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Detailed information in Catalogue. VASSAR COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. SELECT ESSAYS OF ADDISON,

WITH MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON ADDISON'S LIFE AND WRITINGS.

EDITED BY SAMUEL THURBER.

The purpose of this selection is to interest young students in Addison as a moral teacher, a painter of character, a humorist, and as a writer of elegant English. Hence 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 DeCoverley papers are of course all included. Papers describing eighteenth-century life and manners, especially such as best exhibit the writer in his mood of playful satire, have been drawn upon as peculiarly illustrating the Addisonian humor. The tales and allegories, as well as the graver moralizings, have due representation, and the beautiful hymns are all given.

By omission of the least essential parts of the selected papers it has been possible to print, in 226 pages, seventy choice specimens of the writings of Addison, including sufficient representations of the work of his co-laborers, Sleele and Budgell. Passages lacking in refinement of language according to modern standards have been carefully omitted.

Trusting to his own experience as a teacher, the editor has deemed it wise somewhat to shorten the essay of Macaulay. This he has effected by the omission of passages somewhat episodic or discursive in their character, in which the essayist displays his historical erudition, but in which he cannot profitably be followed by immature readers.

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