The early sixties -- Charles Dickens -- W.M. Thackeray -- Thomas Carlyle-Alfred Tennyson -- Richard Owen-The brothers Newman -- Richard Cobden -- John Bright -- Sir Stafford Northcote -- A parliamentary group -- Another parliamentary group -- From Commons to Lords -- "Crownless sovereignties" -- Sir Richard and Lady Burton -- Two philanthropists -- Ruskin and the pre-Raphaeilites -- John Arthur Roebuck -- Italy's English sympathizers -- Stars that rose in the sixties -- Lord Clarence Paget-Thorold Rogers -- Goldwin Smith -- The Keeleys, Robson and Webster -- The Bancrofts -- Three queens of song -- Three stage graces -- Some queens of society -- Last words.