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 of Collins and Wickham; with Lamb's avowal that he would rather lose the legacy Dorrell cheated him out of than "be without the idea of that specious old rogue;" and with the dismay of Don Antonio over the restored sanity of Don Quixote. It is the secret of Trollope's charm, as Hawthorne indicated when he described the impression of those "beef and ale" novels,—

"* * * as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of."

It would have been a saving grace to many of the ''dramatis personæ'' if they could have shared the experience of a romantically inclined youth who, after building an air castle in which he figured first as a conquering hero and then as a magnanimous patron, suddenly "came to:"

"And then he turned upon himself with laughter, discovering a most wholesome power, barely to be suspected in him yet."

"What a pity it is," exclaimed Butler, "that Christian never met Mr. Common-Sense with his daughter,