terary character, 433-439

Brougham, Lord, 107, 109

Burke, Edmund, 10 _sqq._

Burns, Robert, 34, 48, 53, 159, 160, 353

Byron, Lord, 3, 131, 132, 393

Canning, George, 75, 97, 200, 385

Carlyle, Thomas, 47, 270-272, 323, 369, 370

Coleridge, S. T., 141

Colvin, Mr. Sidney, 445

Courthope, Mr. W. J., 4

Crabbe, George, 1-32;
the decline of his popularity, 1-5;
sketch of his life, 6-12;
his works and their characteristics, 13-20;
their prosaic element, 20-25;
was he a poet?, 25-32

Cunningham, Allan, 46, 53

Dante, 26, 218, 230, 231

Douglas, Scott, 41, 353

Dryden, John, 22, 30, 85, 232

Fitzgerald, Edward (translator of Omar Khayyam), 4

Flaubert, Gustave, 19

_Fraser's Magazine_, 359, 360

Gifford, William, 3, 21, 152

Hannay, Mr. David, 350

Hazlitt, William, 135-169;
differing estimates of him, 135-140;
his life, 140-146;
his works, 146-169
----xxi, xxii, 4, 24, 25, 130, 131, 217

Hogg, James, 33-66;
his special interest, 33, 34;
his life, 34-37;
anecdotes and estimates of him, 37-47;
his poems, 47-54;
his general prose, 54, 55;
_The Confessions of a Sinner_, 55-64

Hood and Praed, 397-399

Hook, Theodore, 357-359

Howells, Mr. W. D., xvii

Hunt, Leigh, 201-233;
scattered condition of his work, 201-203;
his life, 204-213;
the "Skimpole" matter, 213-216;
his vulgarity, 217-219;
his poems, 219-223;
his critical and miscellaneous work, 223-233

Jeffrey, Francis, 100-134;
a critic pure and simple, 100, 101;
his life, 101-114;
the foundation of the _Edinburgh Review_, 106-109;
his criticism, 115, 134
----3, 4, 21, 24, 29

Johnson, Samuel, 2, 11, 14, 16

Joubert, Joseph, 26

Lang, Mr. Andrew, xxii

Lockhart, John Gibson, 339-373, and Appendix B;
his literary fate, 339-341;
his life, 341-346, 359-361;
_The Chaldee MS._ and _Peter's Letters_, 343-345;
the novels, 346-349;
the poems, 349-351;
_Life of Burns_, 353;
_Life of Scott_, 354-356;
_Life of Hook_, 357-359;
his editorship of the _Quarterly_ and his criticism generally, 361-373;
charges against him, 445-448
----3, 6, 13, 33, 37, 39-44, 60, 63, 64, 108, 112, 113, 293, 294

Macaulay, Lord, 294, 384

Maguire, W., 279, 360
[Transcriber's Note: The alternative form of Maguire, Maginn, is used in
the main body of the text.]

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