New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
RECoLLECTIoNs OF THE NOVELIST BY ONE or
HIS INTIMATE FRIENDS


Walter Herries Pollock, in The Londonor.
Anthony TrolIope prescribed for himself a GER
tain method which he more than once described
to me and pointed out to me for my own guild
ance when [ fledgeng in authorship He
worked, when living in London in a comfort A bic
study i'll a house in Montagu Square. The room
was warmed by asbestos gas stove which
ne could set going whenever he pleased In this
room ne worked for at least two hours every
morning before the day for mis- household and
the London world had really begun He knew,
by long experience exactly how many words he
mad written by given time. and there were
very few alterations erasures in his MS The
printers must have loved him. When his APP
pointed tale completed he nut the whole
thing out of his mind and went a-huntine or
a-WhlstIng Che loved whiSD, both till the
uIlle Tor work came round again the next day
when the performance of writing Y words in V
Tune. as near as possible. was repeated For his
hunting ne was perhaps daring than an
elegant rider, and he was not a lghtWeight
1roiope loved ANIMALS, and animals loved him.
YET ne once was victim to his fiction suddenly
turning INTO something like fact-a turning
"hlcn mas not unfrequently haDDened in the
case of hctionistS. though generally without in
consequences to themselves. 1t will be remer-
oered ny readers of The Small House at Al!ing-
ton mat the fortunes OF John Games q ,-ar,-
Ia'orite character Of TrollOpe's turn upon his
Tescuing Lord he Guest from the attack Of p
Dull which, according to his Lop. (as old dozen
IIehlS nave III is as quiet animal generally
as any sucking dove. but not the less has TO he
Snot a1terWard. 1t must have been some time
~LteF ne wrote this story that Trollope himself
When he was living in the country was unex-
Pectedly run at and tossed by favoritc COW
Ills country house was hard nv 70 Icr,i,,e, 80
When was staying with him there we qTa,,eIv
look part-he having mounted me on bcrSe
lihe 10 BeaT-i1 the Epping Hunt This was i'm
"ay Soou enough fun in itself but much bet
yer Iun in the material it gave to TroIIona far
Keen and humorous observation and coDea
qCehtly' most diverting conversation in tb.
9fli''ieouS VEN OF humoT which somehow al
ways seemed to find it's way more noturaII,. int,
MS talK IMAM into his books. There was nI-Df,,
or 1t IN his best books. but il was tl,re ,itb
hlTmOr Df bic
Mrs. Proude, in The Last Chroojcjee oe
81 2etsiiTe' Is somewhat forced name which
-S!I'iiC9 me OF an anecdote which has been
printed before but which comes h3cI 70 mo
1 WItm an the freshness and robustness which
wav into r rt,tra4Ge gave it before it found its
mdS I'M" PRINT. he said TO me: i vas Wriftny
a. ielleF al the club, and 1 heard eroun nf
vere ,. er1o lasIIlg Inc Last Chronicles They
"SLe very complimentary on the whole and
Nalaed Il the more because I knew. ca iittin &C
C-Iheoral city life by actual experi,Doa p,,t
Ihey all agreed that there had hae,1 -. 81 81
iIpu9H 81 MRS Proudie. | could not resist tba
impulse. got up, went to them and sid .p- az
sad a die put l could not help hearing what Won
IT, b "oqut MRS Proudie. I think you are oii;te
Flght. am Anthony Trollope ana now RI IL
nome and Kill Mrs. Prou6ie " Ana tb;s - - ="
tteded at once to do " pio
Trollopc resented bitterly o,, -,
t,:,sl JuStiy-the unfortunate fact that there arr
ttGISdIh offences against the laws of truth a,,d
I1ohoI ana social morality for which H. =;
practically no legal remedy To tai ''iene -
act ti' a well bred girl can hardly min on
tbere arn i ~ edch OF promise of marriage: and
In! as me 0ueio was practically dead in Sner
hero ',T -, IroLlope began writing novels his
peS' "Heh they felt called lIDgn ~ .t.olai1
n uV M[ongs as these betook themselves rnarrj7,
G :" ISlICIIS or hot9cWhips; ard it y,ouIJ h az
liOuIt 10 SaN which seemed to aofo1, IL I'll
oopIteiS the Inore-the heroes or fheir ai'tf en-
ham, ne emo with story which flIustratns hi
on go tiioh Oh treating juniors as if thev I,r
vi e4uAl terms with him rasf;o,, - were
e ntI,, could never nave prompted any ono -
deal of ON liberty When was doing irooT
80 VI renewing work my editor eant 7o'i
HhStake as it turned our NOEL f Si me me by
advice N went straight to TrolIOpe for bis
kinGI,, IL. re thought moment then GVad ' -
said. ~ upon me through his spectacIes ana
my boy don't think YOU ouebt AZ ,o 'lIu
view n 90 ne any more than ought to re
send If hon. 81 ours. If were you I should
'"'''i'"'ey to undertake The task" ''''' 700