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LENOX LIBRAAN NEW YORK
PRINTED BY D. & G. PRUCE,
NLOAT-LANE.
CONTENTS.
VOLUME I.
No.
HISTORICAL and Biographical Prefacem
Original Dedications.
1. The Spectator's Account of himself ADDISON.
2. Of the Club—Sir Roger de Coverley--the
Templar-Sir Andrew Freeport-Captain
Sentry-Will Honeycomb---the Clergyman - STEELE.
3. Public Credit, a Vision
ADDISON.
4. Advantages of the Spectator's Taciturnity-
Care of the Female Sex
STEELE.
5. On the Absurdities of the Modern Opera ...
6. Preference of Wit and Sense to Honesty and
Virtue
7. Popular Superstitions
Addison.
8. Letters on Masquerades
9. Account of various Clubs
10. The Uses of the Spectator
11. Character of Arietta—the Ephesian Matron
Inkle and Yarico
12. Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to Children ADDISON,
13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera–Merit of
Nicolini
14. Letters from the Lion--from an Under-sex-
ton-on the Masquerade-Puppet-show . STEELE.
15. Story of Cleanthe-on Happiness, exemplified
io Aurelia Fulvia ...
16. Various Articles of Dress--Lampoons-Scan-
dal - Politics--Letter from Charles Lillie.. Addison.
17. Account of the Ugly Club
18. History of the Italian Opera
19. On Envy
20. Impndence--the Starers
21. Divinity, Law, and Physic, overburthened
with Practitioners ...
22. Absurdities of the Opera exemplified in Let-
ters from the Performers of Beasts
23. Ill-natured Satire....
ADDISON
24. Complaint of Thomas Kimbow-impertinent
Acquaintance--Letter from Mary Tuesday -- STEELE.
25. Letter from a Valetudinarian-Excess of Anx-
iety about Health ...
26. Reflections in Westminster Abbey
27. Resolutions to quit the World Letter to a
Clergyman
28. Project of an Office for the Regulation of
Signs--a Monkey recommended for the Opera Addison,
29. Italian Recitative--Absurdities of the Opera
Dresses
30. Club of Lovers established at Oxford STEELE.
31. Project of a new Opera ...
32. Admission of the Spectator into the Ugly Club STEELE.
33. Characters of Lætitia and Daphine-- Art of im- proving Beauty
Ilughes.
34. Success of the Spectators with various classes
of Readers, represented hy the Club ....
· AUDISON.
35. False Wit and Ilumour ---Genealogy of Ilumour-
36. Letters from the Play-house, on the Dismission
of inanimate Performers
STEELE
37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library-- Character of
Leonora
58. On Affectation--Vanity
39. English Tragedy-Les-Otway
ers.....
40. Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy
41. Women called Picts-no Faith to be kept
with them
42. English Tragedy-Methods to aggrandize the
Persons in Tragedy
43. Account of the Hebdomadal Club-Remarks
on Dulness
44. Stage Tricks to ite Pity-Dramatic Mur-
ders
45. Ill Consequences of the Peace-French Fash-
ions—Childish Impertinence
46. The Spectator's Paper of Hints dropped
Gospel-gossip--Ogling
47. Theory of the Passion of Laughter
48. Spectator's Letter to the Ugly Club-Letters
from Hecatissa-an old Beau—Strolling Play-
49. Character at the Coffee-Houses-Eubulus STEELE.
50. Remarks on the English, by the Indian Kings Addison.
51. Censure of a Passage in the Funeral—Indelica-
cies in Plays
52. Letter from the Ugly Club---Hobbe's Theory
of Laughter
53 Letters on Female Education
Hughes.
The best bred Men—the Spleen-a Peeper-
King Latinus...
54. Account of the new sect of Loungers
55. Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employ
ments
56. Vision of Maraton
57. Mischiefs of Party Rage in the Female Sex
58. Essay on Wit-History of False Wit
59. The same subject continued..
60. Wit of the Monkish Ages—in Modern Times
61. The subject continued