Riding-Hoods. Captain SENTRY, my Master's Nephew, has taken Possession of the Hall-House, and the whole Estate. When my old Master saw him a little before his Death, he shook him by the Hand, and wished him 5 Joy of the Estate which was falling to him, desiring him only to make good Use of it, and to pay the several Legacies, and the Gifts of Charity which he told him he had left as Quitrents upon the Estate. The Captain truly seems a courteous Man, though he says 10 but little. He makes much of those whom my Master loved, and shews great Kindness to the old House-dog, that you know my poor Master was so fond of. It would have gone to your Heart to have heard the Moans the dumb Creature made on the Day of my 15 Master's Death. He has ne'er joyed himself since; no more has any of us. 'Twas the melancholiest Day for the poor People that ever happened in Worcestershire. This being all from,

"Honoured Sir,

"Your most Sorrowful Servant,
"Edward Biscuit."

"P. S. My Master desired, some Weeks before he died, that a Book which comes up to you by the Carrier should be given to Sir Andrew Freeport, in his Name."

This Letter, notwithstanding the poor Butler's Manner of writing it, gave us such an Idea of our good old Friend, that upon the reading of it there was not a dry Eye in the Club. Sir Andrew opening the Book, found it to be a Collection of Acts of Parliament.

There was in particular the Act of Uniformity, with some Passages in it marked by Sir Roger's own Hand. Sir Andrew found that they related to two or three Points, which he had disputed with Sir Roger the last 5 time he appeared at the Club. Sir Andrew, who would have been merry at such an Incident on another Occasion, at the sight of the old Man's Hand-writing burst into Tears, and put the Book into his Pocket. Captain Sentry informs me, that the Knight has left Rings* 10 and Mourning for every one in the Club.1

O.

1 In 530 Will Honeycomb marries; in 541 the Templar abandons poetry, turns to the law, and gives up his companions; in 544 we see Captain Sentry in possession of Sir Roger's estate. Later (in 549) we learn that the clergyman has peacefully passed away, and Sir Andrew retires from business and from club life, leaving the Spectator alone. Finally (in 555) he too makes his bow, and for a year and a half the curtain falls.-D. O. S. Lowell.

CHRONOLOGY

1672 Steele born (March 12); Addison born (May 1).

1684 Steele enters the Charter house.

1686 Addison enters the Charter house; Eustace Budgell born. 1687 Addison enters Oxford.

1699

Addison begins his foreign travels.

1700 Steele seriously wounds Captain Kelly in a duel.

1701 Steele publishes The Christian Hero.

1702. King William dies and Queen Anne is crowned. 1703 Addison concludes his foreign travels.

1709 Addison becomes Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Budgell becomes Addison's secretary; Steele starts the Tatler and Addison becomes a contributor. 1710 Whigs go out of office and Tories take office. 1711 Tatler discontinued; Spectator begun.

1712

1713

a large estate in Warwickshire. The Spectator discontinued.

Addison buys

Steele elected a member of Parliament. Steele resigns his office under the government and attacks the party He is reëlected a member of Parliament.

in power.

1714 Steele is attacked in a pamphlet by Swift and expelled from the House of Commons for "uttering a seditious libel." Queen Anne dies and George I. succeeds her. In consequence Steele is soon appointed to several lucrative offices. The Spectator is revived, probably by Budgell, for about three months.

1717

1718

1719

1722

Addison retires with a pension; Steele loses his second
wife.

Addison and Steele quarrel. June 17, Addison dies.
Steele writes his best known play, The Conscious
Lovers.

1724 Steele retires to Wales.
1729 September 1, Steele dies.
1737 Budgell commits suicide.

GLOSSARY

AN INDEX TO INTRODUCTION

There are several reasons for this glossary of Addison and Steele's
writings: (1) Special allusions and proper names need explanation.
(2) Many words and phrases once perfectly intelligible have gone out
of fashion in the last two centuries. (3) Like all well-educated men
of their age, both Addison and Steele had had a far more rigorous
training in Latin than in English grammar, and in consequence intro-
duced Latin idioms into their works. (4) In common with their
contemporaries, both writers used to think often about daily life in
an abstract sort of way very foreign to the modern mind. (5)
Finally, both were men of affairs as well as men of letters, and often
wrote or dictated their essays hurriedly and sent them to the press
without much revision. Nevertheless, there is still sound sense in Dr.
Johnson's famous saying: "Whoever wishes to attain an English style
familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious must give
his days and nights to the study of Addison."

formal

25-28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34.
Address; here probably a
petition of some sort; p. 228, 1. 11.
Agreeable, to be, to agree with;
p. 65, 1. 3.

Amiable; misused by Steele for

"beloved," "popular"; p. 121, 1. 23.
Air [of distinction], p. 64, 1. 23.
An; the use of "an" before the aspi-
rate h, as in "an hundred,'
"" p. 50,
1. 30, or before the silent h, as in
"an humorist,' p. 81, 1. 17, is now
archaic.

Andromache; Introduction, Sec-
tion 10, footnote.

Answer; he agrees with an attorney
to answer; note that "attorney,"
not "he," is the subject of "an-
swer." The meaning Addison gives
to this phrase would not be justified
in modern usage; p. 57, 1. 9.
Answerable, correspondent, suit-
able; p. 172, 1. 26.
Application of them, how they
are applied; p. 65, 1. 21. Appli-
cation to affairs, application
to business; p. 92, 1. 16.
Argument, subject matter and gen.
eral method; p. 57, 1. 13.
Aristotle; the great Greek philoso-
pher, and Longinus, a minor Greek
critic and philosopher of the third
century, were counted in the Specta-
tor's day the classic authorities from
ancient time on the criticism of art.
Both discussed the proper portrayal
of sublime passion in poetry and
drama. Littleton, in the fifteenth
century, and Coke, who wrote a
commentary on him in the sixteenth,
were the classic English authorities
on law; p. 57, 1. 5.