ILLUSTRATIONS
| TO FACE PAGE | |
| Jean de Meung | [22] |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | [38] |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | [44] |
| Alain René le Sage | [60] |
| Sir Philip Sidney | [84] |
| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | [96] |
| Richard Steele and Joseph Addison | [114] |
| John Bunyan | [126] |
| Daniel Defoe | [132] |
| Samuel Richardson | [140] |
| Fanny Burney | [146] |
| Jane Austen | [150] |
| Henry Fielding | [156] |
| Tobias Smollett | [166] |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | [176] |
| François René de Chateaubriand | [180] |
| Sir Walter Scott | [188] |
| Victor Hugo | [202] |
| Alexandre Dumas | [210] |
| Honoré de Balzac | [218] |
| Théophile Gautier | [236] |
| William Godwin | [244] |
| Edgar Allan Poe | [250] |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | [258] |
| Prosper Mérimée | [274] |
| Gustave Flaubert | [288] |
| Guy de Maupassant | [300] |
PART I