Chapter IV: A Happy Return of the Day

(From Book III, Chapter IV, of "Our Mutual Friend")

CHARLOTTE BRONTE--(Born in 1816, died in 1855.)

I Of the Author of "Vanity Fair."
(Preface to the second edition of "Jane Eyre")

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE--(Born in 1818, died in 1894.)

I Of History as a Science.
(From "Short Studies on Great Subjects")

II The Character of Henry VIII.
(From the "History of England")

III Cæsar's Mission.
(From the concluding chapter of "Cæsar--A Sketch")

JOHN RUSKIN--(Born in 1819, died in 1900.)

I Of the History and Sovereignty of Venice.
(From Chapter I of "The Stones of Venice")

II St. Mark's at Venice.
(From Vol. II of "The Stones of Venice")

III Of Water.
(From Vol. II, Section V, of "Modern Painters")

GEORGE ELIOT--(Born in 1819, died in 1880.)

At the Hall Farm.
(From "Adam Bede")

HERBERT SPENCER--(Born in 1820, died in 1904.)

I The Origin of Professional Occupations.
(From Volume III of "The Principles of Sociology")

II Self-Dependence and Paternalism.
(From the "Essays, Moral, Political and Esthetic")

III The Ornamental and the Useful in Education.
(From "Education, Intellectual, Moral and Physical")

IV Reminiscences of His Boyhood.
(From Part I, Chapter II, of the "Autobiography")