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),