Illustrations
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Charles Dickens Reading The Chimes at 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields on the Second of December, 1844. From a Sketch by Daniel Maclise, R.A. Title
Thomas Babington Macaulay at the Age of Forty-nine—After an Engraving by W. Holl, from a Drawing by George Richmond, A.R.A. 6
Sir Walter Scott—This Portrait is taken from Chantrey's Bust now at Abbotsford, which, according to Lockhart, "Alone Preserves for Posterity the Expression most fondly Remembered by All who Ever Mingled in his Domestic Circle." 12
White Horse Inn—From an Illustration to Waverley, Drawn by G. Cattermole and Engraved by E. Finden 14
Thomas Carlyle—From the World-Famed Masterpiece of Portraiture by James McNeill Whistler 20
Archhouse, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, the Birthplace of Thomas Carlyle—From a Photograph in the Possession of Alexander Carlyle, M.A., on which Carlyle has Written a Memorandum to Show in which Room he was Born 26
Thomas De Quincey—From an old Engraving 30
De Quincey with Two Daughters and Grandchild—From a Chalk Drawing by James Archer, R.S.A., made in 1855 34
Charles Lamb—From the Portrait by William Hazlitt 38
Mary and Charles Lamb—From the Painting by F.S. Cary made in 1834 44
Charles Dickens at the Age of Twenty-seven—From the Portrait by Daniel Maclise, R.A. 48
Original Pickwick Cover Issued in 1837 with Dickens' Autograph—Most of Dickens' Novels were Issued in Shilling Installments before being Published in the Complete Volume 52
William Makepeace Thackeray—From a Drawing by Samuel Laurence, Engraved by J.C. Armytage 56
Title-page to Vanity Fair, Drawn by Thackeray, who Furnished the Illustrations for Many of his Earlier Editions 58
William Makepeace Thackeray—A Caricature Drawn by Himself 62
Charlotte Brontë—From the Exquisitely Sympathetic Crayon Portrait by George Richmond, R.A., now in the National Portrait Gallery of London 66
Mrs. Gaskell—From the Portrait by George Richmond, R.A. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Brontë is one of the Finest Biographies in the Language 72
George Eliot in 1864—From the Etching by Mr. Paul Rajon—Drawn by Mr. Frederick Burton—From the Frontispiece to the First Edition of George Eliot's Life, by Her Husband, J.W. Cross 76
George Eliot's Birthplace, South Farm, Arbury, Nuneaton 80
John Ruskin—From a Photograph Taken on July 20, 1882, by Messrs. Elliott & Fry 88
John Ruskin—From the Semi-Romantic Portrait by Sir John E. Millais 92
Lord Alfred Tennyson—After an Engraving by G.J. Stodart From a Photograph by J. Mayall 96
Facsimile of Tennyson's Original Manuscript of Crossing the Bar. (Copyright by the Macmillan Company) 100
Robert Browning—From a Photograph by Hollyer after the Portrait by G.F. Watts, R.A. 106
Elizabeth Barrett Browning—After the Portrait by Field Talfourd 110
George Meredith with His Daughter and Grandchildren—From a Photograph Taken Shortly Before His Death 118
Flint Cottage, Boxhill, the Home of George Meredith—His Writing was done in a Small Swiss Chalet in the Garden 120
Robert Louis Stevenson—The Author's Intimate Associates Pronounce this Photograph a Perfect Presentation of His Most Typical Expression 126
Stevenson's Home at Valima, Samoa, Looking Toward Vaea 128
Thomas Hardy—A Portrait Which Brings Out Strikingly the Man of Creative Power, the Artist, the Philosopher and the Poet 132
Rudyard Kipling—A Striking Likeness of the Author in a Characteristic Pose 140
Rudyard Kipling—From a Cartoon by W. Nicholson 144