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Completed	12 January 2007
Title	Barchester Towers
Author	Anthony Trollope
Published	1857
Quote	"Men of fifty don't dance mazurkas, being generally too fat and wheezy; nor do they sit for the hour together on river banks at their mistresses' feet, being somewhat afraid of rheumatism. But for real love---love at first sight, love to devotion, love that robs a man of his sleep, love that 'will gaze an eagle blind'...we believe the best age is from forty-five to seventy; up to that men are generally given to mere flirting."
Review	This is the second book in a series of six that comprise the Barchester novels. I can't believe they killed off my favorite John Bull character right at the begining of the novel. That's downright mean. OK, the funniest thing about this book was the character of the brother, the lazy one, the artist, the wanderer, who was found smoking at the bottom of the ha-ha (a dipped sort of ditch in the field, acting as a hidden fence), and who, while his father was reprimanding him, would sit and draw little caricatures.

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