Its quality 486 Defects 486 And examples 487 Maginn 487 His parody-criticisms 488 And more serious efforts 488 Macaulay 490 His exceptional competence in some ways 490 The early articles 490 His drawbacks 490 The practical choking of the good seed 491 His literary surveys in the _Letters_ 492 His confession 493 The _Essays_ 493 Similar dwindling in Carlyle 495 The earlier _Essays_ 497 The later 497 The attitude of the _Latter-day Pamphlets_ 498 The conclusion of this matter 499 Thackeray 500 His one critical weakness 500 And excellence 501 _Blackwood_ in 1849 on Tennyson 502 George Brimley 504 His Essay on Tennyson 505 His other work 507 His intrinsic and chronological importance 508 “Gyas and Cloanthus” 508 Milman, Croker, Hayward 509 Sydney Smith, Senior, Helps 509 Elwin, Lancaster, Hannay 510 Dallas 511 The _Poetics_ 511 _The Gay Science_ 512 Others: J. S. Mill 514 CHAPTER III. ENGLISH CRITICISM—1860-1900. Matthew Arnold: one of the greater critics 515 His position defined early 516 The _Preface_ of 1853 517 Analysis of it 517 And interim summary of its gist 520 Contrast with Dryden 520 Chair-work at Oxford, and contributions to periodicals 521 _On Translating Homer_ 522