WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. By John Bigelow.
J. FENIMORE COOPER. By T. R. Lounsbury.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By Edward Cary.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John Bach McMaster.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. By George E. Woodberry.
WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner.
SIDNEY LANIER. By Edwin Mims.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. By Ferris Greenslet.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. By T. W. Higginson.