CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, PHYSICIAN AND ASTROLOGER.
I. THE STAFFIAN RACE.
II. PACOLET.
III. PACOLET'S STORY.
IV. RECOLLECTIONS.
V. MARRIAGE OF SISTER JENNY.
VI. PROFESSIONAL: A CASE OF SPLEEN.
VII. THE DREAM OF FAME.
VIII. LOVE AND SORROW.
IX. LOVE AND REASON.
X. A BUSINESS MEETING.
XI. DUELLO.
XII. HAPPY MARRIAGE.
XIII. DEAD FOLK.
XIV. THE WIFE DEAD.
XV. THE CLUB AT "THE TRUMPET."
XVI. A VERY PRETTY POET.
XVII. FATHERLY CARE.
XVIII. BICKERSTAFF CENSOR: CASES IN COURT.
XIX. OF MEN WHO ARE NOT THEIR OWN MASTERS.
XX. FALSE DOCTORING.
XXI. DRINKING.
XXII. NIGHT AND DAY.
XXIII. TWO OLD LADIES.
XXIV. MARIA CALLS IN SHIRE LANE.
XXV. SISTER JENNY AND HER HUSBAND.
XVII. LOVE THAT WILL LIVE.
XXVI. MR. BICKERSTAFF'S NEPHEWS.
Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele's "Tatler," which was developed afterwards into the "Spectator," account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the "Spectator"—"Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator Club." There had been a centre of life in the "Tatler," designed, as Sir Roger and his friends were designed, to carry the human interest of a distinct personality through the whole series of papers. The "Tatler's" personality was Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer; as to years, just