g--Other
Divines--Maurice--Robertson 342

CHAPTER IX

LATER JOURNALISM AND CRITICISM IN ART AND LETTERS

Changes in Periodicals--The _Saturday Review_--Critics of
the middle of the Century--Helps--Matthew Arnold in
Prose--Mr. Ruskin--Jefferies--Pater--Symonds--Minto 378

CHAPTER X

SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE

Increasing Difficulty of
Selection--Porson--Conington--Munro--Sellar--Robertson
Smith--Davy--Mrs. Somerville--Other Scientific Writers--
Darwin--_Vestiges of Creation_--Hugh Miller--Huxley 404

CHAPTER XI

DRAMA

Weakness of this department throughout--O'Keefe--Joanna
Baillie--Knowles--Bulwer--Planche 417

CHAPTER XII

CONCLUSION

Survey and Analysis of the Period in the several
divisions--Revolutions in Style--The present state of
Literature 425

INDEX 471

CHAPTER I

THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The period of English literary history which is dealt with in the
opening part of the present volume includes, of necessity, among its
most illustrious names, not a few whose work will not be the subject of
formal discussion here, because the major part of it was done within the
scope of the volume which preceded. Thus, to mention only one of these
names, the most splendid displays of Burke's power--the efforts in which
he at last gave to mankind what had previously been too often devoted to
party--date from this time, and even from the later part of it; while
Gibbon did not die till 1794, and Horace Walpole not till 1797. Even
Johnson, the type and dictator at once of the eighteenth century in
literary England, survived the date of 1780 by four years.

Nevertheless the beginning of the ninth decade of the century did
actually correspond with a real change, a real line of demarcation. Not
only did the old writers drop off one by one, not only did no new
writers of utterly distinct idiosyncrasy (Burns and Blake excepted) make
their appearance till quite the end of it, but it was also marked by the
appearance of men of letters and of literary styles which announced, if
not very distinctly, the coming of changes of the most sweeping kind.
Hard as it may be to exhibit the exact contrast between, say, Goldsmith
and men like Cowper on the on