Part 2

VI. Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb 28

VII. The Death of Dr. Johnson 33

VIII. Gray Writes the Elegy 37

IX. Cowper as a Letter Writer 42

X. Gibbon and His Visit to Rome 46

XI. Burns Falls in Love 50

XII. Burns' First Book of Poems 54

XIII. Samuel Taylor Coleridge in School and College 59

XIV. Byron as Swimmer and Feaster 64

XV. Shelley as a Freshman 71

XVI. The Death of Shelley 76

XVII. The School-days of John Keats 82

XVIII. The Heroism of Sir Walter Scott 88

XIX. Walter Savage Landor 93

XX. Leigh Hunt's Business Ability 100

XXI. De Quincey Runs Away 102

XXII. Macaulay's Childhood 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 Müller 156

XXXIII. The Early Education of John Stuart Mill 162