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Trollopeans'and
Others

Several years ago I was sitting with
my friend Michael Sadleir; he re-
marked that Escott‘s book was the
only book on Trollope and it was
high time there was another.
don't you write it?" I inquired. ‘
have the material, the knowledge
and the enthusiasm; you do it."
‘ Naturally when Mr. Sadleir asked me
to read his book and write an intro-
duction to it, I felt bound to do so;
‘and as I read, the duty became a
‘ pleasure. ’

‘ The world is divided into Trollope-

‘ ans—and others. If you. reader, are

_ not one of us, hasten to become one.

‘ for there are few pleasures equal to
that of knowing Trollope through
and through as Sadleir does. and as

‘ Tinker" (of Yale) does. and as Osgood
(of Princetonl does. and-I should
like to addfas I do. I do not say
that Trollope is our greatest novelist:

“ I know that he is not. but I can read
him with delight when I can't read
anyone else. . .

Trollope's mother (bless her stout
hEartl kept her family from starVing
by making fun of us in her first book.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
(1832). i “guess" we were pretty raw-
. in those days. And if there is a good:
ideal about Mrs. Trollope and her
‘ novels in this book. it will be remem- *
‘ bered. as Mr. Sadlcir says, “that from
‘ her books came, in reality. the greater ‘
:books of her son, and while his live.
‘ those that prepared their way should
‘not be altogether forgotten.”

And so it is that after almost fifty
wears of neglect Trollope is again
coming into his own. and is being
read when those whom we once
called the great Victorians are
neglected. . . .

People interested Trollope, inter-
ested him enormously; cities did not,
particularly; nor did the country, ex-
cept as a place in or on which to
hunt the fox. But individuals inter-
ested him, and not individuals only,
but families, and several generations 3
of families. Not only is Trollope a' ‘
portrait painter but he is a biogra-
pher also. Trollope‘s novels are, the
best of them, biographies; and as
such they are unique. And he has}
described, faultlessly. the social lifel
of a period now, alas! no more.#A.
Emma» NEWTON in “End Papers."
(Boston: Little, .Brown.) .

 

 Group of Contemporary Writers.

anlmuulrl. .I. A. F'roude. YViIkie, Collins. Anthony Trollope.
, ~Lytton. Thomas Carlyle,

 

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ey were greatly dependent on each with that elusive factor of character

ther, as the diary tells the story of callgfl temperament and their re<
heir relations, so complete was their SDeCtiVe temperaments were not al-
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 (Above) HUISH

EPISCOPI. Trollope’s

; description of Plum-

: stead Episcopil in “Bar-

‘ Chester Towers" is .
almost an exact picture
of this old parish

in Somerset-

 

 (At left) THE
D E A NERY,

WINCHESTER.
The close of the
C a t h e d 1‘ al of
Winchester sup-
plied much of the
background f o r
“The Warden”
and “Barchester
V Towers.”

 

  

(Above) _
B‘ A N A G' H E R,
,I R E L A N D .
The village, un-
changed 3 i n c e
Trollope’s time,
where he lived
immediately after
his marriage, and
where he first
discovered h i s
ability as a
writer.

 'A FINE OLD ELIZA-
BETHAN MANSION. This
country estate in Somerset-
shire is considered one of
the purest examples of
Tudor architecture in Eng-
land. It suggested to Mr.
Olcott the home of Squire
Creshanbury in“Dr. Thorne.”

 

 

  

 

ST. CROSS’S HOSPITAL, Winchester, England. A
legal entanglement concerning this institution furnished
Trollope the theme of “The Warden,” the first of the
Barsetshixe series. '

 

  

 

 

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SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. Trollope’s imaginary town of Bar-
chester was drawn from his personal familiarity with Salisbury—
with some touches of Winchester and Wells.

 

 A SOMERSETSHIRE GARDEN, one of the charming photo-
graphs made by Charles S. Olcott of Houghton Mifflin Com-
pany, who has undertaken to “discover” Trollope’s Barsetshire—
not on the map, but “somewhere in England,” with its cathedral
towns, churches, parsonages, villages, gardens and pleasant rural
byways. Nine of Mr. Olcott's pictures are shown on this page._