A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE

by James ThayerGerould '95 and Winifred Gregory Gerould.Princeton University Press, 1948. 256 pages;$5.

This Guide is an alphabetical record of characters and places having a significant role in the novels and stories, and these are, in many cases, described in Trollope's own words. The authors used in their study, the incomparable Parrish collection of Trollope now in the Princeton Library.

This labor of love is well justified by the increasing fame of Anthony Trollope who, with all his faults, as the authors point out, lives today, for no author has surpased him in portraying Victorian England. His characters are of the upper class and he was never a democrat in our sense. However, no one was as merciless as he in recording the grave iniquities that had developed within the fabric of the Church of England. A satirist he knew England thoroughly. As postal inspector he knew the English countryside as tew knew it. As bon-vivant he also knew all sorts and conditions of people. He well deserves the present revival. This book will certainly be a boon to all readers of Trollope and to all students of his work.