CHAPTER XV

CLOSING ACQUAINTANCES, SCENES, AND BOOKS

Trollope on the third Earl Grey, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, and the Colonies--Intimacy at Highclere and its literary consequences--Trollope and _Cicero_, 1879--Fraternally criticised by T. A. Trollope and others--Fear of literary fogeydom produces later up-to-date novels beginning with _He Knew He was Right_--A similarity between Trollope and Dickens--Trollope and Delane--The editor’s article and novelist’s book about social and financial scandals of the time--_Mr. Scarborough’s Family_, Trollope’s first novel for a Dickens magazine--Retirement from Montagu Square to North End, Harting--Last Irish novels, _An Eye for an Eye_ (1879), _The Land Leaguers_ (1883), _Dr. Wortle’s School_--General estimate--Last London residence--Seizure at Sir John Tilley’s--Death in Welbeck Street--Funeral at Kensal Green 288

BIBLIOGRAPHY 309

INDEX 337

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ANTHONY TROLLOPE _Frontispiece_

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[Illustration: HARTING GRANGE. NORTH FRONT.]