CONTENTS

Preface.
LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS
I. To W. M. Thackeray.
II. To Charles Dickens.
III. To Pierre de Ronsard (Prince of Poets.)
IV. To Herodotus.
V. Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope.
VI. To Lucian of Samosata.
VII. To Maitre Francoys Rabelais.
VIII. To Jane Austen.
IX. To Master Isaak Walton.
XI. To Sir John Manndeville, Kt.
XII. To Alexandre Dumas.
XIII. To Theocritus
XIV. To Edgar Allan Poe.
XV. To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
XVI. To Eusebius of Caesarea.
XVII. To Percy Bysshe Shelley.
XVIII. To Monsieur de MoliÉre, Valet de Chambre du Roi.
XIX. To Robert Burns.
XX. To Lord Byron.
XXI. To Omar Kha'yya'm.
XXII. To Q. Horatius Flaccus.