The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-22

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brother Of Anthony Trollope, is known to
novel readers as the author Of works OF fiction
which. although less numerous and popular
than Anthony's. have perhaps on some grounds
moro enduring claims to remembrance. and he
Is also known to readers OF the British reviews,
both quarterly and monthly. as one OF their
most frequent and valued contributors upon
italian topics. He is known also to all Ameri-
cans, themselves worth knowing. who have
sojourned In Italy during the last forty-hve
years, and they will not be surprised to learn
that his extraordinary store OF recollections
has been thought worthy OF publication.
Mr.. Trollope Is now nearly fourscore years
old. having been born in 1910. and he seems to
have kept diaries unintermittently from q very
snrly age. His "reminiscences, What L Remem-
Der tHarpersl, are consequently OF an I'M
usually minute and trustworthy character.
and those now published extend from 1918.
whom he entered Harrow school as q day
pupil The was removed to Winchester two years
later) to 1865. the date OF his second marriage.
His later observations are reserved for q second
volume. which he promises to give us ten years
hence, IN extension OF his term OF life to which
he looks forward with serene assurance.
Apropos Of old age, he tells us on the last page
Of the present volume, Don't, my young
friends, pay overmuch attention to what the
Psalmist says about the years OF man. l knew
dans le temps q fine old octo. and nearly mono
genarian. q Swede. who used to complain OF the
Florentine doctors that 'Dey doosent know
what do nordern constitooshuns is and l take
Il the same may be said of the Psalmist."
Those who have read the interesting auto
biography OF Anthony Trollope will only need
to be reminded in the briefest way Of the vicis-
STUDIES through which his family had passed.
The father was q barrister OF excellent attain
nents and abilities, but OF impractical and I'M
balanced mind, who wrecked his fortune by
oxperiments in fields of enterprise about which
he knew nothing. 1t wns the remnant Of his
property which was risked and lost on a nom
escriptyeutu in Cincinnati under the super
vision of Mrs. Trollope, whose visit to America
Ind for her remarkable results. Although
mast fifty when sho published her notes upon
the domestic manners of Americans, she so in
dustfiously profted by tho vogue which the
book gave her that before she died she had
written 115 novels, all we'll paid for. and thus,
sinple-handed, rescued her family, including
her husband. from extreme indiyence, It was
through his mother. who had become a distin-
cuished woman, that her eldest son, Adolphus,
her ~favorite and ultimately inseparable COM
panion, gained access to u kind Of society In
Paris, Germany, and Austria OF which most
Englishmen and Americans SEQ little.
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