108

XXIII. Macaulay Becomes Famous 114

XXIV. Dickens Writes the Pickwick Papers 119

XXV. Charles Dickens as Reader 123

XXVI. On the Death of Dickens 126

XXVII. Ruskin's Childhood 130

XXVIII. The Marriage of the Brownings 135

XXIX. Robert Browning 140

XXX. Knight's Reminiscences of Tennyson 145

XXXI. Emerson on Carlyle and Tennyson 150

XXXII. Literary Recollections of Max Mueller 156

XXXIII. The Early Education of John Stuart Mill 162

XXXIV. Carlyle Goes to the University 167

XXXV. Carlyle and His Wife 170

XXXVI. Carlyle as Lecturer 175

XXXVII. Carlyle on Wordsworth and Browning 180

XXXVIII. The Author of "Jane Eyre" 184

XXXIX. Thackery in America 189

XL. George Eliot Becomes a Writer of Fiction 194

XLI. The Author of "Alice in WonderLand" 200

XLII. About Darwin 203

XLIII. Anecdotes of Huxley 209

XLIV. Stevenson at Vailima 214

XLV. Kipling in India 221

AMERICAN WRITERS

XLVI. Benjamin Franklin Runs Away 226

XLVII. Washington Irving 234

XLVIII. Cooper and "The Spy" 242

XLIX. John Lothrop Motley and Bismarck 249

L. The Youth of George Ticknor 254

LI. Fitz-Greene Halleck 259

LII. The Author of Thanatopsis 262

LIII. Curtis and Hawthorne at the Brook Farm 266

LIV. Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter 270

LV. Max Mueller's Recollections of Emerson, Lowell and Holmes 279