By GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction ToC
The Vital Quality in Literature ToC
Macaulay's Essays in European History ToC
Scott and His Waverley Novels ToC
Carlyle As an Inspirer of Youth ToC
De Quincey As a Master of Style ToC
Charles Lamb And The Essays of Elia ToC
Dickens The Foremost of Novelists ToC
Thackeray Greatest Master of Fiction ToC
Charlotte BrontE And Her Two Great Novels ToC
George Eliot And Her Two Great Novels ToC
Ruskin The Apostle of Art ToC
Tennyson Leads the Victorian Writers ToC
Browning Greatest Poet Since Shakespeare ToC
Meredith And a Few of His Best Novels ToC
Stevenson Prince of Modern Story-Tellers ToC
Thomas Hardy And His Tragic Tales Of Wessex ToC
Kipling's Best Short Stories And Poems ToC
Bibliography ToC
Index ToC
Transcriber's Note:
A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of this document.
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.ToList