Abstract
I HIS Autobiography Trollope states that he commenced, early in life, dangerous habit of keeping a journal' and that he kept one for more than ten years. When later, in i870, he discovered that it convicted him of folly, ignorance, indiscretion, idleness, extravagance, and conceit;' he destroyed volumes: Two, however, he did not destroy, and they are now in the possession of the Library of Yale University. Entries in them, dated, and arranged alphabetically from A through P, convict him of self-searching and literary criticism in about equal doses, and picture for the reader a young man with a conscience that would have done credit to Jonathan Edwards. For instance, as a preface to an orthodox criticism of Epistle I of Pope's Essay on Man, Trollope wrote in i835:
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