. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. ned, it was from the Archbishop; tother I opened, itwas from Staunton ; the third I took, and looked at the hand. Whosehand is this? says I, yes, says I Whose hand is this? Then therewas wax between the folds: then I began to suspect; then I peeped;faith, it was Walls1 hand after all: then I opened it in a rage, and thenit was little M Ds hand, dear little pretty charming M Ds handagain. Some writers assert that Swif
. One year course in English and American literature; an introduction to the chief authors in English and American literature, with reading lists and references for further study. ned, it was from the Archbishop; tother I opened, itwas from Staunton ; the third I took, and looked at the hand. Whosehand is this? says I, yes, says I Whose hand is this? Then therewas wax between the folds: then I began to suspect; then I peeped;faith, it was Walls1 hand after all: then I opened it in a rage, and thenit was little M Ds hand, dear little pretty charming M Ds handagain. Some writers assert that Swift and Stella were secretlymarried, but no conclusive evidence of this has been pro-duced. Joseph Addison (1672-1719), like Swift, mingled lettersand politics. After his graduation at Oxford he wrote apoem celebrating the victory of the Duke of Marlboroughat Blenheim, and was rewarded with an office. He roserapidly to a seat in Parliament, married a lady of rank,and finally became Secretary of State. His chief contri-butions to literature, however, were not his political writingsnor his stiff tragedy called Cato, but his essays contributedto The Spectator. RICHARD STEELE 49. To discuss this we must turn first to Addisons friend,Richard Steele (1671-1729). Steele and Addison hadbeen together as schoolboys and in college. But Steeleleft college to become a soldier, left the army to become awriter of political pamphlets, left politics for playwriting,and finally in 1709 conceived the idea of starting a weeklypaper. This he called The Tat-ler. It contained, in addition tothe news, a brief essay on sometopic of current interest. Some-times it was a review ot a book,sometimes a humorous article onthe fashions of the day, some-times a story with a moral. Thisessay was the most popular partof the paper, and presently thenews was dropped was called in to writefor the new journal. It succeededso well that in 1711 Steele andAddison started a daily paper of a similar natu
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