De Quitory, Thomas, sketch of 459-
472 a characteristics. 459: oud
fam y 459 birth and parentage 50-
childhood, 450, love of so nude, 461;
under the influence of his brocher
461; at school, 462 classic attain-
ments. 423; vist to Ireland 453 at
Lady Carbery's, 464; runs away, 454;
at Oxford, 455; opium fiend, 456; in
the Lake District 456. "Confessions "
457; article on Goethe 467; Canye's
etching, 48, Waladmor, 468:
"Murder as a Fine Art. 459; in
Edinburgh, 459; style, 470: Interature
A knowledge and of power, 471; his
digressions, 471; preeminently intel-
lectual, 472; death 472.
Dickens, Charles, sketch of, 535-551:

parentage, 535: autobiographic ele-
ments in "David Copperfield," 535;
early reading, 536; in blacking ware-
house, 537; at school, 538; in solici
tor's office, 538; as a reporter, 539;
"Sketches by Boz," 540; "Pickwick,"
540; Cariyle's etching. 541; marriage,
542; "Oliver Twist," 542; Nicholas
Nickleby," 543; method of work, 543; ·
* Old Curiosity Shop," 544; “Barnaby
Rudge," 544: travels, 545; "Martin
Chuzzlewit," 545; "Christmas Carol," *
546; in Italy, 545;" Dombey and Son," ·
547; theatrical company, 547; "David
Copperfield," 548; other novels, 548; as
a reader, 549; death, 549; critique, 550.
Disraeli, Benjamin, Eari of Beaconsfield,
473.

Dobson, Henry Austin, 474.
Drama, opposed by ancient church, 97;
origin of modern, 98; miracle plays,
98; moralities, 98; interludes, 99; first
comedy, 99; first tragedy, 99; theatres,
99; technique of, 151, 152; decline of,
under Puritan rule, 160.

Edgeworth Mana, 368, 376.
Education followed Christianity 16, 17.
Edwin calls a council, ro
Element, personal in literature. 4
Elot, George, sketch of 552-567:
psychologic realist, 552; birth and
parentage, 352; fond of reading. 553:
domestic training 553 as a linguist,
554; temperament 554, sceptical, 555:
Myers quoted, 35; translates "Leben
Jesu," 556: on the Continent, 556;
editor of Westminster Revice, 557:
relations with Lewes, 557; realistic
principles, 558; "Amos Barton," 558;
critique, 559; happy life, sso: "Adam
Bede," 560; "Mill on the Floss," 561;
in Florence, 561; Silas Marner,"
561;"Romola," 562; receptions, 563:
"Spanish Gypsy," 564; other poems,
564; Middlemarch" and "Daniel
Deronda," 565; education of women,
565; marriage to Cross, 506; death,
566; power and purpose, 566.
Elizabeth, Queen, ascends throne, 74:
difficulties and dangers, 75: character,
75; growth of Protestantism, 75, 76;
condition of country, 76, 77: English
character, 77; patron of drama, 139.
England, people composite, 11; meaning,
13; in fourteenth century, 35, 36; ac-
cession of Elizabeth, 74, 76; and Scot-
land united, 202; influence abroad, 202;
social condition, 203; material and

intellectual progress, 277; morals and
religion, 278; a world-power, 278; in
Age of Scott, 371; in Victorian Age,
477-483.

312; "She Stoops to Conquer," 313;
death, 313; Thackeray's estimate, 314.
Gower, John, 31; sketch of, 47, 48.
Gray, Thomas, 273.

Evelyn, John, 195, 206.

Farquhar, George, 196.

Fiction, in Victorian Age, 484.
Fielding, Henry, 196, 209.

First Creative Period, 69; revival of
learning, 70, 71; literary activity, 84, 96.
First Critical Period, 197.
Fletcher, John, 68, 101.
Freeman, quoted, 40, 475.
French influence at Restoration, 198.
Froude, James A., 475.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 39, 41.
Gibbon, Edward, sketch of, 315-331;
rank as historian, 315; " Autobiog-
raphy," 315; ancestry, 316; birth, 316;
at school, 317; love of history, 318;
criticism of Oxford, 318; becomes a
Roman Catholic, 319; sent to Lau-
sanne, 319; ardor in study, 320; re-
nounces Romanism, 320; and Voltaire,
321; love affair, 321; in London, 322;
his library, 322; "L'Etude de la Lit-
térature," 323; captain of militia, 323;
finds historical subject, 324; in Paris,
324; visits Italy, 325; idleness, 325:
begins "Decline and Fall," 326; in
Parliament, 3256; retires to Lausanne,
327; concludes "Decline and Fall,"
327; writes "Autobiography," 328;
death, 329: his character, 329, 330;
critique, 330; style, 331.
Gleeman, 21, 22.

Goldsmith, Oliver, sketch of, 302-314;
characteristics, 302; Garrick's epitaph,
302; birth and parentage, 303; as a
student, 304; at the university, 305;
anecdote, 305; objection to clerical
profession, 306; starts to America, 306;
studies medicine, 307; travels on Con-
tinent, 307; in London, 308; circle of
acquaintances, 309; thriftless, 309;
"Vicar of Wakefield," 310; "Travel-
ler," 310; "Good-Natured Man," 311;
hack-work, 312; "Deserted Village,"

vival, 37; on Puritanism, 160, 475.
Green, Robert, 68, 99.

Gregory, Pope, anecdote of, 15.
Grote, George, 475.

Hallam, Henry, quoted on "Faery
Queene," 109; on Bacon, 134, 367;
various writings, 375.

Hamilton, Sir William, 476.

Hazlitt, William, 367, 374.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, 368.
Herbert, George, 153.

Herrick, Robert, 153; quoted, 164.
History, in Age of Johnson, 281; in
Victorian Age, 484.
Hobbes, Thomas, 195.
Hood, Thomas, 368.

Hooker, Richard, 67; sketch of, 90-92.
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 67;
sketch of, 81-83.

Hudson, Henry, quoted on Shakespeare,
141.

Hume, David, 273, 281-283; "History
of England," 282.
Hunt, Leigh, 367.

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 476.
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 153,
161.

Independents, character of, 158.
Indo-European group of languages, 20.
Inventions, 71, 72; of Victorian Age,
478.

Italy, influence on English literature,
39, 81, 83.

Jeffrey, Francis, 367, 374; on Byron, 400;
on Wordsworth, 422.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, quoted, 163;

sketch of, 288-301; intimate knowl-
edge of, 288; peculiarities, 288; in
conversation, 289; on friendship, 289;
his prejudices, 290; birth and educa-
tion, 290; marriage, 291; trials in
London, 291; as a reporter, 292;
"London," 292; "Dictionary," 293;

426.

Landor, Walter Savage, 369.

Lang, Andrew, 474.

Langland, 31; "Piers the Plowman,"
46; Marsh on, 47.
Latitudinarians, 200.
Layamon's "Brut," 31, 41.
Lecky, W. E. H., 475-

Literature, in largest sense, 1; English
literature, 2; influences determining, 2;
literature in narrower sense, 4; classic
literature, 5; as a social force, 5; liter-
ary taste, 6; periods of English, 6.
Locke, John, 195, 206.

Lockhart, John Gibson, 367, 375.

Louis XIV. and literature, 198.

of, 167-180; greatness of, 167; paren-
tage, 167; educational reformer, 168;
declines to take orders, 169; at Horton,
169; "Comus," "L'Allegro," "Il Pen-
seroso," 169, 170; "Lycidas," 170; his
travels, 171; premonitions of fame,
172; private school, 172; various con-
troversial writings, 173; marriage, 174;
"Doctrine of Divorce," 174; recon-
ciliation, 174; 'Areopagitica," and
"Tractate on Education," 175; on
language study, 176; Cromwell's sec-
retary, 177; "Defensio," 177; blind-
ness, 178;
"Paradise Lost," 179;
"Paradise Regained," and "Samson
Agonistes," 180; death, character, 180.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, quoted,
170; sketch of, 488-503; popularity,
488; birth and parentage, 489; childish
precocity, 489; at Cambridge, 489,
490; earliest publications, 490; "Essay
on Milton," 491; great as a man, 491;
in Parliament, 492; in India, 492;
learns German, 493; visits Italy, 493,
494; Secretary of War, 494; "Essays,"
495; style, 495; a partisan, 496; ex-
tracts, 497; Lays of Ancient Rome,"
499; as a historian, 500; theory of his-
tory, 501; "History of England," 501;
last years, 502.

"

Mitford, William, 375.

Moore, Thomas, 368, 380-382.
Moralities, 98.
More, Hannah, 368.
More, Sir Thomas, 67, 80.
Morris, William, 474.

Newspapers, rise of, 277.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 195.
Normans, 33; character, 34; coalesce
with Anglo-Saxons, 35.

Oratory, in Age of Johnson, 279.
Ormin, his "Ormulum," 45, 46.

Paris, Matthew, 31.
Pepys, Samuel, 195, 206.

Percy, Thomas, 274; "Reliques," 285.

"Piers the Plowman," Langland's, 46, 47.
Poetry, first literature of a people, 21;
Anglo-Saxon, 22; change of tone, 286;
nature in, 286, 287; in Victorian Age,
486.

Pope, Alexander, influenced by France,
199; extract from "Rape of the Lock,"
203; sketch of, 240-257; character and
genius,, 240; childhood, 240; reading,
241; precocity, 241; and Dryden, 242;
and Trumbull, 242; and Walsh, 242;
Wycherly, 243; "Essay on Criticism,"
243-245; and Dennis, 245; "Rape of
the Lock," 246; "Iliad," 247; "Odys-
sey," 248; quarrel with Addison, 248,
249; at Twickenham, 249; filial affec-
tion, 250; "Dunciad," 250-252;
Thackeray's critique, 252; Essay on
Man," 252-254; death, 255; character-
istics, 255-257; as a poet, 257; Lowell's
estimate, 257.

Porter, Jane, 368, 376.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 474.
Royalists, 157.

Ruskin, John, sketch of, 656-670; varied
spheres, 656; and Carlyle, 656; birth
and parentage, 657; childhood, 658;
thirst of authorship, 659; interest in
art, 659; love of mountains, 660; wor-
shipper of nature, 660; at Oxford, 661;
"Poetry of Architecture," 662; "Mod-
ern Painters," 663; manner of writing,
664; marriage, 664; "Seven Lamps,"
664; "Pre-Raphaelitism," 665; "Stones
of Venice," 665; popular lectures, 666;
"Unto this Last," 666; "Sesame and
Lilies," 667; "Crown of Wild Olives,"
667; "Time and Tide," 667; educa-
tional reformer, 668; Professor of Fine
Arts at Oxford, 668; at Brantwood,
669; as a critic, 669; eccentricity, 669;
rank, 670.

Sackville, Thomas, Earl of Dorset, 67, 97.
Schools, cathedral and monastic, 37.

treme, 197.

Quarles, Francis, 153; quoted, 164.
Queen Anne, ascends throne, 201.

Race, influence of, on literature, 2, 3.
Radcliffe, Ann, 367, 376.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 67; sketch of, 92-
96, 107.

Raumer, quoted on Bacon, 134.
Reade, Charles, 473.

Realism, 485.

Reformation, the, 72, 73.
Religion and literature, 44, 159, 160.
Restoration, the, moral effects, 198;
and science, 199; Green on, 200.
Revival of learning, 70, 71.
Revolution, the, 200, 202; French, 373.
Richardson, Samuel, 196, 208.
Robert of Gloucester, "Rhyming Chroni-
cles," 31, 43.

Robertson, William, 273, 283, 284.
Robin Hood, 70; ballads, 40, 70.
Rogers, Samuel, 369.

prominence, 383; ancestry, 383; child-
hood, 384; at the university, 385; as
a lawyer, 385; early romance, 386;
marriage, 387; "Minstrelsy of the
Scottish Border," 387; Carlyle on, 387;
"Lay of the Last Minstrel,"
"Mar-
mion," "Lady of the Lake," 388, 389;
method of work, 390; Abbotsford, 390;
as host, 390; tree-planting, 391; pub-
lishing house, 391; "Waverley," 392;
other romances, 392; romanticist, 393;
wrote rapidly, 393; character of Wa-
verley novels, 394; style, 394; effort to
meet obligations, 395; last days, 396.
Shakespeare, William, sketch of, 136–
150; preeminence, 136; meagre de-
tails, 136; parentage, 137; education,
137; marriage, 137; in London, 138;
as actor, 138; "Venus and Adonis,"
139; Spenser's tribute, 139; growing
wealth, 139; social life, 139, 140; Jon-
son's tribute, 140; dissatisfied with
actor's life, 140; retires to Stratford,
141; death, 141; Hudson's estimate,