145. Letters on Wagerers, Whistlers, , rude oid Bachelor-Male Dress... STEELE. 146. Passages from Cicero and Burnet... 147. On reading the Church-service 148. On Impertinents - Whisperers - 149. Letter from a Widow with two 150. Inconveniences of Poverty–Affec- 151. Character of a Man of Wit and 153. Folly of wishing to be young... 154. Letter of Apology for a Man of 155. Impertinent Conversation to Women 157. Improper Method of educating 158. Letters censuring the Spectator- 160. On great natural Geniuses 161. Letter and Reflections on rustic 162. On Inconstancy and Irresolution ADDISON. 163. Disappointment in Love — Letter ............... MISS SHEPHARD. Consolation ... ADDISON. 164. Story of Theodosius and Constantia STEELE. 166. Durability of Writing-Anecdote 167. Castle-building - Letter from a 168. Letter on the Severity of School- 169. On Good-nature, as the Effect of 171. Subject continued — Address to those who have jealous Husbands 172. Talents honourable only as they 173. Account of a Grinning-match 174. Dispute on the landed and trading Interest 175. Character of a Jezebel-Letter on 177. Good-nature, as a moral Virtue...... ADDISON. 178. Celinda's Letter on Female Jea- 179. Various Dispositions of Readers- Account of a Whistling-match- ADDISON 180. Vanity of Lewis XIVth's Con- 181. Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of 182. Letters on Seduction, from the 183. On Fable-Fable of Pleasure and 187. Letter on the Character of Jilts 188. The Love of Applause ............ of Women of the Town 191. On the Whims of Lottery-Adven- ADDISON. STEELE. turers ADDISON. 192. Parental Fondness and Expecta- tions—Consolation on the Death of a Parent .... STEELE. 193. Account of a great Man's Levee... 194. Letters on an untoward Wife- Fickle Friend N° 132. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1711. Qui, aut tempus quid postulet non videt, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum quibuscum est rationem non habet, is ineptus esse dicitur. TULL. That man may be called impertinent, who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in. HAVING notified to my good friend Sir Roger that I should set out for London the next day, his horses were ready at the appointed hour in the evening; and, attended by one of his grooms, I arrived at the county-town at twilight, in order to be ready for the stage-coach the day following. As soon as we arrived at the inn, the servant who waited upon me inquired of the chambermaidin my hearing what company he had for the coach? The fellow answered, * Mrs. Betty Arable, the great fortune, and the widow her mother; a recruiting officer (who took a pļace because they were to go); young 'Squire Quickset, her cousin (that her mother wished her to be mar-, VOL. VIII, ried to); Ephraim the quaker, her guardian; and a gentleman that had studied himself dumb from Sir Roger De Coverley's. I observed by what he said of myself, that according to his office he dealt much in intelligence; and doubted not but there was some foundation for his reports of the rest of the company, as well as for the whimsical account he gave of me. The next morning at day-break we were all called; and I who know my own natural shyness, and endeavour to be as little liable to be disputed with as possible, dressed immediately, that I might make no one wait. The first preparation for our setting out was, that the captain's half pike was placed near the coachman, and a drum behind the coach. In the mean time the drummer, the captain's equipage, was very loud, “that none of the captain's things should be placed so as to be spoiled;' upon which his cloak-bag was fixed in the seat of the coach; and the captain himself, according to a frequent, though invidious behaviour of military men, ordered his man to look sharp, that none but one of the ladies should have the place he had taken fronting the coach-box. . We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too goodnatured usually conceive of each other at first sight. The coach jumbled us insensibly into some sort of familiarity; and we had not moved above two miles, when the widow asked the captain what success he had in his recruiting ? The officer, with a frankness he believed very graceful, told her, “ that indeed he had but very little luck, and had suffered much by desertion, therefore should be glad to end his warfare in the service of her or her fair daughter. In a word,' continued he, 'I am a soldier, and to be plain is my character : you see me, madam, young, sound, and impudent: take me yourself, widow, or |