have the whole world for their theatre. There is a great deal of curious information and vivid narrative that will appeal to everybody.”—Standard.
SOPHIE DAWES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. ByViolette M. Montagu. Author of “The Scottish College in Paris,” etc. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations and Three Plans. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d. net.
⁂ Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with the reigning sovereign, queens of beauty or of intrigue, the name of Sophie Dawes, the daughter of humble fisherfolk in the Isle of Wight, better known as “the notorious Mme. de Feucheres,” “The Queen of Chantilly” and “The Montespan de Saint Leu” in the land which she chose as a suitable sphere in which to exercise her talents for money-making and for getting on in the world, stand forth as a proof of what a woman’s will can accomplish when that will is accompanied with an uncommon share of intelligence.
⁂ Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with the reigning sovereign, queens of beauty or of intrigue, the name of Sophie Dawes, the daughter of humble fisherfolk in the Isle of Wight, better known as “the notorious Mme. de Feucheres,” “The Queen of Chantilly” and “The Montespan de Saint Leu” in the land which she chose as a suitable sphere in which to exercise her talents for money-making and for getting on in the world, stand forth as a proof of what a woman’s will can accomplish when that will is accompanied with an uncommon share of intelligence.
MARGARET OF FRANCE DUCHESS OF SAVOY. 1523-1574. A Biography with Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations and Facsimile Reproductions of Hitherto Unpublished Letters. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d. net.
⁂ A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubilee of the Italian Kingdom is perhaps no unfitting moment in which to glance back over the annals of that royal House of Savoy which has rendered Italian unity possible. Margaret of France may without exaggeration be counted among the builders of modern Italy. She married Emanuel Philibert, the founder of Savoyard greatness; and from the day of her marriage until the day of her death she laboured to advance the interests of her adopted land.
⁂ A time when the Italians are celebrating the Jubilee of the Italian Kingdom is perhaps no unfitting moment in which to glance back over the annals of that royal House of Savoy which has rendered Italian unity possible. Margaret of France may without exaggeration be counted among the builders of modern Italy. She married Emanuel Philibert, the founder of Savoyard greatness; and from the day of her marriage until the day of her death she laboured to advance the interests of her adopted land.
MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER TIMES. 1630-1676. ByHugh Stokes. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d. net.
⁂ The name of Marie Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, is famous in the annals of crime, but the true history of her career is little known. A woman of birth and rank, she was also a remorseless poisoner, and her trial was one of the most sensational episodes of the early reign of Louis XIV. The author was attracted to this curious subject by Charles le Brun’s realistic sketch of the unhappy Marquise as she appeared on her way to execution. Thischef d’oeuvreof misery and agony forms the frontispiece to the volume, and strikes a fitting keynote to an absorbing story of human passion and wrong-doing.
⁂ The name of Marie Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, is famous in the annals of crime, but the true history of her career is little known. A woman of birth and rank, she was also a remorseless poisoner, and her trial was one of the most sensational episodes of the early reign of Louis XIV. The author was attracted to this curious subject by Charles le Brun’s realistic sketch of the unhappy Marquise as she appeared on her way to execution. Thischef d’oeuvreof misery and agony forms the frontispiece to the volume, and strikes a fitting keynote to an absorbing story of human passion and wrong-doing.
THE VICISSITUDES OF A LADY-IN WAITING. 1735-1821. ByEugene Welvert. Translated from the French byLilian O’Neill. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d. net.
⁂ The Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara was Lady-in-Waiting to Madame Adelaide, the eldest daughter of Louis XV. Around the stately figure of this Princess are gathered the most remarkable characters of the days of the Old Regime, the Revolution and the first Empire. The great charm of the work is that it takes us over so much and varied ground. Here, in the gay crowd of ladies and courtiers, in the rustle of flowery silken paniers, in the clatter of high-heeled shoes, move the figures of Louis XV., Louis XVI., Du Barri and Marie-Antoinette. We catch picturesque glimpses of the great wits, diplomatists and soldiers of the time, until, finally we encounter Napoleon Bonaparte.
⁂ The Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara was Lady-in-Waiting to Madame Adelaide, the eldest daughter of Louis XV. Around the stately figure of this Princess are gathered the most remarkable characters of the days of the Old Regime, the Revolution and the first Empire. The great charm of the work is that it takes us over so much and varied ground. Here, in the gay crowd of ladies and courtiers, in the rustle of flowery silken paniers, in the clatter of high-heeled shoes, move the figures of Louis XV., Louis XVI., Du Barri and Marie-Antoinette. We catch picturesque glimpses of the great wits, diplomatists and soldiers of the time, until, finally we encounter Napoleon Bonaparte.
ANNALS OF A YORKSHIRE HOUSE. From the Papers of a Macaroni and his kindred. ByA. M. W. Stirling, author of “Coke of Norfolk and his Friends.” With 33 Illustrations, including 3 in Colour and 3 in Photogravure. Demy 8vo. 2 vols. 32s. net.
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH AND HIS FRIENDS. ByS. M. Ellis. With upwards of 50 Illustrations, 4 in Photogravure. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 32s.net.
NAPOLEON AND KING MURAT. 1805-1815: A Biography compiled from hitherto Unknown and Unpublished Documents. ByAlbert Espitalier. Translated from the French byJ. Lewis May. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d.net.
LADY CHARLOTTE SCHREIBER’S JOURNALS Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and Turkey. From the year 1869 to 1885. Edited byMontague Guest, with Annotations byEgan Mew. With upwards of 100 Illustrations, including 8 in colour and 2 in Photogravure. Royal 8vo. 2 volumes. 42s.net.
CHARLES DE BOURBON, CONSTABLE OF FRANCE: “The Great Condottiere.” ByChristopher Hare. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s.6d.net.
THE NELSONS OF BURNHAM THORPE: A Record of a Norfolk Family compiled from Unpublished Letters and Note Books, 1787-1843. Edited byM. Eyre Matcham. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s.net.
⁂ This interesting contribution to Nelson literature is drawn from the journals and correspondence of the Rev. Edmund Nelson, Rector of Burnham Thorpe and his youngest daughter, the father and sister of Lord Nelson. The Rector was evidently a man of broad views and sympathies, for we find him maintaining friendly relations with his son and daughter-in-law after their separation. What is even more strange, he felt perfectly at liberty to go direct from the house of Mrs. Horatio Nelson in Norfolk to that of Sir William and Lady Hamilton in London, where his son was staying. This book shows how completely and without any reserve the family received Lady Hamilton.
⁂ This interesting contribution to Nelson literature is drawn from the journals and correspondence of the Rev. Edmund Nelson, Rector of Burnham Thorpe and his youngest daughter, the father and sister of Lord Nelson. The Rector was evidently a man of broad views and sympathies, for we find him maintaining friendly relations with his son and daughter-in-law after their separation. What is even more strange, he felt perfectly at liberty to go direct from the house of Mrs. Horatio Nelson in Norfolk to that of Sir William and Lady Hamilton in London, where his son was staying. This book shows how completely and without any reserve the family received Lady Hamilton.
MARIA EDGEWORTH AND HER CIRCLE IN THE DAYS OF BONAPARTE AND BOURBON. ByConstance Hill. Author of “Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends,” “Juniper Hall,” “The House in St. Martin’s Street,” etc. With numerous Illustrations byEllen G. Hilland Reproductions of Contemporary Portraits, etc. Demy 8vo. 21s. net.
CESAR FRANCK: A Study. Translated from the French of Vincent d’Indy, with an Introduction byRosa Newmarch. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.
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 thecoup d’étatof 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 hisByron 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’sSpeeches of Charles Dickens, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author ofDavid Copperfieldon him who wroteVanity Fair.[17]Trollope’sThackeray(English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.[18]SeeMasters 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 theThe Pall Mall, F. Greenwood.[19]“Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’sEpistles, 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 thegrata protervitasof 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 ofEothenwas 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 Bertrams25May29,1860.Castle Richmond501867.The Claverings(Cornhill)Mar.12,1872.The Golden Lion of Granpere2501874.Lady Anna200Oct.25,1866.The Last Chronicle of Barset150Dec.31,1868.Phineas Finn100May30,1872.The Eustace Diamonds200Feb.7,1861,and Apr. 15, 1862.Orley Farm200Sept.23,1863.Rachel Ray50Jan.19,1871.Ralph the Heir2001870.Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite(Plates, &c.)750Oct.13,1859.West Indies, &c.30Aug.31,1859.Relics of General Chassé, &c.40Mar.13,1874.Phineas Redux50Mar.13,1874.Harry Heathcote of Gangoil50Apr.18,1860.The O’Conors of Castle Conor40Sept.29,1875.The Way We Live Now(andElectros)200Feb.7and Mar. 10, 1876.The Prime Minister175May19,1877.The American Senator70Apr.26,1878.Is He Popenjoy?20June24,1878.The Lady of Launay10July2,1880.The Duke’s Children10Dec.2,1880.Dr. Wortle’s School10Dec.28,1880.Life of Cicero100July20,1881.Ayala’s Angel10Mar.15,1882.The Fixed Period10May16,1882.Kept in the Dark50Oct.10,1882.The Two Heroines of Plumplington10July30,1883.Mr. Scarborough’s Family10June13,1884.An Old Man’s Love10£3080[30]Trollope’s colonial novels,Harry Heathcote of GangoilandJohn 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 inAll the Year Roundin 1878.[37]The Land Leaguers, new edition, 1884: Chatto & Windus.
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.
[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.
[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 thecoup d’étatof 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.
[3]Visiting Paris soon after thecoup d’étatof 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.
[4]The Macdermots, p. 301.
[5]Here, as elsewhere, the reference is to Mr. John Lane’s series of Trollope reprints.
[5]Here, as elsewhere, the reference is to Mr. John Lane’s series of Trollope reprints.
[6]The Macdermots of Ballycloran, p. 11.
[6]The Macdermots of Ballycloran, p. 11.
[7]The Macdermots of Ballycloran, pp. 174, 175.
[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.
[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.
[9]A Midsummer Night’s Dream, v. 1.
[10]Jeremiah vi. 16.
[10]Jeremiah vi. 16.
[11]The Warden, pp. 72-83.
[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 hisByron and Shelley Reminiscences.
[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 hisByron 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.”
[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.
[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.
[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’sSpeeches of Charles Dickens, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author ofDavid Copperfieldon him who wroteVanity Fair.
[16]To see at his best Dickens on Thackeray, one should turn to Messrs. Chatto and Windus’sSpeeches of Charles Dickens, and under the date March 29, 1858, read the just and generous eulogy bestowed by the author ofDavid Copperfieldon him who wroteVanity Fair.
[17]Trollope’sThackeray(English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.
[17]Trollope’sThackeray(English Men of Letters Series), p. 49.
[18]SeeMasters 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 theThe Pall Mall, F. Greenwood.
[18]SeeMasters 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 theThe Pall Mall, F. Greenwood.
[19]“Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’sEpistles, Bk. II., ii. 5).
[19]“Our years keep taking toll as they roll on” (Conington’s translation, Horace’sEpistles, Bk. II., ii. 5).
[20]Reprinted by Chapman and Hall (1865-6).
[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.
[21]Messrs. Bradbury and Evans were the well-known printers with whom Dickens had so much to do.
[22]Conington’s rendering for thegrata protervitasof Horace, Ode i, 19, 7, more compactly, and perhaps not less faithfully translatable by “sweet sauciness.”
[22]Conington’s rendering for thegrata protervitasof Horace, Ode i, 19, 7, more compactly, and perhaps not less faithfully translatable by “sweet sauciness.”
[23]Tennyson,Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
[23]Tennyson,Lady Clara Vere de Vere.
[24]Such, and not the usually quoted “tu l’as voulu,” are Molière’s actual words.
[24]Such, and not the usually quoted “tu l’as voulu,” are Molière’s actual words.
[25]Thackeray(Macmillan, pp. 48, 49).
[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 ofEothenwas coming in for Bridgewater, but was promptly unseated on petition, the borough itself being, like Beverley, disfranchised a little later.
[26]The fact thus referred to by Trollope was this. At the time of his own failure for Beverley the author ofEothenwas 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.’”
[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.’”
“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.’”
“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.
[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 Bertrams25May29,1860.Castle Richmond501867.The Claverings(Cornhill)Mar.12,1872.The Golden Lion of Granpere2501874.Lady Anna200Oct.25,1866.The Last Chronicle of Barset150Dec.31,1868.Phineas Finn100May30,1872.The Eustace Diamonds200Feb.7,1861,and Apr. 15, 1862.Orley Farm200Sept.23,1863.Rachel Ray50Jan.19,1871.Ralph the Heir2001870.Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite(Plates, &c.)750Oct.13,1859.West Indies, &c.30Aug.31,1859.Relics of General Chassé, &c.40Mar.13,1874.Phineas Redux50Mar.13,1874.Harry Heathcote of Gangoil50Apr.18,1860.The O’Conors of Castle Conor40Sept.29,1875.The Way We Live Now(andElectros)200Feb.7and Mar. 10, 1876.The Prime Minister175May19,1877.The American Senator70Apr.26,1878.Is He Popenjoy?20June24,1878.The Lady of Launay10July2,1880.The Duke’s Children10Dec.2,1880.Dr. Wortle’s School10Dec.28,1880.Life of Cicero100July20,1881.Ayala’s Angel10Mar.15,1882.The Fixed Period10May16,1882.Kept in the Dark50Oct.10,1882.The Two Heroines of Plumplington10July30,1883.Mr. Scarborough’s Family10June13,1884.An Old Man’s Love10£3080
[29]The courtesy of Mr. J. Henry Harper enables me to show exactly how this sum was made up:—
[30]Trollope’s colonial novels,Harry Heathcote of GangoilandJohn Caldigate, were both written after his Australasian journey.
[30]Trollope’s colonial novels,Harry Heathcote of GangoilandJohn Caldigate, were both written after his Australasian journey.
[31]The Merchant of Venice, Act v, Scene 1.
[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.
[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.
[33]New edition, one vol.: Chapman & Hall.
[34]New impression, one vol.: Chatto & Windus, 1907.
[34]New impression, one vol.: Chatto & Windus, 1907.
[35]Can You Forgive Her?vol. i. p. 18.
[35]Can You Forgive Her?vol. i. p. 18.
[36]Is He Popenjoy?also appeared inAll the Year Roundin 1878.
[36]Is He Popenjoy?also appeared inAll the Year Roundin 1878.
[37]The Land Leaguers, new edition, 1884: Chatto & Windus.
[37]The Land Leaguers, new edition, 1884: Chatto & Windus.