WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, _Richard Henry Stoddard_, 148

JOHN BUNYAN, _John Greenleaf Whittier_, 66

ROBERT BURNS, _Will Carleton_, 112

THOMAS CARLYLE, _W. Wallace_, 154

_Letter from Carlyle on the "Choice of a Profession,"_ 161

CERVANTES, _Joseph Forster_, 39

THOMAS CHATTERTON, _Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston_, 107

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, _Alice King_, 29

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, _President Charles F. Thwing_, 144

DANTE, _Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S._, 19

DANIEL DE FOE, _Clark Russell_, 72

CHARLES DICKENS, _Walter Besant_, 186

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, _Moncure D. Conway_, 166

_Letter from Emerson to his child on the subject of "Health,"_ 173

GOETHE, _Rev. Edward Everett Hale_, 122

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, _Francis H. Underwood_, 196

HOMER, _William Ewart Gladstone_, 1

HORACE, _J. W. Mackail_, 16

VICTOR HUGO, _Margaret O. W. Oliphant_, 161

WASHINGTON IRVING, 140

SAMUEL JOHNSON, _Lord Macaulay_, 99

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, _Hezekiah Butterworth_, 174

JOHN MILTON, 60

MOLIERE, _Sir Walter Scott_, 50

PETRARCH, _Alice King_, 25

PLATO, _George Grote, F.R.S._, 7

ALEXANDER POPE, _Austin Dobson_, 82

SCHILLER, _B. L. Farjeon_, 116

SIR WALTER SCOTT, _W. C. Taylor, LL.D._, 130

_Letter of advice from Scott to his son_, 135

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, _Senator John J. Ingalls_, 44

DEAN SWIFT, _Samuel Archer_, 77

TORQUATO TASSO, 34

ALFRED TENNYSON, _Clarence Cook_,