with Sarah Orne Jewett, R. W. Gilder, and T. T. Munger in America, must be added to his roll. Though dead they yet speak with living voice, however, and I have not, in general, felt obliged to change my mode of reference to them. OLD LYME, CONNECTICUT, 25 January, 1910. E. M. C. Evangelical and Tractarian-The Clapham Sect-Thorn- VIII. THE MASTERS OF FICTION. I . . Dependence of Humour upon Faith-Maria Edgeworth- IX. THE MASTERS OF FICTION. II Dickens-Thackeray - Bulwer-Lytton - Mrs. Gaskell Priestley-Godwin - Bentham-James Mill - John Stuart - XIIL THE DOUBTERS AND THE MYSTICS Songs of Doubt and Disillusion generally sung by Young Men-Clough-Matthew Arnold-The Relation between Doubter and Mystic - The True Mystic-Christina Ros- A Dubious Title introduced by Two Great Names - George Meredith - Swinburne James Thomson and City of Dreadful Night" - John Davidson "Bard erts - The Reaction of Philosophy upon the Historian - Upon the Novelist-Possible Unreality of Realism - The 'Reli- gious' Novel-Sunday School Books - The Novel of Religion and Manners-The Novel of Manners - The 'Early Christian' Novel-The Theological Novel-George Macdonald-"Robert Elsmere "-"Ships that Pass in the Night"-"The Story of an African Farm"-"Mark The Novel of Life as touched by Faith or Doubt-Mere- |