Part 17

Browning Robert, 92, 155, 179, 180; "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," 48; lack of melody, 236; obscure in allusions, 106; "Prospice," 13; quoted, 244; "The Ring and the Book," 180.

Bunyan, John, "Pilgrim's Progress," 129.

Burke, Edmund, quoted, 229.

Burns, quoted, 234.

Byron, Lord, 11, 12; quoted, 104.

Cable, G. W., 211.

Carleton, Will, "Farm Ballads," 223.

Carlyle, Thomas, 42; quoted, 244.

Carroll, Lewis, quoted, 236.

Cervantes, 133, 140, 143; "Don Quixote," 129, 189.

Character, 56.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 78, 116, 123, 124, 140, 142, 146; as a classic, 151-152; Lowell on, 114; quoted, 114.

Children, education of, 193-196, 223; reading of, 195-198.

Civilization, 204.

Classic, defined, 127.

Classics, 176, 177; cause of the neglect of, 132-134; test of, 130.

"Clerk Saunders," 222.

Coleridge, S. T., 54, 66; "Hymn Before Sunrise," etc., 75; quoted, 145, 237, 247.

Collins, William, 66.

Comprehension, 74.

Conventions, 88-92.

Cowper, William, quoted, 79.

Crawford, F. M., 211.

Critics, use of, 70.

Dante, 58, 78, 140, 142, 146; as a classic, 150-151.

Darwin, Charles, 55.

D'Aulnoy, Countess, 196.

D'Aurevilly, Barbey, 169.

Defoe, 66; "Robinson Crusoe," 197.

De Gasparin, Madame, "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons," 48.

De Maupassant, Guy, 182.

Dekker, Thomas, quoted, 115.

Dickens, Charles, 179, 180, 189; his metrical prose, 233.

Doyle, A. Conan, 211; quoted, 134.

Dryden, John, 66, 146; quoted, 152.

"Duchess," The, 13, 185.

Dumas, A., _père_, 182, 189; "D'Artagnan Romances," 27, 92.

Edgeworth, Maria, 201.

Education, use of poetry in, 223.

Eliot, George, 180, 187, 189.

Emerson, R. W., 179, 180; on translations, 148; quoted, 43, 47, 103, 225, 241.

Emotion, 241-245; fashion in, 15; genuine, 68; tests of genuineness of, 10-20.

Etiquette, 204.

Euripides, 149.

Experience the test of art, 10.

Fairy stories, 196-197.

Fiction, truth in, 188.

Fielding, Henry, 66.

Folk-lore, 223.

Folk-songs, 137-139, 221-222.

French authors, 170.

Fuller, Margaret, 86.

Genius, 20, 250.

Gibbon, Edward, quoted, 74.

Gladstone, W. E., 168.

Goethe, quoted, 36, 178.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 66.

Gower, John, 116.

Gray, Thomas, quoted, 103.

Greek literature, 149, 150.

Greek sculpture, 150.

Greek tragedians, 143, 148.

Greeks, sanity of the, 148.

Grimm, The Brothers, 194, 196.

Haggard, Rider, "She," 26.

Hannay, James, quoted, 57.

Hardy, Thomas, "Far from the Madding Crowd," 181; "The Return of the Native," 181, 208; "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," 181; "Under the Greenwood Tree," 181.

Harris, J. C., "Uncle Remus," 197.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 179, 180, 189; Arthur Dimmesdale, 201; "The Marble Faun," 92; quoted, 83; "The Scarlet Letter," 2, 13, 201, 208, 214; "Tanglewood Tales," 197; "The Wonder-Book," 197.

Hazlitt, William, quoted, 113.

"Helen of Kirconnell," 13, 138.

Homer, 58, 78, 123, 131, 140, 142, 146, 151; as a classic, 147-150.

Hope, Anthony, 211.

Hugo, Victor, 189; "Les Misérables," 92, 208.

Hunt, Leigh, quoted, 84.

Hunt, W. M., quoted, 62.

Ibsen, 172, 173, 177; "The Doll's House," 18; "Ghosts," 173.

Imagination, 93, 246-248, 253; and thought, 251; creative, 111; the realizing faculty, 19; reality of, 54.

Imaginative language, defined, 230-231.

Imaginative quality, test of, 93.

Impressionism, 69.

Interest, temporary and permanent, 127-129.

Irreverence, 87.

Isaiah, 146, 150.

James, Henry, quoted, 203.

Jewett, Sarah O., Miss, 211.

Job, 146, 230.

Johnson, Samuel, quoted, 84.

Jonson, Ben, quoted, 83.

Judd, Sylvester, "Margaret," 30.

Keats, John, 54, 92, 112; letters to Miss Brawne, 62; "Ode on a Grecian Urn," 17; quoted, 94, 102, 249.

Kingsley, Charles, 189.

Kipling, Rudyard, 182; "Jungle Books," 197, 213.

Laboulaye, Édouard, 196.

Lamb, Charles, 133; quoted, 196.

Language, imaginative, defined, 230-231.

Lear, Edward, 235.

Lessing, "Nathan the Wise," 48.

Lincoln, Abraham, "Gettysburg Address," 112.

Literature, books about, 65-68; convincing, 14; defined, 1-32; didactic, 201; early, 136; eighteenth century, 65, 66; gossip about, 62-65; history of, 65; juvenile, 193-195; morbid, 20, 177, 178; office of, 46-59; relative rank, 31; study of, defined, 33-44, 60-68; study of, difficult, 72; talk about, 40-43; a unit, 154; _vs._ science, 55.

"Littell's Living Age," 39.

Longfellow, H. W., 181.

Lowell, J. R., 67; quoted, 78, 102, 114, 173, 216.

Macaulay, T. B., 220; quoted, 207.

Maclaren, Ian, 211, 213.

Maeterlinck, 172.

Magazines, 163-166.

Malory, Thomas, "Morte d'Arthur," 196.

Marcus Aurelius, "Reflections," 7.

Marlowe, Christopher, "The Jew of Malta," 76.

Melody, 235-240.

Meredith, George, "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," 92, 181, 208.

Metre, 227-230.

Milton, John, 108, 140, 143; "L'Allegro," 106; "Il Penseroso," 107; "Lycidas," 77; "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," 100; quoted, 63, 113, 163.

Modernity, 169.

Molière, 140, 143.

Montaigne, 133, 140, 143.

Morbidity, 140.

Morley, John, 67.

"Mother Goose," 96, 221.

Mulock, D. M., 189.

Music, barbaric, 90; Chinese, 90.

Musset, A. de, "Mlle. de Maupin," 177.

Newspapers, 162, 163.

Nordau, Max, "Degeneration," 170; quoted, 171.

Notes, use of, 84, 109.

Notoriety, 128, 172.

Novels, realistic, 209; _vs._ poetry, 245; with a theory, 167.

Novelty, 134.

"Old Oaken Bucket," The, 17.

Originality, 170.

Ouida, 17, 41.

Page, T. N., 211.

Pater, Walter, "Marius the Epicurean," 25.

Periodicals, 162-166.

Petrarch, 143.

Philology not the study of literature, 79.

Plato, quoted, 234.

Plutarch, letter to his wife, 50.

Poe, E. A., "Lygeia," 22; quoted, 104, 105, 237, 249; Tales, 21.

Poetry, defined, 227; form is essential, 236, 239; how different from prose, 231, 232; office in education, 223; office of, 245-252; optimism of, 248-250; origin, 5; reading of, 244; _vs._ novels, 245.

Pope, Alexander, 66.

Prose, how different from poetry, 231-232; language of, 231.

Public guided by the few, 10.

Quincy, Josiah, 50.

Rabelais, 133, 140.

Reade, Charles, 189.

Reading, first, 85; for amusement, 210; measure of character, 159; serious matter, 87; should be a pleasure, 71-73; test of, 86; works as units, 81.

Realism, 69, 209.

Reverence, 87.

Rhythm, 220, 221, 227-229.

Richardson, Samuel, 66.

Rossetti, D. G., 181; "Sister Helen," 119, 120.

Rousseau, "Confessions," 7.

Ruskin, John, quoted, 95.

Russell, W. Clark, 13, 211.

Sanity, 140, 174.

Schopenhauer, quoted, 63, 227.

Science _vs._ art, 32.

Science _vs._ literature, case of Darwin, 55.

Scott, Sir Walter, 189.

Sculpture, Aztec, 89; Greek, 89.

Sensationalism, 26.

Sentiment, 16, 157; defined, 15.

Sentimentality, 16, 139, 157; defined, 15.

Shakespeare, William, 3, 35, 41, 53, 58, 65, 77, 86, 92, 93, 107, 118, 124, 133, 140, 143, 145, 147, 173, 214, 216; as a classic, 152-153; condensation of, 93; "Cymbeline," 75; epithets of, 112, 231; for children, 197; "Hamlet," 81, 215; "King Lear," 81; "The Merchant of Venice," 115-118; "Othello," 81; quoted, 102, 104, 113, 114, 115, 229, 231, 239; "Sonnets," 8, 239.

Shelley, P. B., 92, 131; quoted, 254; "Stanzas Written in Dejection," etc., 17.

Shorthouse, J. H., "John Inglesant," 29.

Sienkiewicz, 182; "The Deluge," 92.

Sincerity, 12-15.

Smile, sardonic, 95.

Sophocles, 149.

Spenser, Edmund, 123, 124, 143, 197.

Standards, 141; of criticism, 161.

Steele, Sir Richard, 66.

Stephen, Leslie, 67.

Stevenson, R. L., 181; "Kidnapped," 197; quoted, 57; "Treasure Island," 27, 197.

Stockton, Frank, "The Adventures of Captain Horn," 27.

Story, happy ending of a, 215; the short, 211-214.

Stowe, Mrs. H. B., on Byron, 62.

Suckling, Sir John, quoted, 106.

Suggestion, 111-114, 118-120, 230, 235.

Suttner, Baroness von, 161.

Swift, Jonathan, 66; "Gulliver's Travels," 197.

Swinburne, A. C., 181; "Atalanta in Calydon," 228; excess of melody, 236.

Symbolism, 69.

Sympathy between reader and author, 82.

Talleyrand, quoted, 38.

Tasso, 143.

Taste a measure of character, 3.

Technical excellence, 25.

Tennyson, Alfred, 92, 155, 179, 180, 232; "Idylls of the King," 180; "In Memoriam," 7, 50; quoted, 101, 249.

Thackeray, W. M., 42, 179, 180, 189; Beatrix Esmond, 92; Colonel Newcome, 13; "Henry Esmond," 208; Major Pendennis, 201; "Pendennis," 200.

Titian, 42-43.

Tolstoi, 172, 177; "The Kreutzer Sonata," 20, 214; "War and Peace," 29.

Traill, H. D., quoted, 190.

Translations, use of, 147, 148.

Trollope, Anthony, 180, 189.

Tupper, M. F., 3.

Turgenieff, 182.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 160.

Vedas, The, 145.

Verlaine, 22.

"Waly, waly," 138.

Wendell, Barrett, quoted, 42.

Weyman, S. J., 211.

Whittier, J. G., 181.

Wilkins, Miss M. E., 211, 213.

Wordsworth, William, 54, 66; "The Daffodils," 17; quoted, 108, 225, 238, 239, 241, 243; "To Lucy," 13.

Zend-Avesta, The, 145.

Zola, 172, 173, 177; "L'Assommoir," 173.

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