THE NEW FICTION Interval--Maturin--Miss Edgeworth--Miss Austen--The _Waverley Novels_--Hook--Bulwer--Dickens--Thackeray--Marryat--Lever--Minor Naval Novelists--Disraeli--Peacock--Borrow--Miss Martineau--Miss Mitford 125 CHAPTER IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODICALS. New Periodicals at the beginning of the Century--Cobbett--The _Edinburgh Review_--Jeffrey--Sydney Smith--The _Quarterly_--_Blackwood's_ and the _London Magazines_--Lamb--Hazlitt--Wilson--Lockhart--De Quincey--Leigh Hunt--Hartley Coleridge--Maginn and _Fraser_--Sterling and the Sterling Club--Edward FitzGerald--Barham 166 CHAPTER V THE HISTORIANS OF THE CENTURY Occasional Historians--Hallam--Roscoe--Mitford--Lingard--Turner-- Palgrave--The Tytlers--Alison--Milman--Grote and Thirlwall--Arnold--Macaulay--Carlyle--Minor Figures--Buckle--Kinglake--Freeman and Green--Froude 211 CHAPTER VI THE SECOND POETICAL PERIOD Tennyson--Mr. and Mrs. Browning--Matthew Arnold--The Prae-Raphaelite Movement--Rossetti--Miss Rossetti--O'Shaughnessy--Thomson--Minor Poets--Lord Houghton--Aytoun--The Spasmodics--Minor Poets--Clough--Locker--The Earl of Lytton--Humorous Verse-Writers--Poetesses 253 CHAPTER VII THE NOVEL SINCE 1850 Changes in the Novel--Miss Bronte--George Eliot--Charles Kingsley--The Trollopes--Reade--Minor Novelists--Stevenson 317 CHAPTER VIII PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY Limits of this and following Chapters--Bentham-- Mackintosh--The Mills--Hamilton and the Hamiltonians-- Mansel--Other Philosophers--Jurisprudents: Austin, Maine, Stephen--Political Economists and Malthus--The Oxford Movement--Pusey--Keble--Newman--The Scottish Disruption--Chalmers--Irving--Other Divines--Maurice--Robertson 342 CHAPTER IX LATER JOURNALISM AND CRITICISM IN ART AND LETTERS Changes in Periodicals--The _Saturday Review_--Critics of the middle of the Century--Helps--Matthew Arnold in Prose--Mr. Ruskin--Jefferies--Pater--Symonds--Minto 378 CHAPTER X SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE Increasing Difficulty of Selection--Porson--Conington--Munro--Sellar--Robertson Smith--Davy--Mrs. Somerville--Other Scientific Writers-- Darwin--_Vestiges of Creation_--Hugh Miller--Huxley 404 CHAPTER XI DRAMA Weakness of this department throughout--O'Keefe--Joanna Baillie--Knowles--Bulwer--Planche 417 CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION Survey and Analysis of the Period in the several divisions--Revolutions in Style--The present state of Literature 425 INDEX 471 CHAPTER I THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY