[346] _The Warden_, 151. This is really more unjust to Dickens than the flings at Dr. Pessimist Anti-cant are to Carlyle. It is interesting to note that the very measure meted to Lytton by Dickens is measured to him by Trollope. [347] _Nightmare Abbey_, 50. [348] _Pelham_, 301. [349] _Ixion_, 282. [350] _One of Our Conquerors_, 10. [351] _One of Our Conquerors_, 72. [352] _Ibid._, 228. [353] _England and the English_, 21. [354] _Tancred_, 242. It is a race also that “having little imagination, takes refuge in reason, and carefully locks the door when the steed is stolen.” 379. Moreover, the Oriental says of the European what the latter applied in the course of time to the American,--he “talks of progress, because, by an ingenious application of some scientific acquirements, he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilization.” 227. [355] _Melincourt_, II, 47. [356] _Nicholas Nickleby_, I, 415. [357] In his _Dickens_, 120. he adds, “Dickens does mean it as a deliberate light on Mr. Dombey’s character that he basks with a fatuous calm in the blazing sun of Major Bagstock’s tropical and offensive flattery.” [358] _Godolphin_, 198. [359] _Maltravers_, 155. [360] _My Novel_, 353. [361] _Felix Holt_, I, 152. Kingsley depicts the same thing in higher life, and takes it more seriously: Lancelot is contemptuous over the vicar,--“He told me, hearing me quote Schiller, to beware of the Germans, for they were all Pantheists at heart. I asked him whether he included Lange and Bunsen, and it appeared that he had never read a German book in his life. He then flew furiously at Mr. Carlyle, and I found that all he knew of him was from a certain review in the _Quarterly_.” _Yeast_, 63. [362] _Daniel Deronda_, II, 162. [363] _Maltravers_, 261. [364] _Last Chronicles_, I, 300. [365] _Mill on the Floss_, III, 113. [366] _Middlemarch_, III, 460. [367] _Diana of the Crossways_, 407. [368] _The Duke’s Children_, II, 64. [369] _The Way We Live Now_, II, 104. [370] _Rhoda Fleming_, 372. [371] _Ibid._, 46. [372] _Rhoda Fleming_, 108. [373] _Ibid._, 307. [374] _Ibid._, 337. [375] Dr. David Starr Jordan. As to Thackeray, the analysis made by Trollope is very much to the point,--that he mustered all his dislikes and animosities under that caption. See the Biography, 82. [376] This character makes a shrewd comment, which indicts English society for being a promoter of snobbishness: “They call me a _parvenu_, and borrow my money. They call our friend the wit, a _parvenu_, and submit to all his insolence * * * provided they can but get him to dinner. They call the best debater in the Parliament of England a _parvenu_, and will entreat him, some day or other, to be prime minister, and ask him for stars and garters. A droll world, and no wonder the _parvenus_ want to upset it.” _My Novel_, II, 130. [377] _Sense and Sensibility_, II, 85.