_Our Ladies of Sorrow_ and _De Profundis_ III The intellectual grip behind the shifting 45 phantasies De Quincey as critic and historian IV The humour of De Quincey—not very genuine page 48 Witty rather than humorous Humour not characteristic of the Vagabond V De Quincey—Mystic and Logician 52 The fascination of his personality III GEORGE BORROW I Dreamers in Literature 57 Romantic autobiography and _Lavengro_ Borrow on the subject of autobiography The Celt and the Saxon in Borrow His egotism Little objective feeling in his friendships A self-absorbed and self-contained nature The Isopel Berners episode discussed The coldness of Borrow II His faculty for seizing on the picturesque and 66 picaresque elements in the world about him Illustrations from _The Bible in Spain_ Illustrations from _Lavengro_ III Borrow and the Gypsies 75 Mr. Watts-Dunton’s tribute to Borrow Petulengro Borrow’s faculty for characterization “How to manage a horse on a journey” IV Borrow and Thomas Hardy compared 82 Both drawn to characters not “screened by convention” Differences in method of presentment Borrow’s greater affinity with Charles Reade His distinctive originality The spacious freshness of his writings In his company always “a wind on the heath” IV HENRY D. THOREAU I Thoreau and his critics 89 The Saxon attitude towards him The Walden episode Too much has been made of it He went to Walden not to escape ordinary life, but to fit himself for ordinary life II His indebtedness to Emerson 93 His poetic appreciation of Nature Thoreau on “Walking”—compare with Hazlitt “Emersonitis”—examples III Thoreau and the Indians 97 The Indians were to Thoreau what the Gypsies were to Borrow. But he lacked the picturesque vigour of Borrow His utterances on the Indian character considered Thoreau and civilization Swagger and Vagabondage IV Thoreau as a thinker 104 His Orientalism “Donatello” (?) His power over animals Thoreau and children—his fondness for them This _not_ an argument in favour of sociability Lewis Carroll