THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER I.

THE SUCCESSORS OF SAINTE-BEUVE.

Ordonnance of this chapter[431]
Philarète Chasles[432]
Barbey d’Aurévilly[433]
On Hugo[434]
On others[435]
Strong redeeming points in him[436]
Doudan[436]
Interest of his general attitude[437]
And particular utterances[437]
Renan[439]
Taine[440]
His culpa[440]
His miscellaneous critical work[441]
His Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise[442]
Its shortcomings[443]
Instances of them[443]
Moutégut: his peculiarities[444]
Delicacy and range of his work[446]
Scherer: peculiar moral character of his criticism[447]
Its consequent limitations[448]
The solid merits accompanying them[448]
Sainte-Beuve + Gautier[450]
Banville[450]
Saint-Victor[451]
Baudelaire[452]
Crépet’s Les Poètes Français[453]
Flaubert: the “Single Word”[454]
“Naturalism”[454]
Zola[455]
Le Roman Experimental[456]
Examples of his criticism[456]
The reasons of his critical incompetency[458]
“Les Deux Goncourt”[458]
“Scientific criticism”: Hennequin[459]
“Comparative Literature”: Texte[462]
Academic Criticism: Gaston Paris[464]
Caro, Taillandier, &c.[465]
The “Light Horsemen”: Janin[466]
Pontmartin[467]
Veuillot[468]
Not so black as, &c.[469]
The present[469]

CHAPTER II.

BETWEEN COLERIDGE AND ARNOLD.

The English Critics of 1830-60[472]
Wilson[472]
Strange medley of his criticism[473]
The Homer and the other larger critical collections[473]
The Spenser[474]
The Specimens of British Critics[475]
Dies Boreales[476]
Faults in all[476]
And in the republished work[477]
De Quincey: his anomalies[478]
And perversities as a critic[479]
In regard to all literatures[480]
Their causes[480]
The Rhetoric and the Style[481]
His compensations[482]
Lockhart[483]
Difficulty of appraising his criticism[483]
The Tennyson review[483]
On Coleridge, Burns, Scott, and Hook[484]
His general critical character[485]
Hartley Coleridge[485]
Forlorn condition of his criticism[485]
Its quality[486]
Defects[486]
And examples[487]
Maginn[487]
His parody-criticisms[488]
And more serious efforts[488]
Macaulay[490]
His exceptional competence in some ways[490]
The early articles[490]
His drawbacks[490]
The practical choking of the good seed[491]
His literary surveys in the Letters[492]
His confession[493]
The Essays[493]
Similar dwindling in Carlyle[495]
The earlier Essays[497]
The later[497]
The attitude of the Latter-day Pamphlets[498]
The conclusion of this matter[499]
Thackeray[500]
His one critical weakness[500]
And excellence[501]
Blackwood in 1849 on Tennyson[502]
George Brimley[504]
His Essay on Tennyson[505]
His other work[507]
His intrinsic and chronological importance[508]
“Gyas and Cloanthus”[508]
Milman, Croker, Hayward[509]
Sydney Smith, Senior, Helps[509]
Elwin, Lancaster, Hannay[510]
Dallas[511]
The Poetics[511]
The Gay Science[512]
Others: J. S. Mill[514]

CHAPTER III.