as bad, but she stopped herself.
Difference of time and convention and pruderies allowed for, Trollope
will give you in a page or so of discourse between two Victorian
maidens--the whole of it delicately understood, chivalrously handled,
tenderly yet firmly revealed--the secret as no novelist has quite
revealed it before or since. At any moment one may be surprised by a
sudden Jane Austen touch; and this will come with the more startling
surprise being dropped by a plain, presumably blunt, man. For Trollope
adds to his strain of coarseness, already mentioned, a strain--or at
least an intimate understanding--of cheapness. His gentle breeding and
his upbringing (poverty-stricken though it had been) ever checked him
on the threshold of the holies. But he had tholed too many years in the
G.P.O. to have missed intimate acquaintance with
The noisy chaff
And ill-bred laugh
Of clerks on omnibuses.
Those who understand this will understand why he could not bring
himself to mate his “dear Lily Dale” with that faithful, most helpful,
little bounder Johnny Eames. He knew his Johnny Eames too well to
introduce him upon the Cathedral Close of Barchester, though he could
successfully dare to introduce the Stanhope family. He walks among
rogues, too, and wastrels, with a Mr. Sowerby or a Bertie Stanhope,
as sympathetically as among bishops, deans, archdeacons, canons. His
picture of Sowerby and the ruin he has brought on an ancient family,
all through his own sins is no less and no more truthful than his
picture of Mrs. Proudie in altercation with Mr. Slope; while they both
are inferior in imaginative power to the scene of Mr. Crawley’s call
on the Bishop. In the invention of Crawley, in his perfect handling
of that strong and insane mind, I protest that I am astonished almost
as though he had suddenly shown himself capable of inventing a King
Lear. In this Trollope, with whom one has been jogging along under a
slowly growing conviction that he is by miles a greater artist than he
knows or has ever been reckoned, there explodes this character--and
out of the kindliest intentions to preach him up, one is awakened in
a fright and to a sense of shame at never having recognised the man’s
originality or taken the great measure of his power.
INDEX
Addison, Joseph, 96, 128
_Aeneid_, 159
_Alice in Wonderland_, 228
_All the Year Round_, 18
_American Notes_, 17, 52
_American Senator, The_, 220
_Antony and Cleopatra_, 93
_Arabian Nights_, 41, 170, 187
Ariosto, Lodovico, 158
Aristophanes, 158
Aristotle, 42, 84, 139, 191, 226
Arnold, Matthew, 74, 100, 121, 161
_Art of Fiction, The_, James’, 81
Ashley, Lord (Lord Shaftesbury), 172, 174, 192
Aurelius, Marcus, 131
Austen, Jane, 31, 71, 164, 179, 200, 233
_Autobiography_, Trollope’s, 219, 221
Bacon, Francis, 4, 107
Bagehot, Walter, 114
_Ballad of Bouillabaisse_, 104
Balzac, Honoré de, 34, 135, 138, 219, 230
_Barchester Towers_, 220, 225
_Barnaby Rudge_, 52, 55
Barnes, William, 119
_Barry Lyndon_, 125, 126, 147
_Battle of Life, The_, 18
Beerbohm, Max, 149, 160
_Belton Estate, The_, 219
Bentham, Jeremy, 73
Berkeley, Bishop George, 128
_Blackwood’s Magazine_, 204
Blake, William, 128, 159
_Bleak House_, 11, 12, 33, 55, 69, 89
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 70
Bolingbroke, Viscount, 197
_Book of Snobs, The_, 125
Boswell, James, 201
_Boule de Suif_, 139
Bright, John, 183
Brontë, Anne, 211, 222
Brontë, Branwell, 201
Brontë, Charlotte, 72, 201, 211, 212, 222
Brontë, Emily, 201, 211, 222
Brookfield, William Henry, 106
Browne, Sir Thomas, 112, 197
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 161, 167, 170, 204
Browning, Robert, 7, 21, 100, 128, 161
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 24
Bryant, William Cullen, 17
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 7
Bunyan, John, 71, 197, 225
Burke, Edmund, 4, 21, 22, 128, 149, 183, 197
Burney, Fanny, 164
Burns, Robert, 66, 128, 222
Butler, Samuel, 84, 85
Byron, Lord, 66, 128, 160, 226
Campion, Thomas, 19
Canning, George, 107, 183
Carlyle, Mrs., 10
Carlyle, Thomas, 7, 10, 21, 40, 74, 93, 107, 124, 128, 176, 177, 223,
226
Carols, 18
Carroll, Lewis, 78
_Casa Guidi Windows_, 161
_Catherine_, 125
Catullus, 222
Cervantes, Miguel de, 91
Chadwick, Sir Edwin, 167
Chapman, Frederic, 83
Chapman, Robert William, 200
Charles I, 4
Charlotte Augusta, Princess, 110
Chatham, Earl of, 183
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 8, 20, 66, 67, 98, 158
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, 10, 33
_Childe Harold_, 66
_Chimes, The_, 18
_Christmas Carol, A_, 18
Cicero, 183
City Churchyards, The, Dickens’ essay on, 96
Clarendon, Earl of, 197
Clark, Sir Charles, 110
_Claverings, The_, 219
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 74, 132, 161
Cobbett, William, 68, 171, 231
Cochrane, Alexander Baillie, 193
_Codlingsby_, 188
Colenso, Bishop, 73
Coleridge, Hartley, 30
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 21, 56, 77, 128
Collins, Wilkie, 13, 127, 224
_Comedy of Errors, The_, 53
_Compleat Angler, The_, 71
Congreve, William, 222
_Coningsby_, 117, 193, 194–196, 208, 223
Conington, John, 123
_Constitutional, The_, 102
_Coriolanus_, 158
_Cornhill Magazine_, 212, 223
_Country Life_, 230
_Cousin Phillis_, 212–216
Coverly, Sir Roger de, in _The Spectator_, 71
Cowper, William, 107, 124, 128
Cox, Harold, 167
Crabbe, George, 107, 159, 204
_Cranford_, 126, 199, 200, 202, 203, 210, 212, 213
_Cricket on the Hearth, The_, 18
Croker, John Wilson, 192
_Cry of the Children, The_, 161, 168, 169
Dana, Richard Henry, 17
Dante, 28, 91, 134, 158
Darwin, Charles, 7, 73
_David Copperfield_, 52, 54, 67, 75, 76, 90, 93–97, 129, 228, 229
Defoe, Daniel, 49, 78, 163, 196
_Denis Duval_, 147
De Quincey, Thomas, 5, 38
_Deserted Village, The_, 159
Dickens, Charles, 3–99, 125–127, 129–141, 176, 210, 222, 223, 226,
228, 229, 230
_Dictionary of National Biography_, 203
_Dinner at Poplar Walk, A_, 5
Diocletian, 197
Disraeli, Benjamin, 116, 170, 171, 180–198, 206, 208, 210, 217,
222–224
_Divina Commedia_, 11
Dobson, Austin, 146
_Dombey and Son_, 11, 39, 42, 44, 69
Donne, John, 21
_Don Quixote_, 228
Dostoievsky, Feodor, 75
_Dream, The_, Byron’s, 66
_Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_, 142
_Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions_, 18
_Dr. Thorne_, 220
Dryden, John, 8, 20, 24, 25, 66, 128, 159, 197
Dumas, Alexandre, the elder, 24, 53, 54, 146, 196
_Dunciad, The_, 128, 129
_Eclogues_, Virgil’s, 159
_Elegy written in a Country Churchyard_, 222
Eliot, George, 7, 72, 211, 222
_Endymion_, Disraeli’s, 195, 210, 217
_English Mail Coach, The_, 38
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 27
_Esmond_, 96, 122, 123, 146, 147, 149, 152–156
_Essay of Dramatic Poesy_, 26, 159
_Essay on Man, An_, 159
_Essays of Elia, The_, 57
_Eustace Diamonds, The_, 219
Evelyn, John, 71
_Ferrex and Porrex_, 213
Fielding, Henry, 20, 71, 95, 139, 163, 179
FitzGerald, Edward, 106, 108, 122
Flaubert, Gustave, 12, 138, 221
Forster, John, 12, 13, 15, 16, 51, 59, 86, 89
Fox, Charles James, 183
_Framley Parsonage_, 220, 223, 229
Gaskell, Mrs., 179, 199–218
Gaskell, William, 199, 203, 205
_Gastibelza_, 227
Gay, John, 128
_Georgics_, 214
Gibbon, Edward, 21, 128, 197
Gissing, George, 12, 13, 96, 97
Gladstone, William Ewart, 183
_Golden Lion of Grandpré, The_, 220
Goldsmith, Oliver, 128
Gray, Thomas, 222
_Great Expectations_, 31, 74, 93
Greuze, Jean Baptiste, 140
Greville, Fulke, 41
Hallam, Arthur, 107
_Hamlet_, 49, 81, 144, 163
Hammond, John Lawrence, 172, 191
Hammond, Mrs., 172, 191
Handel, Georg Friedrich, 26
_Handley Cross_, 37, 68
Hansard’s _Parliamentary Debates_, 191, 206
_Hard Times_, 211
Hardy, Thomas, 31, 140, 229
Harrison, Frederic, 230
Hastings, Warren, 4
_Haunted Man, The_, 18
Hazlitt, William, 30, 78, 129
Heine, Heinrich, 227
Hemans, Mrs., 168
Henley, William Ernest, 9, 48, 134, 142
Hertford, Marquis of, 117
Higgins, Matthew James, 129
_History of Civilisation in Europe_, 7
_History of English Prose Rhythm_, Saintsbury’s, 150–151
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 17
_Holly-Tree Inn, The_, 18
_Holy Tide, The_, 19
Homer, 110, 139, 144, 217
Hood, Thomas, 161
Horace, 123, 124, 135, 158
Horner, Leonard, 178
_Household Words_, 13, 18, 211, 212
Howitt, Mrs., 204
Howlett, John, 191
Hugo, Victor, 227
Hunt, Leigh, 10, 89, 90
Hunter, Sir William, 109
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 7, 73
_Infernal Marriage, The_, 181, 182
Inge, William Ralph, 63, 64
Irving, Washington, 17
James, Henry, 40, 76, 81–83, 225, 232
Jefferies, Richard, 132
_John Inglesant_, 39
Johnson, Samuel, 21, 26, 37, 97, 101, 103, 110, 126, 128
_Jonathan Wild_, 163
Jonson, Ben, 20, 27, 128, 141, 226
Keats, John, 21, 128, 159, 160, 213
_King John_, 158
Kinglake, Alexander William, 107
_King Lear_, 29, 46, 139
_King on the Tower, The_, 130
Kingsley, Charles, 7
Kipling, Rudyard, 9, 49, 112
_Lady Audley’s Secret_, 222
_Lady Clara Vere de Vere_, 161
Lamb, Charles, 5, 31, 57, 78, 107
Landor, Walter Savage, 89, 90, 128, 220
_Last Chronicle of Barset, The_, 220, 232
Lear, Edward, 78, 105
L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 168
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 144
Lewes, George Henry, 99
_Life of Charles Dickens_, Forster’s, 59
_Life of Charlotte Brontë_, 201, 203, 210–212
_Life of Dr. Johnson_, 201
Lincoln, Abraham, 183
_Little Dorrit_, 32, 43
_London Magazine_, 57
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 144
Longinus, 149
_Lothair_, 185, 186
_Lycidas_, 159
Lytton, Lord, 230
Macaulay, Lord, 172, 174, 183
_Madame Bovary_, 139
Malory, Sir Thomas, 196
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 167
Manners, Lord John, 193
Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, 132
Marlowe, Christopher, 21
_Martin Chuzzlewit_, 17, 23, 51–53, 54, 74
Martineau, James, 74, 132
Marvell, Andrew, 124
_Mary Barton_, 205–209, 211, 212
Marzials, Sir Frank T., 117
Maupassant, Guy de, 138
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 7
_Measure for Measure_, 91
Meredith, George, 137
Mérimée, Prosper, 138
Merivale, Herman, 117, 119, 131
_Merry Wives of Windsor, The_, 30, 45, 46
Michelangelo, 26
_Midsummer-Night’s Dream, A_, 78, 149
Mill, John Stuart, 7
Milnes, Richard Monckton, 106, 107
Milton, John, 21, 66, 124, 127, 128, 136, 159, 212, 222
Molière, 28
_Moll Flanders_, 163
_Moonstone, The_, 224
_Morning Chronicle_, 37, 177
Morris, William, 162, 176
_Mystery of Edwin Drood, The_, 31, 200
_National Standard, The_, 102
_Newcomes, The_, 104
_New Grub Street, The_, 97
Newman, John Henry, 73, 74, 107, 132, 185
_Nicholas Nickleby_, 47, 52, 54
_North and South_, 210, 212
_North British_, 132
_Odes_, Horace’s, 123
_Odyssey_, 144
_Old Curiosity Shop, The_, 41, 52, 55, 95
_Old Margate Hoy, The_, 5
_Old Squire, The_, 70
_Oliver Twist_, 47, 54, 61, 88, 91
_Omar Khayyam_, 199
_On Letts’s Diary_, 109
_On the Late Massacre in Piedmont_, 124
_Othello_, 49
Ouida (Louise de la Ramée), 222, 228
_Our Mutual Friend_, 42, 54
Palmerston, Viscount, 183
_Paradise Lost_, 159
_Paris Sketch Book_, 133
Peacock, Thomas Love, 220
Peel, Sir Robert, 181, 183, 194, 196, 197
_Pendennis_, 44, 120–122, 129
_Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The_, 13, 77
Petrarch, 158
_Philip_, 103, 135
_Pickwick Papers, The_, 8, 11, 37, 44, 46, 52, 68, 77, 125, 126
_Piers Plowman_, 158
Pindar, 200, 220
Pitt, William, 183
Plato, 183, 222
Poe, Edgar Allan, 228
_Poetics_, Aristotle’s, 139
_Poor Robin’s Almanack_, 19
Pope, Alexander, 21, 66, 128, 159
Porter, George Richardson, 177
Prescott, William Hickling, 17
Prior, Matthew, 124
_Prisoner, The_, 201, 202
_Progress of the Nation from the Beginning of the Nineteenth
Century_, 177
_Prologue to the Canterbury Tales_, 67
_Punch_, 220
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 62–65, 100, 122
_Rasselas_, 126
Reade, Charles, 58
_Redgauntlet_, 67
_Reine Margot, La_, 24
_Republic, The_, Plato’s, 222
Richardson, Samuel, 163, 179
Ritchie, Lady, 101
Ritchie, Mrs., 110
_Robert Ellesmere_, 39
Robertson, Thomas William, 45
_Robinson Crusoe_, 49, 163
_Romola_, 75
Ronsard, Pierre de, 158
_Rose and the Ring, The_, 105
_Roundabout Papers_, 96, 109, 122, 123, 133, 138, 147
_Rovers, The_, 107
_Roxana_, 163
Ruskin, John, 7, 107, 128, 176
Russell, Lord John, 183
_Ruth_, 211
Sadler, Michael, 172–174
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 121
Saintsbury, George, 76, 78, 150–152
Santayana, George, 55, 79
Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 21, 66, 128, 140, 148, 163, 164, 179, 197, 230
_Sevastopol_, 138
Seymour, Robert, 83
_Shabby Genteel Story, A_, 133
Shaftesbury, Lord, 172, 175, 193
Shakespeare, Sir Richmond, 110
Shakespeare, William, 8, 21–23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 43, 45,
49, 50, 53, 57, 66, 67, 81, 83, 91, 100, 101, 114, 128, 149,
158, 217, 222
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 21, 106, 128, 160, 176
Shenstone, William, 68
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 4, 128, 183
Sidney, Algernon, 4
_Sketches by Boz_, 5
_Small House at Alington, The_, 220
Smollett, Tobias, 164
Smythe, George (Viscount Strangford), 193, 194
Socrates, 4, 183
_Song of the Shirt_, 161
Spedding, James, 107, 108
Spencer, Herbert, 184
Spenser, Edmund, 158
Stanley, Dean, 8
Steele, Richard, 96, 128
Stendhal, 138
Sterne, Laurence, 133
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 77, 121, 128, 142, 220
Strangford, Viscount, 193
Surtees, Robert Smith, 37
Swift, Jonathan, 107, 128, 133
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 99, 162
_Sybil_, 189, 195, 196, 208, 224
_Sylvia’s Lovers_, 212
_Tale of Two Cities, A_, 45
_Tancred_, 184, 195
_Tartuffe_, 139
_Tarzan of the Apes_, 92
Tasso, Torquato, 21, 27, 66
Taylor, Jeremy, 131
_Tempest, The_, 81
Temple, Sir William, 71
Tennyson, Frederick, 19
Tennyson, Lord, 7, 105, 106, 122, 128, 161, 222
Tertullian, 197
Thackeray, Mrs., 103
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 7, 43, 66, 96, 100–157, 187, 223, 230
_Thackerays in India and some Calcutta Graves, The_, 109
Theocritus, 158, 214
Thompson, Francis, 189
Thomson, Hugh, 199
_Three Musketeers, The_, 24
_Timber, or Discoveries_, 27
_Times, The_, 230
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 39, 75, 99, 138, 149
_Tom Brown’s School Days_, 38, 131
_Tom Jones_, 139
_To Mr. Lawrence_, 124
_To the Lady Margaret Ley_, 124
_Town Labourer, 1760–1832, The_, 191
_Treasure Island_, 142
_Tristram Shandy_, 126, 163, 200
_Troilus and Cressida_, 57
Trollope, Anthony, 54, 141, 148, 211, 219–234
Turgueniev, Ivan, 138
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 41
_Two Gentlemen of Verona, The_, 23, 91
Uhland, Johann Ludwig, 130
_Uncommercial Traveller, The_, 96
_Vanity Fair_, 117, 122, 125, 141, 146, 147, 151
Venables, George Stovin, 117, 133
_Venus and Adonis_, 114
_Vicar of Wakefield, The_, 163
_Vicomte de Bragelonne, Le_, 24
_Victorian Age, The_, Inge’s, 63
_Villette_, 201
Villon, François, 158
Virgil, 27, 91, 158, 159, 214
_Virginians, The_, 147, 149
_Vivian Grey_, 182, 185
Walpole, Horace, 164
Walton, Izaak, 197
Wapping Workhouse, Dickens’ essay on, 96
_War and Peace_, 39, 138, 149
Ward, Sir Adolphus, 203, 204, 208, 209
_Warden, The_, 220, 226
_Way of All Flesh, The_, 84, 86
_Way We Live Now, The_, 220
_Wee Willie Winkie_, 112
Wells, Herbert George, 43
Wharton, Edith, 15
Whewell, William, 122
Whibley, Charles, 122
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 221
Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, 73
_Wives and Daughters_, 212
_Woman in White, The_, 224
_Woodlanders, The_, 140
Wordsworth, William, 128
_World, The_, 127
_Wreck of the “Golden Mary,” The_, 18
_Wuthering Heights_, 201
_Xenophanes_, 82
Yates, Edmund, 127
_Young Duke, The_, 181
Zola, Emile, 230
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unbalanced.
The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page
references.
Page 19: The inconsistent indentation of the ninth line of the poem,
“Now Winter Nights Enlarge” was printed that way.