Introduction.--Richardson's novels and their influence.--Thackeray on the eighteenth-century humourist as hero.--Wordsworth's patriotic poems and their significance to-day.--Edmund Kean in his heroic parts.--Robert Browning's Paracelsus, 1835-1935.--Elizabeth Barrett Browing: In her verse and her prose.--Arthur Henry Hallam and In memorium.--Tennyson and the Arthurian legend.--Matthew Arnold in his lyric verse.--Sir Arthur Pinero: dramatist and stage-chronicler.--Index.
