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 Bronte--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 Bronte_ 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 Brownin