CRITICISM, reasons of present degraded state of, 13-26; characteristics of current criticism described, 26-30: 270-1; effects on literature generally, 31-4; refusal of the Universities to train critics and men of letters, 38-44; lethargy and indifference of scholars, progressive degradation of literature the certain result, 43-44 CRITICS, characteristics of popular, 27-31: 93-109: 110-32: 151-7 CROWE, William, 249 CYNEWULF, 95 DANTE, 49; quoted, 335; his _Sonnets and Canzoni_, 350 DE QUINCEY, Thomas, characteristics of, 203-4; his comparative failure, 305; Mr. Hogg’s recollections of, 203-10 DOUGLAS, Gavin, his translation of Virgil, 96-7 DRAYTON, Michael, 60 DRYDEN, his _Discourse on Epic Poetry_, 65; quoted, 153; on the functions of poetry, 280; his translations, 148 DUBOS, the Abbé, 281 DUNBAR, William, 176; Mr. Smeaton’s _Life of_, reviewed, 183-92; characteristics of his poetry, 190-1 DYER, John, his descriptive poetry, 248 EARLE, Prof., on relation of Classics to English Literature, 59 (note) EARLE, John, his _Microcosmographie_, 129 EDITORS, their relation to current literature, 22; in no way responsible for the present condition of current literature, 23-24 ENNIUS, 59 EURIPIDES, 82; his fine pictures of Nature, 242; quoted, 262; his _Alcestis_ quoted, 286 FELTHAM, Owen, his _Resolves_, 129 FLACCUS, Valerius, 246 FLETCHER, Phineas, 101 FOOTE, Samuel, quoted, 205 FOX, John, his _Book of Martyrs_, 113 FRAUNCE, Abraham, his _Countess of Pembroke’s Ivy Church_, 309 FROUDE, James Anthony, on the effect of discouraging the study of the Classics, 65 GARNETT, Father, 354 GEOFFREY of Monmouth, 102 GERVINUS, Prof., quoted, 360 GLANVILLE, Joseph, 104 GIBBON, Edward, 125: 150: 198 GOETHE, 49: 86; quoted, 273: 360: 362 GOLDSMITH quoted, 247 GOSSE, Edmund, his _Short History of Modern English Literature_ reviewed 110-32 GOSSING, analysis of the accomplishment, 115; compared with Euphuism, id. GOWER, John, 124; _Confessio Amantis_, 196 GRAY, Thomas, on Lydgate, 98 GREENE, Robert, 14 HALL, William, Mr. Sidney Lee on, 216 HAMPOLE, Richard of, his _Pricke of Conscience_, 179 HARRISON, Mr. Frederic, 35 HAWES, Stephen, his _Pastime of Pleasure_, 200 HERACLITUS quoted, 361 HERMESIANAX quoted, 287 HILL, Aaron, 331 HOCCLEVE, Thomas, 198 HOGG, Mr. James, his _Recollections of De Quincey_ reviewed, 203-10 HOMER quoted, his fine descriptions of Nature, 237-9; his women, 286: 288; his description of Hades, 297 HOOKER quoted, 362 HORACE, influence of his Epistles and Satires on English poetry, 60; quoted, 151: 297: 301; deficient in poetic sensibility, 336 HROSWITHA, 251 HUXLEY, Prof., on Merton Chair at Oxford, 38 IBYCUS, 240 JAGO, Richard, 249