No More Learning

The Monitor. Edited by Defoe. 22 April—7 August 1714.
The Flying Post and Medley. 27 July–21 August 1714.
Mercurius Politicus: Being Monthly Observations on the Affairs of Great
Britain, etc. May 1716—December(? ) 1720.
Dormer's News Letter. June 1716—August 1718. (No copies of this have
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The Weekly Journal; or Saturday's Post. [Printed by Nathaniel Mist. ]
1717-24.
The Wednesday Journal Being an Auxiliary Packet To the Saturday's Post,
eto. 25 September--23 October 1717.
Mercurius Britannicus. 1718-(? ).
The Whitehall Evening Post. 1718-(? ). 18 Sep 1718–June 1720(? ).
The Daily Post. 4 October 1719–27 April 1725 (? ).
The Manufacturer: or The British Trade truly Stated. Wherein The Case
of the Weavers, and the Wearing of Callicoes, are Consider'd. 30 October
1719-17 February 1720(? ).
The Original Weekly Journal [Applebee's]. 25 June 1720—12 March 1726.
The Director. 5 October 1720–16 January 1720/21(? ).
The Universal Spectator. No. 1, 12 October 1728. [Ed. by Defoe's son-in-
law, Henry Baker. ]
Fog's Weekly Journal. 11 January 1729.
Vols. II and in of Lee's Life and Newly Discovered Writings of Daniel
Defoe, 1869, contain selections, for the most part unquestionably authentic,
from Defoe's contributions to periodicals during the reign of George I.
Defoe's Letters and Memoranda in print number about two hundred and
thirty and are chiefly to be found in vols. Iv and v (1897, 1899) of the Fifteenth
Report of the Historical MSS Commission, MSS of the duke of Portland.
Sporadic letters are to be found in other reports of the commission, in Notes
and Queries, and in the chief biographies, notably Wright's; but the letters
to Harley contained in the Portland MSS give the best idea of Defoe as
& correspondent.
The above list of Defoe's writings does not take account of nearly three
hundred books and pamphlets which have been ascribed to him, but for the
authenticity of which I cannot vouch with entire confidence. Many of these
are almost as much entitled to be received into the accredited list as are
most of the items that have been accepted since the time of Chalmers and
Wilson; but, for one reason or another, it has seemed best to treat them
as plausible ascriptions only and to omit enumerating them here.
It may be added that there is reason to believe that two inaccessible
pamphlets, one vouched for by several bibliographers, including Lee, and one
by Crossley, will, when found, have to be added to Defoe's practically certain
- - writings. These are The Layman's Sermon upon the Late Storm, 1704,
and A Brief Debate upon the Dissolving the late Parliament, 1722.
III. OTHER JOURNALISTS
.
Cf. bibliography to vol. vii, chap. xv.
Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742). Terrae Filius. 11 January to 6 July 1721.
The Craftsman. 1726 to 1736. 14 vols. 1731-7. (Under the signature
of Caleb d'Anvers. ]
[Cf. bibliography to chap. VIII, post. ]
Arnall, William (17157-1741? ). The Free Briton. 1730-3.
The British Journal. [Under the signature of Francis Walsingham. ]
[Wrote in Walpole's pay against Bolingbroke, Pulteney and The
Craftsman. )
Baker, Henry (1698-1774). The Universal Spectator. [See under II B, ante. ]
Boyer, Abel (1667-1729). The Political State of Great Britain. (Monthly. )
38 vols. 1711-29.
The Postboy. 1705-9. [On the whig side. ]
The True Postboy. 1709. [See, also, bibliography to chap. VIII, post. ]
E, L. IX.
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Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749). The London Journal. 1700-44. B. M.
[Probably began 1698. ]
The Speculatist. 1730. 1725-28. B. M. (This is a collection of letters
under the above title, published as a book in 1730. ]
The Daily Courant. 1702-35. B. M.
[Wrote against Bolingbroke and the tories. ]
Ridpath, George (d. 1726). The Flying Post. 1695–1714. B. M.
Roper, Abel (1665-1726). The Post Boy. 1695-1710. B. M.
Mercurius Latinus. Autore Agricola Candido, Gen. March-October 1746.
CHAPTER II
STEELE AND ADDISON
I. ADDISON
[For a good bibliography of Addison, see Selections from the writings
of Joseph Addison, edited by Wendell, Barrett and Greenough, Chester Noyes.
Athenaeum Press Series, n. d. ]
A. Collected Works
The Works of Joseph Addison, Esq. Collected by Tickell, T. 4 vols. 1721.
The Works of The Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. Printed
by Baskerville, J. With a Complete Index. 4 vols. Birmingham, 1761.
The Works of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison. A New Edition with Notes.
By Hurd, Richard (bp of Worcester). 6 vols. 1811. New ed. (Bohn's
Standard Library. ) 6 vols. 1856.
The Works of Joseph Addison, including the whole contents of Bishop Hurd's
edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection;
and Macaulay's essay on his life and works. Ed. , with critical and ex-
planatory notes, Greene, G. W. 6 vols. New York, 1856.
B. Particular (including Dramatic) Works
Addison's most important Latin poems are Sphaeristerium; Machinae
Gesticulantes, Anglicè: A puppet-show; Resurrectio delineata ad Altare CoL
Magd. ; Barometri Descriptio; Insignissimo viro Thomae Burnet (also trans-
lated in Mr Addison's fine ode to Dr Thomas Burnet on his sacred theory of
the earth done into English by the author of a late tale called Coffee, 1727);
Praelium inter Pygmaeos et grues commissum. All these appeared in Examen
Poeticum Duplex: sive Musarum Anglicanarum Delectus Alter; Cui subjici-
tur Epigrammatum seu Poematum Minorum Specimen Novum . . . 1698;
and in Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta: Sive Poemata quaedam melioris
notae, seu hactenus Inedita, seu sparsim Edita. 2 vols. 1699. (Vol. 11. )
Translations of Praelium and of Machinae Gesticulantes appeared as
Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes and The Puppet-Show, 1716, and were
added to 4th edn of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1721. All the above
mentioned were rptd with translations in Miscellanea, 1818.
The Fourth Book of Georgics (except the story of Aristeus); the Song
for St Cecilia's Day at Oxford; Story of Salmacis, from the Fourth Book of
Ovid's Metamorphoses; An Account of the Greatest English Poets, appeared
in The Annual Miscellany: For the Year 1694. Being the Fourth Part of
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Miscellany Poems. Containing Great Variety of New Translations and
Original Copies By the most Eminent Hands, 1694.
The Story of Phaeton, beginning the Second Book of Ovid's Meta-
morphoses, and Europa's Rape: translated from Ovid, both pieces followed
by Notes on the foregoing Story; Milton's Stile imitated, in a Translation
of a Story out of the Third l; The Third Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses,
appeared in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part . . . 1704.
A Letter from Italy to Charles, Lord Halifax. Rptd in Tonson's Miscellany,
part v, 1704; separately, 1709. Transl. into Latin Hexameters by
Murphy, A. 1799. (Wendell and Greenough suggest 1703 for its date;
but see Addisoni Epistola, missa ex Italia ad illustrem Dominum Halifax
anno 1701. )
The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. By
Mr Addison. 1705. With Latin version Expeditio militaris, by T. G.
1708.
Remarks On Several Parts of Italy in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703. 1705, and
many subsequent edns. Rpts: Moore, J. H. in A New. . . Collection of
Voyages, vol. 11, 1785 (? ); Mayor, W. F.
in General Collection of Voyages
and Travels, 1810. French trans. by Misson, F. M. : Remarques sur
divers endroits de l'Italie, 1722.
A Table of all the accurate remarks and surprising Discoveries of
the most learned and ingenious Mr Addison, 1706, (satirical]. See
Somers, J. , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts, vol. 1, 1748,
and vol. xii in ed. 1809.
Le Clerc, J. Observations upon Mr Addison's Travels through Italy.
1715.
Most of Addison's early work, including translations, was rptd in Poems on
Several occasions with a dissertation upon the Roman Poets, 1719; and, with
Tentamen de Scriptis Addisonianis, by R. Young, with Engl. trans. , in Poems
on several Occasions by Mr Addison, 1724.
Rosamond. An Opera. 1707. With the Opera of Operas: or Tom Thumb
the Great, 1743.
Tickell, T. To Mr Addison on his opera of Rosamond. In Works of
the most celebrated Minor Poets, 1749.
Cato. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, By
Her Majesty's Servants. By Mr Addison. MDCCXIII. Rpts (without
the love scenes] English and Latin, 1764; Bell's British Theatre, vol. 111,
1776; ptd . . . from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs Inchbald,
1806; adapted to the stage by J. P. Kemble, 1811.
Translations: French : Guillemard, G. , 1767; de La Bruère, C. , 1789;
Camarsac, G. , 1814. German: Gottsched, L. A. V. , 1735; anon. , 1763;
Gottsched, J. C. (Luise G. 's husband), produced, in 1731, Der Sterbende
Cato, for the most part copied from Caton d'Utique by Deschamps, J.
(1715), but with ending adapted from Addison's drama. Italian : Salvini,
A. M. , 1715, 1725; Corinteo, P. -A. [i. e. Golt, G. ), 1776.
Parodies : Parody on Cato’s Soliloquy (act iv, sc. 1), 1785 (? ); Steere,
W. Billing's Gate, 1860.
Comments and criticisms: Dennis, J. , Remarks upon Cato, 1713; The
Life and Character of . . . Cato. . . Design'd for the Readers of Cato, a
Tragedy, 1713; Cato examined: or, animadversions on the fable or plot
. . . of the new tragedy of Cato. Dedicated to Joseph Addison, 1713;
Mr Addison turn’d Tory; or, the scene inverted, wherein it is made
appear that the Whigs have misunderstood that author in his tragedy
call'd Cato . . . to which are added some cursory remarks upon the
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play itself. By a gentleman of Oxford, 1713. (All four pamphlets
were rptd in one vol. in same year. ] The Unfortunate general. . .
together with a key or explanation of the new play called Cato, s
tragedy, 1713 (? ). Sewell, G. A. , Vindication of the English stage,
exemplified in the Cato of Mr Addison, 1716; Tickell, T. , To Mr Addison
on his Tragedy of Cato. In Works of the most celebrated Minor
Poets, vol. II, 1749. A parallel betwixt the Tragedy of Cato. . . by
Mr Addison and the Cato of Utica by Mr Des Champs, 1719.
The Drummer; Or, the Haunted House. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. 1716. 2nd edn, with preface by Sir R.
Steele, Dedicated to William Congreve. . . occasioned by Mr Tickel's
preface to Addison's Works, 1721. Rptd in Bell's British Theatre, vol. 11,
1776. [Plot founded on story of the drummer of Tedworth, recounted
in Sadducismus Triumphatus by Glanvil (see ante, vol. VII, chap. XVI). ]
Translations: French: Destouches, N. , 1733; Desgranges, D. , 1737.
German : In Gottsched, J. C. , Die deutsche Schaubühne Bd. 2, 1742;
Gottsched, L. A. V. , Ein Lustspiel des Herrn Addison nach dem
Französischen des Herrn Destouches übersetzt, 1764. Italian : anon. ,
1750,
Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. (Probably composed
1703–5. ] First published in Tickell's ed. of Addison's Works. Vol. 1. 1721.
French trans. in vol. II of De L'Allégorie, ou Traités sur cette
matière par Winckelmann, Addison, Sulzer, an vii de la République
Françoise. See, also, Remarques sur les Dialogues d'Addison by Gibbon,
E. , rptd in the above, originally composed in French at Lausanne.
[Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, 1796. Vol. 11-Pièces Dé-
tachées. ]
Of the Christian Religion. Ibid. vol. iv. Rptd as Evidences of the Christian
Religion by Joseph Addison . . . . to which are added several discourses
against atheism and infidelity and in defence of the Christian Revelation.
. . 1730. Latin trans. by Seigneux de Correron, G. 1746.
A Discourse On Ancient and Modern Learning. By the late . . . Joseph
Addison, Esq. ; Now first published from an Original Manuscript. 1739.
[Of doubtful authenticity. ]
A. . . Collection of the Psalms. . . as imitated. . .
by
. . . Mr Addison. 1756.
C. Essays
The Tatler. See under II. Steele.
The Spectator. Begun 1 March 1711; appeared daily in a series of 555 nos, till
6 Dec. 1712, surviving imposition of stamp duty, 1 Aug. 1712. (See No. 445. ]
Addison contributed 274 papers, all signed by one of the letters of C LIO.
In 1714 The Spectator was revived 18 June-29 September, possibly by
Budgell (D. N. B. ), and Addison contributed 24 papers.
Rptd in seven octavo vols. , 1712-13 (see Wendell and Greenongh,
below,on the chronological order of the vols. ), vol. vill being added in 1715.
The complete edition, frequently rptd in eighteenth century,also in British
Classics, 1803, vols. V-XII; Chalmers, A. , British Essayists, vols. Vi-XV,
1817; vols. V-XII, 1823 and 1856; Lynam, R. , British Essayists, vols. IV-IX,
1827; Smith, G. G.