Part I. Carlyle and the Systematic Thinkers: 1. Carlyle
2. The theologians
3. The philosophers
4. Science
Part II. Poetry: 5. Some pre-Victorian poets
6. Tennyson
7. Browning
8. Minor singers
9. The turn of the century
10. The later Pre-Raphaelites
11. The Celtic poets
12. The remaining poets
Part III. Novels and Novelists: 13. The successors of Scott
14. Dickens
15. Thackeray
16. Women novelists
17. Contemporaries of Dickens and Thackeray
18. George Meredith
19. Other story-tellers
20. R. L. Stevenson
21. Stories for children
Part IV. The Historians: 22. The revolution in the writing of history
23. Students of the origins
24. Ancient history
25. Hallam and Macaulay
26. Froude
27. The Oxford group
28. The philosophical historians
29. Military history
Part V. Biography and Criticism: 30. The biographers
31. The Edinburgh critics
32. Leigh Hunt and De Quincey
33. Matthew Arnold
34. Brown, Stephen and Henley
35. The criticism of art
Part VI. The Fragments that Remain: 36. Landor and minor writers
37. Travel and geography
38. Oscar Wilde
Index.
