_Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au XVIII^e Siècle_, par A. Beljame, 1881. This admirable work--which unfortunately is not translated--contains a full account of Addison's career, as well as an estimate of his work. The bibliography in the Appendix is valuable. HISTORY POLITICAL _The Age of Anne_, by E. E. Morris, in the _Epochs of Modern History Series_, 1877. A brief, but clear and interesting outline of the history. _A History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, by W. E. H. Lecky, 1878, Volume I. Perhaps the best account for the general reader. _A History of the Reign of Queen Anne_, by J. H. Burton, 3 volumes, 1880. _The Reign of Queen Anne_, by Justin McCarthy, two volumes, 1902. Contains, also, much valuable information upon literary and social matters; written in the manner of the journalist, but entertaining and generally trustworthy. _History of the English People_, by John Richard Green, Volume III. SOCIAL _The History of England_, by T. B. Macaulay (1849-1851), Chapter III. This famous chapter is still one of the best accounts of social conditions in England at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, by John Ashton, 1882. This is the best account of dress, manners, amusements, travel, trade, and all the details of social life; it is frequently referred to in the notes of this volume. _Good Queen Anne_, by W. H. D. Adams, 1886. _England and the English in the Eighteenth Century_, by W. C. Sydney, 1891. _Social England_, by H. D. Traill, Volume IV., 1895. _London in the Eighteenth Century_, by Walter Besant, 1903. A storehouse of curious and valuable information, with many especially interesting illustrations from contemporary prints, drawings, and portraits. _The Popular History of England_, by Charles Knight (1859), Volume V., Chapters XXVI-XXX. Thackeray's _Henry Esmond_--perhaps the most remarkable historical novel in the language--represents with wonderful fidelity the very atmosphere of the Queen Anne time. But, above all, the student who wishes to gain a sympathetic acquaintance with the life of this most interesting period, and to enter into its spirit, should read more of its literature--especially the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_, Swift's _Journal to Stella_, Pope's _Satires and Epistles_, Gay's _Trivia_, and the _Letters_ of Steele, Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke. LITERARY _A History of Eighteenth Century Literature_ (1889), and _From Shakespeare to Pope_ (1885), by Edmund Gosse. _English Literature in the Eighteenth Century_, by T. S. Perry (1883). _An Illustrated History of English Literature_, by Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse, Volume III., _From Milton to Johnson_, by Edmund Gosse (1903), Chapter III. A popular survey of English literary history, most profusely illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. _A Few Words about the Eighteenth Century_, by Frederic Harrison. (_The Choice of Books_, 1886.)