PREFATORY
DICKENS A 'Frightful Minus'
THACKERAY His Worshippers.
DISRAELI His Novels.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS His Components.
GEORGE MEREDITH His Qualities.
BYRON Byron and the World.
HUGO His Critics.
HEINE The Villainy Translation.
MATTHEW ARNOLD His Verse.
HOMER AND THEOCRITUS The Odyssey.
RABELAIS His Essence.
SHAKESPEARE A Parallel.
SIDNEY His Expression of Life.
TOURNEUR His Style.
WALTON The Compleat Angler.
HERRICK His Muse.
LOCKER His Qualities.
BANVILLE His Nature.
DOBSON Method and Effect.
BERLIOZ The Critic.
GEORGE ELIOT The Ideal.
BORROW His Vocation.
BALZAC Under which King?
LABICHE Teniers or Daumier?
CHAMPFLEURY The Man.
LONGFELLOW Sea Poets.
TENNYSON St. Agnes' Eve.
GORDON HAKE Aim and Equipment.
LANDOR Anti-Landor.
HOOD How Much of Him?
LEVER How He Lived.
JEFFERIES His Virtue.
GAY The Fabulist.
ESSAYS AND ESSAYISTS The Good of Them.
BOSWELL His Destiny.
CONGREVE His Biographers and Critics.
ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS Its Romance.
RICHARDSON His Fortune.
TOLSTOI The Man and the Artist.
FIELDING Illusions.