LVI. Howells Calls on Emerson, and Describes Longfellow 284

LVII. Longfellow, the Universal Poet 290

LVIII. Henry David Thoreau 297

LIX. The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe 303

LX. Artemus Ward 313

LXI. Edmund Gosse Visits Whittier 317

LXII. Personal Recollections of Whittier 320

LXIII. Henry Ward Beecher 329

LXIV. The London "Times" on Lowell 333

LXV. The Writing of "America" 338

LXVI. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and her First Story 340

LXVII. Sidney Lanier 344

LXVIII. The Story of Mark Twain's Debts 349

LXIX. Hamlin Garland's Literary Beginning 358

LXX. Stephen Crane: A "Wonderful Boy" 361

LXXI. Eugene Field 364

ILLUSTRATIONS

Geoffrey Chaucer _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The Old Tabard Inn 2

William Shakspere 8

John Milton 16

Robert Burns 50

Lord Byron 64

Percy Bysshe Shelley 70

Charles Dickens 122

Robert Browning 134

Alfred Tennyson 144

Ralph Waldo Emerson 150

Thomas Carlyle 175

Benjamin Franklin 226

William Cullen Bryant 262

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 290

John Greenleaf Whittier 320

STORIES OF AUTHORS

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