Printed October 1910
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty

CONTENTS

[I][R. W. Emerson]
PAGE
Friendship[1]
[II][H. D. Thoreau]
Friends and Friendship[45]
[III][Thomas Carlyle]
The Sentiment of Friendship[79]
[IV][Henry Mackenzie]
On the Acquisition of Friends[89]
[V][Oliver Goldsmith]
On Friendship[99]
[VI][Dr. Johnson]
The Pleasures of Friendship[109]
[VII][Dr. Johnson]
The True Art of Friendship[119]
[VIII][George Berkeley]
The Virtue of Friendship[137]
[IX][Sir Richard Steele]
On the Choice of Friends[151]
[X][Joseph Addison]
The Qualifications of Friendship[161]
[XI][Francis Bacon]
Of Friendship[173]
[XII][Montaigne]
Of Friendship[193]
[XIII][Anthusa to St. John]
Ideal Friendship[231]
[XIV][Aristotle]
The Blessings of Friendship[247]

ILLUSTRATIONS

From Water-Colour Drawings by
H. C. Preston Macgoun, R.S.W.

[‘We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God’][Frontispiece]
Facing page
[‘My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me’][56]
[‘It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive’][136]
[‘Then shall we meet ... as water with water’][216]