The Lake English Classics General Editor LINDSAY TODD DAMON Professor of English, Brown University ADDISON AND STEELE-Sir Roger de Coverly PapersABBOTT ADDISON AND STEELE-Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator-ABBOTT -American Short Stories-ROYSTER AUSTEN-Pride and Prejudice-WARD BUNYAN-The Pilgrim's Progress-LATHAM BURKE-Speech on Conciliation with Collateral Readings— WARD BURNS Selected Poems CARLYLE-Essay on Burns } 1vol.-MARSH 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 Democracy Today-GAUSS DE QUINCEY-The Flight of a Tartar Tribe-FRENCH ELIOT, GEORGE-Silas Marner-HANCOCK ELIOT, GEORGE-The Mill on the Floss WARD English Poems-From POPE, GRAY, GOLDSMITH, COLERIDGE, English Popular Ballads-HART Familiar Letters, English and American-GREENLAW French Short Stories-SCHWEIKERT GASKELL (Mrs.)-Cranford-HANCOCK 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-KRAPP The Lake English Classics—continued IRVING-Tales of a Traveller-and parts of The Sketch Book -KRAPP -LAMB-Essays of Elia-BENEDICT LONGFELLOW-Narrative Poems-POWELL LOWELL-Visions 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 -NEWCOMER MACAULAY-Essays on Milton and Addison-NEWCOMER MILTON-L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas NEILSON MILTON-Paradise Lost, Books I and II—FARLEY Old Testament Narratives-RHODES One Hundred Narrative Poems-TETER PALGRAVE-The Golden Treasury-NEWCOMER POPE Homer's Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV-CRESSY AND READE-The Cloister and the Hearth-DE MILLE RUSKIN-Sesame and Lilies-LINN -Russian Short Stories-SCHWEIKERT SCOTT-Lady of the Lake-MOODY SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel-MoODY AND WILLARD SCOTT-Ivanhoe-SIMONDS SCOTT-Quentin Durward-SIMONDS Selections from the Writings of Abraham Lincoln-HAMILTON SHAKSPERE-The Neilson Edition-Edited by W. A. NEILSON, As You Like It Macbeth Hamlet Henry V Julius Cæsar Midsummer-Night's Dream The Tempest Twelfth Night SHAKSPERE-The Merchant of Venice-LOVETT SOUTHEY-Life of Nelson-WESCOTT STEVENSON-Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey LEONARD STEVENSON-Kidnapped-LEONARD STEVENSON-Treasure Island-BROADUS TENNYSON-Selected Poems-REYNOLDS TENNYSON-The Princess-COPELAND THACKERAY-English Humorists-CUNLIFFE AND WATT THACKERAY-Henry Esmond-PHELPS THOREAU-Walden-BOWMAN Three American Poems-The Raven, Snow-Bound, Miles Standish-GREEVER Types of the Short Story-HEYDRICK Washington, Webster, Lincoln, Selections from-DENNEY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO ATLANTA NEW YORK Grad Gift 47-29-03 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 |