8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii, 320; Vol. II., pp. viii, 320. Each volume contains twenty illustrations.
Completed before he started for America in 1861, this appeared in twenty shilling numbers, and Trollope obtained £3135. While rating the plot highly he thought it declared itself too soon. Of the illustrations by Millais he wrote: “I have never known a set of illustrations so carefully true, as are these, to the conceptions of the writer of the book illustrated. I say that as a writer. As a lover of art I will add that I know no book graced with more exquisite pictures.” The drawing of Orley Farm itself, in the frontispiece, depicts in reality the farmhouse at Harrow in which the Trollope family lived during the author’s boyhood.
NORTH AMERICA | By | ANTHONY TROLLOPE, | Author of | “The West Indies and the Spanish Main,” “Doctor Thorne,” “Orley Farm,” etc. | In Two Volumes. | London: | Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly. | 1862. | [_The right of Translation is reserved._]
8vo. Vol. I., pp. viii.; folding map, 467; Vol. II., pp. viii, 494 (Appendices A, B, and C, pp. 467-494.)
On the outbreak of the War of Secession in 1861 Trollope applied for nine months’ leave of absence from the Post Office and visited America, writing as he went from State to State. It is interesting to note that, contrary to the very strong feeling in England in favour of the South, he felt with and prophesied the victory of the North. The book met the demand of the moment; second and third editions were published in the same year, and Trollope received £1250.
TALES OF ALL COUNTRIES. | Second Series. | By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. | London: | Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. | 1863. | [_The right of Translation is reserved._]
1. Aaron Trow. 2. Mrs. General Talboys. 3. The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne. 4. George Walker at Suez. 5. The Mistletoe Bough. 6. Returning Home. 7. A Ride Across Palestine. 8. The House of Heine Brothers in Munich. 9. The Man who kept his Money in a Box.
For the first of this series see under 1861. For these two books and (probably) for _Lotta Schmidt_, virtually one of the same series, though the title was discontinued, Trollope received a total sum of £1830. The tales reflect much of his own experiences.