Criticism:  Essays, by Stedman, in Victorian Poets; by Benson, in Essays.

Matthew Arnold.  Texts:  Poems, Globe edition, etc.  See Selections for Reading, above.  Life:  by Russell; by Saintsbury; by Paul (English Men of Letters); Letters, by Russell.

Criticism:  Essays by Woodberry, in Makers of Literature; by Gates, in Three Studies in Literature; by Hutton, in Modern Guides of English Thought; by Brownell, in Victorian Prose Masters; by F. Harrison (see Tennyson, above).

Dickens.  Texts:  numerous good editions of novels.  Life:  by J. Forster; by Marzials (Great Writers); by Ward (English Men of Letters); Langton’s The Childhood and Youth of Dickens.

Criticism:  Gissing’s Charles Dickens; Chesterton’s Charles Dickens; Kitten’s The Novels of Charles Dickens; Fitzgerald’s The History of Pickwick.  Essays:  by F. Harrison (see above); by Bagehot, in Literary Studies; by Lilly, in Four English Humorists; by A. Lang, in Gadshill edition of Dickens’s works.

Thackeray.  Texts:  numerous good editions of novels and essays.  Life:  by Melville; by Merivale and Marzials (Great Writers); by A. Trollope (English Men of Letters); by L. Stephen, in Dictionary of National Biography.  See also Crowe’s Homes and Haunts of Thackeray; Wilson’s Thackeray in the United States.

Criticism:  Essays, by Lilly, in Four English Humorists; by Harrison, in Studies in Early Victorian Literature; by Scudder, in Social Ideals in English Letters; by Brownell, in Victorian Prose Masters.

George Eliot.  Texts:  numerous editions.  Life:  by L. Stephen (English Men of Letters); by O. Browning (Great Writers); by her husband, J.W.  Cross.

Criticism:  Cooke’s George Eliot, a Critical Study of her Life and Writings.  Essays:  by J. Jacobs, in Literary Studies; by H. James, in Partial Portraits; by Dowden, in Studies in Literature; by Hutton, Harrison, Brownell, Lilly (see above).  See also Parkinson’s Scenes from the George Eliot Country.

Carlyle.  Texts:  various editions of works.  Heroes, and Sartor Resartus, in Athenaeum Press (Ginn and Company); Sartor, and Past and Present, 1 vol.  (Harper); Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1 vol. (Appleton); Letters and Reminiscences, edited by C. E. Norton, 6 vols. (Macmillan).

Life:  by Garnett (Great Writers); by Nichol (English Men of Letters); by Froude, 2 vols. (very full, but not trustworthy).  See also Carlyle’s Reminiscences and Correspondence, and Craig’s The Making of Carlyle.

Criticism:  Masson’s Carlyle Personally and in his Writings.  Essays:  by Lowell, in My Study Windows; by Harrison, Brownell, Hutton, Lilly (see above).

Ruskin.  Texts:  Brantwood edition, edited by C.E.  Norton; various editions of separate works.  Life:  by Harrison (English Men of Letters); by Collingwood, 2 vols.; see also Ruskin’s Praeterita.

Criticism:  Mather’s Ruskin, his Life and Teaching; Cooke’s Studies in Ruskin; Waldstein’s The Work of John Ruskin; Hobson’s John Ruskin, Social Reformer; Mrs. Meynell’s John Ruskin; Sizeranne’s Ruskin and the Religion of Beauty, translated from the French; White’s Principles of Art; W. M. Rossetti’s Ruskin, Rossetti, and Pre-Raphaelitism.