We shall scan his pages vainly for the profound aspiration, the subtle spiritual insight of our greatest religious teachers. In his indifference to form, his insensibility to the noblest music, we shall realize his artistic limitations. Despite his genial comradeship, the more intimate, the more delicate experiences of friendship are not to be found in his company. Delicacy, light and shade, subtlety, intensity, for these qualities you must not seek Whitman. But that is no reason for neglecting him. The Modern and Ancient world are rich in these other qualities, and the special need of the present day is not intensity so much as sanity, not subtlety so much as breadth. In one of his clever phrases Mr. Havelock Ellis has described Whitman “as a kind of Titanic Undine.” {204} Perhaps it is a good thing for us that he never “found his soul.” In an age of morbid self-introspection there is something refreshing in an utterance like this, where he praises the animals because— “They do not screech and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to GOD.” In a feverish, restless age it is well to feel the presence of that large, passive, tolerant figure. There is healing in the cool, firm touch of his hand; healing in the careless, easy self-confidence of his utterance. He has spoken to us of “the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth.” And he has done this with the rough outspokenness of the elements, with the splendid audacity of Nature herself. Brawn, sun-tan, air-sweetness are things well worth the having, for they mean good health. That is why we welcome the big, genial sanity of Walt Whitman, for he has about him the rankness and sweetness of the Earth. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES (Some of the most noteworthy books and articles dealing with the authors discussed in this volume are indicated below.) WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778–1830). _Memoirs_, by William Carew Hazlitt. _Four Generations of a Literary Family_, by W. C. Hazlitt (1897). _William Hazlitt_, by Augustine Birrell. _William Hazlitt_, by Alexander Ireland (Frederick Warne & Co., 1889). THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785–1859). _De Quincey_, by David Masson (Macmillan & Co.). _De Quincey and his Friends_, by James Hogg (1895). _De Quincey_, by H. S. Salt (“Bell’s Miniature Series of Great Writers”). GEORGE BORROW (1803–81). _Life and Letters_ (2 vols.), by Dr. Knapp. Introductions to _Lavengro_ (Frederick Warne & Co.), _The Romany Rye_ (Frederick Warne & Co.), _Wild Wales_ (J. M. Dent & Co.), by Theodore Watts-Dunton. Article in Chambers’s _Cyclopedia of English Literature_. “Reminiscences of George Borrow” (_Athenæum_, Sept. 3, 10, 1881). HENRY D. THOREAU (1817–62).