The Maclise Portrait-gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters

Book excerpt: The "Fraserians" -- William Jerdan -- Thomas Campbell -- John Gibson Lockhart -- Samuel Rogers -- Thomas Moore -- Sire Walter Scott -- John Galt -- William Maginn, "The Doctor" -- Crofton Croker -- Mrs. Nelson -- John Wilson -- Mary Russell Mitford -- Don Telesforo de Trueba Y Cozio -- Earl of Munster -- Lord John Russell -- Right Hon. John Wilson Croker -- Tydus-Pooh-Pooh -- Washington Irving -- The Lord Brougham and Vaux -- Robert Montgomery -- James Hogg -- The Baron von Goethe -- Isaac D'Israeli -- The Antiquaries -- Louis Eustache Ude -- Reverend Doctor Lardner -- Edward Lytton Bulwer -- Allan Cunningham -- William Wordsworth -- Sir David Brewster -- William Roscoe -- Prince de Talleyrand -- James Morier -- Countess of Blessington -- "The Tiger" -- Benjamin D'Israeli -- Thomas Carlyle -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- George Cruikshank -- Dr. Moir -- Miss Landon -- Miss Harriet Martineau -- Grant Thorburn -- Captain Ross -- Sir Egerton Brydges -- Daniel O'Connell and Richard Lalor Shiel -- Theodore E. Hook -- Charles Molloy Westmacott -- Leigh Hunt -- William Harrison Ainsworth -- Thomas Hill -- Rev. George Robert Gleig -- William Godwin -- James Smith -- Comte D'Orsay -- Charles Lamb -- Pierre-Jean de Béranger -- Miss Jane Porter -- Lady Morgan -- Mr. Alaric Attila Watts -- Lord Francis Egerton -- Henry O'Brien -- Michael Thomas Sadler -- Earl of Mulgrave -- William Cobbett -- Francis Place -- Robert Macnish -- Regina's Maids of Honour -- Michael Faraday -- Rev. William Lisle Bowles -- Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Sir John C. Hobhouse -- Mr. Serjeant Talfourd -- Sir John Soane -- Lord Lyndhurst -- Sheridan Knowles -- Edmund Lodge -- John Baldwin Buckstone -- Sir William Molesworth -- Rev. Sydney Smith -- Henry Hallam -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Daniel Maclise, R.A. -- Rev. Francis Mahony ("Father Prout").