The Book of books -- Poetry in the Psalms -- The good enchantment of Dickens -- Thackeray and real men -- George Eliot and real women -- The poet of immortal youth (Keats) -- The recovery of joy (Wordsworth) -- "The glory of the imperfect" (Browning) -- A quaint comrade by quiet streams (Walton) -- A sturdy believer (Samuel Johnson) -- A Puritan plus poetry (Emerson) -- An adventurer in a velvet jacket (Stevenson)