FREDERICK SESSIONS.

The Brant,
Kendal.

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]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dove Cottage, Grasmere (Frontispiece) [i]
Thomas De Quincey [2]
The Knoll, Ambleside [20]
Brantwood, Coniston Lake [28]
John Ruskin in Old Age [64]
The House at Herne Hill in which Ruskin was Born in 1819 [74]
Medallion on the Ruskin Memorial, Derwentwater [83]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge [84]
Nab Cottage, Rydal [94]
Wine Street, Bristol [102]
Southey's Monument in Crosthwaite Church, Keswick [112]
Joseph Cottle, of Bristol [112]
Old Brathay [122]
Charles Lloyd and his Wife [129]
Elleray, Windermere [130]
View of Windermere [166]
Yewdale [187]
Hawkeshead, from Esthwaite Water [203]
Fox How, Ambleside [212]
Burneside Hall, near Kendal [222]
Swarthmore Hall, Ulverstone [233]

GRASMERE AND DOVE COTTAGE