_Charles Dickens as Captain Bobadil in “Every Man in His Humour”_ 82
_William Makepeace Thackeray_ 120
_William Wordsworth_ 200
_Robert Browning_ 246
_Samuel Johnson_ 314
_Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 340
_Robert Louis Stevenson_ 360
_In the cover design by Margaret Armstrong the books and authors are
represented by the following symbolic flowers: Bible—grapes; Psalms—wheat;
Dickens—English holly; Thackeray—English rose; George Eliot—ivy;
Keats—bleeding-heart; Wordsworth—daffodil; Browning—pomegranate; Izaak
Walton—strawberry; Johnson—oak; Stevenson—Scottish bluebell._