CHAPTER XL.

THE LATER NOVELISTS AS SOCIAL REFORMERS.

Bulwer--Changes in Writers--Dickens's Novels--American Notes--His Varied Powers--Second Visit to America--Thackeray--Vanity Fair--Henry Esmond--The Newcomes--The Georges--Estimate of his Powers 450

THE LATER WRITERS.

Charles Lamb--Thomas Hood--Thomas de Quincey--Other Novelists--Writers on Science and Philosophy 466