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The Last Chronicle of Barset. No. 8, for January 19. With illustrations by G. H. Thomas. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—We hope this masterly weekly serial of Mr. Trollope's is as universally popular as it deserves to be. Hitherto it seems to us to be the very best of his many amus- ing tales. In the character of Mr. Crawley Mr. Trollops has gone deeper than he usually goes, and has made more than a perfect sketch, —a deep study of a very powerful and impressive character. Mr. Crawley's rebuke to the Bishopess of Barsetshire is sublime. The other sketches, too, are all admirable, and many of them new. Mr. Thomas's illustrations are not very good. In this last number Archdeacon Grantly is like a slightly vulgar country doctor, Edith, Major Grantly's daughter, is a conceited little minx, and Mrs. Grantly a bundle of clothes ill put on. Nothing could realize less satisfactorily the conceptions of the author.
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