Select Essays of Addison
The editor has aimed to bring together such papers from the Spectator, the Tatler, the Guardian, and the Freeholder as will prove most readable to youth of high school age, and at the same time give something like an adequate idea of the richness of Addison’s vein. The De Coverley Papers are of course included. There are seventy selections in all. They have to do with the Spectator Club, the Stage, Manners, Politics, Morals, and Religion. There are selections from Addison’s Stories and his Hymns. The book contains also Macaulay’s Essay on Addison.