The Lake English Classics General Editor LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A.B. Professor of English in Brown University ADDISON-Sir Roger de Coverley Papers-ABBOTT ADDISON AND STEELE-Selections from The Tatler and The Spec tator-ABBOTT ENEID OF VIRGIL-ALLINSON AUSTEN-Pride and Prejudice BROWNING-Selected Poems-REYNOLDS BUILDERS OF DEMOCRACY-GREENLAW BUNYAN-The Pilgrim's Progress-LATHAM BURKE-Speech on Conciliation with Collateral Readings-WARD CHAUCER-Selections-GREENLAW COLERIDGE-The Ancient Mariner LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal 1 vol.-MOODY COOPER-The Last of the Mohicans-LEWIS COOPER-The Spy-DAMON DANA-Two Years Before the mast-WESTCOTT DEFOE-Robinson Crusoe-HASTINGS Democracy Today-GAUSS DE QUINCEY-Joan of Arc and Selections-MOODY. DICKENS-A Tale of Two Cities-BALDWIN DICKENS-David Copperfield-BALDWIN DRYDEN-Palamon and Arcite-COOK EMERSON-Essays and Addresses-HEYDRICK English Poems-From POPE, GRAY, GOLDSMITH, COLERIDGE, BYRON MACAULAY, ARNOLD, and others-SCUDDER English Popular Ballads-HART Essays-ENGLISH AND AMERICAN-ALDEN FRANKLIN-Autobiography-GRIFFIN. French Short Stories-SCHWEIKERT. GASKELL (Mrs.)-Cranford-HANCOCK GEORGE ELIOT-Silas Marner-HANCOCK GEORGE ELIOT-The Mill on the Floss-WARD GOLDSMITH-The Vicar of Wakefield-MORTON HAWTHORNE-The House of the Seven Gables-HERRICK HAWTHORNE-Twice-Told Tales-HERRICK AND BRUERE HUGHES-Tom Brown's School Days-DE MILLE. IRVING-Life of Goldsmith-KRAPP IRVING-The Sketch Book-KRAPF IRVING-Tales of a Traveller-and parts of The Sketch Book-KRAPP The Lake English Classics—continued LAMB-Essays of Elia-BENEDICT LONGFELLOW-Narrative Poems-POWELL LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal-See Coleridge MACAULAY-Essays on Addison and Johnson-NEWCOMER MACAULAY-Essays on Clive and Hastings-NEWCOMER MACAULAY-Goldsmith, Frederic the Great, Madame D'Arblay-NEW COMER MACAULAY-Essays on Milton and Addison-NEWCOMER MILTON-L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas-NEILSON Old Testament Narratives-RHODES POPE-Homer's Iltad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV-CRESSY AND MOODY RUSKIN-Sesame and Lilies-LINN Russian Short Stories-SCHWEIKERT SCOTT-Ivanhoe-SIMONDS SCOTT-Quentin Durward-SIMONDS SCOTT-Lady of the Lake-MOODY SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel-MOODY AND WILLARD SCOTT-Marmion-MOODY AND WILLARD SHAKSPERE-The Neilson Edition-Edited by W. A. NEILSON, SHAKSPERE-Merchant of Venice-LOVETT SOUTHEY-Life of Nelson-WESTCOTT STEVENSON-Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey-LEONARD STEVENSON-Kidnapped-LEONARD STEVENSON-Treasure Island-BROADUS TENNYSON-Selected Poems-REYNOLDS TENNYSON-The Princess COPELAND THOREAU-Walden-BOWMAN THACKERAY-Henry Esmond-PHELPS THACKERAY-English Humorists-CUNLIFFE AND WATT Three American Poems-The Raven, Snow-Bound, Miles Standish GREEVER Types of the Short Story-HEYDRICK Washington, Webster, Lincoln-DENNEY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO: 623 S. Wabash Ave. NEW YORK: 8 East 34th Street COPYRIGHT, 1898, 1919, BY ROBERT O. LAW COMPANY CHICAGO, U. S.A. PREFACE There is perhaps no humor in literature more likely to appeal to a girl of sensitive tastes than the delicate strokes of Addison; there is certainly no period in English life so likely to appeal to a boy of masculine tastes as the brilliant and intensely human age of Queen Anne. The humor of Addison must be left to disclose itself; it is never improved by the officiousness of an editor. Much can be done, however, to illustrate and make graphic the age for which and in which Steele and Addison wrote. This is the especial purpose of this volume. In the Introduction, I have not restricted myself to such a brief account of Queen Anne's time as a boy or a girl might read off-hand at a sitting. On the contrary, I have attempted to gather historical material from which the teacher may draw as occasion calls in the class-room. The teacher is urged, however, not to stop here; the pupils need to be set tasks of research for themselves. With this in view, he should, if possible, secure for them access to a com |