​

Adam's Diary

51

Addison, Joseph

56

Æneid, The

238

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

119

Amicis, Edmondo de

139

Annunzio, Gabriele D'

230

Appreciation of Literature, The (Woodberry)

69

Archer, William

265

Argent Dans La Littérature, L'

15

Arnold, Matthew,

54, 253, 254

Art of Fiction, The (Henry James)

64

Assommoir, L'

108

Austen, Jane

58

Autobiography of Walter Besant

14

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

63, 71, 184

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The

194, 199

Awkward Age, The

65, 66, 88, 138

Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam)

56

Balzac, Honoré de

51, 85, 122, 123, 163, 166, 260

Baudelaire, Charles

218

Belle Hélène, La

107

Benson, A. C.

112

Besant, Sir Walter

14, 40

Bible, The

93

Birrell, Augustine

58

Boccaccio, Giovanni

123

Botticelli, Sandro

68

Bouguereau

33

​

Bouvard et Pécuchet

171

Bride of Abydos, The

154

Browne, Sir Thomas

218

Byron, Lord

153

Camp, Maxime du

57

Captains Courageous

67

Carlyle, Thomas

116, 125, 259

Cavalleria Rusticana

145

Cervantes

56, 121, 123

Charivari

168

Chartreuse de Parme

260

Chevalier de Maison Rouge

101

Childe Harold

55

"College Magazine, A" (Stevenson)

218

Comédie Humaine, La

85, 166, 260

Conrad, Joseph

232

Contes Drolatiques, Les (Balzac)

123

Corsair, The (Byron)

154

Cowper, William

56

Crawford, Francis Marion

93, 195

Curiosities of Literature (Disraeli)

153

Dante

125

Daudet, Alphonse

86, 100, 140, 231, 238

David Copperfield

68

Davidson, A. E.

101

Decameron, The

68

De Coverley Papers, The

119

Defoe, Daniel

218

De Quincey, Thomas

223, 233

Dickens, Charles

33, 60, 69, 97, 104, 105, 121, 122

Disraeli, Benjamin

153

Divine Comedy, The

125

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

89, 90

Don Gesualdo (Verga)

266

Don Juan

220

​

Don Quixote

68, 123

Doumic, René

110

Dumas, Alexandre

30, 101, 102, 110

Edgeworth, Marie

197

Education Sentimentale, L' (Flaubert)

168

Eliot, George

56, 60, 97

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

227

Epic of the Wheat (Frank Norris)

84

Essay on Milton (Macaulay)

92

Essay on Style (De Quincey)

223

Essay on Style (Pater)

223

Fête à Coqueville, La

260

Fielding, Henry

56, 60, 104, 121, 133

Fitzgerald, Edward

249

Flaubert, Gustave

12, 122, 167, 169, 171, 173, 224, 225, 226, 227, 237, 254

France, Anatole

58, 63, 149

From a College Window (Benson)

112

Gautier, Théophile

56, 57, 148, 163

Ghirlandajo

68

Gibbon, Edward

88

Gilbert, Sir William

202

Gissing, George

136

Gogol

122

Gosse, Edmund

75

Gulliver's Travels

119

Gyp

65, 66

Hamlet

68, 104

Hardy, Thomas

108

Harrison, Frederic

91

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

97, 106, 218

Hazlitt, William

218

Henry, O.

54

​

Hermana San Sulpicio, La

63, 122

Hewlett, Maurice

136, 162, 163, 232

Hill, Professor A. S.

31, 180, 219

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

59, 199

Homer

58, 121, 253, 238

Howells, William Dean

62, 63, 96, 136

Ibsen, Henrik

105, 265

Iliad, The

107, 157, 238, 252, 254

Innocents Abroad

51

"Is It Possible to Tell a Good Book From a Bad One?" (Augustine Birrell)

58

James, Henry,

63, 64, 65, 69, 88, 118, 136, 137, 138, 145, 204, 205, 220

Johnson, Dr. Samuel

259

Jungle Books, The

119

Keats, John

136, 249

Kipling, Rudyard

22, 54, 66, 67, 75, 123, 136, 230, 232

La Bruyère, Jean de

9

Lamb, Charles

218

Lang, Andrew

106

Lavedan, Henri

65

Lettres de Jeunesse (Zola)

71

Life of Byron (Moore)

55

Life of Alexandre Dumas (A. K Davidson)

101

Light That Failed, The

22, 67, 222

Lovenjoul, Spoelberch de

85

Lowell, James Russell

51, 211, 223, 229, 235, 247, 249

McTeague (Frank Norris)

8

Macaulay, Lord

92, 184, 193

Macbeth

104

Mackenzie, Henry

56

​

Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

225

Manzoni, Alessandro

122

Marble Faun, The

107

Maupassant, Guy de

12, 54, 63, 69, 110, 123, 229, 254

Memories and Thoughts (F. Harrison)

91

Meredith, George

75, 108, 112

Mérimée, Prosper

148

Milton, John

56, 59, 135, 136

Misérables, Les

225

Modern Love

75

Modern Painters

32

Montaigne, Michel de

218

Montespan, Madame de

264

Moore, George

136

Moore, Thomas

55

Moran of the Lady Letty (Frank Norris)

8

My Literary Passions (Howells)

96

Norris, Frank

8, 84

Notes From Life (Daudet)

100

Novel: What It Is, The (Crawford)

93

Numa Roumestan (Daudet)

140, 141

Obermann

218

Octopus, The (Frank Norris)

85

Ollivant, Alfred

232

On Translating Homer (Matthew Arnold)

253

Othello

104

Our English (A. S. Hill)

31

Ovid

153

Paradise Lost

68

Passion dans le Désert, Une

260

Pater, Walter

50, 211, 223, 225, 245

Pattison, Mark

91

Phillips, David Graham

26

Philosophy of Composition, The (Poe)

98

Pied de Momie (Gautier)

148

​

Pierre et Jean (Maupassant)

63, 229

Pilgrim's Progress, The (Bunyan)

119

Pit, The (Frank Norris)

85

Poe, Edgar Allan

54, 63, 98, 100, 123, 194, 250

Pope, Alexander

55

Portraits Contemporains (Gautier)

164

Procurateur de Judée, Le (Anatole France)

149

Quintillian

230

Rabelais, François

56, 121

Raven, The (Poe)

63, 100

Redcoat Captain (Ollivant)

119

Reade, Charles

97

Richardson, Samuel

56, 68

Robertson, Morgan

40

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)

41

Rod, Edouard

33

Roderick Random (Smollett)

133

Rois en Exile, Les (Daudet)

86

Romanciers Naturalistes (Zola)

167

Roman Empire, The Decline and Fall of the

88

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

136

Rouge et le Noir, Le (Stendhal)

225

Rougon-Macquart, Les

260

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

56

Ruskin, John

32, 39, 119

Sainte Beuve

197

Saintsbury, Professor George

220, 221

Sand, George

122

Scott, Sir Walter

224

Shakespeare, William

56, 75, 92, 104, 105, 136

"Shakespeare Once More" (Lowell)

51

Smollett, Tobias

56, 68, 104, 133

Snaith, J. C.

232

Sonnets From the Portuguese (Mrs. Browning)

75

Stendhal

182, 260, 261

​

Sterne, Laurence

56, 68, 133

Stevenson, Robert Louis

72, 89, 90, 218, 220, 221, 223

Stevenson, Mrs. Robert Louis

89

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

95

Sullivan, Sir Arthur

202

Tam O'Shanter (Burns)

108

Terry, Ellen

73

Thackeray, William Makepeace

65, 69, 97, 104, 105, 121, 122, 263

Thoreau, Henry David

59, 87, 154, 170

Tolstoy, Count Leo

122

Tom Jones (Fielding)

68, 133

Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)

51

Traill, H. D.

220

Treasure Island (Stevenson)

41

Trois Mousquetaires, Les (Dumas)

30

Trollope, Anthony

63, 105, 143, 173, 174, 184

Tristram Shandy (Sterne)

133

Turguenief

97, 137, 257

Twain, Mark

50

Valdès, Armando Palacio

63, 121, 122

Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

65, 68

Vénus D'Ille (Mérimée)

148

Verga, Giovanni

145, 266

Vergil

238

Wagner, Richard

239

War and Peace (Tolstoy)

122

Wendell, Barrett

192, 201

What Maisie Knew (Henry James)

145

Wister, Owen

80

Woodberry, Professor George

69

Wordsworth, William

50, 51, 56, 93, 135, 218

Zola, Émile

15, 21, 63, 71, 95, 139, 140, 167, 168, 171, 237, 260