Year: 1875

by those who had suffered most severely
from his rapacity Dolly Longestafe had been robbed
more outrageously than any other member Of the club
and yet Dolly Longesae had said since the departure
OF the purveyor that London not worth living in
that Herr vossner was gone In aweek the Bear
garden collapsed Germany would collapse for
period If Herr Vossners great comparlo were suddenly
% remove himself from the scene but as Germany
would strive to live without Bismarck, so did the
cdb make its Efforts But here the parallel must
Germany, doubt would at last succeed, but
the Beargarden had received blow from which it
seemed there recovery


Mr Adolphus LongestaGe Squire Of Cayersham in
Suffolk and Of Pickering Park in London, is another
specimen Of this ignoble set Of people Of whom we
have already heard too much. Mr.. Longestaffe was
tall, heavy man. about hny, with hair and whiskers
carefully dyed, whose clothes were made with great
care though they always seemed nt him too tightly,
and who thought very much Of his personal appearance
II not that he considered himself handsome, but
that he specially proud of his arstocratc bearing
He entertained an idea that all who understood the
matter would perceive a single glance that he
gentleman Of the first water and man Of fashion He
intensely proud of his position in life,
thinking himself TO be immensely superior to all those
who earned their bread There were, doubt, gentle
men of different degrees but the English gentleman Of



and an old family place family portraits and family
embarrassments and family absence Of any useful en-
ployment He was beginning even TO look down upon
peers, since so many men of much less consequence
than himself had been made lords; and having stood
and been beaten three four times for his county, he
of opinion that seat in the House was rather
mark of bad breeding. He a silly man, who
had fixed idea that it beehooved him to
be Of TO any one; but yet he had compassed GER
tain nobility of feeling There very little that his
position called upon him to do but there was much that
forbade him to do 1t not allowed to him to be close
in money matters He could leave his tradesmens bills
unpaid till the camorous, but he could not
question the items in their accounts. He could be
tyranncal TO his servants but he could not make in
qury the consumption of his wines in the servants
hall He had pity for his tenants in regard to game
but he hestated much to raising their rent He had
his theory Of life and endeavored to live up it; but
the attempt had hardly brought satisfaction to himself
or to his family.


AT the present moment it the great
desire of his heart to sell the smaller of
his two properties and dsembarrass the other
The debt had not been altogether of his own
making and the arrangement w2qldi he believed serve
his own family as well as himself Il wopsS also serve
his son. who was blessed with third PROPERTY Of his
own which he had already managed TO burden with debt
The father could bear be refused; and he feared
that his would decline. The difficulties that arise be-
tween father and in their attempsto oyerreach each
other in the business of raising money their estates
which are entailed, and the manner in which
they are both finally swindled by Mr.. Melmotte, to
whom they appeal for assistance, occupy many pages
Lady Pomona Longestaiie is the match making mamma
of English society with daughters establish The
herocstrugges of the younger Miss Georgana who has
already passed through twelve seasons to accomplish
matrimonial arrangement and her final capture of
the curate Caversham, would be udicrous if they
were not so disgusting. And yet we told by Mr..
Trolope in speaking Of the one American woman who
appears in his book, ''there ever mixed, is SO
often the in the minds of American men and
women an almost envous admiration of English excel
lence To have been allowed to forget the past and to
live the life of English lady, would have been heaven
to her"


Is IT TRUE PIcTURE'


If there really exist much Of excellence among
relatives the other side of the water it is unfortu
that little of it should appear in this novel,
which is pronounced by critics to be such "a true pic
ture of English life" We are sorry for any or
woman-American, Turk Hndoo-whO should in any
desire resemble any of the people here repre-
sented live a life like theirs.


The chilly reception that this book has received in
England can be easily accounted for 1t dsagreeable



picture drawn is unpleasant Even If the average tone
of human nature low here depicted such
moral eanness and distortion would still be distastefu
to read about


Mr. Trolope has gone round the world for his char
acters bringing them from the western wilds Of Cali
fornia, and introducing US to the Emperor of
China; yet we cannot find that, in this broad
range he has discovered individual whom he
present to US worthy of admiration and thorough
esteem.


Having drawn his own countrymen in such coors
cannot. of course, except that he should be more
favorable to ourselves. We have the usual
American of the English novel, with his
hat side and rings on his fingers a we'll
twisted musache greasy brown hair becoming bald at
the top good looking if his features anayzed but
Insignificant in appearance, gorgeously dressed with
silk wastcoat and chains and he carrying little stick
And, of course compelled to hear Of the ''we
known nasal twang so offensive to fastidous English
ears.


1t is safe to predict that this book will not be more
highly regarded here than it the other side of the
water