the fact, which other critics may explain. For these were
all men whom, for one reason or another, I loved; or when I
did not love the men, my love was the greater to their books.
I had read them and lived with them; for months they were
continually in my thoughts; I seemed to rejoice in their joys
and to sorrow with them in their griefs; and behold, when I
came to write of them, my tone was sometimes hardly courteous
and seldom wholly just.

R. L. S.



CONTENTS.


I. VICTOR HUGO'S ROMANCES
II. SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS
III. WALT WHITMAN
IV. HENRY DAVID THOREAU: HIS CHARACTER AND OPINIONS
V. YOSHIDA-TORAJIRO
VI. FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSE-BREAKER
VII. CHARLES OF ORLEANS
VIII. SAMUEL PEPYS
IX. JOHN KNOX AND WOMEN



CHAPTER I - VICTOR HUGO'S ROMANCES