106

How to Get the Best of Browning's Poems--Read the
Lyrics First and Then Take Up the Longer and the More
Difficult Works.

MEREDITH AND A FEW OF HIS BEST NOVELS 115

One of the Greatest Masters of Fiction of the Last
Century--_The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_, _Diana of
the Crossways_ and Other Novels.

STEVENSON, PRINCE OF MODERN STORY-TELLERS 123

His Stories of Adventure and Brilliant
Essays--_Treasure Island_ and _Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde_ His Most Popular Books.

THOMAS HARDY; HIS TRAGIC TALES OF WESSEX 131

Greatest Living Writer of English Fiction--Resenting
Harsh Criticisms, the Prose Master Turns to Verse.

KIPLING'S BEST SHORT STORIES AND POEMS 140

Tales of East Indian Life and Character--Ideal
Training of the Genius That Has Produced Some of the
Best Literary Work of Our Day.

BIBLIOGRAPHY 151

Short Notes of Both Standard and Other Editions, With
Lives, Sketches and Reminiscences.

INDEX 165

Illustrations

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Charles Dickens Reading _The Chimes_ at 58 Lincoln's Inn
Fields on the Second of December, 1844. From a Sketch
by Daniel Maclise, R.A. _Title_

Thomas Babington Macaulay at the Age of Forty-nine--After
an Engraving by W. Holl, from a Drawing by George
Richmond, A.R.A. 6

Sir Walter Scott--This Portrait is taken from Chantrey's
Bust now at Abbotsford, which, according to Lockhart,
"Alone Preserves for Posterity the Expression most
fondly Remembered by All who Ever Mingled in his
Domestic Circle." 12

White Horse Inn--From an Illustration to _Waverley_,
Drawn by G. Cattermole and Engraved by E. Finden 14

Thomas Carlyle--From the World-Famed Masterpiece of
Portraiture by James McNeill Whistler 20

Archhouse, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, the Birthplace of
Thomas Carlyle--From a Photograph in the Possession of
Alexander Carlyle, M.A., on which Carlyle has Written
a Memorandum to Show in which Room he was Born