THE PREFACE THE last three volumes of this History will deal with the literature of the nineteenth century as a whole, it being understood that living authors do not fall within the scope of our work. Though the present volume is published in advance of volumes XIII and XIV, it is not to be regarded as in any other respect separated from them. In the case of chapters treating of subjects more or less outside the range of what is usually included in a history of literature, we have endeavoured, in gathering up several threads, to complete the subject in so far as it could be completed in a single chapter, without observing what might be deemed to be the chronological limits of the particular volume-for example, in the present volume, the Oxford movement, the growth of liberal theology and the sections devoted to scholarship of various kinds. On the other hand, we have not scrupled to assign distinct portions of the same general subject -ancient and modern history, for instance-to different volumes. We hope to publish volumes XIII and XIV together, with as little delay as possible; but, under existing circumstances, we cannot bind ourselves to a definite date. In more ways than one, the war has delayed the appearance of the present volume. The University Press has been working under great difficulties, caused by the part taken by a very large proportion of its members in the service of the country. We have been deprived of the cooperation of Mr H. V. Routh; two chapters which he had kindly undertaken to write for the last volumes have had to be placed in other hands, in consequence of his absence at the front. With the exception of a few bibliographies in the present volume, we have been obliged to forgo the careful services of Mr A. T. Bartholomew, considerations of health compelling him to limit his labours. The History and several contributors to it have been much indebted to his assistance in the past. Mr G. A. Brown's help has been as valuable as usual, and we hope he may be able to continue it to the end of the work. We owe many thanks to Professor J. G. Robertson, of the University of London, for kindly looking over some bibliographies in the present volume more particularly concerned with the productions of continental literatures; to Canon S. L. Ollard, for the bibliography of the chapter on the Oxford movement; and to Mr Stephen Wheeler for generous help in the Landor bibliography. Our last two volumes will contain chapters on education, scientific writers, daily, weekly and university journalism and changes in the language, besides an account of Irish, and short summaries of Anglo-Indian, Canadian, Australian and South African, literature, in addition to sections on later nineteenth century writers. 2 August 1915 A. W. W. A. R. W. CONTENTS The Scottish literary revival of the eighteenth century. Scott's relations with the past. His early years. His German studies. Ballad poetry. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Marmion. The Lady of the Lake. Rokeby. Scott's lyrics. Scott and Byron. Border Antiquities. The Waverley Novels. Scenic arrangement. The sweep and compass of his narrative. The characters in his novels. His treatment of By F. W. MOORMAN, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Strassburg), Assist- ant Professor of English Language and Literature in Early years. Departure from England. Life at Venice and Ravenna. The Liberal. Life at Pisa and Genoa. Death at Mesolonghi. Hours of Idleness. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. ROGERS, CAMPBELL, Moore anND OTHERS By GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A., Merton College, Oxford, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., sometime Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh Rogers. Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope. Moore. Irish Melodies. Lalla Rookh. Hartley Coleridge. Thomas Hood. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies. Winthrop Mackworth Praed. Sir Henry Taylor. Philip van Artevelde. George Darley. Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Death's Jest Book. Charles Jeremiah Wells. Joseph and his Brethren. Richard H. Horne. Charles Whitehead. Thomas Wade. James and Horace Smith. Rejected Addresses. Richard Harris Barham. The Ingoldsby Legends. Poetesses. Joanna Baillie. Mrs Hemans. L.E.L. Sara Coleridge. Henry James Pye. William Sotheby. John Abraham Heraud. Robert Pollok. Robert Montgomery. Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). Thomas Haynes Bayly. Robert Bloomfield. John Clare. John Bampfylde. John Leyden. Robert Stephen Hawker. William Barnes. Bernard Barton. James Montgomery. Ebenezer REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES IN THE EARLY YEARS By the Hon. ARTHUR R. D. ELLIOT, M.A., Trinity College, Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), sometime editor of The Edin- The Edinburgh Review. Jeffrey. Brougham. The Quarterly Re- view. Gifford. Scott. Lockhart. Croker. Blackwood's Magazine. Lockhart. Wilson. Hogg. Maginn. Noctes Ambrosianae. The |