It should be added that a few of these sketches have already appeared in print, but they have been rewritten to adapt them to their present purpose.
H. T. G.
Columbus, Wis., October, 1886.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Goethe | [9] |
| Robert Burns | [24] |
| Madame de Staël | [34] |
| William Wordsworth | [43] |
| Thomas De Quincey | [54] |
| Walter Scott | [64] |
| Charles Lamb | [75] |
| Christopher North | [85] |
| Lord Byron | [94] |
| Shelley | [102] |
| Washington Irving | [112] |
| William Cullen Bryant | [122] |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | [133] |
| Thomas Carlyle | [142] |
| Victor Hugo | [150] |
| George Sand | [164] |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | [177] |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton | [188] |
| Alfred Tennyson | [197] |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | [207] |
| Henry W. Longfellow | [220] |
| John G. Whittier | [238] |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | [251] |
| James Russell Lowell | [262] |
| Robert and Elizabeth Browning | [274] |
| Charlotte Bronté | [286] |
| Margaret Fuller | [302] |
| Edgar Allen Poe | [312] |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | [322] |
| Charles Dickens | [335] |
| George Eliot | [351] |
| Charles Kingsley | [363] |
| John Ruskin | [372] |
