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Contents 
 
 
 FAGB 
 
 Sir Roger's Family 
 
 . 15 
 
 Mr. Will Wimble 
 
 . 31 
 
 The Picture Gallery . 
 
 . 49 
 
 A Country Sunday 
 
 . 71 
 
 The Widow .... 
 
 . 87 
 
 The Chase ..... 
 
 . Ill 
 
 The County Assizes 
 
 . 135 
 
 The Spectator's Return to Town 
 
 . 159 
 
 ivi23647i 
 
List of IisIsOstrations 
 
 Half-title 
 
 Dancing ** Sir Roger de Coverley ** 
 
 Headpiece to Contents 
 
 Vignette 
 
 Headpiece to List of Illustrations 
 
 Vignette 
 
 Headpiece : Sir Roger's Family 
 
 "I have observed them stealing 
 
 over an hedge " 
 The gray pad .... 
 Sir Roger arrives at the house 
 The Village Court of Assize . 
 Sir Roger's chaplain 
 Headpiece : Mr. Will Wimble 
 Sir Roger on the bowling-green 
 Will Wimble in the hunting-field 
 Will Wimble with the puppies 
 
 Frontispiece 
 
 a sight of me 
 
 PAGE 
 
 17 
 
 19 
 21 
 23 
 25 
 27 
 33 
 35 
 37 
 39 
 
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12 
 
 List of Illustrations 
 
 The story of the garters 
 
 How the jack was caught 
 
 Headpiece : The Picture Gallery . 
 
 The force of dress .... 
 
 Sir Roger's ancestor at the turnament 
 
 *' Knocked down two deer-stealers in carrying 
 
 her off" 
 
 Sir Roger's ancestor invents a new mode of mak 
 
 ing love 
 
 '•The day before the battle of Worcester ' 
 
 Tailpiece to the Picture Gallery . 
 
 Headpiece : A Country Sunday . 
 
 The weekly instruction in the tunes of the Psalms 
 
 Sir Roger stands up to count the congregation 
 
 John Matthews . . 
 
 Sir Roger and his tenants 
 
 Catechising day 
 
 The 'squire of the next parish 
 
 Headpiece : The Widow 
 
 The grove sacred to the widow 
 
 *' The kind looks and' glances ** 
 
 " She cast her bewitching eye upon me *' 
 
 ** With such an awe as made me speechless 
 
 ** Has directed a discourse to me which I do not 
 
 understand " . 
 *• I am, my lovely Nsevia, ever thine *' 
 
List of Illustrations 13 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Headpiece : The Chase 113 
 
 The gray stone-horse 117 
 
 *'A most excellent bass *' 119 
 
 " Happy if they could open a gate "... 121 
 
 " If puss was gone that way ? " .... 123 
 " 'Twas a wonder they had not lost all their 
 
 sport" 125 
 
 "An old hound of reputation " . . . . 127 
 
 A noted liar 127 
 
 "With all the gaiety of five and twenty " . . 129 
 
 Headpiece : The County Assizes .... 137 
 
 Sir Roger takes us to the Assizes .... 138 
 
 "The two plain men who rid before us " . . 139 
 
 An honest yeoman 141 
 
 Tom Touchy 143 
 
 Will Wimble 145 
 
 The widow consults her lawyer anent Tom 
 
 Touchy 147 
 
 "A general whisper ran through the country 
 
 people that Sir Roger was up*' . . . 149 
 "We stopped at a little inn to rest ourselves and 
 
 our horses " . 151 
 
 Inspecting *' his honor's head with the alterations 
 
 that he had ordered to be made in it '* . . 155 
 
 Much "might " be said on both sides . . . 157 
 
 Headpiece : The Spectator's Return to Town . 161 
 
14 List of Illustrations 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Farewell .163 
 
 Our setting-out 165 
 
 "You see me, Madam, young, sound, and impu- 
 dent" 167 
 
 " Our reckonings . . . fell under Ephraim " . 171 
 ** The Spectator in town " 175 
 
SIR ROGER'S FAMILY 
 
AVING often received an in- 
 vitation from my friend Sir 
 ^ Roger de Coverley to pass 
 away a month with him in the country, I 
 last week accompanied him thither, and 
 am settled with him for some time at his 
 country-house, where I intend to form 
 several of my ensuing Speculations. Sir 
 Roger, who is very well acquainted with 
 my humor, lets me rise and go to bed when 
 I please, dine at his own table or in my 
 chamber as I think fit, sit still and say 
 
 2 (17) 
 
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 nothing without bidding me be merry. 
 When the gentlemen of the country come 
 to see him, he only shews me at a distance. 
 As I have been walking in his fields I have 
 observed them stealing a sight of me over 
 an hedge, and have heard the Knight 
 desiring them not to let me see them, for 
 that I hated to be stared at. 
 
 I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's 
 family, because it consists of sober and 
 staid persons ; for as the Knight is the 
 best master in the world, he seldom changes 
 his servants ; and as he is beloved by all 
 about him, his servants never care for 
 leaving him ; by this means his domes- 
 ticks are all in years, and grown old with 
 their master. You would take his valet 
 
Sir Roger's Family 
 
 ,19 
 
 de chambre for his brother, his butler is 
 gray-headed, his groom is one of the 
 gravest men that I have ever seen, and his 
 coachman has the looks of a privy-coun- 
 
 •' I have observed them stealing a sight of me over an hedge." 
 
 sellor. You see the goodness of the master 
 even in the old house-dog, and in a gray 
 pad that is kept in the stable with great 
 care and tenderness out of regard to his 
 
20 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 past services, tho' he has been useless for 
 several years. 
 
 I could not but observe with a great 
 deal of pleasure the joy that appealed in 
 the countenance of these ancient domes- 
 ticks upon my friend's arrival at his 
 country-seat. Some of them could not 
 refrain from tears at the sight of their old 
 master ; every one of them press'd forward 
 to do something for him, and seemed dis- 
 couraged if they were not employed. At 
 the- same time the good old Knight, with 
 the mixture of the father and the master 
 of the family, tempered the enquiries after 
 his own affairs with several kind questions 
 relating to themselves. This humanity 
 and good nature engages everybody to 
 
Sir Roger's Family 
 
 21 
 
 him, so that when he is pleasant upon 
 any of them, all his family are in good 
 
 The gray pad. 
 
 humor, and none so much as the person 
 whom he diverts himself with. On the 
 contrary, if he coughs, or betrays any in- 
 
22 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 firmity of old age, it is easy for a stander- 
 by to observe a secret concern in the looks 
 of all his servants. 
 
 My worthy friend has put me under the 
 ' particular care of his butler, who is a very 
 prudent man, and, as well as the rest of 
 his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous 
 of pleasing me, because they have often 
 heard their master talk of me as of his 
 particular friend. 
 
 My chief companion, when Sir Roger 
 is diverting himself in the woods or the 
 fields, is a very venerable man who is 
 ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his 
 house in the nature of a chaplain above 
 thirty years. This gentleman is a person 
 of good sense and some learning, of a 
 
Sir Roger's Family 
 
 23 
 
 very regular life and obliging conversa- 
 tion. He heartily loves Sir Roger, and 
 knows that he is very much in the old 
 Knight's esteem, so that he lives in the 
 
 
 Sir Roger arrives at the house. 
 
 family rather as a relation than a de- 
 pendent. 
 
 I have observed in several of my 
 papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst 
 
24 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 all his good qualities, is something of an 
 humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as 
 imperfections, are as it were tinged by a 
 certain extravagance, which makes them 
 particularly his, and distinguishes them 
 from those of other men. This cast of 
 mind, as it is generally very innocent in 
 itself, renders his conversation highly 
 agreeable, and more delightful than the 
 same degree of sense and virtue would 
 appear in their common and ordinary 
 colors. As I was walking with liim last 
 night, he asked me how I liked the good 
 man whom I have just now mentioned? 
 and without staying for my answer told 
 , me, That he was afraid of being insulted 
 with Latin and Greek at his own table; 
 
Sir Koger's Family 25 
 
 for which reason he desired a particular 
 friend of his at the University to find him 
 out a clergyman rather of plain sense than 
 much learning, of a good aspect, a clear 
 voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, 
 
 The'Village Court of Assize. 
 
 a man that understood a little of back- 
 gammon. My friend, says Sir Roger, 
 found me out this gentleman, who, besides 
 the endowments required of him, is, they 
 tell me, a good scholar, tho' he does not 
 
26 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 show it : I have given him the parsonage 
 of the parish ; and, because I know his 
 value, have settled upon him a good an- 
 nuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall 
 find that he was higher in my esteem than 
 perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been 
 with me thirty years; and, tho' he does 
 not know I have taken notice of it, has 
 never in all that time asked anything of 
 me for himself, tho' he is every day solicit- 
 ing me for some thing in behalf of one 
 or other of my tenants, his parishioners* 
 There has not been a law-suit in the parish 
 since he has liv'd among them. If any 
 dispute arises they apply themselves to 
 him for the decision ; if they do not ac- 
 quiesce in his judgment, which I think 
 
Sir Eoger's Family 27 
 
 never happened above once or twice at 
 
 Sir Roger's chaplain. 
 
 most, they appeal to me. At his first set- 
 tling with me, I made him a present of all 
 
28 Sir Eoger De Coverley 
 
 the good sermons which have been printed 
 in English, and only begg'd of him that 
 every Sunday he would pronounce one of 
 them in the pulpit. Accordingly, he has 
 digested them into such a series that they 
 follow one another naturally, and make a 
 continued system of practical divinity. 
 
 As Sir Roger was going on in his 
 story, the gentleman we were talking of 
 came up to us ; and upon the Knight's 
 asking him who preached to-morrow (for 
 it was Saturday night) told us, the Bishop 
 of St. Asaph in the morning and Dr. 
 South in the afternoon. He then showed 
 us his list of preachers for the whole year, 
 where I saw with a great deal of pleasure 
 Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Saunderson, . 
 
Sir Roger's Family 29 
 
 Dr. Barrow^ Dr. Calamy^ with several 
 living authors who have published dis- 
 courses of practical divinity. I no sooner 
 saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but 
 I very much approved of my friend's in- 
 sisting upon the qualifications of a good 
 aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so 
 charmed with the gracefulness of his figure 
 and delivery, as well as with the discourses 
 he pronounced, that I think I never passed 
 any time more to my satisfaction. A ser- 
 mon repeated after this manner is like the 
 composition of a poet in the mouth of a 
 graceful actor. 
 
 I could heartily wish that more of our 
 country clergy would follow this example; 
 and, instead of wasting their spirits in 
 
30 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 laborious compositions of their own, would 
 endeavor after a handsome elocution, and 
 all those other talents that are proper to 
 enforce what has been penned by greater 
 masters. This would not only be more 
 easy to themselves, but more edifying to 
 the people. 
 
MR. WILL WIMBLE 
 
I was yester- 
 day morning 
 walking with Sir Roger before his house^ 
 a country-fellow brought him a huge fish, 
 which, he told him, Mr. William Wimble 
 had caught that very morning ; and that 
 he presented it, with his service, to him, 
 and intended to come and dine with him. 
 At the same time he delivered a letter 
 which my friend read to me as soon as the 
 messenger left him. 
 
 3 (33) 
 
34 Sir Roger De Cover! ey 
 
 "/Sir Roger: 
 
 "I desire you to accept of a jack, which 
 is the best I have caught this season. I 
 intend to come and stay with you a week, 
 and see how the perch bite in the Black 
 River. I observed with some concern, the 
 last time I saw you upon the bowling- 
 green, that your whip wanted a lash to it ; 
 I will bring half a dozen with me that I 
 . twisted last week, which I hope will serve 
 you all the time you are in the country. 
 I have not been out of the saddle for six 
 days last past, having been at Eaton with 
 Sir JohrCs eldest son. He takes to his 
 learning hugely. 
 " I am, 
 
 ^^SIRj your humble servant y 
 "Will Wimble.'^ 
 
Mr. Will Wimble 
 
 35 
 
 This extraordinary letter, and message 
 that accompanied it, made me very curious 
 to know the character and quality of the 
 gentleman who sent them ; which I found 
 
 Sir Roger on the bowling-green. 
 
 to be as follows : Will Wimble is younger 
 brother to a baronet, and descended of the 
 ancient family of the Wimbles. He is now 
 between forty and fifty ; but being bred to 
 
36 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 no business and born to no estate, he gen- 
 erally lives with his elder brother as super- 
 intendent of his game. He hunts a pack 
 of dogs better than any man in the country, 
 and is very famous for finding out a hare. 
 He is extremely well versed in all the 
 little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes 
 a Mayfly to a miracle ; and furnishes the 
 whole country with angle-rods. As he is 
 a good-natur'd oflficious fellow, and very 
 much esteem'd on account of his family, 
 he is a welcome guest at every house, and 
 keeps up a good correspondence among all 
 the gentlemen about him. He carries a 
 tulip-root in his pocket from one to another, 
 or exchanges a puppy between a couple of 
 friends that live perhaps in the opposite 
 
Mr. Will Wimble 37 
 
 sides of the county. Will is a particular 
 favorite of all the young heirs, whom he 
 frequently obliges with a net that he has 
 weaved, or a setting-dog that he has made 
 himself. He now and then presents a pair 
 
 Will Wimble in the hunting-field. 
 
 of garters of his own knitting to their 
 mothers or sisters ; and raises a great deal 
 of mirth among them, by inquiring as 
 often as he meets them how they wear ! 
 These gentlemen-like manufactures and 
 
38 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 obliging little humors make Will the dar- 
 ling of the country. 
 
 Sir Roger was proceeding in the char- 
 acter of him, when we saw him make up 
 to us with two or three hazel-twigs in his 
 hand that he had cut in Sir Roger's woods, 
 as he came through them, in his way to the 
 house. I was very much pleased to ob- 
 serve, on one side, the hearty and sincere 
 welcome with which Sir Roger received 
 him, and, on the other, the secret joy which 
 his guest discover'd at sight of the good old 
 Knight. After the first salutes were over, 
 Will desired Sir Roger to lend him one 
 of his servants to carry a set of shuttle- 
 cocks he had with him in a little box to a 
 lady that lived about a mile off, to whom 
 
Will Wimble with the puppies. 
 
 (39) 
 
Mr. Will Wimble 
 
 41 
 
 it seems he had promised such a present for 
 above this half-year. Sir Roger's back 
 was no sooner turned but honest Will be- 
 
 The story of the garters. 
 
 gan to tell me of a large cock-pheasant that 
 he had sprung in one of the neighboring 
 woods, with two or three other adventures 
 of the same nature. Odd and uncommon 
 
42 Sir Koger De Coverley 
 
 characters are the game I looked for, and 
 most delight in ; for which reason I was as 
 much pleased with the novelty of the per- 
 son that talked to me, as he could be for 
 his life with the springing of a pheasant, 
 and therefore listened to him with more 
 than ordinary attention. 
 
 In the midst of his discourse the bell 
 rung to dinner, where the gentleman I 
 have been speaking of had the pleasure 
 of seeing the huge jack, he had caught, 
 served up for the first dish in a most 
 sumptuous manner. Upon our sitting 
 down to it he gave us a long account how 
 he had hooked it, played with it, foiled it, 
 and at length drew it out upon the bank, 
 with several other particulars that lasted 
 
How the jack was caught. 
 
 (43) 
 
Mr. Will Wimble 45 
 
 all the first course. A dish of wild fowl 
 that came afterwards furnished conversa- 
 tion for the rest of the dinner, which con- 
 cluded with a late invention of WilPs for 
 improving the quail-pipe. 
 
 Upon withdrawing into my room after 
 dinner, I was secretly touched with com- 
 passion towards the honest gentleman that 
 had dined with us ; and could not but con- 
 sider, with a great deal of concern, how so 
 good an heart and such busy hands were 
 wholly employed in trifles ; that so much 
 humanity should be so little beneficial to 
 others, and so much industry so little ad- 
 vantageous to himself. The same temper 
 of mind and application to afiairs might 
 have recommended him to the publick es- 
 
46 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 teem, and have raised his fortune in an- 
 other station of life. What good to his 
 country or himself might not a trader or 
 merchant have done with such useful tho' 
 ordinary qualifications. 
 
 Will Wimble^s is the case of many a 
 younger brother of a great family, who had 
 rather see their children starve like gentle- 
 men than thrive in a trade or profession 
 that is beneath their quality. This humor 
 fills several parts of Europe with pride and 
 beggary. It is the happiness of a trading 
 nation, like ours, that the younger sons, 
 tho' uncapable of any liberal art or profes- 
 sion, may be placed in such a way of life 
 as may perhaps enable them to vie with 
 the best of their family. Accordingly, we 
 
Mr. Will Wimble 47 
 
 find several citizens that were launched 
 into the world with narrow fortunes, rising 
 by an honest industry to greater estates 
 than those of their elder brothers. It is 
 not improbable but Will was formerly tried 
 at divinity, law, or physick ; and that find- 
 ing his genius did not lie that way, his 
 parents gave him up at length to his own 
 inventions. But certainly, however im- 
 proper he might have been for studies of 
 a higher nature, he was perfectly well 
 turned for the occupations of trade and 
 commerce. As I think this is a point 
 which cannot be too much inculcated, I 
 shall desire my reader to compare what I 
 have here written with what I have said 
 in my twenty-first speculation. 
 
THE PICTUKE GALLEKY 
 
WAS this morning 
 walking in the gal- 
 lery when Sir Roger entered at the 
 end opposite to me, and advancing towards 
 
 (51) 
 
52 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 me, said he was glad to meet me among 
 his relations the de Coverleys, and hoped 
 I liked the conversation of so much good 
 company, who were as silent as myself. I 
 knew he alluded to the pictures, and as he 
 is a gentleman who does not a little value 
 himself upon his ancient descent, I expected 
 he would give me some account of them. 
 We were now arrived at the upper end of 
 the gallery, when the Knight faced towards 
 one of the pictures, and as we stood before 
 it he entered into the matter, after his 
 blunt way of saying things, as they occur 
 to his imagination, without regular intro- 
 duction, or care to preserve the appearance 
 of chain of thought. 
 
 " It is/' said he, " worth while to con- 
 
The force of dress. 
 
 (63) 
 
The Picture Gallery 55 
 
 sider the force of dress ; and how the 
 persons of one age differ from those of 
 another, merely by that only. One may 
 observe, also, that the general fashion of 
 one age has been followed by one par- 
 ticular set of people in another, and by 
 them preserved from one generation to 
 another. Thus the vast jetting coat and 
 small bonnet, which was the habit in 
 Harry the seventh's time, is kept on in 
 the yeomen of the guard ; not without a 
 good and politick view, because they look 
 a foot taller, and a foot and an half 
 broader. Besides that the cap leaves the 
 face expanded, and consequently more 
 terrible, and fitter to stand at the entrances 
 of palaces. 
 
56 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 "This predecessor of ours, you see, is 
 dressed after this manner, and his cheeks 
 would be no larger than mine, were he in 
 a hat as I am. He was the last man that 
 won a prize in the tilt-yard (which is now 
 a common street before Whitehall) . You 
 see the broken lance that lies there by his 
 right foot ; he shiver'd that lance of his 
 adversary all to pieces ; and bearing him- 
 self, look you. Sir, in this manner, at the 
 same time he came within the target of 
 the gentleman who rode against him, and 
 taking him with incredible force before 
 him on the pommel of his saddle, he in 
 that manner rid the turnament over, with 
 an air that shewed he did it rather to 
 perform the rule of the lists, then expose 
 
The Picture Gallery 
 
 57 
 
 his enemy ; however, it appeared he knew 
 how to make use of a victory, and with a 
 
 Sir Roger's ancestor at the tumament. 
 
 gentle trot he marched up to a gallery where 
 their mistress sat (for they were rivals) 
 and let him down with laudable courtesy 
 
58 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 and pardonable insolence. I don't know 
 but it might be exactly where the coflfee- 
 house is now. 
 
 " You are to know this my ancestor was 
 not only of a military genius, but fit also 
 for the arts of peace, for he played on the 
 bass-viol as well as any gentleman at 
 court; you see where his viol hangs by 
 his basket-hilt sword. The action at the 
 tilt-yard you may be sure won the fair 
 lady, w^ho was a maid of honor, and the 
 greatest beauty of her time; here she 
 stands the next picture. You see, Sir, 
 my great-great-great-grandmother has on 
 the new-fashion'd petticoat, except that the 
 modern is gathered at the waist ; my grand- 
 mother appears as if she stood in a large 
 
The Picture Gallery 59 
 
 drum, whereas the ladies now walk as if 
 they were in a go-cart. For all this lady 
 was bred at court, she became an excellent 
 country- wife, she brought ten children, and 
 when I shew you the library, you shall see 
 in her own hand (allowing for the differ- 
 ence of the language) the best receipt now 
 in England both for an hasty-pudding and 
 a white-pot. 
 
 " If you please to fall back a little, 
 because 'tis necessary to look at the three 
 next pictures at one view ; these are three 
 sisters. She on the right hand, who is so 
 very beautiful, died a maid ; the next to 
 her, still handsomer, had the same fate, 
 against her will ; this homely thing in the 
 middle had both their portions added to 
 
60 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 her own, and was stolen by a neighboring 
 gentleman, a man of stratagem and resolu- 
 tion, for he poisoned three mastiffs to come 
 at her, and knocked down two deer-stealers 
 in carrying her off. Misfortunes happen 
 in all families. The theft of this romp 
 and so much money was no great matter 
 to our estate. But the next heir that pos- 
 sessed it was this soft gentleman, whom you 
 see there. Observe the small buttons, the 
 little boots, the laces, the slashes about his 
 clothes, and above all the posture he is 
 drawn in (which to be sure was his own 
 choosing) ; you see he sits with one hand 
 on a desk writing and looking as it were 
 another way, like an easy writer, or a son- 
 neteer. He was one of those that had too 
 
Knocked down two deer-stealers in carrying her off. 
 
 (61) 
 
 1 I • • » • • • • •• 
 
 • • • • ' 
 
The Picture Gallery 63 
 
 much wit to know how to live in the world; 
 he was a man of no justice, but great good 
 manners ; he ruined everybody that had 
 anything to do with him, but never said a 
 rude thing in his life ; the most indolent 
 person in the world, he would sign a deed 
 that passed away half his estate with his 
 gloves on, but would not put on his hat 
 before a lady if it were to save his country. 
 He is said to be the first that made love by 
 squeezing the hand. He left the estate 
 with ten thousand pounds debt upon it; 
 but, however, by all hands I have been in- 
 formed that he was every way the finest 
 gentleman in the world. That debt lay 
 heavy on our house for one generation, but 
 it was retrieved by a gift from that honest 
 
64 Sir Eoger De Coverley 
 
 man you see there, a citizen of our name, 
 but nothing at all akin to us. I know Sir 
 Andrew Freeport had said behind my 
 back, that this man was descended from 
 one of the ten children of the maid of 
 honor I shewed you above ; but it was 
 never made out. We winked at the thing 
 indeed, because money was wanting at that 
 time.'' 
 
 Here I saw my friend a little embar- 
 rassed, and turned my face to the next 
 portraiture. 
 
 Sir Roger went on with his account 
 of the gallery in the following manner: 
 " This man (pointing to him I looked at) 
 I take to be the honor of our house. Sir 
 Humphrey de Coverley ; he was in his 
 
Sir Roger's ancestor invents a new mode of making love. 
 5 (65) 
 
The Picture Gallery 67 
 
 dealings as punctual as a tradesman and as 
 generous as a gentleman. He would have 
 thought himself as much undone by break- 
 ing his word as if it were to be followed 
 by bankruptcy. He served his country as 
 knight of this shire to his dying day. He 
 found it no easy matter to maintain an in- 
 tegrity in his words and actions, even in 
 things that regarded the oflfices which were 
 incumbent upon him, in the care of his 
 own affairs and relations of life, and there- 
 fore dreaded (though he had great talents) 
 to go into employments of state, where he 
 must be exposed to the snares of ambition. 
 Innocence of life and great ability were the 
 distinguishing parts of his character ; the 
 latter, he had often observed, had led to 
 
68 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 the destruction of the former, and used fre- 
 quently to lament that great and good had 
 not the same signification. He was an 
 excellent husbandman, but had resolved 
 not to exceed such a degree of wealth ; all 
 above it he bestowed in secret bounties 
 many years after the sum he aimed at for 
 his own use was attained. Yet he did not 
 slacken his industry, but to a decent old 
 age spent the life and fortune which was 
 superfluous to himself in the service of his 
 friends and neighbors." 
 
 Here we were called to dinner, and Sir 
 Roger ended the discourse of this gentle- 
 man by telling me, as we followed the 
 servant, that this his ancestor was a brave 
 man, and narrowly escaped being killed in 
 
The Picture Gallery 
 
 69 
 
 the civil wars. " For," said he, " he was 
 sent out of the field upon a private mes- 
 sage the day before the battle of Worceste7\'^ 
 
 " The day before the battle of Worcester. 
 
 The whim of narrowly escaping by having 
 been within a day of danger, with other 
 matters above mentioned, mixed with good 
 
70 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 sense, left me at a loss whether I was 
 more delighted with my friend's wisdom 
 or simplicity. 
 
A COUNTRY SUNDAY 
 
AM always very well pleased 
 with a country Sunday, and 
 think, if keeping holy the 
 seventh day were only a human institu- 
 tion, it would be the best method that 
 could have been thought of for the polish- 
 ing and civilizing of mankind. It is 
 certain the country people would soon de- 
 generate into a kind of savages and bar- 
 barians were there not such frequent re- 
 turns of a stated time, in which the whole 
 
 (73) 
 
74 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 village meet together with their best faces, 
 and in their cleanliest habits, to converse 
 with one another upon indifferent subjects, 
 hear their duties explained to them, and 
 join together in adoration of the Supreme 
 Being. Sunday clears away the rust of 
 the whole week, not only as it refreshes in 
 their minds the notions of religion, but as 
 it puts both the sexes upon appearing in 
 their most agreeable forms, and exerting 
 all such qualities as are apt to give them 
 a figure in the eye of the village. A 
 country - fellow distinguishes himself as 
 much in the Church-yard as a citizen does 
 ,upon the Change, the whole parish-poli- 
 ticks being generally discussed in that place 
 either after sermon or before the bell rings. 
 
A Country Sunday 
 
 75 
 
 My friend Sir Roger, being a good 
 churchman, has beautified the inside of 
 his church with several texts of his own 
 choosing. He has likewise given a hand- 
 
 The weekly instruction in the tunes of the Psalms. 
 
 some pulpit-cloth, and railed in the com- 
 munion-table at bis own expense. He has 
 often told me that at his coming to his 
 estate he found his parishioners very 
 irregular; and that in order to make them 
 
76 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 kneel and join in their responses "he gave 
 every one of them a hassock and a com- 
 mon prayer-book : and at the same time 
 employed an itinerant singing-master, who 
 goes about the country for that purpose, 
 to instruct them rightly in the tunes of 
 the psalms ; upon which they now very 
 much value themselves, and indeed outdo 
 most of the country churches that I have 
 ever heard. 
 
 As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole 
 congregation, he keeps them in very good 
 order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in 
 it besides himself; for if by chance he has 
 been surprised into a short nap at sermon, 
 upon recovering out of it he stands up and 
 looks about him, and if he sees anybody 
 
A Country Sunday 
 
 77 
 
 else nodding, either wakes them himself or 
 sends his servants to them. Several other 
 of the old Knight's particularities break 
 out upon these occasions. Sometimes he 
 
 Sir Roger stauds up to count the congregation. 
 
 will be lengthening out a. verse in the sing- 
 ing-psalms half a minute after the rest of 
 the congregation have done with it ; some- 
 times, when he is pleased with the matter 
 
78 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 of his devotion, he pronounces Amen three 
 or four times to the same prayer ; and 
 sometimes stands up when everybody else 
 is upon their knees, to count the con- 
 gregation, or see if any of his tenants are 
 missing. 
 
 I was yesterday very much surprised to 
 hear my old friend, in the midst of the 
 service, calling out to one John JIatthews 
 to mind what he was about, and not disturb 
 the congregation. This John Matthews it 
 seems is remarkable for beins: an idle fel- 
 low, and at that time was kicking his heels 
 for his diversion. This authority of the 
 Knight, though exerted in that odd man- 
 ner which accompanies him in all circum- 
 stances of life, has a very good effect upon 
 
A Country Sunday 79 
 
 the parish, who are not polite enough to 
 see anything ridiculous in his behavior ; 
 besides that the general good sense and 
 worthiness of his character makes his 
 
 John Matthews. 
 
 friends observe these little singularities as 
 foils that rather set off than blemish his 
 good qualities. 
 
 As soon as the sermon is finished, no- 
 body presumes to stir till Sir Roger is 
 gone out of the church. The Knight 
 
80 Sir Eoger De Coverley 
 
 walks clown from his seat in the chancel 
 between a double row of his tenants, that 
 stand bowing to him on each side ; and 
 every now and then enquires how such an 
 one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, 
 whom he does not see at church ; which is 
 understood as a secret reprimand to the 
 person that is absent. 
 
 The chaplain has often told me that 
 upon a catechising day, when Sir Roger 
 has been pleased with a boy that answers 
 well, he has ordered a Bible to be given 
 him next day for his encouragement ; and 
 sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of 
 bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has like- 
 wise added five pounds a year to the clerk's 
 place; and that he may encourage the 
 
A Country Sunday 
 
 83 
 
 young fellows to make themselves perfect 
 in the church service, has promised upon 
 the death of the present incumbent, who is 
 very old, to bestow it according to merit. 
 
 Catechising day. 
 
 The fair understanding between Sir 
 Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual 
 concurrence in doing good, is the more re- 
 markable, because the very next village is 
 
84 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 famous for the diffel-ences and contentions 
 that rise between the parson and the 'squire, 
 who live in a perpetual state of war. The 
 parson is always preaching at the 'squire, 
 and the 'squire to be revenged on the par- 
 son never comes to church. The 'squire 
 has made all his tenants atheists and tithe- 
 stealers ; while the parson instructs them 
 every Sunday in the dignity of his order, 
 and insinuates to them in almost every 
 sermon that he is a better man than his 
 patron. 
 
 In short, matters are come to such an 
 extremity that the 'squire has not said 
 his prayers either in publick or private 
 this half-year ; and that the parson threatens 
 him, if he does not mend his manners, to 
 
A Country Sunday 
 
 85 
 
 pray for him in the face of the whole con- 
 gregation. 
 
 Feuds of this nature, though too frequent 
 in the country, are very fatal to the ordi- 
 
 naiy people : 
 are so used 
 dazzled 
 riches that 
 pay as much def- 
 erence to the un- 
 derstanding of a man of an estate as of 
 a man of learning ; and are very hardly 
 brought to regard any truth, how import- 
 ant soever it may be, that is preached to 
 
 The 'squire of the next parish. 
 
86 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 them, when they know there are several 
 men of five hundred a year who do not 
 believe it. 
 
THE WIDOW 
 
In my first description of the company 
 in which I pass most of my time, it may 
 be remembered that I mentioned a great 
 affliction which my friend Sir Roger had 
 met with in his youth ; which was no less 
 than a disappointment in love. It hap- 
 pened this evening that we fell into a very 
 
 (89) 
 
90 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 pleasing walk at a distance from his house. 
 As soon as we came into it, " It is," quoth 
 the good old man, looking round him with 
 a smile, '' very hard that any part of my 
 land should be settled upon one who has 
 used me so ill as the perverse widow did ; 
 and yet I am sure I could not see a sprig 
 of any bough of this whole walk of trees, 
 but I should reflect upon her and her 
 severity. She has certainly the finest 
 hand of any woman in the world. You 
 are to know this was the place wherein I 
 used to muse upon her ; and by that cus- 
 tom I can never come into it, but the same 
 tender sentiments revive in my mind as if 
 I had actually walked with that beautiful 
 creature under these shades. I have been 
 
The grove sacred to the widow. 
 
 (91) 
 
 » » » 
 
 i t * • 
 
 \* » •»* 
 
 » » » » 
 
The Widow 93 
 
 fool enough to carve her name on the bark 
 of several of these trees ; so unhappy is the 
 condition of men in love, to attempt the 
 removing of their passions by the methods 
 which serve only to imprint it deeper. 
 She has certainly the finest hand of any 
 woman in the world." 
 
 Here followed a profound silence ; and 
 I was not displeased to observe my friend 
 falling so naturally into a discourse which 
 I had ever before taken notice he indus- 
 triously avoided. After a very long pause 
 he entered upon an account of this great 
 circumstance in his life, with an air which 
 1 thought raised my idea of him above 
 what I had ever had before ; and gave me 
 the picture of that cheerful mind of his, 
 
94 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 before it received that stroke which has 
 ever since affected his words and actions. 
 But he went on as follows : 
 
 "I came to my estate in my twenty- 
 second year, and resolved to follow the 
 steps of the most worthy of my ancestors 
 who have inhabited this spot of earth be- 
 fore me, in all the methods of hospitality 
 and good neighborhood, for the sake of 
 my fame ; and in country sports and recrea- 
 tions, for the sake of my health. In my 
 twenty-third year I was obliged to serve as 
 sheriff of the county ; and in my servants, 
 officers, and whole equij)age, indulged the 
 pleasure of a young man (who did not 
 think ill of his own person) in taking that 
 publick occasion of shewing my figure and 
 
The Widow 
 
 behavior to 
 advaiita2;e. 
 
 You may easily 
 imagine to your- 
 self what appear- 
 ance I made, who 
 am pretty tall, rid 
 well, and was very 
 well dressed, at the 
 head of a whole county, with musick be- 
 fore me, a feather in my hat, and my horse 
 
 2 
 
96 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 well bitted. I can assure you I was not a lit- 
 tle pleased with the kind looks and glances I 
 had from all the balconies and windows as 
 I rode to the hall where the assizes were 
 held. But when I came there a beautiful 
 creature in a widow's habit sat in court, to 
 hear the event of a cause concerning her 
 dower. This commanding creature (who 
 was born for the destruction of all who be- 
 hold her) put on such a resignation in her 
 countenance, and bore the whispers of all 
 around the court with such a pretty un- 
 easiness, I warrant you, and then recovered 
 herself from one eye to another, till she was 
 perfectly confused by meeting something 
 so wistful in all she encountered, that at 
 last, with a murrain to her, she cast her 
 
?h<^ Widow 
 
 97 
 
 bewitching eye upon me. I no sooner 
 
 met it, but I bowed like a great surprised 
 
 f booby ; and knowing her cause to be the 
 
 first which came on, I cried, like a capti- 
 
 •• She cast her betwitching eye upon me.*' 
 
 vated calf as I was, ^ Make way for the 
 defendant's witnesses.' This sudden par- 
 tiality made all the county see the sheriff 
 also was become a slave to the fine widow. 
 
98 Sir Boger iJe Coverley 
 
 During the time her cause was upon trial 
 she behaved herself, I warrant you, with 
 such a deep attention to her business, took 
 opportunities to have little billets handed 
 to her counsel, then would be in such a 
 pretty confusion, occasioned, you must 
 know, by acting before so much company, 
 that not only I but the whole court was 
 prejudiced in her favor ; and all that the 
 next heir to her husband had to urge was 
 thought so groundless and frivolous that, 
 when it came to her counsel to reply, there 
 was not half so much said as every one be- 
 sides in the court thought he could have 
 urged to her advantage. You must under- 
 stand. Sir, this perverse woman is one of 
 those unaccountable creatures that secretly 
 
The Widow 99 
 
 rejoice in the admiration of men, but in- 
 dulge themselves in no further conse- 
 quences. Hence it is that she has ever 
 had a train of admirers, and she removes 
 from her slaves in town to those in the 
 country, according to the seasons of the 
 year. She is a reading lady, and far gone 
 in the pleasures of friendship. She is al- 
 ways accompanied by a confidant, who is 
 witness to her daily protestations against 
 our sex, and consequently a bar to her 
 first steps towards love, upon the strength 
 of her own maxims and declarations. 
 
 "However, I must needs say this accom- 
 plished mistress of mine has distinguished 
 me above the rest, and has been known to 
 declare Sir Roger de Coverley was the 
 
100 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 tamest and most humane of all the brutes 
 in the country. I was told she said so by 
 one who thought he rallied me ; but upon 
 the strength of this slender encouragement 
 of being thought least detestable, I made 
 new liveries, new-pair'd my coach horses, 
 sent them all to town to be bitted and 
 taught to throw their legs well, and move 
 all together, before I pretended to cross 
 the country, and wait upon her. As soon 
 as I thought my retinue suitable to the 
 character of my fortune and youth, I set 
 out from hence to make my addresses. 
 The particular skill of this lady has ever 
 been, to inflame your wishes, and yet com- 
 mand respect. To make her mistress of 
 this art, she has a greater share of knowl- 
 
• • • •** 2 ./ • • i" 
 
 The Widew. .-. -19^; : .-, 
 
 edge, wit, and good sense, than is usual 
 even among men of merit. Then she is 
 beautiful beyond the race of women. If 
 
 "With such an awe as made me speechless." 
 
 you won't let her go on with a certain arti- 
 fice with her eyes, and the skill of beauty, 
 she will arm herself with her real charms, 
 and strike you with admiration instead of 
 
102 Sir Rog6r De Coverley 
 
 desire. It is certain that if you were to 
 behold the whole woman, there is that dig- 
 nity in her aspect, that composure in her 
 motion, that complacency in her manner, 
 that if her form makes you hope, her merit 
 makes you fear. But then, again, she is 
 such a desperate scholar, that no country- 
 gentleman can approach her without being 
 a jest. As I was going to tell you, when 
 I came to her house I was admitted to her 
 presence with great civility ; at the same 
 time she placed herself to be first seen by 
 me in such an attitude, as I think you call 
 the posture of a picture, that she discovered 
 new charms, and I at last came towards her 
 with such an awe as made me speechless. 
 This she no sooner observed but she made 
 
The Widow 
 
 103 
 
 her advantage of it, and began a discourse 
 to me concerning love and honor, as they 
 both are followed by pretenders and the 
 
 "Eas directed a discourse to me which I do not understand." 
 
 real votaries to them. When she discussed 
 these points in a discourse, which I verily 
 believe was as learned as the best philoso- 
 pher in Europe could possibly make, she 
 
104 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 asked me whether she was so happy as to 
 fall in with my sentiments on these im- 
 portant particulars. Her confidant sat by 
 her, and upon my being in the last con- 
 fusion and silence, this malicious aid of 
 hers, turning to her, says, ' I am very glad 
 to observe Sir Roger pauses upon this sub- 
 ject, and seems resolved to deliver all his 
 sentiments upon the matter when he pleases 
 to speak.' They both kept their counte- 
 nances, and after I had sat half an hour 
 meditating how to behave before such pro- 
 found casuists, I rose up and took my leave. 
 Chance has since that time thrown me 
 very often in her way, and she as often has 
 directed a discourse to me which I do not 
 understand. This barbarity has kept me 
 
The Widow 105 
 
 ever at a distance from the most beautiful 
 object my eyes ever beheld. It is thus 
 also she deals with all mankind, and you 
 must make love to her, as you would con- 
 quer the sphinx, by posing her. But were 
 she like other women, and that there were 
 any talking to her, how constant must the 
 pleasure of that man be, who could con- 
 verse with the creature. But, after all, 
 you may be sure her heart is fixed on some 
 one or other ; and yet I have been credibly 
 inform'd ; but who can believe half that is 
 said ? After she had done speaking to me, 
 she put her hand to her bosom and ad- 
 justed her tucker. Then she cast her eyes 
 a little down, upon my beholding her too 
 earnestly. They say she sings excellently; 
 
106 Sir Eoger De Coverley 
 
 her voice in her ordinary speech has some- 
 thing in it inexpressibly sweet. You must 
 know I dined with her at a publick table 
 the day after I first saw her, and she 
 helped me to some tansy in the eye of all 
 the gentlemen in the country. She has 
 certainly the finest hand of any woman in 
 the world. I can assure you, Sir, were you 
 to behold her, you would be in the same 
 condition ; for as her speech is musick, her 
 form is angelick. But I find I grow 
 irregular while I am talking of her ; but 
 indeed it would be stupidity to be uncon- 
 cerned at such perfection. Oh, the excel- 
 lent creature! she is as inimitable to all 
 women as she is inaccessible to all men." 
 I found my friend begin to rave, and in- 
 
•I am, my lovely Nsevia, ever thine." 
 
 (107) 
 
 • •••»• • * * 
 
The Widow 109 
 
 sensibly led him towards the house, that 
 we might be joined by some other com- 
 pany ; and am convinced that the widow 
 is the secret cause of all that inconsistency 
 which appears in some parts of my friend's 
 discourse ; tho' he has so much command 
 of himself as not directly to mention her, 
 yet according to that of Martial^ which one 
 knows not how to render into English, 
 Dum tacet hanc loquitur. I shall end 
 this paper with that whole epigram, which 
 represents with much humor my honest 
 friend's condition : 
 
110 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 Quicquid agit Riifus, nihil est, nisi N^cema Eufo, 
 
 Si gaudet, si flet, si tacety hanc loquitur : 
 CcBuat, propinat, poscet, negat, annuit, una est 
 Ncema ; si non sit Ncevia, mutus erit. 
 Scriheret hesternd patri cum luce salutem, 
 NcBvia lux, iiiquit, Ncema numen, ave. 
 
 Epig. 69, 1. 1. 
 
 Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit or walk, 
 Still he can nothing but of NoBma talk ; 
 Let him eat, drink, ask questions, or dispute, 
 Still he must speak of Nmvia^ or be mute. 
 He writ to his father, ending wiin this line, 
 "I am, my lovely Ncema, ever thine.'' 
 
THE CHASE 
 
[^^ who have searched 
 into human nature 
 observe that nothing so much shews the 
 nobleness of the soul as that its felicity 
 consists in action. Every man has such 
 an active principle in him that he will 
 find out something to employ himself upon, 
 in whatever place or state of life he is 
 posted. I have heard of a gentleman who 
 
 8 (113) 
 
114 Sir Eoger De Coverley 
 
 was under close confinement in the Bastile 
 seven years ; during which time he 
 amused himself in scattering a few small 
 pins about his chamber, gathering them 
 up again, and placing them in different 
 figures on the arm of a great chair. He 
 often told his friends afterwards that, 
 unless he had found out this piece of 
 exercise, he verily believed he should have 
 lost his senses. 
 
 After what has been said, I need not 
 inform my readers that Sir Roger, with 
 whose character I hope they are at present 
 pretty well acquainted, had in his youth 
 gone through the whole course of those 
 rural diversions which the country abounds 
 in ; and which seems to be extremely well 
 
The Chase 115 
 
 suited to that laborious industry a man 
 may observe here in a far greater degree 
 than in towns and cities. I have before 
 hinted at some of my friend's exploits. 
 He had in his youthful days taken forty 
 coveys of partridges in a season ; and 
 tired many a salmon with a line consisting 
 but of a single hair. The constant thanks 
 and good wishes of the neighborhood 
 always attended him, on account of his* 
 remarkable enmity toward foxes ; having 
 destroyed more of those vermin in one 
 year than it was thought the whole 
 country could have produced. Indeed the 
 Knight does not scruple to own among 
 his most intimate friends that, in order to 
 establish his reputation this way, he has 
 
116 Sir Roger De Cover ley 
 
 secretly sent for great numbers of them 
 out of other counties, which he used to 
 turn loose about the country by night, 
 that he might the better signalize himself 
 in their destruction the next day. His 
 hunting horses were the finest and best 
 managed in all these parts. His tenants 
 ^re still full of the praises of a gray stone- 
 horse that unhappily staked himself several 
 years since, and was buried with great 
 solemnity in the orchard. 
 
 Sir Roger, being at present too old for 
 fox-hunting, to keep himself in action, has 
 disposed of his beagles and got a pack of 
 Stop-Hounds, What these want in speed, 
 he endeavors to make amends for by the 
 deepness of their mouths and the variety of 
 
The Chase 
 
 117 
 
 their notes, which are suited in such manner 
 to each other, that the whole cry makes 
 up a complete concert. He is so nice in this- 
 
 The gray stone-horse. 
 
 particular, that a gentleman having made 
 him a present of a very fine hound the 
 other day, the Knight returned it by the 
 
118 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 servant with a great many expressions of 
 civility ; but desired him to tell his master 
 that the dog he had sent was indeed a most 
 excellent Bass, but that at present he only 
 wanted a Counter- Tenor. Could I believe 
 my friend had ever read Shakespeare, I 
 should certainly conclude he had taken the 
 hint from Theseus in the Midsummer 
 NigMs Dream. 
 
 My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, 
 So flu'd, 80 sanded ; and their heads are hung 
 With ears that sweep away the morning dew. * 
 Crook-knee* d and dew-lap'd like Thessalian hulls, 
 Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouths like bells, 
 Each under each : A cry more tuneable 
 Was never holla' d to, nor cJiear'd with horn. 
 
 Sir Roger is so keen at this sport that 
 he has been out almost every day since I 
 
' The most excellent bass." 
 
 (119) 
 
The Chase 
 
 121 
 
 came down ; and upon the chaplain's offer- 
 ing to lend me his easy pad, I was pre- 
 
 " Happy if they could open a gate." 
 
 vailed on yesterday morning to make one 
 of the company. I was extremly pleased, 
 as we rid along, to observe the general 
 
122 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 benevolence of all the neighborhood to- 
 wards my friend. The farmers' sons 
 thought themselves happy if they could 
 open a gate for the good old Knight as he 
 passed by ; which he generally requited 
 with a nod or a smile, and a kind of 
 enquiry after their fathers and uncles. 
 
 After we had rid about a mile from 
 home, we came upon a large heath, and 
 the sportsmen began to beat. They had 
 done so for some time, when, as I was at 
 a little distance from the rest of the com- 
 pany, I saw a hare pop out from a small 
 furze-brake almost under my horse's feet. 
 I marked the way she took, which I en- 
 deavored to make the company sensible 
 of by extending my arms ; but to no pur- 
 
The Chase 
 
 123 
 
 pose, till Sir Roger, who knows that none 
 of my extraordinary motions are insignifi- 
 cant, rode up to me, and asked me if puss 
 was gone that way ? Upon my answering 
 
 ' I'i. i)uss was gone that way ? ' 
 
 Yes, he immediately called in the dogs, 
 and put them upon the scent. As they 
 were going off, I heard one of the country- 
 fellows muttering to his companion, That 
 
124 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 Hwas a wonder they had not lost all their 
 sport, for want of the silent gentleman^s 
 crying Stole away. 
 
 This, with my aversion to leaping 
 hedges, made me withdraw to a rising 
 ground, from whence I could have the 
 pleasure of the whole chase, without the 
 fatigue of keeping in with the hounds. 
 The hare immediately threw them above a 
 mile behind her ; but I was pleased to find, 
 that instead of running straight forwards, 
 or, in hunter's language. Flying the country y 
 as I was afraid she might have done, she 
 wheeled about, and described a sort of 
 circle round the hill where I had taken 
 my station, in such manner as gave me a 
 very distinct view of the sport. I could 
 
The Chase 
 
 125 
 
 see her first pass by, and the dogs some 
 time afterwards unravelling the whole track 
 she had made, and following her thro' all her 
 
 " 'Twas a wonder they had not lost all their sport." 
 
 doubles. I was at the same time delighted 
 in observing that deference which the rest 
 of the pack paid to each particular hound, 
 
126 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 according to the character he had acquired 
 amongst them. If they were at a fault, 
 and an old hound of reputation opened 
 but once, he was immediately followed by 
 the whole cry ; while a raw dog, or one 
 who was a noted Liar, might have yelped 
 his heart out, without being taken notice 
 of. 
 
 The hare now, after having squatted two 
 or three times, and been put up again as 
 often, came still nearer to the place where 
 she was at first started. The dogs pur- 
 sued her, and these were followed by the 
 jolly Knight, who rode upon a white geld- 
 ing, encompassed by his tenants and ser- 
 vants, and cheering his hounds with all 
 the gaiety of five and twenty. One of the 
 
The Chase 
 
 127 
 
 sportsmen rode up to me, and told me 
 
 that he was ^^ sure the chase was 
 
 ahnost at an 
 
 end, because 
 
 the old dogs, 
 
 which had 
 
 hitherto lain 
 
 the right. Our hare 
 took a large field just 
 under us, followed by the full cry in view. I 
 
128 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 must confess the brightness of the weather, 
 the cheerfuhiess of everything around me, 
 the chiding of the hounds, which was re- 
 turned upon us in a double echo from two 
 neighboring hills, with the hallooing of the 
 sportsmen, and the sounding of the horn, 
 lifted my spirits into a most lively pleasure, 
 which I freely indulged because I was sure 
 it was innocent. If I was under any con- 
 cern it was on the account of the poor 
 hare, that was now quite spent and almost 
 within the reach of her enemies ; when 
 the huntsman getting forward threw down 
 his pole before the dogs. They were now 
 within eight yards of that game which 
 they had been pursuing for almost as many 
 hours ; yet on the signal before-mentioned 
 
The Chase 
 
 129 
 
 they all made a sudden stand, and tho' 
 they continued opening as much as before, 
 durst not once attempt to pass beyond the 
 
 " With all the gaiety of five and twenty." 
 
 pole. At the same time Sir Roger rode 
 forward, and, alighting, took up the hare 
 in his arms ; which he soon delivered up 
 to one of his servants, with an order, if 
 she could be kept alive, to let her go in 
 
130 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 his great orchard ; where it seems he has 
 several of these prisoners of war, who 
 live together in a very comfortable 
 captivity. I was highly pleased to see the 
 discipline of the pack, and the good 
 nature of the Knight, who could not find 
 in his heart to murder a creature that had 
 given him so much diversion. 
 
 As we were returning home, I remem- 
 bered that Monsieur Paschal, in his most 
 excellent discourse on the misery of man^ 
 tells us, that all our endeavors after great- 
 ness proceed from nothing but a desire of 
 being surrounded by a multitude of persons 
 and affairs that may hinder us from look- 
 ing into ourselves, which is a view we can- 
 not bear. He afterwards goes on to shew 
 
The Chase 131 
 
 that our love of sports comes from the 
 same reason, and is particularly severe 
 upon hunting. What, says he, unless it 
 be to droum thought, can make men throw 
 away so much tirne and pains upon a silly 
 animal, which they inight buy cheaper in 
 the market? The foregoing reflection is 
 certainly just, when a man suffers his whole 
 mind to be drawn into his sports, and 
 altogether loses himself in the woods ; but 
 does not affect those who propose a far 
 more laudable end for this exercise, I 
 mean. The preservation of health, and 
 keeping all the organs of the soul in a con- 
 dition to execute her orders. Had that 
 incomparable person, whom I last quoted, 
 been a little more indulgent to himself in 
 
132 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 this point, the world might probably have 
 enjoyed him much longer ; whereas thro' 
 too great an application to his studies in 
 his youth, he contracted that ill habit of 
 body, which, after a tedious sickness, car- 
 ried him off in the fortieth year of his age ; 
 and the whole history we have of his life 
 till that time is but one continued account 
 of the behavior of a noble soul strug- 
 gling under innumerable pains and dis- 
 tempers. 
 
 For my own part, I intend to hunt twice 
 a week during my stay with Sir Rog^er ; 
 and shall prescribe the moderate use of this 
 exercise to all my country friends as the 
 best kind of physick for mending a bad 
 constitution, and preserving a good one. 
 
The Chase 133 
 
 I cannot do this better than in the follow- 
 ing lines out of Mr. Dry den : 
 
 The first physicians hy debauch were made ; 
 Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade. 
 By chace our long-Uv'd fathers earned their food ; 
 Toil strung the nerves, and purify* d the blood ; 
 But we their sons, a pamper' d race of men, 
 Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. 
 Better to hunt in fields for health unbought. 
 Than fee the Doctor for a nauseous draught. 
 The wise for cure on exercise depend ; 
 Ood never made his work for man to mend. 
 
THE COUNTY ASSIZES 
 
^MAN'S first care should be 
 to avoid the reproaches of 
 his own heart; his next, 
 to escape the censures of the world. If 
 the last interferes with the former, it 
 ought to be entirely neglected ; but other- 
 wise there cannot be a greater satisfaction 
 to an honest mind than to see those ap- 
 probations which it gives itself seconded 
 by the applauses of the publick. A man 
 is more sure of his conduct, when the 
 verdict which he passes upon his own be- 
 
 (137) 
 
138 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 havior is thus warranted and confirmed 
 by the opinion of all that know him. 
 
 My worthy friend Sir Roger is one of 
 those who is not only at peace within 
 
 Sir Roger takes us to the Assizes. 
 
 himself, but beloved and esteemed by all 
 about him. He receives a suitable tribute 
 for his universal benevolence to mankind, 
 in the returns of affection and good-will, 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 139 
 
 which are paid him by every one that lives 
 within his neighborhood. I lately met with 
 two or three odd instances of that general 
 respect which is shewn to the good old 
 
 Si^Mi':^- 
 
 The two plain men who rid before us. 
 
 Knight. He would needs carry Will 
 Wimble and myself with him to the 
 county assizes. As we were upon the 
 road, Will Wimble ^oinW a couple of plain 
 
140 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 men who rid before us, and conversed with 
 them for some time ; during which my 
 friend Sir Roger acquainted me with their 
 characters. 
 
 The first of them, says he, that has a 
 spaniel by his side, is a yeoman of about 
 an hundred pounds a year, an honest man. 
 He is just within the game-act, and quali- 
 fied to kill an hare or a pheasant. He 
 knocks down a dinner with his gun twice 
 or thrice a week ; and by that means lives 
 much cheaper than those who have not so 
 good an estate as himself. He would be a 
 good neighbor if he did not destroy so 
 many partridges. In short, he is a very 
 sensible man ; shoots flying ; and has been 
 several times foreman of the petty-jury. 
 
An honest yeoman. 
 
 (141) 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 143 
 
 The other that rides along with him is 
 Tom Touchy, a fellow famous for taking the 
 
 
 
 Tom Touchy. 
 
 law of everybody. There is not one in the 
 town where he lives that he has not sued 
 at a quarter sessions. Therogue had once 
 
144 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 the impudence to go to law with the widow. 
 His head is full of costs, damages, and 
 ejectments. He plagued a couple of honest 
 gentlemen so long for a trespass in break- 
 ing one of his hedges, till he was forced to 
 sell the ground it enclosed to defray the 
 charges of the prosecution. His father left 
 him fourscore pounds a year ; but he has 
 ca5^and been cast so often, that he is not 
 now worth thirty. I suppose he is going 
 upon the old business of the -willow-tree. 
 
 As Sir Roger was giving me this ac- 
 count of Tom Touchy J Will Wimble and his 
 two companions stopped short till we came 
 up to them. After having paid their re- 
 spects to Sir Roger, Will told him that 
 Mr. Touchy and he must appeal to him 
 
10 
 
 Will Wimble. 
 
 \ 
 (145) 
 
 i i\ i 3 -} 3 
 J ^ •»,3I > > J 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 147 
 
 upon a dispute that arose between them. 
 JVill, it seems, had been giving his fellow- 
 traveller an account of his angling one day 
 in such a hole; when Tom Touchy, instead 
 
 The widow consults her lawyer anent Tom Touchy. 
 
 of hearing out his story, told him that Mr. 
 Such-a-one, if he pleased, might take the 
 law of him for fishing in that part of the 
 
148 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 river. My friend Sir Roger heard them 
 both, upon a round trot ; and after having 
 paused some time told them, with the air 
 of a man who would not give his judg- 
 ment rashly, that much might be said on 
 both sides. They were neither of them 
 dissatisfied with the Knight's determina- 
 tion, because neither of them found him- 
 self in the wrong by it. Upon which we 
 made the best of our way to the assizes. 
 
 The court was sat before Sir Roger 
 came ; but notwithstanding all the justices 
 had taken their places upon the bench, 
 they made room for the old Knight at the 
 head of them ; who for his reputation in 
 the country took occasion to whisper in 
 the judge's ear. That he ivas glad his lord- 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 149 
 
 ship had met with so much good weathei^ in 
 his circuit. I was listening to the proceed- 
 ing of the court with much attention, and 
 
 "A general whisper ran through the country people that Sir Roger 
 was up." 
 
 infinitely pleased with that great appear- 
 ance and solemnity which so properly ac- 
 companies such a publick administration 
 of our laws ; when, after about an hour's 
 
150 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 sitting, I observed, to my great surprise, 
 in the midst of a trial, that my friend Sir 
 Roger was getting up to speak. I was in 
 some pain for him, till I found he had ac- 
 quitted himself of two or three sentences 
 with a look of much business and great 
 intrepidity. 
 
 Upon his first rising the court was 
 hushed, and a general whisper ran among 
 the country people that Sir Roger was up. 
 The speech he made was so little to the 
 purpose that I shall not trouble my readers 
 with an account of it ; and I believe was 
 not so much designed by the Knight him- 
 self to inform the court, as to give him a 
 figure in my eye, and to keep up his credit 
 in the country. 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 151 
 
 I was highly delighted, when the court 
 rose, to see the gentlemen of the country 
 gathering about my old friend, and striving 
 
 " We stopped at a little inn to rest ourselves and our horses." 
 
 who should compliment him most ; at the 
 same time that the ordinary people gazed 
 upon him at a distance, not a little admir- 
 
152 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 ing his courage, that was not afraid to 
 speak to the judge. 
 
 In our return home we met with a very 
 odd accident ; which I cannot forbear re- 
 lating, because it shews how desirous all 
 who know Sir Roger are of giving him 
 marks of their esteem. When we were 
 arrived upon the verge of his estate, we 
 stopped at a little inn to rest ourselves 
 and our horses. The man of the house 
 had, it seems, been formerly a servant in 
 the Knight's family ; and, to do honor 
 to his old master, had some time since, 
 unknown to Sir Roger, put him up in a 
 sign-post before the door ; so that the 
 Knight's head had hung out upon the 
 road about a week before he himself knew 
 
The County Assizes 153 
 
 anything of the matter. As soon as Sir 
 Roger was acquainted with it, finding 
 that his servant's indiscretion proceeded 
 wholly from affection and good-will, he 
 only told him that he had made him too 
 high a compliment ; and when the fellow 
 seemed to think that could hardly be, 
 added with a more decisive look. That it 
 was too great an honor for any man under 
 a duke ; but told him, at the same time, 
 that it might be altered with a very few 
 touches, and that he himself would be at 
 the charge of it. Accordingly, they got a 
 painter by the Knight's directions to add 
 a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a 
 little aggravation of the features to change 
 it into the Saracen^ s-Head. I should not 
 
154 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 have known this story had not the inn- 
 keeper, upon Sir Roger's alighting, told 
 him in my hearing, That his honor's head 
 was brought back last night with the al- 
 terations that he had ordered to be made 
 in it. Upon this my friend, with his 
 usual cheerfulness, related the particulars 
 above-mentioned, and ordered the head to 
 be brought into the room. I could not 
 forbear discovering greater expressions of 
 mirth than ordinary upon the appearance 
 of this monstrous face, under which, not- 
 withstanding it was made to frown and 
 stare in a most extraordinary manner, I 
 could still discover a distant resemblance 
 of my old friend. Sir Roger, upon see- 
 ing me laugh, desired me to tell him truly 
 
The County Assizes 
 
 155 
 
 if I thought it possible for people to know 
 him in that disguise. I at first kept my 
 usual silence ; but upon the Knight's con- 
 
 Inspecting " his honor's head with the alterations that he had 
 ordered to be made in it." 
 
 juring me to tell him whether it was not 
 still more like himself than a Saracen, I 
 composed my countenance in the best 
 
156 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 manner I could, and replied, That much 
 might be said on both sides. 
 
 These several adventures, with the 
 Knight's behavior in them, gave me as 
 pleasant a day as ever I met with in any 
 of my travels. 
 
Much " might " be said on both sides. 
 
 (157) 
 
^.< 
 
THE SPECTATOE'S EETUEN TO 
 TOWN 
 
«^ 
 
 j/^^'"" The Spectator's 
 Return to Toivn, 
 
 HAVING notified to my good friend 
 Sir Roger that I should set out for Lon- 
 don the next day, his horses were ready 
 at the appointed hour in the evening ; 
 and attended by one of his grooms, I ar- 
 rived at the country town at twilight, in 
 order to be ready for the stage-coach the 
 day following. As soon as we arrived at 
 the inn, the servant, who waited upon me, 
 enquired of the chamberlain in my hear- 
 
 11 (161) 
 
162 Sir Roger De Cover ley 
 
 ing what company he had for the coach? 
 The fellow answered, Mrs. Betty Arable^ 
 the great fortune, and the widow her 
 mother ; a recruiting officer (who took a 
 place because they were to go) ; young 
 'Squire Quichset her cousin (that her 
 mother wished her to be married to) ; 
 Ephraim the Quaker, her guardian ; and 
 a gentleman that had studied himself 
 dumb, from Sir Roger de Coverlet's. 
 I observed by what he said of myself that, 
 according to his office, he dealt much in 
 intelligence ; and doubted not but there 
 was some foundation for his reports for 
 the rest of the company, as well as for the 
 whimsi'cal account he gave of me. The 
 next morning at day-break we were all 
 
The Spectator's Return to Town 163 
 
 called ; and I, who knew my own natural 
 shyness, and endeavor to be as little 
 liable to be disputed with as possible, 
 
 Farewell. 
 
 dressed immediately, that I might make 
 no one wait. The first preparation for 
 our setting-out was that the captain's half- 
 pike was placed near the coachman, and 
 
164 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 a drum behind the coach. In the mean 
 time the drummer, the captain's equipage, 
 was very loud that none of the captain's 
 things should be placed so as to be 
 spoiled ; upon which his cloke-bag was 
 fixed in the seat of the coach : and the 
 captain himself, according to a frequent, 
 tho' invidious behavior of military men, 
 ordered his man to look sharp, that none 
 but one of the ladies should have the 
 place he had taken fronting to the coach- 
 box. 
 
 We were in some little time fixed in 
 our seats, and sat with that dislike which 
 people not too good-natured usually con- 
 ceive of each other at first sight. The 
 coach jumbled us insensibly into some sort 
 
The Spectator's Return to Town 165 
 
 of familiarity ; and we had not moved 
 above two miles, when the widow asked 
 the captain what success he had in his re- 
 
 cur setting-out. 
 
 cruiting? The officer, with a frankness 
 he believed very graceful, told her, " That 
 indeed he had but very little luck, and had 
 suflfered much by desertion, therefore should 
 
166 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 be glad to end his warfare in the service of 
 her or her fair daughter. In a word/' con- 
 tinued he, ^'I am a soldier, and to be plain 
 is my character. You see me. Madam, 
 young, sound, and impudent; take me 
 yourself, widow, or give me to her, I will 
 be wholly at your disposal. I am a soldier 
 of fortune, ha ! " This was followed by a 
 vain laugh of his own, and a deep silence 
 of all the rest of the company. I had 
 nothing left for it but to fall fast asleep, 
 which I did with all speed. " Come," said 
 he, *' resolve upon it, we will make a 
 wedding at the next town. We will wake 
 this pleasant companion who has fallen 
 asleep to be the brideman" (and giving 
 the quaker a clap on the knee), he con- 
 
' You see, madam, young, sound, and impudent." 
 
 (167) 
 
The Spectator's Return to Town 169 
 
 eluded, " this sly saint, who, I'll warranty 
 understands what's what as well as you or 
 I, widow, shall give the bride as father/' 
 The quaker, who happened to be a man 
 of smartness, answered, '' Friend, I take it 
 in good part that thou hast given me the 
 authority of a father over this comely and 
 virtuous child ; and I must assure thee, 
 that if I have the giving her, I shall not 
 bestow her on thee. Thy mirth, friend, 
 savoreth of folly. Thou art a person of a 
 light mind ; thy drum is a type of thee, it 
 soundeth because it is empty. Verily, it is 
 not from thy fulness, but thy emptiness 
 that thou hast spoken this day. Friend, 
 friend, we have hired this coach in part- 
 nership with thee, to carry us to the great 
 
170 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 city ; we cannot go any other way. This 
 worthy mother must hear thee if thou wilt 
 needs utter thy follies ; we cannot help it, 
 friend, I say. If thou wilt, we must hear 
 thee ; but if thou wert a man of under- 
 standing, thou wouldst not take advantage 
 of thy courageous countenance to abash us 
 children of peace. Thou art, thou sayest, 
 a soldier ; give quarter to us, who cannot 
 resist thee. Why didst thou fleer at our 
 friend, who feigned himself asleep? he said 
 nothing ; but how dost thou know what he 
 containeth? If thou speakest improper 
 things in the hearing of this virtuous 
 young virgin, consider it as an outrage 
 against a distressed person that cannot get 
 from thee. To speak indiscreetly what we 
 
The Spectator's Return to Town 171 
 
 are obliged to hear, by being hasped up 
 with thee in this publick vehicle, is in some 
 degree assaulting on the high road." 
 
 •' Our reckonings fell under Ephraim." 
 
 Here Ephraiin paused, and the captain, 
 Avith a happy and uncommon impudence 
 (which can be convicted and support itself 
 at the same time), cries, "Faith, friend, I 
 
172 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 should have been a little impertinent if 
 thou hadst not reprimanded me. Come, 
 thou art, I see, a smoky old fellow, and I'll 
 be very orderly the ensuing part of my 
 journey. I was going to give myself airs, 
 but, ladies, I beg f)ardon." 
 
 The captain was so little out of humor, 
 and our company was so far from being 
 soured by this little ruffle, that Ephraim 
 and he took a particular delight in being 
 agreeable to each other for the future; 
 and assumed their different provinces in 
 the conduct of the company. Our reckon- 
 ings, apartments, and accommodation fell 
 under Ephraim ; and the captain looked 
 to all disputes upon the road, as the good 
 behavior of our coachman, and the right 
 
The Spectator's Keturn to Town 173 
 
 we had of taking place as going to London 
 of all vehicles coming from thence. The 
 occurrences we met with were ordinary, 
 and very little happened which could 
 entertain by the relation of them. But 
 when I consider'd the company we were 
 in, I took it for no small good-fortune that 
 the whole journey was not spent in im- 
 pertinences, which to the one part of us 
 might be an entertainment, to the other a 
 suffering. What therefore Ephraim said 
 when we were almost arrived at London 
 had to me an air not only of good under- 
 standing but good breeding. Upon the 
 young lady expressing her satisfaction in 
 the journey, and declaring how delightful 
 it had been to her, Ephraim delivered 
 
174 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 himself as follows : '' There is no ordinary- 
 part of human life which expresseth so 
 much a good mind, and a right inward 
 man, as his behavior upon meeting with 
 strangers, especially such as may seem the 
 most unsuitable companions to him. Such 
 a man, when he falleth in the way with 
 persons of simplicity and innocence, how- 
 ever knowing he may be in the ways of 
 men, will not vaunt himself thereof; but 
 will the rather hide his superiority to them, 
 that he may not be painful unto them. 
 My good friend" (continued he, turning to 
 the officer), "thee and I are to part by 
 and by, and peradventure we may never 
 meet again. But be advised by a plain 
 man : modes and apparel are but trifles 
 
The Spectator's Return to Town 175 
 
 to the real man, therefore do not think 
 such a man as thyself terrible for thy garb, 
 
 The spectator in town. 
 
 nor such a one as me contemptible for 
 mine. When two such as thee and I 
 meet, with aJBfections as we ought to have 
 
176 Sir Roger De Coverley 
 
 towards each other, thou shouldst rejoice 
 to see my peaceable demeanor, and I 
 should be glad to see thy strength and 
 ability to protect me in it." 
 
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 3. A CHILD'S STORY OF THE BIBLE. 72 illustra- 
 
 tions. 
 
 4. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. 
 
 70 illustrations. 
 
 5. BUNYAN'S PILGRLM'S PROGRESS. 46 illustra- 
 
 tions. 
 
 6. SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON. 50 illustrations. 
 
 7. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. 50 illustrations. 
 
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 1. ABBE CONSTANTIN.— Halevv. 
 
 2. ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE.— Mulock. 
 
 3. ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND.— 
 
 Carroll. 
 
 4. AMERICAN NOTES.— Kipling. 
 
 5. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANK- 
 
 LIN. 
 6. AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE.— 
 Holmes. 
 
 11. BAB BALLALDS AND SAVOY SONGS.-Gil- 
 
 bert. 
 
 12. BACON'S ESSAYS. 
 
 13. BALZAC'S SHORTER STORIES. 
 
 14. BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS AND DITTIES.— 
 
 Kipling. 
 
 15. BATTLE OF LIFE.— Dickens. 
 
 16. BIGLOW PAPERS.— Lowell. 
 
 17. BLACK BEAUTY.— Sewell. 
 
 18. BLITHEDALE ROMANCE, THE.— Hawthorne. 
 
 19. BRACEBRIDGE HALL.— Irving. 
 
 20. BRYANT'S POEMS. 
 
 26. CAMILLE.— Dumas, Jr. 
 
 27. CARMEN.— Merimee. 
 
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 Vademecum Series— Continued. 
 
 28. CHARLOTTE TEMPLE.-Rowson. 
 
 29. CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS, SENTENCES 
 
 AND MAXIMS. 
 
 30. CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES.-Stevenson. 
 
 31. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILORIMAGE.-Byron. 
 
 32. CHIMES, THE.— Dickens. 
 
 33. CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN.— Walton. 
 
 34. CHRISTMAS CAROL, A.— Dickens. 
 
 35. CONFE^IONS OF AN OPIUM EATER.-De 
 
 Quincey. 
 
 36. CRANPORD.-Ga.skeB. 
 
 37. CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.-Dickens. 
 
 38. CROWN OF WILD OLIVE, THE.-Ruskin. 
 
 43. DAY BREAKETH, THE.-Shugert. 
 
 44. DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLY.— 
 
 Addison. 
 
 45. DISCX3URSES, EPICTETUS. 
 
 46. DOG OF FLANDERS, A.-Ouida. 
 
 47. DREAM LIFE.— Mitchell. 
 
 51. E:\IER>S0N'S ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES. 
 
 52. EMERSON'S ESSAYS, SECOND SERIES. 
 
 53. ENDYMK)N.— Keats. 
 
 54. ESSAYS OF ELIA.-Lamb. 
 
 55. ETHICS OF THE DUST.-Ruskin. 
 
 56. EVANGELINE.— Longfellow. 
 
 61. FAIRY LAND OF SCIENCE.— Buckley. 
 
 62. FANCHON.-Sand. 
 
 63. FOR DAILY BREAD.— Sienkiewicz. 
 
 67. GRAMMAR OF PALMISTRY.— St. Hill. 
 
 68. GREEK HEROES.— Kingsley. 
 
 69. GULLIVER'S TRAVEL'S.-Swift. 
 
 74. HANIA.— Sienkiewicz. 
 
 75. HAUNTED MAN, THE.-Dickens. 
 
 76. HEROES AND HERO WORSHIP.— Carlyle. 
 
 77. HIAWATHA, THE SONG OF.-Longfellow. 
 
 78. HOLME'S POEMS. 
 
 79. HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES —Hawthorne. 
 
 80. HOUSE OF THE WOLF.— Weyman. 
 
 81. HYPERION.— Longfellow. 
 
 87. IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW.— 
 
 Jerome. 
 
 88. IDYLLS OF THE KING.-Tennvson. 
 
 89. IMPREGNABLE ROCK OF HOLY SCRIPT- 
 URE.— Gladstone. 
 
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 90. IN BLACK AND WHITE.— Kipling. 
 
 91. IN MEMORIAM.— Tennyson. 
 
 96. JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER.— Stretton. 
 
 97. J. COLE.— Gellibrand. 
 
 101. KAVANAGH.— Longfellow. 
 
 102. KIDNAPPED.— Stevenson. 
 
 103. KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW 
 
 YORK.— Irving. 
 
 107. LA BELLE NIVERNAISE.— Daudet. 
 
 108. LADDIE AND MISS TOOSEY^'S MISSION. 
 
 109. LADY OF THE LAKE.-Scott. 
 
 110. LALLA ROOKH.— Moore. 
 
 111. LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA.— Lamb. 
 
 112. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, THE.— Macaulay. 
 
 113. LET US FOLLOW HIM.— Sienl^iewiez. 
 
 114. LIGHT OF ASIA.— Arnold. 
 
 115. LIGHT THAT FAILED, THE.-Kipling. 
 
 116. LITTLE LAME PRINCE.— Mulock. 
 
 117. LONGFELLOW'S POEMS, VOL. I. 
 
 118. LONGFELLOW'S POEMS, VOL. II. 
 
 119. LOWELL'S POEMS. 
 
 120. LUCILE.-Meredith. 
 
 126. MAGIC NUTS, THE.— Molesworth. 
 
 127. MANON LESCAUT.— Prevost. 
 
 128. MARMION.— Scott. 
 
 129. MASTER OF BALLANTRAE, THE. -Stevenson 
 
 130. MILTON'S POEMS. 
 
 131. MINE OWN PEOPLE.-Kipling. 
 
 132. MINISTER OF THl^VORLD.— Mason. 
 
 133. IMOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE.— Hawthorne 
 
 134. MULVANEY STORIES.— Kipling. 
 
 140. NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL 
 
 WORLD.— Drummond. 
 
 141. NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES.— 
 
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 145. OLD CHRISTMAS.-Irving. 
 
 146. OUTRE-IMER.- Longfellow. 
 
 150. PARADISE LOST.— Milton. 
 
 151. PARADISE REGAINED.-Milton. 
 
 152. PAUL AND VIRGINIA.— Sainte Pierre. 
 
 153. PETER SCHLEMIHL.-Chamisso. 
 
 154. PHANTOM RICKSHAW.-KiDling. 
 
 155. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, THE.— Bunyan. 
 
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 156. PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS.— Kipling. 
 
 157. PLEASURES OF LIFE.— Lubbock. 
 
 158. PLUTARCH'S LIVES. 
 
 159. POE'S POEMS. 
 
 160. PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID.-Ingra- 
 
 iiam. 
 
 161. PRINCESS AND MAUD.-Tennyson. 
 
 162. PRUE AND I.-Curtis. 
 
 169. QUEEN OF THE AIR.— Rusldn. 
 
 172. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.-I^rown. 
 
 173. REPRESENTATIVE ]\IEN.— Emerson. 
 
 174. REVERIES OF A BACHELOR.-Mitchell. 
 
 175. RIP VAN WINKLE.-Ining. 
 
 176. ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN.— 
 
 Feuillet. 
 
 177. RUBAIYAT OF 0:MAR KHAYYAM.— 
 
 182. SAiMANTHA AT SARATOGA.-Holley. 
 
 183. SARTOR RESARTUS.— Carlyle. 
 
 184. SCARLET LETTER, THE.— Hawtliorne. 
 
 185. SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.-Sheridan. 
 
 186. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, A.-Sterne. 
 
 187. SESAME ANL LILIES.— Ruslcin. 
 
 188. SHAKSPEARE'S HEROINES.— Jameson. 
 
 189. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.-Goldsmith. 
 
 190. SILAS MARNER.-Eliot. 
 
 191. SKETCH BOOK, THE.— Irving. 
 
 192. SNOW IMAGE, THE.— Hawtiiorne. 
 
 199. TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE.-Lamb. 
 
 200. TANGLEWOOD TALES.-Hawtliorne. 
 
 201. TARTARIN OF TARASCON.— Daudet. 
 
 202. TARTARIN ON THE ALPS.— Daudet. 
 
 203. TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR-ROO]\L-Arthur. 
 
 204. THINGS WILL TAKE A TURN.— Harraden. 
 
 205. THOUGHTS —:\rARCUS AURELIUS. 
 
 206. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.-Carroll. 
 
 207. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.-Hughes. 
 
 208. TREASURE ISLAND.— Stevenson. 
 
 209. TWICE TOLD TALES.— Hawthorne. 
 
 210. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST.— Dana. 
 
 217. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.— Stowe. 
 
 218. UNDINE.— Fouque. 
 
 222. VIC; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX- 
 TERRIER.— Marsh. 
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 223. VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.-Goldsmith. 
 
 226. WALDEN.— Thoreau. 
 
 227. WATER BABIES.— Kingsley. 
 
 228. WEIRD TALES.— Poe. 
 
 229. WHAT IS ART?-Tolstoi. 
 
 230. WHITTIER'S POEMS, VOL. I. 
 
 231. WHITTIER'S POEMS, VOL. IL 
 
 232. WINDOW IN THRUMS.— Barrie. 
 
 233. WOMAN'S WORK IN THE HOME.-Farrar. 
 
 234. WONDER BOOK, A.— Hawthorne. 
 
 241. YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS, THE.-Thackeray. 
 
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 6. BROOKS' ADDRESSES. 
 
 7. CHAMBER OF PEACE. 
 
 8. CHANGED CROSS, THE. 
 
 9. CHRISTIAN LIFE.-Oxenden. 
 
 10. CHRISTIAN LIVING.— Meyer. 
 
 11. CHRISTIAN'S SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE. 
 
 12. CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN.— Walton. 
 
 13. COMING TO CHRIST.— Havergal. 
 
 14. DAILY FOOD FOR CHRISTIANS. 
 
 15. DAY BREAKETH, THE.— Shugert. 
 
 16. DAYS OF GRACE.— Murray. 
 
 17. DRUMMOND'S ADDRESSES. 
 
 18. EVENING THOUGHTS.-Havergal. 
 
 19. GOLD DUST. 
 
 20. HOLY IN CHRIST.— Murray. 
 
 21. IMITATION OF CHRIST, THE.— A'Kempis. 
 
 22. IMPREGNABLE ROCK OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. 
 
 —Gladstone. 
 
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 23. JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER.— Stretton. 
 
 24. JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S PICTURES.— Spurgeon. 
 
 25. JOHN PLOUGHMAN'S TALK.-Spurgeon. 
 
 26. KEPT FOR THE MASTER'S USE.— Havergal. 
 
 27. KEBLE'S CHRISTIAN YEAR. 
 
 28. LET US FOLLOW HIM.— Sienkiewicz. 
 
 29. LIKE CHRIST.-Murrav. 
 
 30. LINE UPON LINE. 
 
 31. MANLINESS OF CHRIST, THE.— Hughes. 
 
 32. ]MESSAGE OF PEACE, THE.-Church. 
 
 33. MORNING THOUGHTS.— Havergal. 
 
 34. MY KING AND HIS SERVICE.— Havergal. 
 
 35. NATURAL LAW IN ^THE SPIRITUAL 
 
 WORLD.— Drummond. 
 
 36. PALACE OF THE KING. 
 
 37. PATHWAY OF PROMISE. 
 
 38. PATHWAY OF SAFETY.-Oxenden. 
 
 39. PEEP OF DAY. 
 
 40. PILGRLM'S PROGRESS, THE.— Bunyan. 
 
 41. PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT. 
 
 42. PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID— Ingra- 
 
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 43. SHADOW OF THE ROCK. 
 
 44. SHEPHERD PSALM.— Mever. 
 
 45. STEPS INTO THE BLESSED LIFE.— Meyer. 
 
 46. STEPPING HEAVENWARD.— Prentiss. 
 
 47. THE THRONE OF GRACE. 
 
 48. UNTO THE DESIRED HAVEN. 
 
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 4. AS YOU LIKE IT. 
 
 5. COMEDY OF ERRORS. 
 
 6. CORIOLANUS. 
 
 7. CYMBELINE. 
 
 8. HAMLET. 
 
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 n. KING HENRY IV. (Part II). 
 
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