THE LITERARY LIFE SERIES. 



Vol I.— authors AND AUTHORSHIP. 



CONTENTS : 



Some Literary Confessions. 

 First Appearance in Print, 

 Literary Heroes and Hero- Worship, 

 Some Successful Books. 

 The Seamy Side of Letters. 

 Literary Society. 

 The Consolations of Literature. 



Vol. II.— pen PICTURES OF MODERN AUTHORS. 



The Literary Life. 

 The Chances of Literature. 

 Concernino: Rejected MSS. 

 The Rewards of Literature. 

 Literature as a Staff. 

 Literature as a Crutch. 



Thomas Carlyle. 

 George Eliot. 

 John Ruskin. 

 [ohn Henry Newman. 

 Alfred Tennj-son. 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

 William Cullen Bryant. 

 Longfellow and Whittier. 



CONTENTS : 



Lowell and Holmes. 

 Nathaniel Hawthorne. 

 Walt Whitman. 

 Bayard Taylor. 

 Swinburne and Oscar Wilde. 

 The Brownings. 

 Charles Dickens. 

 William Makepeace Thackeray 

 Some Younger Writers. 



Vol. III.— PEN PICTURES OF EARLIER VICTORIAN 

 AUTHORS. 



Literary London in 1835. 

 Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. 

 Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield. 

 Thomas Babington Macaulay. 



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CONTENTS : 



Charlotte Bronte. 

 Washington Irving. 

 Edgar Allan Poe. 

 Harriet Martineau. 



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