ENGLISH WRITERS |
| CHAPTER | | PAGE |
| I. | [The Ancient Tabard Inn] | 1 |
| II. | [Sir Philip Sidney at Zutphen] | 4 |
| III. | [About Shakspere] | 9 |
| IV. | [John Milton] | 17 |
| V. | [Charles Lamb, the Clerk of the India House] | 24 |
| VI. | [Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb] | 28 |
| VII. | [The Death of Dr. Johnson] | 33 |
| VIII. | [Gray Writes the Elegy] | 37 |
| IX. | [Cowper as a Letter Writer] | 42 |
| X. | [Gibbon and His Visit to Rome] | 46 |
| XI. | [Burns Falls in Love] | 50 |
| XII. | [Burns' First Book of Poems] | 54 |
| XIII. | [Samuel Taylor Coleridge in School and College] | 59 |
| XIV. | [Byron as Swimmer and Feaster] | 64 |
| XV. | [Shelley as a Freshman] | 71 |
| XVI. | [The Death of Shelley] | 76 |
| XVII. | [The School-days of John Keats] | 82 |
| XVIII. | [The Heroism of Sir Walter Scott] | 88 |
| XIX. | [Walter Savage Landor] | 93 |
| XX. | [Leigh Hunt's Business Ability] | 100 |
| XXI. | [De Quincey Runs Away] | 102 |
| XXII. | [Macaulay's Childhood] | 108 |
| XXIII. | [Macaulay Becomes Famous] | 114 |
| XXIV. | [Dickens Writes the Pickwick Papers] | 119 |
| XXV. | [Charles Dickens as Reader] | 123 |
| XXVI. | [On the Death of Dickens] | 126 |
| XXVII. | [Ruskin's Childhood] | 130 |
| XXVIII. | [The Marriage of the Brownings] | 135 |
| XXIX. | [Robert Browning] | 140 |
| XXX. | [Knight's Reminiscences of Tennyson] | 145 |
| XXXI. | [Emerson on Carlyle and Tennyson] | 150 |
| XXXII. | [Literary Recollections of Max Müller] | 156 |
| XXXIII. | [The Early Education of John Stuart Mill] | 162 |
| XXXIV. | [Carlyle Goes to the University] | 167 |
| XXXV. | [Carlyle and His Wife] | 170 |
| XXXVI. | [Carlyle as Lecturer] | 175 |
| XXXVII. | [Carlyle on Wordsworth and Browning] | 180 |
| XXXVIII. | [The Author of "Jane Eyre"] | 184 |
| XXXIX. | [Thackery in America] | 189 |
| XL. | [George Eliot Becomes a Writer of Fiction] | 194 |
| XLI. | [The Author of "Alice in WonderLand"] | 200 |
| XLII. | [About Darwin] | 203 |
| XLIII. | [Anecdotes of Huxley] | 209 |
| XLIV. | [Stevenson at Vailima] | 214 |
| XLV. | [Kipling in India] | 221 |
AMERICAN WRITERS |
| XLVI. | [Benjamin Franklin Runs Away] | 226 |
| XLVII. | [Washington Irving] | 234 |
| XLVIII. | [Cooper and "The Spy"] | 242 |
| XLIX. | [John Lothrop Motley and Bismarck] | 249 |
| L. | [The Youth of George Ticknor] | 254 |
| LI. | [Fitz-Greene Halleck] | 259 |
| LII. | [The Author of Thanatopsis] | 262 |
| LIII. | [Curtis and Hawthorne at the Brook Farm] | 266 |
| LIV. | [Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter] | 270 |
| LV. | [Max Müller's Recollections of Emerson, Lowell and Holmes] | 279 |
| LVI. | [Howells Calls on Emerson, and Describes Longfellow] | 284 |
| LVII. | [Longfellow, the Universal Poet] | 290 |
| LVIII. | [Henry David Thoreau] | 297 |
| LIX. | [The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe] | 303 |
| LX. | [Artemus Ward] | 313 |
| LXI. | [Edmund Gosse Visits Whittier] | 317 |
| LXII. | [Personal Recollections of Whittier] | 320 |
| LXIII. | [Henry Ward Beecher] | 329 |
| LXIV. | [The London "Times" on Lowell] | 333 |
| LXV. | [The Writing of "America"] | 338 |
| LXVI. | [Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and her First Story] | 340 |
| LXVII. | [Sidney Lanier] | 344 |
| LXVIII. | [The Story of Mark Twain's Debts] | 349 |
| LXIX. | [Hamlin Garland's Literary Beginning] | 358 |
| LXX. | [Stephen Crane: A "Wonderful Boy"] | 361 |
| LXXI. | [Eugene Field] | 364 |