Trollope and Henry James in 1868Author(s): Harold CooperSource: Modern Language Notes, Vol. 58, No. 7 (Nov., 1943), p. 558Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2911078 .

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558 MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES, NOVEMBER, 1943

TROLLOPE AND HENRY JAMES IN 1868

In 1867 Anthony Trollope published anonymously, Nina Balatka, "in order to see whether the large public which his novels had already gained was faithful to him because of the quality of his work, or merely because of the guarantee of quality which his name supplied."'' The novel failed to sell and in the following year Trollope tried again with another anonymous novel, Linda Tressel, which also failed to sell. The identity of the author of these two novels was the subject of much speculation. " The authorship was (and remained) unknown to the great majority of the reading pub- lic . 2 Linda Tressel fell to the young Henry James for review in the Nation, June 18, 1868. The twenty-five year old critic began:

We have read "Linda Tressel " because it is by the author of "Nina Balatka," and because it is as clear as noonday to our penetrating intellect that the author of " Nina Balatka " is but aniother title of the author of " Barchester Towers." . . . Mr. Trollope's style is as little to be mnistaken as it is to be imitated. . . . Mr. Trollope has ... his own reasons for sup- pressing his name . . . if perchance his motive had been partially to refute the charge that he has exhausted his vein and that his later novels owe their popularity only to the species of halo irradiated by his signature, he may assure himself that he has been amply successful.

HAROLD COOPFR University of Virginia

THE "UNTRACED QUOTATION " OF ERNEST DOWSON'S DEDICATION

Among the several "quotations . . . which remain untraced" in Ernest Dowson's collected works, for which "the notes will be found wanting " in Flower's definitive edition,' is a longish passage in French which forms part of Dowson's dedication of his Verses (1896) to "Adelaide " [Faltinowicz]. It begins as follows:

"Michael Sadleir, Trollope: A Bibliography (London, 1928), 71-72. 2Ibid., 261, n. 1 Desmond Flower, The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson,

London, Cassell and John Lane, 1934, p. 243.

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