which has a superficial resemblance to Steele's words at p. 49 respecting his first love : At Dawn poor STELLA danc'd and sung; ་ The Garland is not included in Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, 1709; but it appears at p. 91 of the folio of 1718. It is therefore just possible that the lines may have been suggested by Steele's paper. 6 Garraway's Coffee-House (p. 50), where merchants ' most did congregate,' was in Exchange Alley, Cornhill; and, in the original folio issue of this Tatler,? there is a long advertisement of the coming sale of '46 Hogsheads and One half of extraordinary French Claret,' for which Steele's concluding paragraph is no doubt a 'puff collateral.' Comparing the treatment of Death by Swift, Addison, and Steele, Mr. Thackeray selected the second paragraph of this essay for its characteristic contrast to Addison's 'lonely serenity' and Swift's 'savage indignation: 'The third, whose theme is Death, too, and who will speak his word of moral as 'Heaven teaches him, leads you up to his father's 'coffin, and shews you his beautiful mother weeping, and himself an unconscious little boy wondering at 'her side. His own natural tears flow as he takes 'your hand, and confidingly asks for your sympathy. "See how good and innocent and beautiful women "are," he says, "how tender little children! Let "us love these and one another, brother-God "knows "knows we have need of love and pardon."-(The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: Steele, 1853, p. 149.) No. 8, page 51.-Adventures of a Shilling.Hawkesworth copied this idea in the Adventurer, No. 43, substituting a halfpenny for a shilling, and later Charles Johnstone amplified it into Chrysal; or, the Adventures of a Guinea, 1760-5. The inventive 'friend' of the first lines was Swift. In the Journal to Stella, Dec. 14, 1710, he refers to the paper, saying that he did not do more than give the hint and two or three general heads for it.' The allusion to Westminster Hall' (p. 54) suggests Lloyd's lines in the Law Student "'Tis not enough each morn, on Term's approach, but they belong to a later date. A monstrous pair ' of breeches' (p. 56) is said to refer to the hoselike shields on the Commonwealth coinage. John Philips, author of The Splendid Shilling (p. 57), died in 1708. No. 9, page 59.-Frozen Voices.-According to Tickell, Steele assisted in this paper. Its germ may perhaps be traced to Rabelais, Book iv., Chaps. 55, 56 (i.e.-' Comment en baulte mer Pantagruel ouyt diuerses 'parolles desgelees,' and 'Comment, entre les parolles 'gelees 'gelees, Pantagruel treuua des motz de gueulle);' or to the following passage from Heylyn's description of Muscovie:- This excesse of cold in the ayre, gaue 'occasion to Castilian in his Aulicus, wittily & not 'incongruously to faine; that if two men being 'somewhat distant, talke together in the winter, 'their words will be so frozen, that they cannot bee heard but if the parties in the spring returne to 'the same place, their words wil melt in the same order that they were frozen and spoken, & be 'plainely vnderstood.'-(Miкpoкoσμos, a little Description of the great World, 4th edn., 1629, p. 345.)* The episode of the Frenchmen's kit (p. 65) may be compared with the later account in Munchhausen of the postillion's horn that began to play of its own accord when hung in the chimney corner :— 'Suddenly we heard a Tereng! tereng! teng! teng! 'We looked round, and now found the reason why 'the postillion had not been able to sound his horn; 'his tunes were frozen up in the horn, and came out now by thawing, plain enough, and much to the * Heylyn must have quoted from memory, for Castilian's (Castiglione's) story, which is too long for reproduction, differs in some respects from the above.-(See Il Cortegiano, or the Courtier, Italian and English, London, 1727, Bk. ii., p. 189.) But the idea is probably much earlier than any of the writers named. In Notes and Queries for 1850 will be found a full discussion of this question, for reference to which, as well as for many other friendly services that deserve more prominent recognition than a footnote, we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. R. F. Sketchley, Keeper of the Dyce and Forster Library at South Kensington. ' credit · credit of the driver: so that the honest fellow entertained us for some time with a variety of tunes, 'without putting his mouth to the horn-The King ' of Prussia's march-Over the hill and over the dale -with many other favourite tunes: at length the thawing entertainment concluded, as I shall this 'short account of my Russian travels.'-(The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, Hughes's edn., no date, p. 19. The book was first published by Kearsley in 1786.) No. 10, page 67.-Stage Lions.-Nicolino Grimaldi, or Nicolini,' came to London in 1708, and in the Tatler of January 3, 1710 (No. 115) Steele gives a highly favourable account of his powers. He had not only a good voice, but, as Addison also admits (p. 72), he was a good actor as well; and Cibber thought that no Singer, since his Time, had so 'justly and gracefully acquitted himself, in whatever Character he appear'd, as Nicolini.'-(An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, 1740, p. 225.) There is a further reference to him in No. 405 of the Spectator. Hydaspes (p. 68) was first produced on May 23, 1710. Being thrown naked to a lion, the hero, after an operatic combat selon les régles, strangles his opponent. No. II, page 73.-Meditations in Westminster Abbey.-Bird's Monument to Sir Cloudesly Shovel (p. 72) is in the south aisle of the Choir. The concluding paragraph of this paper may be contrasted with another classic passage:-'O Eloquent, Just ' and Mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast 'done; and whom all the World hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the World and despised: thou 'hast drawn together all the far stretched Greatness, all the Pride, Cruelty and Ambition of Man, and 'covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet.' The grave words of Addison pale beside the grave words of Raleigh, and the difference in style is the difference between the Eighteenth Century and the Seventeenth. Unfortunately, the History of the World is not entirely of a piece with the above quotation. No. 12, page 79.-The Exercise of the Fan.— The first suggestion of this essay, like some others by Addison, is due to Steele (see the account of the Fan which the beauteous Delamira' resigns to the matchless Virgulta' in the Tatler for August 9, 1709, No. 52). The following verses by Atterbury, which Steele quotes in Tatler No. 239, may also have been in Addison's mind : 'Flavia the least and slightest toy 'Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs |