Introduction--Maginn--Lord Lytton--Disraeli--Ainsworth--G. P. R. James--Marryat--Michael Scott--Warren. CHAPTER V. FICTION: THE INTERMEDIATE PERIOD 82 Dickens--Thackeray--The Brontës--Mrs. Gaskell. CHAPTER VI. THE HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS 109 Introduction--Macaulay--Thomas Arnold--Thirlwall--Grote-- Milman--Finlay--Neale--Merivale--Froude--Kinglake-- Buckle--Maine--Lockhart--Stanley--Minor Historians and Biographers. CHAPTER VII. THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY 144 Keble--Newman--Pusey--Wilberforce--Maurice--F. W. Robertson--Mark Pattison--Jowett--Mill--N. W. Senior-- J. E. Cairnes--Whewell--Sir W. Hamilton--Ferrier--Mansel-- Harriet Martineau--G. H. Lewes--Sir G. Cornewall Lewis-- Herbert Spencer. CHAPTER VIII. SCIENCE 175 Introduction--Lyell--Hugh Miller--Robert Chambers--Darwin-- A. R. Wallace. CHAPTER IX. CRITICISM, SCHOLARSHIP, AND MISCELLANEOUS PROSE 191 Introduction--J. P. Collier--Mrs. Jameson--J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps--Helps--Ruskin--Matthew Arnold--Dr. John Brown--Rands--George Borrow. CHAPTER X. POETRY FROM 1850 TO 1870: THE INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT 213 Introduction--Matthew Arnold--Clough--Tennyson--Robert Browning--E. B. Browning--Edward FitzGerald. CHAPTER XI. POETRY FROM 1850 TO 1870: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES; THE SPASMODIC SCHOOL; MINOR POETS 240 D. G. Rossetti--Christina Rossetti--W. E. Aytoun--Dobell-- Alexander Smith--Coventry Patmore--'Owen Meredith'--Lord de Tabley--William Morris--Minor Poets. CHAPTER XII. THE LATER FICTION 262 Introduction--George Eliot--Mrs. Henry Wood--D. M. Craik-- Charles Kingsley--Anthony Trollope--James Grant-- Whyte-Melville--Wilkie Collins--G. A. Lawrence--Charles Reade--Conclusion. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 279 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WRITERS 289 INDEX 295 THE AGE OF TENNYSON. INTRODUCTION.