TROLLOPE, Awrnoxr, second son of Mrs. Frances Trollope, and one of the most popular novelists of the day, was b. in 1815. He was educated at Winchester, and sub sequently Harrow. While filling a responsible official situation in the post-office, he has found, or made, leisure to amuse the public with a long series of novels, of very remark able merit. The first work which decisively drew attention, The Warden, was followed by a continuation, Barchester Towers, which remains, perhaps, the cleverest of all his books. In rapid succession to these, came Doctor Thorne, The Bertrams, The Three Clerks, Castle Richmond, Pramley Parsonage (originally- published in the Cornhill Maga zine), The Kellys and the O'Rellys. Orley Farm, The Small House at Arlington (con tributed to the Cornhill Magazine), Rachel Ray, hiss Mackenzie, Can You Forgive Her, Ralph the Heir, The Golden Lion
lope has published several pleasant volumes of travels about The West Indies and the Spanish Main, on North America, on Australia, and on South Africa (1878). Trollope is at this moment one of the most popular of our living novelists. He does not go very deep: but he sketches the superficial aspects of _society with a charming lightness and facility of touch, and is unfailingly agreeable and amusing.
His elder brother, THOMAS ADOLPHUS. has lived for many years at Florence, and is favorably known to the public by his Girlhood of Catherine A Decade of Italian Women., and a number of novels such as La Beata, Marietta, Lindffarn Chase, Gemma, The Garstangs, The Dream Numbers. He has also written a History of Florence, and in 1877 the Life of Pius IX.