ed the field the f lowing year in the slight 1843, and a strange feminine genius enter-sensitive person of Charlotte Bronte. How much Jane Byre is answerable for, in the exuberant fiction of the passions, can only be guessed. In the meantime Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth had begun to write, while one must not forget the Eakded as mere platitude, of Blartin Tupper, popular philosophy, now frequently re-John Ruskin's gospel of beauty was laid before the world in the '40's, while John Stuart Mill was preaching the truths of political economy. George Henry Lewes Was elucidating the world's philosophy, and Freeman, Froude, Grote, and Macaulay were dealing in their several ways, all masterly, with history. Browning, Matthew Arnold, Clough, and Coventry' Patmore, were among the poets of the decade. Leigh Hunt, John Henry Newman, F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, Gerald Massey, were amongst the other workers in the field of literature in this veritable epoch of giants. Douglas Jerrold, Marie Lemon, and many brilliant others, were keeping alight the flame of wit in Punch which John Leech was contributing his inimitable drawings. Anthony Trollope began his literary career in 1847; the author of John Halifax published her first_novel two years later. The Ingoldsby Legends were published complete in 1840. The "50's brought the first: work of George Meredith, and later on that of William Morris, They are also notable for the appearance of the delightful Tom Brown. In 1858 a Indy who had restricted herself to translations was persuaded to try her hand at fiction. The result was the Scenes of Clerical Life. The year later came Adam Bede; the first of those powerful resentments of ordinary human ife, which entitle George Eliot, some enthusiasts think, to be considered the greatest English writer of fiction. Some other enthusiasts hold that the Cloister und the Hearth is the finest re-creation of a past age ever achieved in literature. Its author, Charles Reade, first reached the public ear in 1852. In 1857 appeared Buckle's monumental History of Civitisation, The next decade introduces us to Swinburne, but it was less prolific in new great names than its predecessors, though filled with splendid work by men already known, Some of the modern novelists, James Payn, William Black,
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