The strange Elizabethans -- Donne after three centuries -- "The countess of Pembroke''s Arcadia" -- "Robinson Crusoe" -- Dorothy Osborne''s "Letters" - Swift''s "Journal to Stella" -- The "Sentimental journey" -- Lord Chesterfield''s letters to his son -- Two parsons--I. James Woodforde -- II> John Skinner -- Dr. Burney''s evening party -- Jack Mytton -- De Quincey''s autobiography -- Four figures-- I. Cowper and Lady Austen -- II. Beau Brummell -- III. Mary Wollstonecraft -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- William Hazlitt -- Geraldine and Jane -- "Aurora Leigh" -- The niece of an earl -- George Gissing -- The novels of George Meredith -- "I am Christina Rossetti" -- The novels of Thomas Hardy -- How should one read a book?