hich she tells him that Effie has
been pardoned. The author introduces in brackets: "Here follow some
observations respecting the breed of cattle, and the produce of the dairy
which it is our intention to forward to the Board of Agriculture." I
still think I was right, and that the eminent person who snubbed me was
wrong.

Among the works of more modern writers I have analysed one of
Trollope's--the _Small House at Allington_. The names on the whole are
harmless and normal, such as Christopher Dale of Allington; Adolphus
Crosbie, the bad hero; Montgomerie Dobbs, his friend; Fothergill,
factotum to the Duke of Omnium, and many others. Some names are only
saved by our familiarity with them, _e.g._, Lady Dumbello or the
above-mentioned Duke of Omnium. {25} Among the fanciful names Mr
Fanfaron and Major Fiasco are in the bad rather than in the good class,
though if they had more appropriateness they might be passed.

The positively bad names are numerous enough--the Marquis of Auldreekie;
Basil and Pigskin, who keep a leather warehouse; Sir Raffle Buffle;
Chumpend, a butcher; Lady Clandidlem; the Rev. John Joseph Jones is
damned because he, an obvious Welshman, is described as of Jesus College
at Cambridge instead of Oxford. Kissing and Love, two clerks in Johnny
Eames' office, might have been passed had not the author gone out of his
way to refer to the lamentable jokes made in the office about them. Mr
Optimist is an incredibly bad name, and the same may be said of Sir
Constant Outonites. The physician, Sir Omicron Pi, {26} may have a
meaning of which I am ignorant. I think Thackeray would have spelled it
Sir O'Micron Pye, which would have given a touch of reality.

There is one class of books which I have not noticed, namely, those in
which all or nearly all the characters have names with an obvious
meaning. The great instance of this type is Bunyan's _Pilgrim's
Progress_, in which occur well-known names such as Mr Worldly Wiseman,
Faithful, Mr Facing-both-Ways, Lord Desire-of-Vain-Glory, etc. There are
two exceptions in _The Pilgrim's Progress_, namely Demas, which is taken
from 2 Timothy iv. 10, and Mnason (Acts xxi. 16).

An author of this type, with whom Bunyan would have objected to be
classed, is Sheridan. In _The Rivals_ we have the immortal names of Sir
Anthony Absolute, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mrs Malaprop, and Lydia Languish.
Bob Acres has not so obvious a meaning, but is clearly meant to imply
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