I was glad that the question of “beating the wine” had been resolved before I even begin reading this. It allowed me to skip right over that without giving it much thought. It allowed me to devote full attention to trying to guess the location of the State of Mickewa in the United States. The state that elected Senator Elias Gotobed .

I am struck with how similar Trollope is to Dickens, at least based on what I have read of Trollope so far. I would have to say that of the two I prefer Dickens, but since I have already run through the entire bibliography of Dickens Trollope does provide a whole new set of similar works to read. I was also curious if Trollope's books were originally published in serial form like those of Dickens, and this was so for The American Senator at least.