INDEX

Addison, Joseph, [96], [128]
Aeneid, [159]
Alice in Wonderland, [228]
All the Year Round, [18]
American Notes, [17], [52]
American Senator, The, [220]
Antony and Cleopatra, [93]
Arabian Nights, [41], [170], [187]
Ariosto, Lodovico, [158]
Aristophanes, [158]
Aristotle, [42], [84], [139], [191], [226]
Arnold, Matthew, [74], [100], [121], [161]
Art of Fiction, The, James’, [81]
Ashley, Lord (Lord Shaftesbury), [172], [174], [192]
Aurelius, Marcus, [131]
Austen, Jane, [31], [71], [164], [179], [200], [233]
Autobiography, Trollope’s, [219], [221]
Bacon, Francis, [4], [107]
Bagehot, Walter, [114]
Ballad of Bouillabaisse, [104]
Balzac, Honoré de, [34], [135], [138], [219], [230]
Barchester Towers, [220], [225]
Barnaby Rudge, [52], [55]
Barnes, William, [119]
Barry Lyndon, [125], [126], [147]
Battle of Life, The, [18]
Beerbohm, Max, [149], [160]
Belton Estate, The, [219]
Bentham, Jeremy, [73]
Berkeley, Bishop George, [128]
Blackwood’s Magazine, [204]
Blake, William, [128], [159]
Bleak House, [11], [12], [33], [55], [69], [89]
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, [70]
Bolingbroke, Viscount, [197]
Book of Snobs, The, [125]
Boswell, James, [201]
Boule de Suif, [139]
Bright, John, [183]
Brontë, Anne, [211], [222]
Brontë, Branwell, [201]
Brontë, Charlotte, [72], [201], [211], [212], [222]
Brontë, Emily, [201], [211], [222]
Brookfield, William Henry, [106]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [112], [197]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [161], [167], [170], [204]
Browning, Robert, [7], [21], [100], [128], [161]
Brunetière, Ferdinand, [24]
Bryant, William Cullen, [17]
Buckle, Henry Thomas, [7]
Bunyan, John, [71], [197], [225]
Burke, Edmund, [4], [21], [22], [128], [149], [183], [197]
Burney, Fanny, [164]
Burns, Robert, [66], [128], [222]
Butler, Samuel, [84], [85]
Byron, Lord, [66], [128], [160], [226]
Campion, Thomas, [19]
Canning, George, [107], [183]
Carlyle, Mrs., [10]
Carlyle, Thomas, [7], [10], [21], [40], [74], [93], [107], [124], [128], [176], [177], [223], [226]
Carols, [18]
Carroll, Lewis, [78]
Casa Guidi Windows, [161]
Catherine, [125]
Catullus, [222]
Cervantes, Miguel de, [91]
Chadwick, Sir Edwin, [167]
Chapman, Frederic, [83]
Chapman, Robert William, [200]
Charles I, [4]
Charlotte Augusta, Princess, [110]
Chatham, Earl of, [183]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [8], [20], [66], [67], [98], [158]
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, [10], [33]
Childe Harold, [66]
Chimes, The, [18]
Christmas Carol, A, [18]
Cicero, [183]
City Churchyards, The, Dickens’ essay on, [96]
Clarendon, Earl of, [197]
Clark, Sir Charles, [110]
Claverings, The, [219]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [74], [132], [161]
Cobbett, William, [68], [171], [231]
Cochrane, Alexander Baillie, [193]
Codlingsby, [188]
Colenso, Bishop, [73]
Coleridge, Hartley, [30]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [21], [56], [77], [128]
Collins, Wilkie, [13], [127], [224]
Comedy of Errors, The, [53]
Compleat Angler, The, [71]
Congreve, William, [222]
Coningsby, [117], [193], [194–196], [208], [223]
Conington, John, [123]
Constitutional, The, [102]
Coriolanus, [158]
Cornhill Magazine, [212], [223]
Country Life, [230]
Cousin Phillis, [212–216]
Coverly, Sir Roger de, in The Spectator, [71]
Cowper, William, [107], [124], [128]
Cox, Harold, [167]
Crabbe, George, [107], [159], [204]
Cranford, [126], [199], [200], [202], [203], [210], [212], [213]
Cricket on the Hearth, The, [18]
Croker, John Wilson, [192]
Cry of the Children, The, [161], [168], [169]
Dana, Richard Henry, [17]
Dante, [28], [91], [134], [158]
Darwin, Charles, [7], [73]
David Copperfield, [52], [54], [67], [75], [76], [90], [93–97], [129], [228], [229]
Defoe, Daniel, [49], [78], [163], [196]
Denis Duval, [147]
De Quincey, Thomas, [5], [38]
Deserted Village, The, [159]
Dickens, Charles, [3–99], [125–127], [129–141], [176], [210], [222], [223], [226], [228], [229], [230]
Dictionary of National Biography, [203]
Dinner at Poplar Walk, A, [5]
Diocletian, [197]
Disraeli, Benjamin, [116], [170], [171], [180–198], [206], [208], [210], [217], [222–224]
Divina Commedia, [11]
Dobson, Austin, [146]
Dombey and Son, [11], [39], [42], [44], [69]
Donne, John, [21]
Don Quixote, [228]
Dostoievsky, Feodor, [75]
Dream, The, Byron’s, [66]
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, [142]
Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions, [18]
Dr. Thorne, [220]
Dryden, John, [8], [20], [24], [25], [66], [128], [159], [197]
Dumas, Alexandre, the elder, [24], [53], [54], [146], [196]
Dunciad, The, [128], [129]
Eclogues, Virgil’s, [159]
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, [222]
Eliot, George, [7], [72], [211], [222]
Endymion, Disraeli’s, [195], [210], [217]
English Mail Coach, The, [38]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [27]
Esmond, [96], [122], [123], [146], [147], [149], [152–156]
Essay of Dramatic Poesy, [26], [159]
Essay on Man, An, [159]
Essays of Elia, The, [57]
Eustace Diamonds, The, [219]
Evelyn, John, [71]
Ferrex and Porrex, [213]
Fielding, Henry, [20], [71], [95], [139], [163], [179]
FitzGerald, Edward, [106], [108], [122]
Flaubert, Gustave, [12], [138], [221]
Forster, John, [12], [13], [15], [16], [51], [59], [86], [89]
Fox, Charles James, [183]
Framley Parsonage, [220], [223], [229]
Gaskell, Mrs., [179], [199–218]
Gaskell, William, [199], [203], [205]
Gastibelza, [227]
Gay, John, [128]
Georgics, [214]
Gibbon, Edward, [21], [128], [197]
Gissing, George, [12], [13], [96], [97]
Gladstone, William Ewart, [183]
Golden Lion of Grandpré, The, [220]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [128]
Gray, Thomas, [222]
Great Expectations, [31], [74], [93]
Greuze, Jean Baptiste, [140]
Greville, Fulke, [41]
Hallam, Arthur, [107]
Hamlet, [49], [81], [144], [163]
Hammond, John Lawrence, [172], [191]
Hammond, Mrs., [172], [191]
Handel, Georg Friedrich, [26]
Handley Cross, [37], [68]
Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, [191], [206]
Hard Times, [211]
Hardy, Thomas, [31], [140], [229]
Harrison, Frederic, [230]
Hastings, Warren, [4]
Haunted Man, The, [18]
Hazlitt, William, [30], [78], [129]
Heine, Heinrich, [227]
Hemans, Mrs., [168]
Henley, William Ernest, [9], [48], [134], [142]
Hertford, Marquis of, [117]
Higgins, Matthew James, [129]
History of Civilisation in Europe, [7]
History of English Prose Rhythm, Saintsbury’s, [150–151]
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, [17]
Holly-Tree Inn, The, [18]
Holy Tide, The, [19]
Homer, [110], [139], [144], [217]
Hood, Thomas, [161]
Horace, [123], [124], [135], [158]
Horner, Leonard, [178]
Household Words, [13], [18], [211], [212]
Howitt, Mrs., [204]
Howlett, John, [191]
Hugo, Victor, [227]
Hunt, Leigh, [10], [89], [90]
Hunter, Sir William, [109]
Huxley, Thomas Henry, [7], [73]
Infernal Marriage, The, [181], [182]
Inge, William Ralph, [63], [64]
Irving, Washington, [17]
James, Henry, [40], [76], [81–83], [225], [232]
Jefferies, Richard, [132]
John Inglesant, [39]
Johnson, Samuel, [21], [26], [37], [97], [101], [103], [110], [126], [128]
Jonathan Wild, [163]
Jonson, Ben, [20], [27], [128], [141], [226]
Keats, John, [21], [128], [159], [160], [213]
King John, [158]
Kinglake, Alexander William, [107]
King Lear, [29], [46], [139]
King on the Tower, The, [130]
Kingsley, Charles, [7]
Kipling, Rudyard, [9], [49], [112]
Lady Audley’s Secret, [222]
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, [161]
Lamb, Charles, [5], [31], [57], [78], [107]
Landor, Walter Savage, [89], [90], [128], [220]
Last Chronicle of Barset, The, [220], [232]
Lear, Edward, [78], [105]
L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), [168]
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, [144]
Lewes, George Henry, [99]
Life of Charles Dickens, Forster’s, [59]
Life of Charlotte Brontë, [201], [203], [210–212]
Life of Dr. Johnson, [201]
Lincoln, Abraham, [183]
Little Dorrit, [32], [43]
London Magazine, [57]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [144]
Longinus, [149]
Lothair, [185], [186]
Lycidas, [159]
Lytton, Lord, [230]
Macaulay, Lord, [172], [174], [183]
Madame Bovary, [139]
Malory, Sir Thomas, [196]
Malthus, Thomas Robert, [167]
Manners, Lord John, [193]
Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, [132]
Marlowe, Christopher, [21]
Martin Chuzzlewit, [17], [23], [51–53], [54], [74]
Martineau, James, [74], [132]
Marvell, Andrew, [124]
Mary Barton, [205–209], [211], [212]
Marzials, Sir Frank T., [117]
Maupassant, Guy de, [138]
Maurice, Frederick Denison, [7]
Measure for Measure, [91]
Meredith, George, [137]
Mérimée, Prosper, [138]
Merivale, Herman, [117], [119], [131]
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, [30], [45], [46]
Michelangelo, [26]
Midsummer-Night’s Dream, A, [78], [149]
Mill, John Stuart, [7]
Milnes, Richard Monckton, [106], [107]
Milton, John, [21], [66], [124], [127], [128], [136], [159], [212], [222]
Molière, [28]
Moll Flanders, [163]
Moonstone, The, [224]
Morning Chronicle, [37], [177]
Morris, William, [162], [176]
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The, [31], [200]
National Standard, The, [102]
Newcomes, The, [104]
New Grub Street, The, [97]
Newman, John Henry, [73], [74], [107], [132], [185]
Nicholas Nickleby, [47], [52], [54]
North and South, [210], [212]
North British, [132]
Odes, Horace’s, [123]
Odyssey, [144]
Old Curiosity Shop, The, [41], [52], [55], [95]
Old Margate Hoy, The, [5]
Old Squire, The, [70]
Oliver Twist, [47], [54], [61], [88], [91]
Omar Khayyam, [199]
On Letts’s Diary, [109]
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, [124]
Othello, [49]
Ouida (Louise de la Ramée), [222], [228]
Our Mutual Friend, [42], [54]
Palmerston, Viscount, [183]
Paradise Lost, [159]
Paris Sketch Book, [133]
Peacock, Thomas Love, [220]
Peel, Sir Robert, [181], [183], [194], [196], [197]
Pendennis, [44], [120–122], [129]
Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The, [13], [77]
Petrarch, [158]
Philip, [103], [135]
Pickwick Papers, The, [8], [11], [37], [44], [46], [52], [68], [77], [125], [126]
Piers Plowman, [158]
Pindar, [200], [220]
Pitt, William, [183]
Plato, [183], [222]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [228]
Poetics, Aristotle’s, [139]
Poor Robin’s Almanack, [19]
Pope, Alexander, [21], [66], [128], [159]
Porter, George Richardson, [177]
Prescott, William Hickling, [17]
Prior, Matthew, [124]
Prisoner, The, [201], [202]
Progress of the Nation from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, [177]
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, [67]
Punch, [220]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [62–65], [100], [122]
Rasselas, [126]
Reade, Charles, [58]
Redgauntlet, [67]
Reine Margot, La, [24]
Republic, The, Plato’s, [222]
Richardson, Samuel, [163], [179]
Ritchie, Lady, [101]
Ritchie, Mrs., [110]
Robert Ellesmere, [39]
Robertson, Thomas William, [45]
Robinson Crusoe, [49], [163]
Romola, [75]
Ronsard, Pierre de, [158]
Rose and the Ring, The, [105]
Roundabout Papers, [96], [109], [122], [123], [133], [138], [147]
Rovers, The, [107]
Roxana, [163]
Ruskin, John, [7], [107], [128], [176]
Russell, Lord John, [183]
Ruth, [211]
Sadler, Michael, [172–174]
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, [121]
Saintsbury, George, [76], [78], [150–152]
Santayana, George, [55], [79]
Scott, Sir Walter, [17], [21], [66], [128], [140], [148], [163], [164], [179], [197], [230]
Sevastopol, [138]
Seymour, Robert, [83]
Shabby Genteel Story, A, [133]
Shaftesbury, Lord, [172], [175], [193]
Shakespeare, Sir Richmond, [110]
Shakespeare, William, [8], [21–23], [26], [28], [29], [30], [33], [35], [36], [43], [45], [49], [50], [53], [57], [66], [67], [81], [83], [91], [100], [101], [114], [128], [149], [158], [217], [222]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [21], [106], [128], [160], [176]
Shenstone, William, [68]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [4], [128], [183]
Sidney, Algernon, [4]
Sketches by Boz, [5]
Small House at Alington, The, [220]
Smollett, Tobias, [164]
Smythe, George (Viscount Strangford), [193], [194]
Socrates, [4], [183]
Song of the Shirt, [161]
Spedding, James, [107], [108]
Spencer, Herbert, [184]
Spenser, Edmund, [158]
Stanley, Dean, [8]
Steele, Richard, [96], [128]
Stendhal, [138]
Sterne, Laurence, [133]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [77], [121], [128], [142], [220]
Strangford, Viscount, [193]
Surtees, Robert Smith, [37]
Swift, Jonathan, [107], [128], [133]
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [99], [162]
Sybil, [189], [195], [196], [208], [224]
Sylvia’s Lovers, [212]
Tale of Two Cities, A, [45]
Tancred, [184], [195]
Tartuffe, [139]
Tarzan of the Apes, [92]
Tasso, Torquato, [21], [27], [66]
Taylor, Jeremy, [131]
Tempest, The, [81]
Temple, Sir William, [71]
Tennyson, Frederick, [19]
Tennyson, Lord, [7], [105], [106], [122], [128], [161], [222]
Tertullian, [197]
Thackeray, Mrs., [103]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [7], [43], [66], [96], [100–157], [187], [223], [230]
Thackerays in India and some Calcutta Graves, The, [109]
Theocritus, [158], [214]
Thompson, Francis, [189]
Thomson, Hugh, [199]
Three Musketeers, The, [24]
Timber, or Discoveries, [27]
Times, The, [230]
Tolstoy, Count Leo, [39], [75], [99], [138], [149]
Tom Brown’s School Days, [38], [131]
Tom Jones, [139]
To Mr. Lawrence, [124]
To the Lady Margaret Ley, [124]
Town Labourer, 1760–1832, The, [191]
Treasure Island, [142]
Tristram Shandy, [126], [163], [200]
Troilus and Cressida, [57]
Trollope, Anthony, [54], [141], [148], [211], [219–234]
Turgueniev, Ivan, [138]
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, [41]
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, [23], [91]
Uhland, Johann Ludwig, [130]
Uncommercial Traveller, The, [96]
Vanity Fair, [117], [122], [125], [141], [146], [147], [151]
Venables, George Stovin, [117], [133]
Venus and Adonis, [114]
Vicar of Wakefield, The, [163]
Vicomte de Bragelonne, Le, [24]
Victorian Age, The, Inge’s, [63]
Villette, [201]
Villon, François, [158]
Virgil, [27], [91], [158], [159], [214]
Virginians, The, [147], [149]
Vivian Grey, [182], [185]
Walpole, Horace, [164]
Walton, Izaak, [197]
Wapping Workhouse, Dickens’ essay on, [96]
War and Peace, [39], [138], [149]
Ward, Sir Adolphus, [203], [204], [208], [209]
Warden, The, [220], [226]
Way of All Flesh, The, [84], [86]
Way We Live Now, The, [220]
Wee Willie Winkie, [112]
Wells, Herbert George, [43]
Wharton, Edith, [15]
Whewell, William, [122]
Whibley, Charles, [122]
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, [221]
Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, [73]
Wives and Daughters, [212]
Woman in White, The, [224]
Woodlanders, The, [140]
Wordsworth, William, [128]
World, The, [127]
Wreck of the “Golden Mary,” The, [18]
Wuthering Heights, [201]
Xenophanes, [82]
Yates, Edmund, [127]
Young Duke, The, [181]
Zola, Emile, [230]