Excerpt from Victorian Novelists OF the Essays included in the present volume, that on Disraeli first appeared in The Fortnightly Review; that on Charles Reade in Chambers's J o'wrnal; that on Anthony Trollope in The Author; and those on Lytton, Jerrold, Wilkie Collins, and Thackeray in Temple Bow. I desire to record my thanks to the editors of these periodicals for their courteous per mission to reprint these papers. In every case they have been carefully revised, and in some instances partly rewritten. The remainder Of the series are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.