sort of huge spittoon." The Quarterly Review praised Trollope's humour and descriptive skill: According to Katherine Moore (writing in 1985), Trollope "had no profundity of thought...but she had a seeing eye and a lively pen". Her descriptions are "never boring: she makes us see the lonely clearings and farms, the huge silent rivers, Niagara, untamed and unvulgarised, the clear bright air ..." In a 1836 letter to the Ministry of War, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna quoted Trollope as an anti-slavery intellectual whose example must be followed. See also How to Observe Morals and Manners References External links Vanity Fair - Mrs. Trollope's America Full etext at Project Gutenberg 1832 non-fiction books Anti-Americanism Books about the United States British non-fiction books American travel books