66 "Essay on Addison" and of Thackeray in his "English Humorists" and "Henry Esmond." See also Gosse's "History of Eighteenth Century Literature," pp. 186–192. Social History.-Wm. Connor Sydney's "England and the English in the Eighteenth Century" should be read by all who can procure it, as a companion volume to Sir Roger de Coverley (2 vols., London, Ward and Downey; New York, Macmillan). "Social Life in England from the Restoration to the Revolution," by the same author, has much that is interesting concerning the reigns previous to Queen Anne. W. H. Davenport Adams's "Good Queen Anne" is admirable; second only to Burton's history, mentioned above. See also H. D. Traill's "Social England," vol. iv., p. 592 ff., Wm. Andrews's "Bygone England," the Duke of Manchester's "Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne," Index (under England-social) to Lecky's "History of England in the Eighteenth Century," Knight's "Popular History of England," vol. v., chaps. xvii.-xxvii. (especially xxvi. and xxvii.), and John Ashton's "Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," 2 vols. (especially chaps. xiv., xviii., and xix.). Miscellaneous. Other works that may be helpful to one who is making a study of this era-especially to teachers who wish to have a thorough knowledge of the subject and to suggest topics for research to individual pupils are: "Old and New London," by Walter Thornbury and Edward Walford (Cassell), H. B. Wheatley's "London Past and Present" (more like an encyclopædic dictionary, but valuable for reference), Reynolds's "Shilling Map of London" (Reynolds: 174 Strand), Hare's "Walks in London," John Thomas Smith's " Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London," Malcolm's "Manners of London," Timbs's "Curiosities of London," Baedeker's "London," Walter Besant's "London" (Harper's Magazine, 1892), Gay's "Trivia," Prior's "Town and Country Mouse," Joseph Spence's "Anecdotes," Phillips's "Addisoniana," Nathan Drake's "Essays on the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian," 3 vols., Swift's "Journal to Stella," Hazlitt's lecture "On the Periodical Essayists," and an elegant edition of the Sir Roger de Coverley papers with illustrations by Chas. O. Murray (London, Sampson Low; New York, Appleton). An excellent idea of social, literary, and political conditions, with good biographical sketches of the principal writers, may be found succinctly stated in Welsh's "Development of English Literature and Language," vol. ii., chap. ii. |