CHAPTER I.

THE SUCCESSORS OF SAINTE-BEUVE.

_Ordonnance_ of this chapter 431

Philarète Chasles 432

Barbey d’Aurévilly 433

On Hugo 434

On others 435

Strong redeeming points in him 436

Doudan 436

Interest of his general attitude 437

And particular utterances 437

Renan 439

Taine 440

His _culpa_ 440

His miscellaneous critical work 441

His _Histoire de la Littérature Anglaise_ 442

Its shortcomings 443

Instances of them 443

Moutégut: his peculiarities 444

Delicacy and range of his work 446

Scherer: peculiar _moral_ character of his criticism 447

Its consequent limitations 448

The solid merits accompanying them 448

Sainte-Beuve + Gautier 450 Banville 450 Saint-Victor 451 Baudelaire 452 Crépet’s _Les Poètes Français_ 453 Flaubert: the “Single Word” 454 “Naturalism” 454 Zola 455 _Le Roman Experimental_ 456 Examples of his criticism 456 The reasons of his critical incompetency 458 “Les Deux Goncourt” 458 “Scientific criticism”: Hennequin 459 “Comparative Literature”: Texte 462 Academic Criticism: Gaston Paris 464 Caro, Taillandier, &c. 465 The “Light Horsemen”: Janin 466 Pontmartin 467 Veuillot 468 Not so black as, &c. 469 The present 469