Caine, Hall, 515.
Caliban and Ariel, Coleridge's crit-
icism upon the characters of,
107.
Calvinism, and Cowper, 40, 41; of
the Evangelicals, 185; a trans-
lation of Stoicism into terms of
Christianity, 187; had been es-
sentially rationalistic, 343; dealt
with the race, 343; and George
Macdonald, 515-517.
Camera, may prove untruthful, 498.
Campbell, J. Dykes, on Coleridge,
80.

Carlyle, Thomas, his remark upon
Byron's death, 106; and Job,
199; on his father, 200; Swin-
burne on, 200; was selfish, 201;
on Keats, 201; self-conceited,
202; had little sense of gratitude,
202, 203; laborious, 203; affec-
tionate, 203; his honesty and
courage, 203, 204; hopeless to
try to sum him up, 205; impos-
sible to articulate his faith into a
system or to appraise his religious
influence, 206; intensely relig-
ious, 206; stood in the succession
of the Hebrew prophets, 207;
his vision partial, 207, 208, 211,
212; his few great principles,
208, 209; his teaching contrast-
ed with that of Scripture, 212;
reason for his biography, 213,
214; drew upon recognized forms
of religious experience and ex-
pression in the voicing of his mes-
sage, 214; his message summa-
rized, 215-217; inspired and in-
fluenced others, 217, 218; Tish-
bite elements in, 219; religion
entered into the substance of his
pre-natal life, 221; much of his
influence due to his evangelical
training, 223; and Ruskin, simi-
larity of their bringing up and
belief, 224, 225; and Mazzini,332,
333; and Tennyson, Tyndall's
comparison of, 375.

Castelar, Emilio, on his tribute to
Byron, 103 n.

Cenci, The, Shelley's, quoted, 117.
Chaldee Manuscript, a clever bit of
irreverence, 148, 149.

Chalmers, Thomas, on Carlyle, 213.
Chambers, Robert, his Vestiges of
Creation, 405.

Chaucer, religious setting of his
Canterbury Tales, 500.
Chesterton, G. K., an entertaining
companion, but an uncertain
guide, 274 n.; on Dickens and
Gissing, 278.

Childhood, the period of greatest
fears and burdens, 423, 424.
Christian Socialism, 337.
Christian Year, 192, 193, 194.
Christianity, capable of develop-
ment, 317; the dogmatism of, ac-
countable in great measure for
religious controversy, 339; the
Unitarians and the orthodox, 339,
340; missionary activity, 340, 341;
the burden of, 373; its essence, to
interpret life's discords in terms
of possible harmony, 465.
Church, the nursing mother of lit-
erature, 25.

Church of England, and Methodism,

163; strain of, runs through Ten-
nyson's life and work, 360; liberal
movement within, 334.
Church History, Milner, 176.
Church Missionary Society, 175.
Circumstance, man's mastery of, 11,
13, 19.

City of Dreadful Night, The, Thom-
son, 474-478.
Clapham, tradition or influence, in
Macaulay family, 181-184; in
Stephen family, 184-187.
Clapham sect, the, 27; use of the
term, 168.
Clapham Evangelicals, their influ-
ence on literature, 175.
Clarke, J. F., cited, 344 n.
Clarkson, Thomas, 168.
Clergy, the training of their homes,
of a sort to foster literature, 25-27.
Claudian, Coleridge on, 83.
Clifford, W. K., 413.
Clough, A. H., under forty when he
wrote of doubt and disillusion,
424; embodies higher traits of
English character, 426; com-
pared with Bunyan, 427, 428;
lent his conscience to excess of
doubt, 428; had a trust in the

veracity and sanity of man's ex-
perience, 429; on doubt and faith,
429, 430; religion a chief source
of his inspiration, 431; compared
with Matthew Arnold, 431, 432.
Cobbe, Frances Power, 413.
Cobbett, William, 328, 329.
Cobden, Richard, 331.
'Cockney School,' 130, 131.
Coleridge, S. T., the contrasts in, 77,

78; his talk, 78; one of the great
intellectual and spiritual forces
of his century, 79, 80; his influ-
ence in the field of poetry, 80;
still lives in works in criticism,
philosophy, and religion, 81; his
religious doctrine, 81; saw the
significance of German learning
for English thought, 81, 82; his
imagination and sympathies
catholic, 82; had genius for in-
sight, 83; felt the connection of
religion and literature, 83; on
Claudian, 83; distinguishes be-
tween poetry and prose, 83; The
Ancient Mariner, 84; reintroduced
atmosphere of wonder and mys-
tery into English verse, 84, 85;
his prose easy to comprehend, 85,
86; on Wordsworth, 86; his two
principles of criticism of Scrip-
ture, 87; had a keen sense for the
organic, 87; his attitude toward
the Bible, 87-89; believed that
investigation would strengthen
religious faith, 90; kept his
hands with neatness, 95; his crit-
icism upon the characters of Cali-
ban and Ariel, 107.
Comedy and tragedy, the great poet
sees both, 106.
Comparison, demon of, in criticism,
272; impossible where definition
is impossible, 273.

Conservatism, represented by the
Quarterly, 130; by Blackwood's,
131; true, consists in fostering vi-
tality, 136.

Conservatives, Liberals of early nine-
teenth century the true, 134; ul-
tra, their weakness lies in cyni-
cism and selfishness, 137.
Contrast, tendency of critics to in-
dulge in, 350, 351.

Conway, Moncure, on Browning,
364 n.

Cooper, J. F., 258-260.
Cooper, Thomas, 329, 330.
Corelli, Marie, 514.

Cosmos, religion based upon faith
in, 9.

Cowper, William, his life, in out-
ward seeming, monotonous, but,
in reality, adventurous, 34-36;
his madness in the first place not
related to religion, 36; his letters,
37; why he took to verse, 37, 38;
The Task, 38, 39; quotation on,
39; his theological obsession, 40,
41; religion his blessing, 42; his
Lines to my Mother's Picture, 42;
his hymns, 42, 43; his Voltaire
and the Lace-Worker, 43; his
Hope, 43, 44; the religious ele-
ment in his work, 44-46; the poet
of the English Evangelicals, 45,
49; source of his sense of humour,
46-48; dignified little matters,
48; lines on Anson's sailor, 49,
50.

Crabbe, George, keen of observa-
tion, 50; life's highways fur-
nished him with tragedy and com-
edy, 51; knew the lot of the poor
at first hand, 51-53; his poetry
religious, 53; The Parish Register,
53, 54; a realist, 54; grew grey
in his old age, 95, 96.
Craik, Mrs., 504.
Crauford, A. H., 494.
Criminal code, mitigation of the
severity of, 176.
Criticism, new, of early part of nine-

teenth century, 129; spirit of
comparison in, 272, 273, 350.
Cronwright, Mrs. See Schreiner,
Olive.

Cross, W. L., on Thackeray, 292.

Dante, 22.

Danton, stands for the revolutionary
impulse upon its destructive side,
91, 92.

Darwin, Charles, letter to Romanes
quoted, 402; his early life, 403;
his epoch-making book,' 404;
idea of derived species not origi-
nal with, 405; the magnitude of

100.

Davidson, John, his Ballad in Blank
Verse, 479-481; his A Northern
Suburb, 481; his Thirty Bob a
Week, 483, 484.

Death, Browning on, 349.
Deland, Margaret, 507.
De Morgan, William, 509.
De Quincey, Thomas, set himself
definitely to the defence of current
Christianity, 156; his eminence
and claim upon our memories due
to his mastery of rhetoric, 157;
has recourse to the Bible for the
language of his most splendid pe-
riods, 158; witnesses to the inter-
dependence of literature and re-
ligion, 160.

De Selincourt, Basil, cited, 468.
De Tabley, Lord, 488.
Deuteronomy quoted, 6.
Dickens, Charles, and Leigh Hunt,
153; called an idealist, but quite
as much a realist, 274, 275; the
appeal of religion to, 276; minis-
ters of religion in his works, 276;
unsympathetic toward asceticism,
277; eminently humane, 277;
attitude toward poverty, 277, 278;
his childlikeness, 278; his appeal
to childhood, 279-281; his power
of seizing upon salient features,
281; his lack of restraint in pa-
thos, 281, 282; his essential clean-
ness, 282, 283; his reforming pur-
pose, 283-285; gives added illus-
tration to the fundamentals of
Christ's Gospel, 285, 286; the
character of Dora in Copperfield,
383.

Dobson, Austin, 487.
Domett, Alfred, quoted, 389.

Doubters, 423-440.
Douglas, James, 425.
Duff, David, his translation of
Browning's Sordello, 357.
Du Maurier, George, 508.
Duncan, Norman, 504.
Dynamic of Christianity, The, cited,
31 n., 169 n., 182 n.
Dynasts, The, Hardy, 545, 557.

'Early Christian' Novel, 510, 511.
Early Oriel School, 334.
Edgeworth, Maria, and Jane Aus-
ten, 242, 243; circumstances of
her life, 243, 244; her work
wholesome, 245; her influence on
Scott, 248, 249; quoted on Scott,

252.

Edict of Nantes, 162.
Edinburgh Review, apparent lack of
religious element in, 127; an out-
come of revolutionary impulse,
128; protagonist of forward-look-
ing criticism, 129; organ of the
new Liberalism, 131; early vol-
umes of, moderate tone in, 132;
Sydney Smith on, 140; religious
note struck in A Concise State-
ment of the Question regarding the
Abolition of the Slave Trade pub-
lished in, 140; its aversion to
mysticism, 143.
Eggleston, Edward, 507.
Egoist, The, George Meredith, 537-
539.

Eldon, Lord, Conservative, 135.
Eliot, George, on Cowper's The

Task, 45; the historian of con-
science, 302; the 'serious person'
in fiction begins with, 303; her
humour, 305; her dependence for
material upon the characters and
problems of religion, 305-307;
her appreciation of the worth of
common life and sense of its
pathos and mystery, 308; her dis-
tinctively Christian note, 310; her
'local colour,' 497, 498.
Elizabeth, Adventures in Rügen, on
Wordsworth's Prelude, 62.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 329, 330.
Emerson, R. W., on Hiawatha, 73;

on Carlyle, 212; heir to the Pu-
ritan heritage, 341, 342; was
incurably religious, 343, 344;
Ruskin on, 344 n.; his artificial
multiplication of aphorisms just
tolerable, 534.
England, assimilated the results of
the Revolution, 328.

English language, debtor to religion,
16.

Enoch Arden, Tennyson, 383, 384.
Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography,
Sir James Stephen, 169.
Evangelicals, English, Cowper the
poet of, 45, 49; due to Wesleyan
origin, 163; to an extent carried
on the great Puritan tradition,
164; not lacking in humour, 167,
169; often caricatured, 167;
characterization of, 167-170;
their contribution to English lit-
erature is considerable, 168; al-
leged narrowness of, 173; the
Calvinism of, 185. See Clapham
Sect.

Evangeline, Longfellow, 345, 346.
Evolution, doctrine of, hesitation of
men in presence of, 414-416; not
identical with materialism, 416,

417.

Excursion, The, Wordsworth, 66,
68, 71, 72, 74-77.

Faber, Father, 197.
Factory acts, 176.

Fairbairn, Dr. A. M., cited, 370 n.
Faith, humour linked to, 47, 240,
556; of its essence to be con-
structive, 330; literature's debt
to, 487-494; in Phillpotts's
works, 555.
Family, development of the, 19.
Farrar, Dean, 504.

Festus," Bailey, 425, 426.
Fiction, compared with history,
237; range of, wider than that
of any critical school or sect,
238; when honest, bears its mes-
sage, 238; becomes a craft and
faces the danger of schools,'
303, 497; local colour' in, 497-
499; writers of, bound to take ac-
count of religion, 500; recent,
501, 502; religious, 502-504; the

'Early Christian' Novel, 510,
511; theological, 515-524; of
the social problem,' 524-532.
Fifine at the Fair, Browning, 363.
Fiske, John, 419, 420.
FitzGerald, Edward, 455-459.
FitzRoy, Captain, of the Beagle,
403.

Foreign Bible Society, 133.
Fox, W. J., 364.

Framley Parsonage, Trollope, 299,
302.

Freeman, Mrs. See Wilkins, Mary
E.

Free-will, doctrine of, 12.
Froude, Hurrell, 193.
Froude, James Anthony, 204, 440,
441.

Fuller, Margaret, 2.

Galton, Francis, his studies about
men of genius, 25.
Gaskell, Mrs., Cranford and Mary
Barton, 295; religious element
in, 331.

Genesis, quoted, 11; mentioned, 17.
Genius, men of, not to be judged
by a special rule, 112, 113.
German language, its obligation to
religion, 16.

Gifford, Wm., a narrow nature, 146.
Gilder, R. W., 492.

Gisborne, Thomas, 173.
Gissing, George, 278; Chesterton
on, 278; The Nether World,
526-531; a great master of tra-
gedy, 530; the ethical and spirit-
ual note in his work, 531, 532.
Gladstone, W. E., Gleanings, cited,
143 n.

God, the name given by Man to the
Vital Force that dwells at the
source of things, 10; the object
of search of religion, 11; idea
of, refined and enlarged by sci-
ence, 420, 421.
Godwin, Mary, 314.
Godwin, William, 313-315.
Godwin, William, Jr., 314.
Goethe, J. W. von, mentioned, 21;
his faith in daemonic influence,
93; on his tribute to Byron, 103 n.
Goldsmith, Oliver, 31.
Gordon, C. W., 504.

Gosse,

Edmund, on

Arnold, 433.

Gothic Scriptures, 16.

Grant, Anne, on Cowper, 48.
Gray, Asa, 419.

Gray, Maxwell, 508.

Greek polytheism, 66–68.

Hellas, Shelley's chorus from, 125.
Henderson, Mrs. M. S., cited, 468 n.
Henley, W. E., quoted, 458, 459;
his defiant attitude toward Fate,
485, 486; his bumptiousness of
self-assertion, 516.

1 n.

Greene, G. A., 487.

Grote, George, 321, 322 n.
Grotesque, the, worshippers of, Poe
the high-priest of, 261; smacks
of humour or of horror, 264, 265;
of terror, grimness which verges
upon, in works of Charlotte and
Emily Brontë, 267.

Hampden, R. D., 334.
Hardy, Thomas, his later novels
lacking in humour, 47, 549, 557;
identifies nature with the lot of
man, 545; his Spirits, 545, 546;
The Dynasts, 545, 557; the at-
mosphere of his scenes, 546-548;
has outgrown his crudities, but
has become more pessimistic, 548,
549; his use of rustic choruses
and his humour have decreased,
549, 557; The Return of the
Native and The Woodlanders re-
present his most characteristic
work, 550, 551; Tess and Jude,
551, 552; compared with Phill-
potts, 552; his introduction of a
malevolent chance, 553; religion
in, 556.

Harraden, Beatrice, 520.
Harte, Bret, 507.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, his work not
unreal, 269; mystery an essential
element in his work, 269; takes
little heed of stage properties,
270; teaches that true life is to
be expressed in terms of the
spirit, 271; heir to the Puritan
heritage, 341, 342.
Hay, John, 524.

Hazlitt, Wm., on the French Revo-
lution, 129; marked by more un-
lovely Unitarian characteristics,
150; had a measure of truly dis-
cerning liberality, 151; had a
mordant, atrabilious temper, 152.

403.

Hiawatha, Longfellow, 345, 346.
Historians, must interpret as well as
depict, 496.

History, compared with the novel,
237.

Holland, J. G., 503.

Holmes, O. W., heir to the Puritan
heritage, 341, 342.

House of Eld, The, Stevenson, 540–
542.

Howells, W. D., on Scott, 251; as a

depicter of New England life, 505.
Humour, and melancholy, associa-
tion between, 46; in Hardy, 47,
549, 557; linked to faith, 47, 240,
556; not lacking in the Puritan
character, 164-167; a quick sense
of life's lesser incongruities, 239;
man of, sometimes depressed, 241;
a comprehensive term, 241; minis-
ters to faith and becomes an ally of
religion,242; in George Eliot, 305.
Hunger, a theme of religion and
literature, 19.

Hunt, Leigh, a radical, 152; illus-

trates that grace which suffereth
long and is kind, 153.
Hutchinson, Colonel, no morose sti-
fler of mirth, 165.
Hutton, R. H., cited, 94 n., 241 n.;
on Clough, 426.
Huxley, T. H., his prominence and
influence partly due to fact that
he became a theologian, 24, 25;
quoted, 409, 413, 416, 417; a
theological controversialist of the
keenest type, 413, 414; on doc-
trine of Evolution, 416, 417; dis-
claimed materialism, 418.

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Shel-
ley's, quoted, 120, 121.
Hypatia, Kingsley, 298.

Idealism, influence upon literature,
341.