Taine, H. A: _History of English Literature_. Chapter on Thackeray. Ullman, B. L.: _Horace on the Nature of Satire_. Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1917. Van Laun, H.: _History of French Literature_. Introduction, and Book IV, Chap. I. Putman, 1876. Wright, Thomas: _Anglo-Saxon Satirical Poets and Epigrammatists of the Twelfth Century_. London, 1872. Wright, Thomas: _A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art_, 1865. The satirists themselves who have been sufficiently self-conscious of their art to discuss it more or less include, on the Continent, Horace, Juvenal, Lucian, Cervantes, and Boileau; and in England, Barclay, Skelton, Gascoigne, Marston, Jonson, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Young, Johnson, Fielding, Churchill, Cowper, Wolcott, Gifford, Byron, Peacock, Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, and Meredith. II ON THE NOVEL Brownell, W. C.: _Victorian Prose Masters_. Doubleday, Page, 1902. Brownell, W. C.: _The Novelists_. (Warner Classics.) Doubleday, Page, 1905. Burton, Richard: _Masters of the English Novel_. Holt, 1909. Cross, W. L.: _Development of the English Novel_. Macmillan, 1905. Dawson, W. J.: _Makers of English Fiction_. Revell, 1905. Holliday, Carl: _English Fiction_. Century, 1912. Lord, W. F.: _The Mirror of the Century_. Lane, 1906. Oliphant, James: _Victorian Novelists_. Blackie, 1899. Phelps, W. L.: _Advance of the English Novel_. Dodd, Mead, 1916. Raleigh, Walter: _The English Novel_. Murray, 1911. Saintsbury, George: _The English Novel_. Dutton, 1913. Stoddard, F. L.: _Evolution of the English Novel_. Macmillan, 1909. On the Nineteenth Century in general some of the most important volumes are: Brandes, Georg: _Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature_. London, 1905. Bryce, James: _Studies in Contemporary Biography_. Macmillan, 1903. Chesterton, G. K.: _The Victorian Age in Literature_. Holt, 1914. Gosse, Edmund: _English Literature in the Nineteenth Century_. Putnam, 1901. Harrison, Frederic: _Studies in Early Victorian Literature_. Longmans, 1906. Magnus, Laurie: _English Literature in the Nineteenth Century_. Putnam, 1909. Saintsbury, George: _History of Nineteenth Century Literature_. Macmillan, 1899. Saintsbury, George: _The Later Nineteenth Century_. In _Periods of European Literature_. Blackwood, 1907. Walker, Hugh: _Literature of the Victorian Era_. Cambridge University Press, 1901. III ON THE NOVELISTS