The latter half of the second volume of Mr. F. A. Mumby"s _Letters of Literary Men_ is devoted to the Victorian Age. There are fuller collections of the _Letters_ of Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, d.i.c.kens, the Brownings, Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and more recently the _Letters of George Meredith_, edited by his son.
Among the important critical writers of the period, Matthew Arnold (_Essays in Criticism_, _Study of Celtic Literature_, etc.) stands easily first. Others are John, now Lord, Morley (_Studies in Literature_, etc.), Augustine Birrell (_Obiter Dicta_, _Essays_), W. E.
Henley (_Views and Reviews_), J. Addington Symonds (_Essays_), J.
Churton Collins, Richard Garnett, Stopford A. Brooke, George E. B.
Saintsbury (_History of Criticism_), R. H. Hutton (_Contemporary Thought_), J. M. Robertson (_Modern Humanists_, _Buckle_, etc.), Frederic Harrison (_The Choice of Books_, etc.), Andrew Lang, Walter Bagehot, Edmund Gosse, Prof. Dowden, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir A. T. Quiller Couch.