ILLUSTRATIONS
| John Keats | [Frontispiece] |
| Facing page | |
| Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadil in “Every Man in His Humour” | [82] |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | [120] |
| William Wordsworth | [200] |
| Robert Browning | [246] |
| Samuel Johnson | [314] |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | [340] |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | [360] |
In the cover design by Margaret Armstrong the books and authors are represented by the following symbolic flowers: Bible—grapes; Psalms—wheat; Dickens—English holly; Thackeray—English rose; George Eliot—ivy; Keats—bleeding-heart; Wordsworth—daffodil; Browning—pomegranate; Izaak Walton—strawberry; Johnson—oak; Stevenson—Scottish bluebell.