No attempt is here made to give an exhaustive bibliography. The following paragraphs contain only such a selection from the literature of the subject as may be most accessible and of most service both to the student and the teacher. TEXTS STEELE AND _THE TATLER_ There is no complete and uniform edition of the writings of Steele. The best edition of _The Tatler_ is that of Chalmers, 4 volumes, 1822 (reissued 1855-1856). A new edition, however, in 4 volumes, edited by George A. Aitken, is now in preparation. Two well-chosen and well-edited volumes of selections from Steele's work are, _Selections from Steele_, edited by G. R. Carpenter (_Athenæum Press Series_, 1897), and _Selections from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian_, edited by Austin Dobson, 1897. Steele's _Plays_, edited by George A. Aitken (1896), make one volume of _The Mermaid Series_. For the letters of Steele, see _The Epistolary Correspondence of Richard Steele_, edited by John Nichols, 2 volumes, 1789 (reissued 1809). ADDISON AND _THE SPECTATOR_ The best editions of _The Spectator_ are: Henry Morley's, 3 volumes, 1883, or 1 volume, 1888; G. Gregory Smith's, with Introductory Essay by Austin Dobson, 8 volumes, 1897-1898; and George A. Aitken's, 8 volumes, 1898. The _Complete Works_ of Addison were edited by G. W. Greene, in 1854; a new issue of this edition appeared in 1891. The best volume of selections from Addison is that edited by John Richard Green, _Essays of Joseph Addison_, 1882. BIOGRAPHY STEELE _The Life of Richard Steele_, by George A. Aitken, 1899. This is the latest and fullest life. _Richard Steele_, by Austin Dobson, in the _English Worthies Series_, 1886; a brief but appreciative study. _Biographical Essays_, by John Forster, 1860, _Steele_. This paper, originally published in the _Quarterly Review_ for March, 1855, gave, for the first time, that more favourable estimate of the character and genius of Steele which is now generally accepted. _Lectures on the English Humorists, Steele_, by W. M. Thackeray. Thackeray's lecture, delivered first in 1851, is a most charming and suggestive paper, but hardly just to Steele. ADDISON _Addison_, by W. J. Courthope, in the _English Men of Letters Series_, 1884. The best life; it has superseded, for the general reader, the older _Life of Joseph Addison_, by Lucy Aiken, 1846. _The Life and Writings of Addison_, by T. B. Macaulay. Macaulay's familiar essay, which first appeared in the _Edinburgh Review_ for July, 1843, is still the best brief estimate, though it rather exaggerates the merits both of Addison's genius and his writings. _The Lives of the Poets, Addison_, by Samuel Johnson, 1781. Judicious and sensible; of permanent value. _Lectures on the English Humourists, Addison_, by W. M. Thackeray.