He will then need the aid of fuller biographies. Some Victorian _Lives_ are already classic, or nearly so, among them Sir G. Trevelyan's _Macaulay_, Forster's _Dickens_, Mrs. Gaskell's _Charlotte Brontë_, Froude's _Carlyle_, and Sir E. T. Cook's _Ruskin_. With these may be ranged the great _Dictionary of National Biography_. The "English Men of Letters" Series includes H. D. Traill's _Coleridge_, Ainger's _Lamb_, Trollope's _Thackeray_, Leslie Stephen's _George Eliot_, Herbert Paul's _Matthew Arnold_, Sir A. Lyall's _Tennyson_, G. K. Chesterton's _Robert Browning_, and A. C. Benson's _Fitzgerald_. At least two autobiographies must be named, those of Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill, and, as antidote to Newman's _Apologia_, the gay self-revelations of Borrow, and Jefferies' _Story of My Heart_. Other considerable volumes are W. J. Cross's _George Eliot_, Lionel Johnson's _Art of Thomas Hardy_, Mr. W. M. Rossetti's _Dante G. Rossetti_, Colvin's _R. L. Stevenson_, J. W. Mackail's _William Morris_, Holman Hunt's _Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood_, Sir Leslie Stephen's _The Utilitarians_, Buxton Forman's _Our Living Poets_, Edward Thomas's _Swinburne_, Monypenny's _Disraeli_, Dawson's _Victorian Novelists_, and Stedman's _Victorian Poets_. The "Everyman" _Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature_ is useful for dates. The latter half of the second volume of Mr. F. A. Mumby's _Letters of Literary Men_ is devoted to the Victorian Age. There are fuller collections of the _Letters_ of Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brownings, Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and more recently the _Letters of George Meredith_, edited by his son. Among the important critical writers of the period, Matthew Arnold (_Essays in Criticism_, _Study of Celtic Literature_, etc.) stands easily first. Others are John, now Lord, Morley (_Studies in Literature_, etc.), Augustine Birrell (_Obiter Dicta_, _Essays_), W. E. Henley (_Views and Reviews_), J. Addington Symonds (_Essays_), J. Churton Collins, Richard Garnett, Stopford A. Brooke, George E. B. Saintsbury (_History of Criticism_), R. H. Hutton (_Contemporary Thought_), J. M. Robertson (_Modern Humanists_, _Buckle_, etc.), Frederic Harrison (_The Choice of Books_, etc.), Andrew Lang, Walter Bagehot, Edmund Gosse, Prof. Dowden, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir A. T. Quiller Couch. INDEX Æsthetes, the, and Decadents, 218-27 Arnold, Matthew, 73-79, 87 Austen, Jane, 92, 105, 109 Bentham, 36 Blake, 20 Borrow, 151 Brontë, Charlotte, 92, 105, 110-14 ----, Emily, 113 Browning, Elizabeth B., 176-82 ----, R., 40-41, 159, 162-63 Byron, 22 Carlyle, 40, 49-62, 158 Carroll, Lewis, 153 Cobbett, 16-17, 88, 151 Coleridge, 20 Collins, Wilkie, 130, 132 Darwin, 38, 206-7, 209 De Quincey, 23-25, 65 Dickens, 40, 79-89, 100, 106, 119-23, 129, 131 Disraeli, 42, 135 Eliot, George, 92, 103-9, 157 Faber, 46 Fitzgerald, 192-95 French Revolution, Influence of, 18-21 Froude, 60, 62 Gaskell, Mrs., 94 Gilbert, 154