Certain Idols

CHARLES DIBDIN 1745-1814 4620

Sea Song Poor Jack
Song: The Heart of a Tar Tom Bowling

CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870 4625

BY LAURENCE HUTTON

The One Thing Needful ('Hard Times')
The Boy at Mugby ('Mugby Junction')
Burning of Newgate ('Barnaby Rudge')
Monseigneur ('A Tale of Two Cities')
The Ivy Green

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME XI

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The Oldest Lombardic Manuscript (Colored Plate) Frontispiece
Dante Alighieri (Portrait) 4316
Charles Robert Darwin (Portrait) 4386
"The Ape-Man" (Photogravure) 4398
Alphonse Daudet (Portrait) 4436
Daniel Defoe (Portrait) 4480
"Robinson Crusoe" (Facsimile) 4486
Demosthenes (Portrait) 4536
Thomas De Quincey (Portrait) 4556
Rene Descartes (Portrait) 4586
Charles Dickens (Portrait) 4626
"Gadshill" (Photogravure) 4634

VIGNETTE PORTRAITS

Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Madame du Deffand
Jean F. C. Delavigne
Paul Deroulede
Sir Aubrey De Vere
Charles Dibdin

RICHARD HENRY DANA, SENIOR

(1787-1879)

[Illustration: RICHARD H. DANA]

Richard Henry Dana the elder, although he died less than twenty years
ago, belonged to the first generation of American writers; he was born
in 1787, in Cambridge, four years after Washington Irving. He came of a
distinguished and scholarly family: his father had been minister to
Russia during the Revolution, and was afterwards Chief Justice of
Massachusetts; through his mother he was descended from Anne Bradstreet.
At the age of ten he went to Newport to live with his maternal
grandfather, William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, and remained until he entered Harvard. The wild rock-bound
coast scenery impressed him deeply, and ever after the sea was one of
his ruling passions. Only one familiar with all the moods of the ocean
could have written 'The Buccaneer'. After quitting college he studied
law, and was admitted to the Boston bar. Literature however p