the portrayal not as a mere copy of particulars, but influenced with that spirit of the universal which is the secret and the charm of art. It is because the novels of these years recognised and provided this pleasure in a greater degree than those of the former period (except the productions of a few masters) that they deserve the higher position which has been here assigned them. If the novels of any period, before or since or to come, have deserved, may or shall deserve, a lower place--it is, and will be, because of their comparative or positive neglect of the combination of these conditions. Perhaps it is not easy to see what new country there is for the novel to conquer. But, as with other kinds of literature, there is practically no limit to its powers of working its actual domains. In the finest of its already existing examples it hardly yields in accomplishment even to poetry; in that great secondary (if secondary) office of all Art--to redress the apparent injustice, and console for the apparent unkindness, of Nature--to serve as rest and refreshment between those exactions of life which, though neither unjust nor unkind, are burdensome, it has no equal among all the kinds of Art itself. INDEX _Adam Bede_ Adams, W. Addison _Adeline Mowbray_ Aelfric _Agathos_ Ainsworth, H. _Alton Locke_ _Amadis_ _Amelia_ _Amis and Amillion_ Amory, Thomas _Anabasis, The_ Anglo-Saxon, Romance in _Anna_ _Anna St. Ives_ _Apollonius of Tyre_ Apuleius Arblay, Madame d', _see_ Burney, F. _Arcadia, The_ _Aretina_ _Arthour and Merlin_ Arthurian Legend, the; its romantic concentration _Ask Mamma_ _Ass, The Golden_ _Atlantis, The New_ Austen, Miss _Badman, Mr_. Bage, R. Balzac Banim _Barchester Towers_ Barrett, E.S. _Barry Lyndon_ "Barsetshire Novels," the _Battle of the Books, The_ Beaconsfield, Lord, _see_ Disraeli, B. Beckford Behn, Afra _Belinda_ Bennett, Mrs. _Bentivolio and Urania_ _Beowulf_ Bergerac, C. de Berington, S. Berkeley Berners, Lord _Bertrams, The_ _Beryn, The Tale of_ Besaut, Sir W. _Betsy Thoughtless_ _Bevis of Hampton_ Black, W. Blackmore, R.D. Blair Borrow, George Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill and Earl of Orrery _Brambletye House_ Brontë, Charlotte Emily and Anne Brooke, H. Brunetière, M. Brunton, Mrs. Bulwer, Sir E.B. Lytton (1st Lord Lytton) _Buncle, The life of John_ Bunyan Burney, F. Byrne, Mrs. Byron