[Footnote 15: _The American Senator_ and _Popenjoy_ have appeared, each with fair success. Neither of them has encountered that reproach which, in regard to _The Prime Minister_, seemed to tell me that my work as a novelist should be brought to a close. And yet I feel assured that they are very inferior to _The Prime Minister_.] And so I end the record of my literary performances,--which I think are more in amount than the works of any other living English author. If any English authors not living have written more--as may probably have been the case--I do not know who they are. I find that, taking the books which have appeared under our names, I have published much more than twice as much as Carlyle. I have also published considerably more than Voltaire, even including his letters. We are told that Varro, at the age of eighty, had written 480 volumes, and that he went on writing for eight years longer. I wish I knew what was the length of Varro's volumes; I comfort myself by reflecting that the amount of manuscript described as a book in Varro's time was not much. Varro, too, is dead, and Voltaire; whereas I am still living, and may add to the pile. The following is a list of the books I have written, with the dates of publication and the sums I have received for them. The dates given are the years in which the works were published as a whole, most of them having appeared before in some serial form. Date of Total Sums Names of Works. Publication. Received. --------------- ------------ ----------- The Macdermots of Ballycloran, 1847 £48 6 9 The Kellys and the O'Kellys, 1848 123 19 5 La Vendée, 1850 20 0 0 The Warden, 1855 \ / Barchester Towers, 1857 / \ 727 11 3 The Three Clerks, 1858 250 0 0 Doctor Thorne, 1858 400 0 0 The West Indies and the Spanish Main, 1859 250 0 0 The Bertrams, 1859 400 0 0 Castle Richmond, 1860 600 0 0 Framley Parsonage, 1861 1000 0 0 Tales of All Countries--1st Series, 1861 \ 2d " 1863 } 1830 0 0 3d " 1870 / Orley Farm, 1862 3135 0 0 North America, 1862 1250 0 0 Rachel Ray, 1863 1645 0 0 The Small House at Allington, 1864 3000 0 0 Can You Forgive Her? 1864 3525 0 0 Miss Mackenzie, 1865 1300 0 0 The Belton Estate, 1866 1757 0 0