Sartor Resartus (1833); The French Revolution, a History (1837); Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches (1845); Life of John Sterling (1851); History of Friedrich II. of Prussia (1858-65). His style is full of force, fire, and grotesqueness; he paints in vivid colours, and presents a true and exact picture of the living man. LORD MACAULAY, 1800-1859. Barrister; reviewer; Secretary of the Board of Control for India; member of the Supreme Council of India; historian; peer. Essay on Milton (1825); _Lays of Ancient Rome_ (1842); Essays (1843); History of England (1848-1859). Wrote a style of the greatest force and picturesqueness--full of allusion, illustration, grace, clearness, and point. LORD LYTTON, 1805-1873. Novelist; poet; statesman. Eugene Aram (1831); The Last Days of Pompeii; The Caxtons; some plays, minor _Poems_, and essays. Writes a most clear, fluent, bright, ornate, and readable English style. JOHN STUART MILL, 1806-1873. Clerk in the East India House; Utilitarian philosopher. System of Logic (1843); Political Economy (1844); Essay on Liberty. One of the foremost thinkers of his time. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882. Professor of Modern Languages and Literature; poet. _Evangeline_ (1847); _Hiawatha_ (1855); _Minor Poems_ (_Excelsior_; _A Psalm of Life_, etc.) One of the sweetest and best known of American poets. ALFRED TENNYSON, =1809-= Poet; poet laureate. _Poems, chiefly Lyrical_ (1830); _In Memoriam_ (1850); _Idylls of the King_ (1859-73); _Enoch Arden_ (1864); and several dramas. His poetical style is full of beauty, sweetness, and variety. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, 1809-1861. Poetess; the wife of Robert Browning. _Poems_ (1838); _Aurora Leigh_ (1856); _The Cry of the Children_; _Cowper’s Grave_; _Sonnets from the Portuguese_, etc. A poetess of infinite sweetness and power. ROBERT BROWNING, =1812-= Poet. _Pauline_ (1833); _Paracelsus_ (1836); _The Ring and the Book_, and about two dozen more volumes. His poems are very difficult to understand, but are very well worth understanding. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, 1811-1863. Novelist. Vanity Fair (1846); Pendennis (1849); Esmond; English Humorists, etc. The finest novelist and one of the best prose-writers of the century. CHARLES DICKENS, 1812-1870. Novelist. Pickwick Papers (1837); Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Christmas Books, etc. He has been read over and over again by hundreds of thousands of delighted readers. JOHN RUSKIN, =1819-= Art-critic; moralist; literary-man.