ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
John Keats Frontispiece
Facing page
Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadil in “Every Man in His Humour” 82
William Makepeace Thackeray 120
William Wordsworth 200
Robert Browning 246
Samuel Johnson 314
Ralph Waldo Emerson 340
Robert Louis Stevenson 360
In the cover design by Margaret Armstrong the books and authors are represented by the following symbolic flowers: Bible—grapes; Psalms—wheat; Dickens—English holly; Thackeray—English rose; George Eliot—ivy; Keats—bleeding-heart; Wordsworth—daffodil; Browning—pomegranate; Izaak Walton—strawberry; Johnson—oak; Stevenson—Scottish bluebell.