The Character of the Age--Queen Anne--Whigs and Tories--George
I.--Addison: The Campaign--Sir Roger de Coverley--The Club--Addison's
Hymns--Person and Literary Character 254


CHAPTER XXVI.

STEELE AND SWIFT.

Sir Richard Steele--Periodicals--The Crisis--His Last Days--Jonathan
Swift: Poems--The Tale of a Tub--Battle of the Books--Pamphlets--M. B.
Drapier--Gulliver's Travels--Stella and Vanessa--His Character and
Death 264


CHAPTER XXVII.

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION.

The New Age--Daniel Defoe--Robinson Crusoe--Richardson--Pamela, and
Other Novels--Fielding--Joseph Andrews--Tom Jones--Its
Moral--Smollett--Roderick Random--Peregrine Pickle 280


CHAPTER XXVIII.

STERNE, GOLDSMITH, AND MACKENZIE.

The Subjective School--Sterne: Sermons--Tristram Shandy--Sentimental
Journey--Oliver Goldsmith--Poems: The Vicar--Histories, and Other