Thackeray took up the practice from him: as well as others both from him and from Thackeray.

The great illustrators, too, of the forties, fifties, and sixties, from Cruikshank and Browne to Frederick Walker, were partly helped by the system, partly helped to make it popular.

But the circulating libraries did not like it for obvious reasons, the parts being fragile and unsubstantial: and the great success of cheap magazines, on the pattern of _Macmillan's_ and the _Cornhill_, cut the ground from under its feet.

The last remarkable novel that I remember seeing in the form was _The Last Chronicle of Barset.

Middlemarch_ and _Daniel Deronda_ came out in parts which were rather volumes than parts.
This piece-meal publication, whether in part or periodical, could not be without some effects on the character of the production.