Part 3

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 Müller's Recollections of Emerson, Lowell and Holmes 279

LVI. Howells Calls on Emerson, and Describes Longfellow 284

LVII. Longfellow, the Universal Poet 290

LVIII. Henry David Thoreau 297

LIX. The Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe 303

LX. Artemus Ward 313