CONTENTS

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Charlotte Brontë 3
William Morris And His School 15
The Optimism Of Byron 29
Pope And The Art Of Satire 43
Francis 59
Rostand 73
Charles II. 85
Stevenson 97
Thomas Carlyle 109
Tolstoy And The Cult Of Simplicity 125
Savonarola 147
The Position Of Sir Walter Scott 159
Bret Harte 179
Alfred The Great 199
Maeterlinck 209
Ruskin 217
Queen Victoria 225
The German Emperor 227
Tennyson 249
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 261




CHARLOTTE BRONTË