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