_Blackwood_ and the _London_, the first fruits of the new kind, did not at once take to the novel by instalments: and the _London_ had no time to do so.

But _Blackwood_ soon became celebrated--a reputation which it has never lost--for the excellence of its short stories, and by degrees took to long ones; while its followers--_Fraser, Bentley's Miscellany, The Dublin University Magazine_, the _New Monthly_, and others--almost from the first bated their hooks with this new _appat_.

A very large proportion of the work of the novelists mentioned in the last chapter, as well as of Lever, appeared in one or other of these.

_Fraser_ in particular was Thackeray's chief refuge in the Days of Ignorance of the public as to his real powers and merits, while, just as he was going off, the very different work of Kingsley came on there.

And the tradition, as is well known, has never been broken.