PEERYBINGLE ON TROLLOPE ON VICTORIA.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1077, 3 June 1873, Page 4

PEERYBINGLE ON TROLLOPE ON VICTORIA.

"In Melbourne," says TrolJope, "there is an Irish and there is a Chinese quarter." " Victoria with 750,000 souls, has a good daily newspaper . . . Melbourne

has a weekly paper" —The maid-servant in Victoria has the pcrtness, the independence, the mode of asserting by her manner that though she brings you up your hot water, she is just as good as you."—" Tho young lady will do her duty by her father and mother, but she does it as a superior person attending on those who are inferior " " Attentiou is paid after a fashion that seems to imply that old folks, in the arrrangement of life, should not interfere with their letters ivho arc young" —"l will not call them (the Australian girls) Gonerils and Regans, but I have seen old men who have put mo in mind of Lear." And so on and so forth, Girls. Trollope charges two-and-six for all these charges, and a great many more. Catch him alive, and toss the dear man in a blanket; but be advised by an old fool, and don't gmh over old fools for the future, especially if they write novels. When a man's been at that game for a life-timo, he's apt to show his false teeth at you, and mix his facts with an overdose of fiction, although, as you might say of the Ladies' Improver, the fiction is founded on some fact. (This joke's about 145 years old, bo don't pass it off as fresh). Victoria has a daily paper, and Melbourne has a weekly paper, says this fictionmongering Trollope. He ought to have gone ou to say that Melbourne has one hotel where the "distinguished novelist" shouted drinks to himself; that Melbourne has one low-backed car, that the distinguished one rode in; one theatre that he patronised ; ono hatter who renovated his distinguished bell-topper; one chemist where ho bought his antibilious pills ; one church where he didn't say his distinguished prayers ; one tobaccoshop, where he filled his distinguished pipe; one bottle of the "pure juse of the grape," that he drank all to himself, thus accounting for his general fogginess, one linen-draper selling off at an alarming sacrifice ; one steeple, one lamp post, one drunkard, one lunatic, one insolvent, one share-jobber, one paving-stone, one scoundrel, one convicted criminal, and one north wind. So much for Anthony—yes, so much for Trollope, and the juice of fiction. f