CONTENTS
| Page | |
| [PREFACE] | vii |
| [JOHNSON'S WORLD] | 1 |
| THE BOY | |
| [School Days] | 3 |
| [Oxford and after] | 9 |
| THE ADVENTURER IN LITERATURE | |
| [Johnson comes to London] | 18 |
| [The Great Lexicographer] | 25 |
| [The Great Cham of Literature] | 33 |
| THE MAN | |
| [Johnson's Household] | 43 |
| [His daily Life] | 53 |
| [His Clubs] | 62 |
| THE SOCIAL FRIEND | |
| [Enter Boswell] | 70 |
| [More about Boswell] | 78 |
| [David Garrick] | 87 |
| [Oliver Goldsmith] | 94 |
| [Sir Joshua Reynolds] | 103 |
| [Bennet Langton and Topham Beauclerk] | 110 |
| [Mrs Thrale] | 115 |
| [Fanny Burney] | 124 |
| THE TRAVELLER | |
| [The Tour to the Hebrides] | 127 |
| [Lesser Journeys] | 141 |
| [THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN] | 149 |
| [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE] | 156 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| [Samuel Johnson] (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) | Frontispiece |
| TO FACE PAGE | |
| [Johnson's birthplace at Lichfield] (from an engraving by Edward Finden after the drawing by C. Stanfield) | 4 |
| [Title-page of The Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1738] | 22 |
| [Johnson's house in Gough Square] | 28 |
| [James Boswell] (from an engraving by Finden after the sketch by G. Langton) | 70 |
| [A Pit check, Goodman's Fields Theatre] | 88 |
| [Drury Lane Theatre] | 88 |
| [David Garrick] (from the portrait by Robert Edge Pine) | 92 |
| [Oliver Goldsmith] (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) | 96 |
| [Johnson and Goldsmith outside Filby's shop] (from a drawing by W. M. Thackeray in the North British Review, 1864) | 110 |
| [Sir Joshua Reynolds] (from an engraving after the portrait by himself) | 104 |
| [Mrs Thrale] (from an engraving after the portrait by Reynolds) | 116 |
| [Mrs Thrale's Breakfast-table] (from an engraving after I. Cruikshanks, 1791) | 120 |
| [Fanny Burney] (from an engraving after the portrait by E. F. Burney) | 124 |
| [Johnson and Boswell arm-in-arm up the High Street] (from the caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786) | 128 |
| [Johnson under Boswell's roof] (from the caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson, 1786) | 128 |
| [Boswell standing firm to his post] (from the caricatures by Rowlandson) | 138 |
| [Whiggism terribly buffeted] (from the caricatures by Rowlandson) | 138 |
| [Fleet Street in Johnson's day] (from a contemporary engraving) | 150 |
The design on the cover is from one of the "copper pieces struck at Birmingham with his [Johnson's] head impressed on them." They passed current, as Boswell tells us, "as half-pence there, and in the neighbouring parts of the country."
Acknowledgment is made to Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd for supplying the block of the Boswell portrait; to Messrs George Routledge & Sons Ltd for permission to reproduce the pictures facing p. [88] from Doran's Annals of the English Stage (ed. Lowe, 1888); and to Messrs Emery Walker Ltd for permission to reproduce the portrait of Garrick facing p. [92.]