nth-century Drama.

III. NOVELISTS 416

Lesage. Marivaux. Prevost. Voltaire. Diderot. Rousseau.
Crebillon the Younger. Bernardin de St. Pierre. Restif
de la Bretonne. Chateaubriand. Madame de Stael.
Xavier de Maistre. Benjamin Constant.

IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 436

Characteristics and Divisions of Eighteenth-century History.
Rollin. Dubos. Boulainvilliers. Voltaire. Mably.
Rulhiere. Memoirs. Mme. de Staal-Delaunay. Duclos.
Besenval. Madame d'Epinay. Minor Memoirs. Memoirs
of the Revolutionary Period. Abundance of Letter-writers.
Mademoiselle Aisse. Madame du Deffand. Mademoiselle
de Lespinasse. Voltaire. Diderot. Galiani.

V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 452

Occasional Writing in the Eighteenth-century. Periodicals.
Fontenelle. La Motte. Vauvenargues. D'Aguesseau.
Duclos. Marmontel. La Harpe. Thomas. Orthodox
Apologists. Freron. Philosophe Criticism. D'Alembert.
Diderot. Les Feuilles de Grimm. Diderot's Salons. His
General Criticism. Newspapers of the Revolution. The
Influence of Journalism. Chamfort. Rivarol. Joubert.
Courier. Senancour.

VI. PHILOSOPHERS 473

The philosophe movement. Montesquieu. Lettres Persanes.
Grandeur et Decadence des Romains. Esprit des
Lois. Voltaire. The Encyclopaedia. Diderot. D'Alembert.
Rousseau. Political Economists. Vauban, Quesnay,
etc. Turgot. Condorcet. Volney. La Mettrie. Helvetius.
Systeme de la Nature. Condillac. Joseph de
Maistre. Bonald.

VII. SCIENTIFIC WRITERS 499

Buffon. Lesser Scientific Writers. Voyages and Travels.
Linguistic and Literary Study.

INTERCHAPTER IV. SUMMARY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 504

BOOK V.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 510

The Romantic Movement. Writers of the later Transition.
Beranger. Lamartine. Lamennais. Victor Cousin. Beyle.
Nodier. Delavigne. Soumet. The Romantic Propaganda
in Periodicals. Victor Hugo. Sainte-Beuve. His Method.
Dangers of the Method. Dumas the Elder. Honore de
Balzac. George Sand. Merimee. Theophile Gautier.
Alfred de Musset. Influence of the Romantic Leaders.
Minor Poets of 1830. Alfred de Vigny. Auguste Barbier.
Gerard de Nerval. Curiosites Romantiques. Petrus Borel.
Louis Bertrand. Second Group of Romantic Poets.
Theodore de Banville. Leconte de Lisle. Char