CONTENTS
| PAGE | |||
| Author's Preface | |||
| I. | The English Opium Eater: Thomas de Quincey: | ||
| 1.—The Man | [3] | ||
| 2.—His Books | [11] | ||
| II. | A Pioneer of Political Reform: Harriet Martineau | [21] | |
| III. | A Lover of Beauty: Gerald Massey | [29] | |
| IV. | A Poet Engraver: William James Linton: | ||
| 1.—The Man | [37] | ||
| 2.—His Books And His Art | [43] | ||
| V. | A Successful Novelist: Eliza Lynn Linton: | ||
| 1.—The Woman | [51] | ||
| 2.—Her Books | [57] | ||
| VI. | The Philosopher of Brantwood: John Ruskin: | ||
| 1.—The Man | [65] | ||
| 2.—His Art-Teaching and His Books | [75] | ||
| VII. | A Great Life Marred: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [85] | |
| VIII. | A Life to Pity: Hartley Coleridge | [95] | |
| IX. | George the Fourth's Laureate: Robert Southey | [103] | |
| X. | Victoria's First Laureate: William Wordsworth | [113] | |
| XI. | A Friend of Great Poets: Charles Lloyd | [123] | |
| XII. | 'Christopher North': John Wilson | [131] | |
| XIII. | The Champion of Lord Bacon: James Spedding | [141] | |
| XIV. | Two Beautiful Lives: William and Lucy | [149] | |
| XV. | Two Broad Thinkers: Frederic and F. W. H.Meyer (Father and Son) | [157] | |
| XVI. | A Religious Medievalist: Frederick William Faber: | ||
| 1.—The Man | [167] | ||
| 2.—His Books | [177] | ||
| XVII. | John Ruskin's Friends: The Sisters of theThwaite, and their Brother | [187] | |
| XVIII. | A Learned Young Lady: Elizabeth Smith | [195] | |
| XIX. | A Country Doctor and his Stories (Folk-Speech): Dr. Alexander Craig Gibson | [203] | |
| XX. | Two Pioneer Educationists: Thomas and Matthew Arnold | [213] | |
| XXI. | 'Drunken Barnaby': Richard Braithwaite | [223] | |
| XXII. | Last Words about our Celebrities | [233] | |