Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1882 — OBITUARY [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY

• , ' / Anthony Trollop* , Anthony Trollope, the famous English riovetlst; disdfat London on the 6th qt im year qf his age. - The death of Mr. Trollopq ia the, lops of the last link between the ohS Schriol of fiction and tho ne>v., Whgt made his writings great wafi Their fidelity to actual life. He did not possess the melodramatic power of Diokeps, nor the keen'.satlye Of Thackeray, nor the mCtpphyßical analysis. Of George 4Elips nor tlte realistic power pt description, of {Btprlee Kirigslev; and he did not have the ingenuity hi plot-weaving of Wilkie Cqlijos, jUQt-tliO power of fasciristing and bolding tl;e Attention of his reader.that Charles,Reade bpssbte.iHHh lay in building a novel, distinct from, romances but -betqg apnpriajysis of fCS*'the P rrahgeriferit of i«. posajUe i#l rffiraJ 4n trite is 'jiSt wliai English gf etemariteri buVJittle incident in U- ' ,i ; ..Sfuripppl T s , i iU ? Judge Samuel. T, tec died at Nashua, N. H., aged 78. --He was a brother of the lcxicogan ex-member of Congiesb from" Ohio and a member of the judiciary of that State.. v: , , , M, Louis Hli» no. J M. Louis, Blanc, the distinguished / French journalist fcji politician, died at. Cannes, in FrAKoe, Agetf 69. He was bom at Madrid, Spain, and wasof Corsican extraction. When 1? years old he went to Paris and began his career of journalism, which he followed nearly his entire life, at the same time’ taking a prominent i«xt in the political agitations of bis time. —' TEe explosion of a kerosene lamp at Plymouth, Maine, did not hurt Mrs. Miles much, and the loss of the dress which she wore was of small account; bnt. in a burned pocket was SI,BOO in paper monay.: ' Amateurs may fish all day without catching anything, and there- is no reason why a fox is necessary for the pleasure of a fox-hunting party.