oss country, the clever rascal;" and his ethical disapproval
ever, as usual, with English critics of life, in the foreground,
clearly enhanced a primitive predatory instinct not obscurely
akin, a cynic might say, to those dark impulses he holds up to
our reprobation. This self-realization in his fiction is one of
Trollope's principal charms. Never was there a more subjective
writer. Unlike Flaubert, who laid down the canon that the author
should exist in his work as God in creation, to be, here or there,
dimly divined but never recognized, though everywhere latent,
Trollope was never weary of writing himself large in every man,
woman, or child he described.

The illusion of objectivity which he so successfully achieves is
due to the fact that his mind was so perfectly contented with its
hereditary and circumstantial conditions, was itself so perfectly
the mental equivalent of those conditions. Thus the perfection of
his egotism, tight as a drum, saved him. Had it been a little less
complete, he would have faltered and bungled; as it was, he had the
naive certainty of a child, to whose innocent apprehension the world
and self are one, and who therefore cannot err.

ALGAR THOROLD.

CONTENTS

I. THE BARONY OF DESMOND.
II. OWEN FITZGERALD.
III. CLARA DESMOND.
IV. THE COUNTESS.
V. THE FITZGERALDS OF CASTLE RICHMOND.
VI. THE KANTURK HOTEL, SOUTH MAIN STREET, CORK.
VII. THE FAMINE YEAR.
VIII. GORTNACLOUGH AND BERRYHILL.
IX. FAMILY COUNCILS.
X. THE RECTOR OF DRUMBARROW AND HIS WIFE.
XI. SECOND LOVE.
XII. DOUBTS.
XIII. MR. MOLLETT RETURNS TO SOUTH MAIN STREET.
XIV. THE REJECTED SUITOR.
XV. DIPLOMACY.
XVI. THE PATH BENEATH THE ELMS.
XVII. FATHER BARNEY.
XVIII. THE RELIEF COMMITTEE.
XIX. THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
XX. TWO WITNESSES.
XXI. FAIR ARGUMENTS.
XXII. THE TELLING OF THE TALE.
XXIII. BEFORE BREAKFAST AT HAP HOUSE.
XXIV. AFTER BREAKFAST AT HAP HOUSE.
XXV. A MUDDY WALK ON A WET MORNING.
XXVI. COMFORTLESS.
XXVII. COMFORTED.
XXVIII. FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT.
XXIX. ILL NEWS FLIES FAST.
XXX. PALLIDA MORS.
XXXI. THE FIRST MONTH.
XXXII. PREPARATIONS FOR GOING.
XXXIII. THE LAST STAGE.
XXXIV. FAREWELL.
XXXV. HERBERT FITZGERALD IN LONDON.
XXXVI. HOW THE EARL WAS WON.
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