Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21

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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes

Volume XIV: English
THE VICTORIAN AGE
Part Two
The Nineteenth Century, III

Edited by A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller

Bibliographic Record

Cambridge

CONTENTS • INDEX TO CHAPTERS • INDEX TO BIBLIOGRAPHIES • INDEX TO AUTHORS

CONTENTS
Prefatory Note
Table of Principal Dates

Chapter I.	Philosophers
	By W. R. SORLEY, Litt.D., F.B.A., Fellow of King’s College, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy The economics of Ricardo James Mill Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind Thomas Brown Sir William Hamilton Mansel John Stuart Mill System of Logic Utilitarianism On Liberty Political Economy Jevons George Grote; Alexander Bain George Croom Robertson The influence of Comte Rational and Religious Philosophers; John Grote Frederick Denison Maurice; Newman’s Grammar of Assent; William George Ward Martineau Herbert Spencer and the Philosophy of Evolution Darwin George Henry Lewes Huxley William Kingdon Clifford Leslie Stephen Maine’s Ancient Law Bagehot Henry Sidgwick; The Methods of Ethics Shadworth Hodgson Idealists Ferrier’s Institutes of Metaphysic Stirling’s Secret of Hegel Thomas Hill Green Prolegomena to Ethics William Wallace John Caird and Edward Caird Francis Herbert Bradley Alexander Campbell Fraser Robert Adamson BIBLIOGRAPHY

II.	Historians, Biographers and Political Orators
	By Sir A. W. WARD, Litt.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse Sharon Turner Lingard Henry Hallam Sir James Mackintosh Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome Essays History of England Sir Archibald Alison Sir Francis Palgrave John Mitchell Kemble Freeman The History of the Norman Conquest Stubbs The Constitutional History of England John Richard Green A Short History of the English People Sir Henry Maine J. E. Thorold Rogers Frederic Seebohm Frederic William Maitland Mary Bateson J. S. Brewer James Gairdner Froude History of England Samuel Rawson Gardiner Coxe Earl Stanhope Goldwin Smith Sir J. R. Seeley Harriet Martineau W. N. Molesworth Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea P. F. Tytler John Hill Burton Andrew Lang J. P. Prendergast Sir J. T. Gilbert C. L. Falkiner James Mill’s History of India Sir A. C. Lyall J. A. Doyle; E. J. Payne Creighton; History of the Papacy W. E. Collins; J. H. Overton; W. R. Stephens; T. G. Law T. McCrie Buckle’s History of Civilization Lecky; History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe; The History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne A History of England in the Eighteenth Century Biographers and Memoir-Writers; Lockhart Scott Moore Southey Roscoe Mark Pattison Sir James Stephen Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland Mrs. M. A. Everett Green Sir Theodore Martin Masson’s Life of Milton John Forster The Greville Memoirs The Croker Papers The Creevey Papers N. W. Senior Lord Acton Political Orators and Writers of Pamphlets; William Wilberforce Windham Whitbread Erskine Tierney Canning Brougham Orators of the Reform Bill period Palmerston Plunket Daniel O’Connell Richard Lalor Sheil Sir Robert Peel Edward Stanley, fourteenth earl of Derby Benjamin Disraeli Richard Cobden; John Bright Gladstone BIBLIOGRAPHY

III.	Critical and Miscellaneous Prose JOHN RUSKIN AND OTHERS
	By HUGH WALKER, LL.D., Professor of English at St. David’s College, Lampeter Abraham Hayward John Doran George Brimley; E. S. Dallas; The Gay Science James Hannay Richard Holt Hutton Bagehot Sir Leslie Stephen Watts-Dunton Borrow Traill Dowden Henley Ruskin; Modern Painters Haydon Mrs. Jameson J. Addington Symonds Walter Pater Oscar Wilde Hugh Miller; W. and R. Chambers John Brown; Rab and his Friends Alexander Smith A. K. H. Boyd; John Skelton R. L. Stevenson W. B. Rands; Sir Arthur Helps; W. R. Greg Andrew Lang Laurence Oliphant Lafcadio Hearn Richard Jefferies BIBLIOGRAPHY

IV.	The Growth of Journalism
	By J. S. R. PHILLIPS, Editor of The Yorkshire Post, Leeds Eighteenth Century Newspapers Literary and Art Criticism; The Drama Politics The War Correspondent Progress of journalism in the Victorian era Jerdan The Times; The Walters Delane The Stuarts and The Morning Post James Perry and The Morning Chronicle The Standard The Morning Advertiser The Daily News The Daily Telegraph The Halfpenny morning press The Penny evening papers Weekly illustrated papers The Hour The Press The Examiner The Spectator The Saturday Review The Scots Observer The Guardian The Athenaeum Illustrated papers The Observer The Pilot; The Tribune The “Provincial” Press The Manchester Guardian BIBLIOGRAPHY

V.	University Journalism
	By VERNON HORACE RENDALL, sometime Scholar of Trinity College Calverley A. C. Hilton The Cambridge Review The Granta The Oxford Magazine The Isis Scottish and Irish University Journals BIBLIOGRAPHY

VI.	Caricature and the Literature of Sport “PUNCH”
	By HAROLD CHILD, sometime Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford Hogarth Gillray Boydell Ackermann; Bunbury; Rowlandson Combe Dr. Syntax Gilpin The Microcosm of London Pierce Egan; Life in London The English Spy James Catnach The Newgate Calendar The Literature of Pugilism and Hunting “Nimrod” Surtees Bewick Punch BIBLIOGRAPHY

VII.	The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900
	By F. A. KIRKPATRICK, M.A., Trinity College William Dampier Woodes Rogers Anson Cook James Bruce Clarke Barrow Waterton; Darwin; Wallace Richard Ford Borrow Warburton; Eothen Curzon’s Monasteries of the Levant Sir Richard Burton W. G. Palgrave A. H. Layard Speke Winwood Reade; Mary Kingsley Peaks, passes and glaciers Dilke’s Greater Britain BIBLIOGRAPHY

VIII.	The Literature of Science
	PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS By W. W. ROUSE BALL, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge mathematicians The British Association Whewell’s History of the Inductive Sciences Michael Faraday De Morgan Sir William Rowan Hamilton J. J. Sylvester John Couch Adams Cayley H. J. S. Smith Sir George Darwin George Green Sir George Stokes Lord Kelvin James Clerk Maxwell CHEMISTRY By M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M.A., Fellow of Gonville and Caius College The study of material changes Four main lines of advance in chemistry since the later years of the eighteenth century Priestley and Cavendish Black The Atomic Theory and Dalton Williamson Frankland Sir Humphry Davy; Electricity and Chemical Affinity Thomas Graham Faraday BIOLOGY By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D., F.R.S., Master of Christ’s College The Royal Society Nehemiah Grew Ray and Willughby Robert Hooke Stephen Hales Museums Botanic Gardens Learned Societies Scientific Journals Exploration: Sir Joseph Banks; Robert Brown J. S. Henslow Lindley Berkeley James Hutton John Playfair William Smith Adam Sedgwick Scrope de la Beche Lyell Sorby Murchison Buckland Richard Owen Edward Forbes The voyage of “The Challenger” Central America Darwin Wallace The Origin of Species Sir Joseph Hooker Research after Darwin; Huxley BIBLIOGRAPHY

IX.	Anglo-Irish Literature
	By ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M.A. Gaelic and Classical Literature Gaelic Poetry Translations Irish influence on English Literature Geoffrey Keating James Ussher The Sheridans Le Fanu National Folk-ballads and other writings Maginn Lever Lover Crofton Croker Carleton Patrick Kennedy Mahony The Banims Thomas Osborne Davis McGee Sir Samuel Ferguson Griffin National Songs Women writers Later writers Synge BIBLIOGRAPHY

X.	Anglo-Indian Literature
	By EDWARD FARLEY OATEN, M.A., LL.B., Indian Educational Service, Professor of History at the Presidency College, Calcutta Early historians William Browne Hockley; Philip Meadows Taylor; The mutiny The later historians Sir Edwin Arnold; Sir Alfred Lyall Bankin Chandra Chatterji Torulata Dutt BIBLIOGRAPHY

XI.	English-Canadian Literature
	By PELHAM EDGAR, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Professor of English Literature in Victoria College, University of Toronto Haliburton Isabella Valancy Crawford Archibald Lampman William Henry Drummond Lesser Poets Historians Novelists BIBLIOGRAPHY

XII.	The Literature of Australia and New Zealand
	By HAROLD CHILD Charles Harpur Henry Clarence Kendall Adam Lindsay Gordon James Brunton Stephens Henry Kingsley and William Howitt; Marcus Clarke: “Rolf Boldrewood” Historians BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIII.	South African Poetry
	By Sir T. HERBERT WARREN, K.C.V.O., President of Magdalen College, Oxford Thomas Pringle Afar in the Desert The Bechuana Boy Anthologies BIBLIOGRAPHY

XIV.	Education
	By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King’s College, London, and Professor of Education in the University of London The industrial revolution French and German education The universities Nonconformist academies Public schools Education of girls Elementary education Chesterfield’s Letters The Edgeworths Wordsworth Priestley Study of English Thomas Sheridan The Scottish School of Rhetoric Education and the state Mrs. Trimmer Bell and Lancaster Robert Owen Brougham and The Edinburgh Review Mechanics’ institutes Adult education English and Scottish universities The university of London Tutors versus professors Public School reform William Ellis Ruskin Newman The state assumes responsibility for elementary education; The revised code Spencer Royal Commissions Arnold and secondary education John Stuart Mill Essays on a liberal education Edward Thring The Education Act of 1870 Alexander Bain The education of women Universities and research The new universities The legislation of 1902 BIBLIOGRAPHY

XV.	Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time
	By W. MURISON, M.A., Aberdeen The world-wide expansion of the English language Changes in pronunciation Changes in spelling Changes in grammar Vocabulary Methods of word-making Influx of foreign words Plain and ornate style Afterword BIBLIOGRAPHY

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