CONTENTS
| I. | The Book of Books | [1] |
| II. | Poetry in the Psalms | [33] |
| III. | The Good Enchantment of Dickens | [63] |
| IV. | Thackeray and Real Men | [103] |
| V. | George Eliot and Real Women | [131] |
| VI. | The Poet of Immortal Youth (Keats) | [165] |
| VII. | The Recovery of Joy (Wordsworth) | [189] |
| VIII. | “The Glory of the Imperfect” (Browning) | [233] |
| IX. | A Quaint Comrade by Quiet Streams (Walton) | [289] |
| X. | A Sturdy Believer (Samuel Johnson) | [307] |
| XI. | A Puritan Plus Poetry (Emerson) | [333] |
| XII. | An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket (Stevenson) | [357] |