Browning--Other Poets 428


CHAPTER XXXIX.

THE LATER HISTORIANS.

New Materials--George Grote--History of Greece--Lord Macaulay--History
of England--Its Faults--Thomas Carlyle--Life of Frederick II.--Other
Historians 439


CHAPTER XL.

THE LATER NOVELISTS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS.

Bulwer--Changes in Writers--Dickens's Novels--American Notes--His
Varied Powers--Second Visit to America--Thackeray--Vanity Fair--Henry
Esmond--The Newcomes--The Georges--Estimate of his Powers 450


CHAPTER XLI.

THE LATER WRITERS.

Charles Lamb--Thomas Hood--Thomas de Quincey--Other Novelists--Writers
on Science and Philosophy 466


CHAPTER XLII.