. Ireland in London. ng the joke, kept itup, with the result that elegies were written onPartridge, his last moments were minutelydescribed, and even the Stationers Company ap-plied for an injunctionagainst the almanacsthat were publishedunder the name ofPartridge. It was tothis humorous affairthat Steele alludedwhen, in his in-troduction to theTatler, he said— It is impossible forme to want means toentertain—(the public),helps of my own parts, the Power of Divination,and that I can, by casting a figure, tell yuu allthat will happen before it comes to pass. Buthe adds that he will use his powe
. Ireland in London. ng the joke, kept itup, with the result that elegies were written onPartridge, his last moments were minutelydescribed, and even the Stationers Company ap-plied for an injunctionagainst the almanacsthat were publishedunder the name ofPartridge. It was tothis humorous affairthat Steele alludedwhen, in his in-troduction to theTatler, he said— It is impossible forme to want means toentertain—(the public),helps of my own parts, the Power of Divination,and that I can, by casting a figure, tell yuu allthat will happen before it comes to pass. Buthe adds that he will use his power very sparingly,and not speak of anything till it is passed, for fearof divulging matters which may offend oursuperiors. The Tatler ran to 271 numbers, and was-almost immediately followed by The Spectator,the first number of which came out on March 1st,1711. This was in its turn succeeded by The-Guardian (March 12th, 1713), The English-man (6th of October, 1713), The Lover andThe Reader (1711), Town Talk (1715),. , besides the- Ireland in London. 117 ?The Tea-Table and Chit-Chat (1716), ThePlebeian (1719), and The Theatre (1720). In some of these ventures Steele had the activeassistance of Addison; but they were mainlywritten by their projector. His work may beeasily identified: all his contributions are signedIt. or T. ; Addisons signature was one of thefollowing letters—C, L., L, 0. Steele was of amost inventive turn of mind, and all the improve-ments and the finest ideas of the different publi-cations were due to him. He conceived the ideaof the Visions, which Addison worked out so•successfully; he cieated Sir Roger de Coverley,and left his collaborator to take the credit of theinvention; he was probably the first literary criticof the day, and by his short stories may be con-•sidered the true founder of the English novel; he•strenuously opposed duelling, gambling, and othervices, and was the first English writer to rescuethe name of woman from the
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