Hamlet. (From the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays") THOMAS DE QUINCEY--(Born in 1785, died in 1859.) I Dreams of an Opium-Eater. (From the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater") II Joan of Arc. (From the "Biographical and Historical Essays") III Charles Lamb. (From the "Literary Reminiscences") LORD BYRON--(Born in 1788, died in 1824.) I Of His Mother's Treatment of Him. (A letter to his half-sister, Augusta) II To His Wife after the Separation. (A letter written in Italy) III To Sir Walter Scott. (A letter written in Italy) IV Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects. (From the "Reply to Bowles") PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY--(Born in 1792, died in 1822.) I In Defense of Poetry. (From an essay written some time in 1820-21) II The Baths of Caracalla. (From a letter to Thomas Love Peacock) III The ruins of Pompeii. (A letter to Thomas Love Peacock) GEORGE GROTE--(Born in 1794, died in 1871.) I The Mutilation of the Hermae. (From Chapter LVIII of the "History of Greece") II If Alexander Had Lived. (From Chapter XCIV of the "History of Greece") THOMAS CARLYLE--(Born in 1795, died in 1881.) I Charlotte Corday. (From the "History of the French Revolution") II The Blessedness of Work. (From "Past and Present") III Cromwell. (From "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History") IV In Praise of Those Who Toil. (From "Sartor Resartus") V The Certainty of Justice. (From "Past and Present") VI The Greatness of Scott. (From the essay on Lockhart's "Life of Scott") VII Boswell and His Book. (From the essay on Croker's edition of Boswell) VIII Might Burns Have Been Saved? (From the essay on Burns) LORD MACAULAY--(Born in 1800, died in 1859.) I Puritans and Royalists. (From the essay on Milton) II Cromwell's Army. (From Chapter I of the "History of England") III The Opening of the Trial of Warren Hastings. (From the essay on Hastings) IV The Gift of Athens to Man. (From the essay on Mitford's "History of Greece") V The Pathos of Byron's Life. (From the essay on Moore's "Life of Byron") * * * * * GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--III 1740--1881 * * * * * JAMES BOSWELL Born in 1740, died in 1795; son of a Scottish judge; admitted to the bar in 1766; recorder of Carlisle in 1788; removed to London in 1789; visited Corsica in 1766; first met Dr. Johnson in 1763; went with him to the Hebrides in 1773; published his "Life of Johnson" in 1791. I BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO DR. JOHNSON[1]