[Section I.—Importance of the Imaginative Faculty] 189
[Section II.—Boldness of Dickens's Imagination] 189
[Section III.—His Trivialities.—His Minuteness] 197
[Section IV.—His Emotions.—His Pathos.—His Humor] 200
[Part II.—The Public]
[Section I.—The Morality of English Novels] 206
[Part III.—The Characters]
[Section I.—Dickens's Love for Natural Characters] 212
[Section II.—The Hypocrite.—The Positive Man.—The Proud Man] 213
[Section III.—Children] 218
[Section IV.—The Ideal Man] 221
[CHAPTER SECOND]
[The Novel (Continued)—Thackeray]
[Comparison between Dickens and Thackeray] 223
[Part I.—The Satirist]
[Section I.—The English Satirist] 224
[Section II.—The English Temperament] 229
[Section III.—Superiority of Thackeray as a Satirist.—Literary Snobs] 231
[Section IV.—Resemblance of Thackeray to Swift] 237
[Section V.—Thackeray's Misanthropy] 239
[Section VI.—His Characters] 241