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