Chapter D: W. Holmes Series

Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.

LANDOR SERIES--

Landor’s Imaginary Conversations.
Pentameron.
Pericles and Aspasia.

THREE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS--

Essays of Elia.
Essays of Leigh Hunt.
Essays of William Hazlitt.

THREE CLASSICAL MORALISTS--

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
Teaching of Epictetus.
Morals of Seneca.

WALDEN SERIES--

Thoreau’s Walden.
Thoreau’s Week.
Thoreau’s Essays.

FAMOUS LETTERS--

Letters of Burns.
Letters of Byron.
Letters of Shelley.

LOWELL SERIES--

My Study Windows.
The English Poets.
The Biglow Papers.

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Transcriber's Note

Duplicate headings have been removed.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

p. 19 "intervene," changed to "intervene."

p. 42 "fouguese" changed to "fougueuse"

p. 122 "brothers. and" changed to "brothers, and"

p. 190 "songs shoot" changed to "songs, shoot"

p. 191 "Sebastopool" changed to "Sebastopol"

p. 216 "unforgetable" changed to "unforgettable"

(advertisement) "7 Prose Writings of Heine" changed to "27 Prose Writings of Heine"

(advertisement) "work." changed to "work.”

(advertisement) "contains." changed to "contains.”"

(advertisement) "CHILDREN OF POETS" changed to "CHILDREN OF POETS."

(advertisement) "Breakfast Table" changed to "Breakfast-Table"

(advertisement) "WILLIAMARCHER" changed to "WILLIAM ARCHER"

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

after-thought and afterthought

child-like and childlike

life-like and lifelike

now-a-days and nowadays

over-mastering and overmastering

stand-point and standpoint

sun-rise and sunrise