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| Charles Dickens Reading The Chimes at 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields on the Second of December, 1844. From a Sketch by Daniel Maclise, R.A. | Title |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay at the Age of Forty-nine—After an Engraving by W. Holl, from a Drawing by George Richmond, A.R.A. | 6 |
| Sir Walter Scott—This Portrait is taken from Chantrey's Bust now at Abbotsford, which, according to Lockhart, "Alone Preserves for Posterity the Expression most fondly Remembered by All who Ever Mingled in his Domestic Circle." | 12 |
| White Horse Inn—From an Illustration to Waverley, Drawn by G. Cattermole and Engraved by E. Finden | 14 |
| Thomas Carlyle—From the World-Famed Masterpiece of Portraiture by James McNeill Whistler | 20 |
| Archhouse, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, the Birthplace of Thomas Carlyle—From a Photograph in the Possession of Alexander Carlyle, M.A., on which Carlyle has Written a Memorandum to Show in which Room he was Born | 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 Brontë—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 Brontë 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 Browning—After the Portrait by Field Talfourd | 110 |
| George Meredith with His Daughter and Grandchildren—From a Photograph Taken Shortly Before His Death | 118 |
| Flint Cottage, Boxhill, the Home of George Meredith—His Writing was done in a Small Swiss Chalet in the Garden | 120 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson—The Author's Intimate Associates Pronounce this Photograph a Perfect Presentation of His Most Typical Expression | 126 |
| Stevenson's Home at Valima, Samoa, Looking Toward Vaea | 128 |
| Thomas Hardy—A Portrait Which Brings Out Strikingly the Man of Creative Power, the Artist, the Philosopher and the Poet | 132 |
| Rudyard Kipling—A Striking Likeness of the Author in a Characteristic Pose | 140 |
| Rudyard Kipling—From a Cartoon by W. Nicholson | 144 |
