d letter.

JOHN DONNE 129

7-10. Letters to Magdalen Lady Herbert.

JAMES HOWELL 135

11. "Long Melford for Ever."
12. The White Bird.

JOHN EVELYN 139

13. How to take care of ears, eyes and brains.

DOROTHY OSBORNE 146

14. A discourse of Flying, and several other things.
15. Some testimonies of kindness.

JONATHAN SWIFT 154

16. Letter-hunger.

LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU 159

17. Directions for running away with her.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 164

18. Some manners that make a gentleman.

GEORGE BALLARD 173

19. The wickedness of Reviewers.

THOMAS GRAY 180

20. Romanities and Plain English.
21. Kent, Rousseau, Lord Chatham, etc.

HORACE WALPOLE (AND W. M. THACKERAY) 187

22. What Horace wrote.
23. What Horace might have written.

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT 195

24. Of Johnson, and Johnson's Frank--To Wilkes.

WILLIAM COWPER 197

25. About a Greenhouse.

SYDNEY SMITH 201

26. Vegetation, stagnation, and assassination.
27. His "hotel." Hasty judgments deprecated.

SIR WALTER SCOTT 206

28. Authors and Morals.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 212

29. From Spinosa to Go_b_win through things in general.

ROBERT SOUTHEY 217

30-33. The _Lingo Grande_.

CHARLES LAMB 221

34. A Sigh for Solitude.

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON 228

35. Of Pictures, and Sepulture, and his Daughters.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 233

36. Of Pictures only.

JOHN KEATS 239

37. A Voyage, and the _Quarterly_ and Charmian.

THE CARLYLES 244

38. Thomas on _Latrappism_