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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 79, 31 October 1874, Page 10

Novels. — According' to the opinion of Mr Anthony Trollope, novels are usually good and healthful reading. He considers them the sermons of the present day — or at any rate the sermons which are listened to with the most rapt attention. In short, he esteems thenovelist a professor with many pupils, who gives on the whole, lessons of honor and usefulness. Mr Trollope's idea of the novelist as a reformer, moralist and teacher, will be apt to astonish some very excellent orthodox people, but it is set on a serious foundation. The influence of the novel grows with every year, and at a rate that is something alarming when it is borne in mind how much of modern I fiction is the verriest nonsensical trash, if nothing worst. Count de Jarnac, the new French Minster to &ngiand, is of part Irish descent, his mother being Lady Grace Geraldine Fitzgerald