1. The French literary reaction. Chateaubriand 440
2. Predominance of freethought in later belles lettres 441
3. Béranger. De Musset. Victor Hugo. Leconte de Lisle. The
critics. The reactionists 442
4. Poetry in England. Shelley. Coleridge. The romantic
movement. Scott. Byron. Keats 443
5. Charles Lamb 445
6. Carlyle. Mill. Froude 447
7. Orthodoxy and conformity. Bain's view of Carlyle,
Macaulay, and Lyell 448
8. The literary influence. Ruskin. Arnold. Intellectual
preponderance of rationalism 450
9. English fiction from Miss Edgeworth to the present
time 451
10. Richard Jefferies 452
11. Poetry since Shelley 452
12. American belles lettres 453
13. Leopardi. Carducci. Kleist. Heine 454
14. Russian belles lettres 456
15. The Scandinavian States 457