CONTENTS.

VOL. I.

HISTORICAL and Biographical Pre-

face.-Orignal Dedications.

· 1. The Spectator's Account of him-

self ..................................... ADDISON.

2. Of the Club-Sir Roger de Coverley

-the Templar-Sir Andrew Free.

port -- Captain Sentry - Will

Honeycomb-the Clergyman ...... STEELE.

3. Public Credit, a Vision.................. ADDISON.

4. Advantages of the Spectator's Ta-

citurnity-Care of the Female

Sex ...........

............ STELLE,

5. On the Absurdities of the Modern

Opera ...........

......... ADDISON,

6. Preference of Wit and Sense to Ho-

nesty and Virtue..................... STEELE.

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......... STEELE.

12. Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts

to Children ....

............. ADDISON.

No.

13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera

-Merit of Nicolini.................. ADDISON,

14. Letters from the Lion--from an

Under-sexton on the Masquerade

-Puppet Show .................... STEELE.

15. Story of Cleanthe-on Happiness,

exemplified in Aurelia-Fulvia ... ADDISON.

16. Various Articles of Dress-Lam-

poons-Scandal-Politics - Let-

ter from Charles Lillie...............

17. Account of the Ugly Club ............ STEELE.

18. History of the Italian Opera ......... ADDISON.

19. On Envy ................................. STEELE.

20. Impudence-the Starers ...............

21. Divinity, Law, and Physic overbur-

. thened with Practitioners ......... ADDISON.

22. Absurdities of the Opera exempli.

fied in Letters from the Perfor-

mers of Beasts ........................ STEELE.

23. Ill-natured Satire ........................ ADDISON.

24. Complaint of Thomas Kimbow

impertinent Acquaintance-Let-

ter from Mary Tuesday ............ STEELE.

25. Letter from a Valetudinarian-Ex-

cess of Anxiety about Health ... ADDISON.

26. Reflexions in Westminster Ab.

bey .......................

27. Resolutions to quit the World

Letter to a Clergyman ............ STEELE.

28. Project of an Office for the Regula-

tion of Signs—a Monkey recom-

mended for the Opera ............... ADDISON.

29. Italian Recitative — Absurdities of

the Opera Dresses .. ...

30. Club of Lovers established at Ox.

ford ......................

...... STEELE.

31. Project of a new Opera ............... ADDISON.

.. ADDISON.

No.

32. Admission of the Spectator into the

Ugly Club.............................. STEELE.

33. Characters of Lætitia and Daphne... -

Art of improving Beauty............ Hughes.

34. Success of the Spectators with va-

rious Classes of Readers, repre-

sented by the Club ............

35. False Wit and Humour-Genealogy

of Humour ......................

36. Letters from the Play-house, on the

Dismission of inanimate Perfor-

mers ................................... STEELE.

37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library-

Character of Leonora ............... ADDISON.

38. On Affectation-Vanity................ STEELE.

39. English Tragedy-Lee-Otway ... ADDISON.

40. Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy .........

41. Women called Picts no Faith to

be kept with them .................. STEELE.

42. English Tragedy-Methods to ag.

grandise the Persons in Tragedy... ADDISON.

43. Account of the Hebdomadal Club

-Remarks on Dulness ............ STEELE.

44. Stage Tricks to excite Pity-Dra.

matic Murders ........................ ADDISON.

45. III. Consequences of the Peace-

French Fashions - Childish Im-

. pertinence....................... ... ..

46. The Spectator's Paper of Hints drop-

' ped-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 Players ........... STEELE.

49. Character at the Coffee Houses-

Eubulus .........

...... STEELE.

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50. Remarks on the English, by the In-

dian Kings ........................... ADDISON.

51. Censure of a Passage in the Fune.

ral – Indelicacies in Plays ......... STEELE.

52. Letter from the Ugly Club-Hob-

bes'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 Loun-

gers ....................................

55. Effects of Avarice and Luxury on

Employments .......... ..... ADDISON.

56. Vision of Marraton.......

57. Mischiefs of Party-Rage in the Fe.

male Sex .........

58. Essay on Wit—History of False

Wit ............

59. The same subject continued ........

60. Wit of the Monkish Ages in Mo-

dern Times ............

61. The Subject continued ................. -