EDWIN WATTS CHUBB. CONTENTS ENGLISH WRITERS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Ancient Tabard Inn 1 II. Sir Philip Sidney at Zutphen 4 III. About Shakspere 9 IV. John Milton 17 V. Charles Lamb, the Clerk of the India House 24 VI. Dr. Johnson and Charles Lamb 28 VII. The Death of Dr. Johnson 33 VIII. Gray Writes the Elegy 37 IX. Cowper as a Letter Writer 42 X. Gibbon and His Visit to Rome 46 XI. Burns Falls in Love 50 XII. Burns' First Book of Poems 54 XIII. Samuel Taylor Coleridge in School and College 59 XIV. Byron as Swimmer and Feaster 64 XV. Shelley as a Freshman 71 XVI. The Death of Shelley 76 XVII. The School-days of John Keats 82 XVIII. The Heroism of Sir Walter Scott 88 XIX. Walter Savage Landor 93 XX. Leigh Hunt's Business Ability 100 XXI. De Quincey Runs Away 102 XXII. Macaulay's Childhood 108 XXIII. Macaulay Becomes Famous 114 XXIV. Dickens Writes the Pickwick Papers 119 XXV. Charles Dickens as Reader 123 XXVI. On the Death of Dickens 126 XXVII. Ruskin's Childhood 130 XXVIII. The Marriage of the Brownings 135 XXIX. Robert Browning 140 XXX. Knight's Reminiscences of Tennyson 145 XXXI. Emerson on Carlyle and Tennyson 150 XXXII. Literary Recollections of Max Müller 156 XXXIII. The Early Education of John Stuart Mill 162 XXXIV. Carlyle Goes to the University 167 XXXV. Carlyle and His Wife 170 XXXVI. Carlyle as Lecturer 175 XXXVII. Carlyle on Wordsworth and Browning 180 XXXVIII. The Author of "Jane Eyre" 184 XXXIX. Thackery in America 189