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TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HENRY VAN LAUN

WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY

J. SCOTT CLARK, A. M.

CHAPTER SEVENTH The Poets

CHAPTER FIRST Ideas and Productions

CHAPTER SECOND Lord Byron

CHAPTER THIRD The Past and Present

Part I.—The Past

Part II.—The Present

CHAPTER FIRST

Part I.—The Author

Part II.—The Public

Part III.—The Characters

CHAPTER SECOND The Novel (Continued)—Thackeray

Part I.—The Satirist

Part II.—The Artist

CHAPTER THIRD Criticism and History—Macaulay

CHAPTER FOURTH Philosophy and History—Carlyle

Part I.—Style and Mind

Part II.—Vocation

Part III.—Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism

Part IV.—Conception of History

CHAPTER FIFTH Philosophy—Stuart Mill

Part I.—Experience

Part II.—Abstraction

CHAPTER SIXTH Poetry—Tennyson

(Continued)

CHAPTER SEVENTH

The Poets

Section I—The Domination of the Classical Spirit

Section II.—Alexander Pope.—His Education and Mode of Life

Section III.—Eloisa to Abelard.—The Rape of the Lock.—The Dunciad

Section IV.—Pope's Descriptive Talent.—His Didactic Poems

Section V.—The Poets Prior, Gay and Thomson

Section VI.—The Beginnings of the Modern Age

BOOK IV—MODERN LIFE

CHAPTER FIRST

Ideas and Productions

Section I—Rise of Democracy

Section II.—Robert Burns

Section III.—Conservative Rule in England.—Cowper's Poetry

Section IV.—The Romantic School

Section V.—Philosophy Enters into Literature.—Wordsworth.—Shelley

CHAPTER SECOND

Lord Byron

Section I.—His Life and Character

Section II.—The Style of Byron's Poetry

Section III.—Byron's Short Poems

Section IV.—Manfred

Section V.—What Byron's Contemporaries Thought of Him.—His Morals

Section VI.—The Malady of the Age

CHAPTER THIRD

The Past and Present

Part I.—The Past

Section I.—The Saxon Invasion.—The Norman Conquest

Section II.—Formative Periods

Section III.—The Broadening of Ideas

Part II.—The Present

Section I.—Effects of the Saxon Invasion and the Norman Conquest

Section II.—English Commerce and Industry

Section III.—Agriculture

Section IV.—English Society.—Philosophy.—Religion

Section V.—What Forces Have Produced the Present Civilization

BOOK V—MODERN AUTHORS

Introductory Note

CHAPTER FIRST

The Novel.—Dickens

Part I.—The Author

Section I.—Importance of the Imaginative Faculty

Section II.—Boldness of Dickens' Imagination

Section III.—His Trivialities.—His Minuteness

Section IV.—His Emotions.—His Pathos.—His Humor

Part II.—The Public

Section I.—The Morality of English Novels

Part III.—The Characters

Section I.—Dickens's Love for Natural Characters

Section II.—The Hypocrite.—The Positive Man.—The Proud Man

Section III.—Children

Section IV.—The Ideal Man

CHAPTER SECOND

The Novel (Continued)—Thackeray

Comparison Between Dickens and Thackeray

Part I.—The Satirist

Section I.—The English Satirist

Section II.—The English Temperament

Section III.—Superiority of Thackeray as a Satirist.—Literary Snobs

Section IV.—Resemblance of Thackeray to Swift

Section V.—Thackeray's Misanthropy

Section VI.—His Characters

Part II.—The Artist

Section I—The Art of Thackeray

Section II.—Portrait of Henry Esmond.—Historical Talent

Section III.—Literature the Definition of Man

CHAPTER THIRD

Criticism and History—Macaulay

Section I.—His Position in England

Section II.—Essays

Section III.—His Critical Method

Section IV—His Love of Political Liberty

Section V.—Characteristics of Macaulay's Style

Section VI.—His Rudeness and Humor

Section VII.—Estimate of Macaulay's Work

Section VIII.—Comparison of Macaulay with French Historians

CHAPTER FOURTH

Philosophy and History—Carlyle

Part I.—Style and Mind

Section I.—Carlyle's Obscurity and Crudeness

Section II.—The Humor of Carlyle

Section III.—Perception of the Real and the Sublime

Section IV.—His Passion for Actuality

Section V.—His Mode of Thought

Part II—Vocation

Section I.—The Appearance and Development of Original Minds

Section II.—Characteristics of the German Form of Mind

Section III.—German Aptitude for General Ideas

Section IV.—Faults of the German Form of Thought

Section V.—How Ideas are Reshaped

Section VI.—Growth of German Ideas in England

Part III.—Philosophy, Morality, and Criticism

Section I.—Carlyle's Metaphysics

Section II.—His Transposition of German Metaphysics into English Puritanism

Section III.—Conception of God and Duty

Section IV.—Conception of Christianity

Section V.—Carlyle's Criticism

Section VI.—The Future of Criticism

Part IV.—Conception of History

Section I.—Great Men

Section II.—Wherein Carlyle is Original

Section III.—In What Genuine History Consists

Section IV.—Carlyle's History of Cromwell

Section V.—His History of the French Revolution

Section VI.—His Opinion of Modern England

Section VII.—The Dangers of Enthusiasm.—Comparison of Carlyle and Macaulay

CHAPTER FIFTH

PHILOSOPHY—STUART MILL

Section I.—Lack of General Ideas

Section II.—Why Metaphysics are Lacking

Section III.—Mill's Philosophical Method

Part I.—Experience

Section I.—The Object of Logic

Section II.—Discussion of Ideas

Section III.—The Two Corner-Stones of Logic

Section IV.—Theory of Definitions

Section V.—Theory of Proof

Section VI.—Theory of Axioms

Section VII.—Theory of Induction

Section VIII.—Applications of the Theory of Induction

Section IX.—The Province and Method of Deduction

Section X.—Comparison of the Methods of Induction and Deduction

Section XI.—Limits of Our Knowledge

Part II.—Abstraction

Section I.—Agreement of this Philosophy with the English Mind

Section II.—The Nature of Abstraction

Section III.—Definitions Explain the Abstract Generating Elements of Things

Section IV.—The Basis of Proof in Syllogism is an Abstract Law

Section V.—Axioms are Relations between Abstract Truths

Section VI.—The Methods of Induction

Section VII.—Experience and Abstraction

Section VIII.—Idea and Limits of Metaphysics

Section IX.—A Morning in Oxford

CHAPTER SIXTH

POETRY—TENNYSON

Section I.—His Talent and Work

Section II.—Portraits of Women

Section III.—Wherein Tennyson is at One with Nature

Section IV.—In Memoriam.—The Princess

Section V.—The Idylls of the King

Section VI.—Comparison of English and French Society

INDEX