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was an experiment which the publisher George Smith wished to try, in an attempt to combat the growing popularity of the shilling magazines:
    Indeed the shilling magazines had interfered greatly with the success of novels published in numbers without other accompanying matter. The public, finding that so much might be had for a shilling, in which a portion of one or more novels was always included, were unwilling to spend their money on the novel alone (p. 176 ).
    Despite the great popularity of the novel, Trollope admitted that, while Smith ‘paid me £3000 for the use of my manuscript, the loss, if any, did not fall upon me. If I remember right, the enterprise was not altogether successful.’
    The text of the Penguin edition, as established by Peter Fairclough (Penguin, 1967),
    is basically that of the first edition of 1867. I have, however, occasionally departed from 1867 in some matters of orthography (‘good-bye’, not ‘good-by’; ‘trousers’, not ‘trowsers’; ‘sometimes’, not ‘some times’; ‘anything’, not ‘any thing’; and ‘showed’, not ‘shewed’); for the sake of consistency (printing ‘connexion’ and ‘daresay’ throughout); and in the matter of clearing up errors of both grammar and spelling which have appeared in many editions.I have also, on perhaps a dozen occasions, abandoned the use of a mark of punctuation which seemed to me to be incorrect or inserted one which seemed correct whether this is authorized by subsequent editions or not, and have throughout deleted Trollope’s printer’s use of the comma and semi-colon before the dash. The breaks between the original weekly parts have been indicated by an asterisk in the text.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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CONTENTS
    1 How Did He Get It?
    2 By Heavens, He Had Better Not!
    3 The Archdeacon’s Threat
    4 The Clergyman’s House at Hogglestock
    5 What the World thought about it
    6 Grace Crawley
    7 Miss Prettyman’s Private Room
    8 Mr Crawley is Taken to Silverbridge
    9 Grace Crawley Goes to Allington
    10 Dinner at Framley Court
    11 The Bishop Sends his Inhibition
    12 Mr Crawley Seeks for Sympathy
    13 The Bishop’s Angel
    14 Major Grantly Consults a Friend
    15 Up in London
    16 Down at Allington
    17 Mr Crawley is Summoned to Barchester
    18 The Bishop of Barchester is Crushed
    19 Where Did it Come From?
    20 What Mr Walker Thought about it
    21 Mr Robarts on his Embassy
    22 Major Grantly at Home
    23 Miss Lily Dale’s Resolution
    24 Mrs Dobbs Broughton’s Dinner-Party
    25 Miss Madalina Demolines
    26 The Picture
    27 A Hero at Home
    28 Showing how Major Grantly took a Walk
    29 Miss Lily Dale’s Logic
    30 Showing what Major Grantly did after his Walk
    31 Showing how Major Grantly Returned 297 to Guestwick 32 Mr Toogood
    33 The Plumstead Foxes
    34 Mrs Proudie Sends for her Lawyer
    35 Lily Dale Writes Two Words in her Book
    36 Grace Crawley Returns Home
    37 Hook Court
    38 Jael
    39 A New Flirtation
    40 Mr Toogood’s Ideas about Society
    41 Grace Crawley at Home
    42 Mr Toogood Travels Professionally
    43 Mr Crosbie Goes into the City
    44 ‘I Suppose I Must Let You Have It’
    45 Lily Dale Goes to London
    46 The Bayswater Romance
    47 Dr Tempest at the Palace
    48 The Softness of Sir Raffle Buffle
    49 Near the Close
    50 Lady Lufton’s Proposition
    51 Mrs Dobbs Broughton Piles her Fagots
    52 Why Don’t you Have an ‘It’ for Yourself?
    53 Rotten Row
    54 The Clerical Commission
    55 Framley Parsonage
    56 The Archdeacon Goes to Framley
    57 A Double Pledge
    58 The Cross-grainedness of Men
    59 A Lady Presents her Compliments to Miss L. D.
    60 The End of Jael and Sisera
    61 ‘It’s Dogged as Does It’
    62 Mr Crawley’s Letter to the Dean
    63 Two Visitors to Hogglestock
    64 The Tragedy in Hook Court
    65 Miss Van Siever Makes her Choice
    66 Requiescat in Pace
    67 In Memoriam
    68 The Obstinacy of Mr