[259] Both are quoted in the _Life_ by the Earl of Lytton, I, 548, 549. [260] _Journey to Parnassus_, Chapter IV. Gibson’s translation. [261] _Spectator_, 451, C. [262] _Charity_, II, 501 ff. [263] Lionel Johnson, in _Post Liminium_. [264] _Victorian Age of Eng. Lit._, 461. [265] _One of Our Conquerors_, 267. [266] _Shirley_, I, 330. [267] _Melincourt_, 10. [268] _Melincourt_, 17. [269] _Ibid._, 150. [270] _Shirley_, II, 71. Trollope speaks through Laura Kennedy and Madame Max Goesler, in _Phineas Finn_, the former of whom longs vainly to go out and milk the cows, while the latter complains of having only vicarious interests. [271] _Phineas Finn_, III, 103. After finally accepting Lord Chiltern, she almost gives him up because she cannot stand his idleness. [272] _The Egoist_, 21. [273] _Lord Ormont and his Aminta_, 182. [274] _Diana of the Crossways_, 158. [275] _The Egoist_, 163. Cf. Simeon Strunsky’s essay on _The Eternal Feminine_, in _The Patient Observer_; a humorous sermon which might have been developed from this logical text. [276] _Yeast_, 110. Elsewhere in the volume the author expounds his feministic philosophy: “She tried, as women will, to answer him with arguments, and failed, as women will fail.” 29. “Woman will have guidance. It is her delight and glory to be led.” 177. [277] _The Adventures of Philip_, II, 42. [278] _Ibid._, I, 237. Thackeray’s patronizing smugness and antique attitude towards women come out with a beautiful unconsciousness in a letter to one of them, and that one a prime favorite with him, Mrs. Brookfield: “I am afraid I don’t respect your sex enough, though. Yes I do, when they are occupied with loving and sentiment rather than with other business of life.” His fair correspondent could not retort that he would have found a congenial soul in Meredith’s Lady Wathin, who “both dreaded and detested brains in women, believing them to be devilish;” but she might have reminded him of the twinkling chivalry of Christopher North, who confessed, “To my aged eyes a neat ankle is set off attractively by a slight shade of cerulian.” [279] _Pelham_, 291. [280] _Pelham_, 73. [281] _Kenelm Chillingly_, 42. [282] _Ibid._, 81. [283] _The Young Duke_, 6. [284] _The Young Duke_, 16. [285] _Ibid._, 86. [286] _Sybil_, 153. [287] _Erewhon_, 136. [288] Concluding his contrast between _Alton Locke_ and Disraeli’s Trilogy, in _Transcripts and Studies_, 193. In this connection another contrast, between Disraeli and Mrs. Ward, is interesting, because it turns on the effect of humor. “Her presentment of the lighter side of English political life is accurate, and in its way interesting and historically valuable, but it is wholly wanting in that brilliant satiric touch which has made Disraeli’s novels live as literature when their political significance has utterly passed away.” Traill, in _The New Fiction_, 44. [289] _The Misfortunes of Elphin_, 63. [290] _Melincourt_, 165. [291] _The Coming Race_, 81.