Excerpt from Essays and Tales Son, in this collection, illustrate the steadiness with which Steele maintained the strength and sacredness of the home ties against the idle fashion of disparage. Ment. The scattered papers dealing playfully with that and other fashions hostile to a generous and earnest sense of life, belong equally to the representa tion of Steele's way of helping to make his readers true men of the world. A touch or two of reference to Louis XIV. May serve for slight indication of Steele's interest in the great political questions which were, as a rule, excluded from the Taller and Spectator. For their Essays and Tales sought to temper with wise kindliness the heats of party, and bring faith in God and man, the best sources of good nature, to shine through the clouds of envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. H. M. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.