CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I.

To W. M. Thackeray

1

II.

To Charles Dickens

10

III.

To Pierre de Ronsard

22

IV.

To Herodotus

34

V.

Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope

46

VI.

To Lucian of Samosata

55

VII.

To Maître Françoys Rabelais

66

VIII.

To Jane Austen

75

IX.

To Master Isaak Walton

86

X.

To M. Chapelain

98

XI.

To Sir John Maundeville, Kt.

110

XII.

To Alexandre Dumas

119

XIII.

To Theocritus

130

XIV.

To Edgar Allan Poe

140

XV.

To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

152

XVI.

To Eusebius of Cæsarea

162

XVII.

To Percy Bysshe Shelley

173

XVIII.

To Monsieur de Molière, Valet de Chambre du Roi

184

XIX.

To Robert Burns

195

XX.

To Lord Byron

205

XXI.

To Omar Khayyâm

216

XXII.

To Q. Horatius Flaccus

223