v. 1. Foreword. The peace that came to Tennyson. Charlotte Bronté's late romance. Two lights that failed: The stories of John Ruskin and Edward Fitzgerald. Poor Poe. The transformation of George Eliot. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and "The house of life." The long long faithfulness of Honoré de Balzac. The most famous love-story of all the ages: Dante and his Beatrice. When love came to Micheal Angelo. Two famous bachelors and their love-stories: Henry D. Thoreau and Washington Irving. The great romancer's unromantic life. The dream children of Charles Lamb. v. 2. The Brownings: the most ideal of love-stories. The love-life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story of a poet's romance: Longfellow and "Hyperion." The pitiful passion of poor John Keats. Brave-hearted Thackeray. The Carlyles: The very humanest love-story. Shelley, the skylark poet. The variously estimated Byron and his life of unrest. George Sand: a tale of quest and conquest. The heart-hunger of Margaret Fuller 26