Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1882 — THE DEATH RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE DEATH RECORD.

Anthony Trollojte. Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist, died at London on the 6th of December, in the 68th year of his age. The cteath of Air. Trollope is the loss of the last link between the old school of fiction and the new. What made his writings great was their lidelity to actual life. He did not possess the melodramatic power of Dickens, nor the keen satire of Thackeray, nor the metaphysical analysis of George Eliot, nor the realistic power of tiescriptton of Charles Kingslev; and he tlid not have the ingenuity in plot-weaving ot Wilkie Collins, nor the power of fascinating and holding the attention of his reader that Charles Reade has; his forte-lay in building a novel, distinct from romance, but being an analysis of real characters and the arrangement of real —t his is possi Die and natural —events and circumstances. In this Anthony Trollope was the leading novelist of his time. He never exceeded the limits of probable matter in his stories, and his works are truer to life than either those of Dickens or Thackeray, l>eing at. the same time remarkable for the command of language which they display. It has been truthfull v said that his novels have no plot in them, but this is just what English life is— l lenty of character, but little incident in it. Samuel T. Worcester. Judge Samuel T. Worcester died at Nashua, N. H., aged 78. He. was a brother of the lexicographer. Worcester was an ex-member of Congress from Ohio and a member of the judiciary of that State. M. Louis Blanc. M. Louis Blanc, the distinguished French journalist and politician, died at Cannes, in France, aged 69. He was born at Madrid, Spain, and was of Corsican extraction. When lilyears old he went to Paris and began hia career of journalism, which he followed nearly bis entire life, at the same time taking a prominent part in the political agitations of his time.