ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AND NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 25, 18 October 1873, Page 12

ANTHONY TROLLOPE, AND NEW ZEALAND.

JLHB Aucklai d Herald,' in an article on the immediate future of the Colony remarks:— We know that it is the fashion for third rate critics to sneer at Mr Trollope'e work and say, "Oh! Trollope is mistaken here, and he has been misled there, and he is altogether superficial and his picture of New Zealand is not true." To all such small pretentious cavilling, we answer that Anthony Trollope'a criticism is iust temperate and true. As a common-sense observer of the world around and men and women iv it in their ordinary everyday life, we doubt if he has his superior this day in the Empire. And it is because of Ms Tery common serae, we were almost saying this ordinary way of regarding things, that the people of Great Britain will value his book and take it as n guide. The very last sentences of his work show the man himself, Ins estimation of these Colonies, and his thoughts of their future. "But for men who can work with their hands for women who can cook and be generally useful about a household, for girls who are ready to learn to cook and to be generally useful, these Colonies are a Paradise. They will find the whole condition of life changed for them The slight estimation in which labor is held here will be changed for a general respect. The humbleness, the hattouching the servility which is still incidental to such work as theirs in this old country, and which is hardly compatible with exalted manhood, has found no footing there. I regard such manhood among the masses of the people as the highest sign of prosperity which a country can give." We do noc hesitate to say that Mr TrolWs work will do more good to these Colonies, ans eapedollv to New Zealand, than any action of our rulers aud politicians during the last xIT6 ycflrs.