CHAP. PAGE
[I.]Some Celebrated Cockneys[1]
[II.]Shakespeare in London[10]
[III.]Where Pope stayed at Battersea[26]
[IV.]Hogarth[36]
[V.]Goldsmith, Reynolds, and some of their Circle[52]
[VI.]Homes and Haunts of Johnson and Boswell[89]
[VII.]Blake and Flaxman[118]
[VIII.]A Hampstead Group[140]
[IX.]Round about Soho again[167]
[X.]A Philosopher, Two Poets, and a Novelist[187]
[XI.]Charles Lamb[207]
[XII.]St. John’s Wood and Wimbledon[233]
[XIII.]Chelsea Memories[255]
[XIV.]Thackeray[296]
[XV.]Dickens[314]
[XVI.]Conclusion[328]

PORTRAITS

Dr. Johnson[Frontispiece]
From an engraving by T. Trotter after a drawing from life
John MiltonFacing p.[4]
From a miniature by Faithorne
William Shakespeare"[16]
From an engraving by Scriven after the Chandos portrait
Alexander Pope"[33]
From an engraving by J. Posselwhite after the picture by Hudson
Oliver Goldsmith"[81]
After a drawing by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds"[96]
From an engraving after his own portrait
James Boswell"[102]
From an engraving by W. Hall after a sketch by Lawrence
John Keats"[144]
From a drawing by W. Hilton
Thomas de Quincey"[176]
From an engraving by W. H. Moore
Lord Byron"[193]
From a painting by Thomas Phillips, R.A.
Charles Lamb"[224]
From the painting by William Hazlitt
Thomas Hood"[241]
From an engraving by W. H. Smith
Thomas Carlyle"[280]
From a painting by Sir John Millais
W. M. Thackeray"[305]
From a pencil sketch by Count D’Orsay
Charles Dickens"[320]
From a black and white drawing by Baughiet, 1858
Robert Browning"[338]
From a photograph

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
St. Saviour’s, Southwark Cathedral[xvi]
The Gateway, Middle Temple[6]
Chaucer’s Tomb, Westminster Abbey[8]
Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey[11]
St. Olave’s Churchyard, Silver Street[17]
Bartholomew Close, Smithfield[21]
The Last Bulk Shop, Clare Market[25]
Pope’s House, Battersea[29]
Pope, Mawson’s Row, Chiswick[37]
Sir James Thornhill, 75 Dean Street[42]
Hogarth’s House, Chiswick[45]
The Bay Window, Hogarth’s House[49]
Sir Isaac Newton’s House, St. Martin’s Street, W.C.[53]
Sir Joshua Reynolds’s House, Great Newport Street[57]
The Staircase, 47 Leicester Square[59]
Sir Benjamin West’s House, Newman Street[61]
Gainsborough’s House, Pall Mall[65]
Sheridan’s House, Savile Row[69]
Pump Court, Temple[73]
Richardson’s House, North End, Fulham[75]
Goldsmith’s House, Canonbury[77]
2 Brick Court, The Temple[83]
Stairs up to Second Floor, 2 Brick Court[85]
Goldsmith’s Grave[87]
Entrance to Staple Inn[91]
Dr. Johnson’s House, Gough Square[99]
Johnson’s Corner, “The Cheshire Cheese”[107]
Where Boswell first met Johnson[111]
Boswell’s House, Great Queen Street[115]
Blake’s House, Soho[121]
Blake, 23 Hercules Road[125]
Blake’s House, South Moulton Street[127]
Flaxman’s House, Buckingham Street, Euston Road[137]
Romney’s House, Hampstead[141]
Constable, Charlotte Street[145]
Joanna Baillie, Windmill Hill, Hampstead[147]
Stanfield’s House, Hampstead[151]
“The Upper Flask,” from the Bowling Green[153]
Keats’ House, Hampstead[157]
Constable’s House, Hampstead[161]
George du Maurier’s Grave, Hampstead[165]
De Quincey’s House, Soho[171]
Shelley’s House, Poland Street, W.[175]
Shelley, Marchmont Street[179]
Hazlitt’s House, Frith Street[183]
Thomas Day, 36 Wellclose Square[189]
Byron, 4 Bennet Street, St. James’s[195]
Coleridge, Addison Bridge Place[201]
Will’s Coffee House, Russell Street[217]
Lamb, Colebrooke Row[219]
Lamb’s Cottage, Edmonton[229]
Tom Hood’s House, St. John’s Wood[237]
Charles Dibdin, 34 Arlington Road[243]
George Eliot, Wimbledon Park[247]
George Eliot’s House, Chelsea[251]
Queen’s House, Cheyne Walk[257]
Whistler, 96 Cheyne Walk[263]
Turner’s House, Cheyne Walk[269]
Carlyle, Ampton Street[277]
Carlyle’s House, Cheyne Row[283]
Leigh Hunt’s House, Chelsea[289]
Leigh Hunt, 16 Rowan Road, Hammersmith[295]
The Charterhouse, from the Square[297]
Thackeray’s House, Kensington[301]
Lamb Building, Temple, from the Cloisters[307]
Dickens, Johnson Street, Camden Town[315]
Dickens’s House, Doughty Street[319]
Thurloe’s Lodgings, 24 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn[329]
Captain Marryat, Duke Street, St. James’s[333]
Benjamin Franklin’s House, Craven Street[335]
Cruikshank, 263 Hampstead Road[337]
George Morland, “The Bull Inn,” Highgate[339]
Rogers, St. James’s Place, from Green Park[341]
Borrow’s House, Hereford Square[345]