Contents

[Publisher's Preface]

[Autobiographical]

[George Eliot]

[Thomas Carlyle]

[John Ruskin]

[William E. Gladstone]

[J.M.W. Turner]

[Jonathan Swift]

[Walt Whitman]

[Victor Hugo]

[Wm. Wordsworth]

[William M. Thackeray]

[Charles Dickens]

[Oliver Goldsmith]

[William Shakespeare]

[Thomas A. Edison]