CHAPTER II.

MIL-HUIT-CENT-TRENTE.

The _Globe_ 299 Charles de Rémusat, Vitet, J. J. Ampère 300 Sainte-Beuve: his topography 301 The earlier articles 302 _Portraits Littéraires_ and _Portraits de Femmes_ 304 The _Portraits Contemporains_ 306 He “arrives” 309 _Port-Royal_ 310 Its literary episodes 311 On Racine 312 _Chateaubriand et son Groupe Littéraire_ 313 Faults found with it 314 Its extraordinary merits 315 And final _dicta_ 316 The _Causeries_ at last 317 Their length, &c. 318 Bricks of the house 319 His occasional polemic 322 The _Nouveaux Lundis_ 324 The conclusion of this matter 326

Michelet and Quinet 329 Hugo 330 _William Shakespeare_ 331 _Littérature et Philosophie_ 331 The _Cromwell_ Preface 332 And that to the _Orientales_ 333 Capital position of this latter 334 The “_work_” 335 Nisard: his _Ægri Somnia_ 335 His _Essais sur le Romantisme_ 336 Their _culpa maxima_ 338 Gautier 339 His theory—“Art for Art’s sake,” &c. 340 His practice—_Les Grotesques_ 341 _Histoire du Romantisme_, &c. 341 Ubiquity of felicity in his criticism 342 Saint-Marc Girardin 343 Planche 344 Weight of his criticism 344 Magnin 347 Mérimée 348