L. Stephen: ✱ _History of English Thought in the 18th Century_, 1876. (To be consulted for the deistic prelude to emotional naturalism. The author’s horizons are often limited by his utilitarian outlook.)--T. S. Seccombe: _The Age of Johnson_, 1900.--E. Bernbaum’s _English Poets of the 18th Century_, 1918. (An anthology so arranged as to illustrate the growth of sentimentalism.)--W. L. Phelps: _The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement_, 1893.--H. A. Beers: _A History of English Romanticism in the 18th Century_, 1898. _A History of English Romanticism in the 19th Century_, 1901. (Both vols. are agreeably written but start from a very inadequate definition of romanticism.)--C. H. Herford: _The Age of Wordsworth_, 1897.--G. Saintsbury: _Nineteenth Century Literature_, 1896.--A. Symons: _The Romantic Movement in English Poetry_, 1909. (Ultra-romantic in outlook.)--W. J. Courthope: _History of English Poetry_, vols. V and VI, 1911.--O. Elton: ✱ _A Survey of English Literature, 1780-1830_, 1912. (A distinguished treatment of the period, at once scholarly and literary. The point of view is on the whole romantic, as appears in the use of such general terms as “beauty” and the “infinite.”)--H. Richter: _Geschichte der englischen Romantik_, 1911 ff.--W. A. Neilson: _The Essentials of Poetry_, 1912. (The point of view appears in a passage like the following, pp. 192-93: According to Arnold high seriousness “is the final criterion of a great poet. One might suggest it as a more fit criterion for a great divine. … The element for which Arnold was groping when he seized on the σπουδή of Aristotle was not seriousness but intensity.”)--P. E. More: ✱ _The Drift of Romanticism_ (_Shelburne Essays, Eighth Series_), 1913. (Deals also with the international aspects of the movement, especially in the essay on Nietzsche. The point of view has much in common with my own.) George Lillo: _The London Merchant_; or _The History of George Barnwell_, 1731. _Fatal Curiosity_, 1737. Both plays ed. with intro. by A. W. Ward, 1906. (Bibliography.)--E. Bernbaum: _The Drama of Sensibility, 1696-1780_, 1915. =S. Richardson=, 1689-1761: _Novels_, ed. L. Stephen, 12 vols. 1883. D. Diderot: _Eloge de R._, 1761. Reprinted in _Œuvres complètes_, vol. v.--J. Jusserand: _Le Roman Anglais_, 1886.--J. O. E. Donner: _R. in der deutschen Romantik_, 1896.--W. L. Cross: _The Development of the English Novel_ (chap. II, “The 18th Century Realists”), 1899.--J. Texte: ✱ _J.-J. Rousseau et les Origines du Cosmopolitisme littéraire_. Eng. trans. by J.W. Matthews, 1899.--C. L. Thomson: _Samuel Richardson: a Biographical and Critical Study_, 1900.--A. Dobson: _S. R._, 1902. =L. Sterne=, 1713-68: Collected Works, ed. G. Saintsbury, 6 vols. 1894. Ed. W. L. Cross, 12 vols. 1904.