| The Lady of Shalott | J. W. Waterhouse, R.A. | |
| A Reading from Homer | Sir L. Alma-Tadema, R.A. | Facing p. | 16 |
| Phœbus Apollo | Briton Riviere, R.A. | 〃 | 32 |
| Ancient Rome | J. M. W. Turner, R.A. | 〃 | 40 |
| The Coliseum | Sir L. Alma-Tadema, R.A. | 〃 | 48 |
| Hrothgar and his Warriors | | 〃 | 56 |
| The Last Chapter | J. Doyle Penrose | 〃 | 64 |
| A Page of the Durham Book | | 〃 | 80 |
| London in the Time of Chaucer | J. T. Eglington | 〃 | 96 |
| Chaucer reading to Edward III. | Ford Madox Brown | 〃 | 104 |
| A Story from Boccaccio | Sir James Linton, P.R.I. | 〃 | 112 |
| Caxton's Printing Office inthe Almonry at Westminster | Daniel Maclise, R.A. | 〃 | 128 |
| Sir Thomas More visited by hisDaughter in Prison | J. R. Herbert, R.A. | 〃 | 137 |
| Edmund Spenser reading “TheFaery Queen” to Sir WalterRaleigh | John Claxton | 〃 | 152 |
| The First Performance of“The Merry Wives of Windsor,”1599 | Edgar Bundy, R.I. | 〃 | 184 |
| The Play Scene from “Hamlet” | Daniel Maclise, R.A. | 〃 | 192 |
| Ophelia | Sir John Millais, P.R.A. | 〃 | 200 |
| The Shakespeare Bust in theParish Church, Stratford-on-Avon | | 〃 | 208 |
| L'Allegro | C. W. Cope, R.A. | 〃 | 232 |
| Milton at Chalfont | A. L. Vernon | 〃 | 240 |
| Milton dictating “Samson Agonistes” | J. C. Horsley, R.A. | 〃 | 248 |
| Crusoe | J. C. Dollman, A.R.W.S. | 〃 | 272 |
| Sir Roger de Coverley on hisWay to Church | C. R. Leslie, R.A. | 〃 | 280 |
| Swift and Stella | Margaret I. Dicksee | 〃 | 288 |
| Dr. Johnson in Lord Chesterfield's Anteroom | E. M. Ward, R.A. | 〃 | 312 |
| The First Audience | Margaret I. Dicksee | 〃 | 328 |
| The Meeting of Burns and Scott | C. Martin Hardie, R.S.A. | 〃 | 336 |
| Burns composing “The Cottar'sSaturday Night” | Sir William Allen, R.A. | 〃 | 344 |
| Summoned to Waterloo | Robert Hillingford | 〃 | 360 |
| Lake Windermere and Ambleside | F. W. Hayes | 〃 | 400 |
| Thomas Carlyle | J. A. M'Neill Whistler | 〃 | 424 |
| The Road to Camelot | G. H. Boughton, R.A. | 〃 | 472 |
