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MISPLACED FAITH IN INKBLOTS, IDOLS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040926
Author:Katherine A. Powers

"As what I now write will certainly never be read till I am dead," wrote Anthony Trollope in his "Autobiography," "I may dare to say what no one now does dare to say in print. . . . There are places in life which can hardly be well filled except by `Gentlemen.' " And what is a gentleman? one can't help asking. Trollope's answer was that it is indefinable, though we all know what it means even those who pretend not to. As it happens, Trollope's admirers, though they cannot list infallible criteria, understand precisely what a gentleman is, for the novels explore it relentlessly.

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