of Greece")

II If Alexander Had Lived.
(From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece")

THOMAS CARLYLE--(Born in 1795, died in 1881.)

I Charlotte Corday.
(From the "History of the French Revolution")

II The Blessedness of Work.
(From "Past and Present")

III Cromwell.
(From "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History")

IV In Praise of Those Who Toil.
(From "Sartor Resartus")

V The Certainty of Justice.
(From "Past and Present")

VI The Greatness of Scott.
(From the essay on Lockhart's "Life of Scott")

VII Boswell and His Book.
(From the essay on Croker's edition of Boswell)

VIII Might Burns Have Been Saved?
(From the essay on Burns)

LORD MACAULAY--(Born in 1800, died in 1859.)

I Puritans and Royalists.
(From the essay on Milton)

II Cromwell's Army.
(From Chapter I of the "History of England")

III The Opening of the Trial of Warren Hastings.
(From the essay on Hastings)

IV The Gift of Athens to Man.
(From the essay on Mitford's "History of Greece")

V The Pathos of Byron's Life.
(From the essay on Moore's "Life of Byron")

* * * * *

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--III

1740--1881

* * * * *

JAMES BOSWELL

Born in 1740, died in 1795; son of a Scottish judge;
admitted to the bar in 1766; recorder of Carlisle in 1788;
removed to London in 1789; visited Corsica in 1766; first
met Dr. Johnson in 1763; went with him to the Hebrides in
1773; published his "Life of Johnson" in 1791.

I

BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO DR. JOHNSON[1]

Mr. Thomas Davies the actor, who then kept a bookseller's shop in
Russell street, Covent Garden, told me that Johnson was very much his
friend, and came frequently to his house, where he more than once
invited me to meet him; but by some unlucky accident or other he was
prevented from coming to us.

Mr. Thomas Davies was a man of good understanding and talents, with
the advantage of a liberal education. Tho somewhat pompous, he was an
entertaining companion; and his literary performances have no
inconsiderable share of merit. He was a friendly and very hospitable
man. Both he and his wife (who has been celebrated for her beauty),
tho upon the stage for many years, maintained a uniform decency of
character; and Johns