HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT
MAR 7 1924

COPYRIGHT, 1892,

BY SAMUEL THURBER.

TYPOGRAPHY BY J. S. CUSHING & Co., BOSTON.

PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, BOSTON.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

THE SPECTATOR CLUB.

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vii

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The Spectator introduces himself to the reader

The Spectator Club: Sir Roger de Coverley, the Templar, Sir

Andrew Freeport, Captain Sentry, Will Honeycomb, the

Clergyman.

Members of the Club discuss the Spectator's papers..

Will Honeycomb's dislike of pedantry leads the Spectator to mor-

alize on this subject..

SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.

The Spectator's observations at Sir Roger's country-house...

The Coverley household: Sir Roger's treatment of his servants ..

The Spectator describes Will Wimble, whom he meets at Sir

Roger's

Sir Roger's account of his ancestors

Ghosts and haunted houses..

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29

34

Exercise the best means of preserving health: Sir Roger as a

The Spectator accompanies Sir Roger to the hunting-field...

The Spectator discusses witchcraft: with Sir Roger he visits

Moll White.....

45

Sir Roger at the assizes

48

Sir Roger tells a story of his boyhood, which leads the Spectator

The Spectator sees reasons why he had better return to town

Sir Roger in town

Sir Roger visits Westminster Abbey.

Sir Roger goes to the play

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Sir Roger and the Spectator go by water to the Vauxhall Gardens 75

The death of Sir Roger....

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78

EDITORIAL.

The Spectator commends his papers to sundry classes of men, and

especially to women

80

Large books versus pamphlets and newspapers

The Spectator imagines himself described by an antiquarian of a

future age..

Effect of the newly-imposed stamp duty on periodical publica-

tions. The Spectator defends his non-partisan course...

The Spectator defends the raised price.

Precedence in literature

A friend of mankind brought to grief by an alchemist..

138

The Tatler explains whom he means by the expression "dead

Contemplation of the divine perfections suggested by the sky at

MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON .. 227

NOTES TO THE SELECT ESSAYS OF ADDISON...

NOTES TO MACAULAY's ESSAY ON ADDISON

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