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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction, The Age of Queen Anne

Steele and Addison

Predecessors of the Tatler and Spectator

The Tatler and Spectator

Reading List

Part One

NO.

THE TATLER

1 Introduction-Plan of the Tatler-The Char-

acter of an Absent Lover-Betterton's

Benefit-News-Death of Mr. Partridge

(Steele)

6 Visit from Sappho-A Journal of the Iliad—

News-Character of Alexander and Caesar

11 Modern Prophets (Steele) Genealogy of the

Staffs (Twisden) News

39 The Oxford Almanac-Dialogue on Duels

42 Lines on Bribery (Steele) Character of Aspasia

(Congreve) Inventory of the Playhouse

(Addison)

93 Letter from Switzerland-Remarks on Travel-

ling-The Author's Precautions against

Assaults (Addison) .

98 Letter from a Woman in Love Value of
Poetry (Steele).

116 Court of Judicature on the Petticoat (Addison)

124 On Expectations from The Lottery (Steele)

127 On Pride

167 The Funeral of Mr. Betterton, the Actor

NO.

178 On Don Quixote-The Upholsterer at the

Coffee-House

181 On the Death of the Author's Father (Steele)
183 The Decay of Public Spirit-Character of
Regulus

189 Judicious Education-Sam Bickerstaff and His

Family

192 Notes of Travel by Stage-coach and in

Packet-boat (Addison)

208 On Injudicious Civil People

220 The Church Thermometer (Addison)

249 The Adventures of a Shilling (Addison)

271 Conclusion (Steele)

Part Two THE SPECTATOR

NO.

PAGE

105

111

116

120

125

129

134

139

144

I. Essays on Morals, Manners, and Opinions

PAGE

1 The Spectator's Account of Himself (Addison) 151

4 Advantages of the Spectator's Taciturnity-
Care of the Female Sex (Steele)

7 On Popular Superstitions (Addison)
9 On London Clubs (Addison)

26 Reflections in Westminster Abbey (Addison)

35 False Wit and Humour (Addison)

39 On English Tragedy (Addison)

156

40 Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy (Addison)

69 The Royal Exchange (Addison)

183

188

70 On the Ballad of Chevy-Chase (Addison)
74 On the Ballad of Chevy-Chase (Addison)
93 Proper Methods of Employing Time (Addison) 205

133 Reflections on the Death of a Friend (Steele)

153 The Folly of Wishing to be Young (Steele) 213

192 Parental Fondness and Expectation (Steele)

198 The Female Salamander (Addison)

247 Different Classes of Female Orators (Addison) 227

399 Hypocrisy (Addison)

317 On the Waste of Time (Addison)

377 A Bill of Mortality for Lovers (Addison)

465 On the Means of Strengthening Faith

264

269

273

(Addison)

277-

479 The Causes of Unhappiness in Married Life

(Steele)

282

555 Farewell Paper and Acknowledgement of
Assistance (Steele)

287

NO.

II. Sir Roger De Coverley and His Friends

2 The Society of the Spectator (Steele)

34 An Evening with Sir Roger at the Club

(Addison)

106 The Home of Sir Roger (Addison)

107

Sir Roger and His Servants (Steele)

109 Among the De Coverley Portraits (Steele)

112 The Sabbath at Sir Roger's (Addison)

113 Sir Roger's Love Affair (Steele)

122 Sir Roger at the Assizes (Addison)

130 Sir Roger and the Gypsies (Addison)

131 The Reputation of a Silent Man (Addison)

174 Sir Roger and Sir Andrew (Steele)

329 Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey (Addison)

335 Sir Roger at the Theatre (Addison)

517 The Death of Sir Roger (Addison)

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297

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305

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314

44 The Debate on the Hoop-Petticoat (Philips) 371