Macaulay's sang a funeral hymn. Bishop Atterbury, one of those Tories who had loved and honored the most accomplished of the Whigs, met the corpse, and led the procession by torchlight round the shrine of St. Edward, and the graves of the Plantagenets, to the Chapel of Henry VII. vol. iii. Addison, even after his marriage, as has been seen, was not one of the most domestic of men; and it is easier now to trace him to his clubs and his taverns than to his own firesides. Addison's chief companions, before he married Lady Warwick, Spence's were Steele, Davenant, etc. He used to breakfast with one or other of them at his lodgings in St. James's tion v., 1737- Place, dine at taverns with them, then to Button's, and then to some tavern again for supper in the evening; and this was then the usual round of his life. 39. Johnson's dison. Addison studied all morning, then dined at a tavern, and went afterwards to Button's. Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who [sic], under the Lives of the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south Poets: Ad- side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble. It is said that when Addison had suffered any vexation from the Countess he withdrew the company from Button's house. From this coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late and drank too much wine. It is reported to have been one of the most exquisite entertainments to the choice spirits, in the beginning of this [eighteenth] 1 The Connoisseur, No. 92. century, to get Addison and Steele together in company for the evening. Steele entertained them till he was tipsy, when the same wine that stupefied him only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropped it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening. Addison frequented also the Devil Tavern in Fleet Street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, the famous Devil Tavern of Ben Jonson (q. v.). Child's Bank, No. 1 Fleet Street, stands upon its site. I dined to-day [October 12] with Dr. Garth and Mr. Addison at the Devil Tavern, near Temple Bar; and Garth Swift's treated. And it is well I dine every day, else I should Journal to Stella, 1710. be longer making out my letters. . . . Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed, and I believe if he had a mind to be chosen King he would not be refused. ... Addison himself, in the 'Spectator,' tells of his familiarity with other well-known lounging-places of his day: Spectator, Sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's, and No. 1. while I seem attentive to nothing but the 'Postman,' overhear the conversation of every table in the room. I appear on Sunday nights at the St. James's Coffee House, and sometimes join the committee of politics in the inner room as one who comes there to hear and improve. My face is likewise very well known in the Grecian, the Cocoa Tree, and in the theatres. Will's Coffee House, the father of the modern Club, played a very important part in the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was on the northwest corner of Russell Street and Bow Street, Covent Garden, and included the two adjoining houses, one in each street. The old house, No. 21 Russell Street, still standing in 1885, is. no doubt one of the original buildings. Of Child's, in St. Paul's Churchyard, there is no trace left to-day, and even its exact site is unknown. The St. James's Coffee House was the last house but one on the southwest corner of St. James's Street, facing Pall Mall,' and was taken down in 1806. The Grecian stood on the site of a portion of Eldon Chambers, Devereux Court, Strand, between Essex Court and New Court in the Temple. It is marked by a tablet, and a bust of Essex, said to be the work of Caius Gabriel Cibber; and the Grecian Chambers at its back perpetuate its name. The Cocoa Tree Tavern stood at No. 64 St. James's Street, Piccadilly, where the Cocoa Tree Club afterwards was built. Among his other places of resort were Squire's Coffee House in Fulwood's Rents, No. 34 High Holborn, where were, in 1885, old houses dating back to Addison's time; Serle's Coffee House, on the corner of Serle and Portugal Streets, Lincoln's Inn Fields, the old-fashioned door-posts of which were preserved in the stationer's shop on its site in 1885; "Dick's," No. 8 Fleet Street, a modernized French restaurant in 1885, the windows of whose square room at the back looked on the trees of Hare Court in the Temple; and the Bull and Bush, a quaint and picturesque old countrified inn, still standing in 1885, at the bottom of North End Road, Hammersmith. Addison, after his return from the Continent in 1704, joined the famous Kit Kat Club, which was 'composed of thirty-nine noblemen and gentlemen, zealously attached to the Protestant succession of the House of Hanover.' It met originally in Shire Lane, at the Cat and Fiddle, which is said to have been called subsequently the Trumpet, and as such, is mentioned by Steele in the 'Tatler.' Still later it was known as the Duke of York's. With the street in which it stood, it has long since disappeared. Shire Lane itself, afterwards called Lower Serle's Place, was swept out of existence in 1868, with some thirty other disreputable lanes and alleys, to make way for the new Law Courts in Fleet Street and the Strand. It was on the east side of the present buildings, and had several outlets into the Strand at or near Temple Bar. Its reputation was always bad, and in the reign of the first James it was known as Rogue's Lane. Spence's Pope. You have heard of the Kit Kat Club. . . The master of the house where the club met was Christopher Kat. . . . Steele, Addison, Congreve, Garth, Vanbrugh, etc., were of it. . . . Jacob [Tonson] had his own and all their pictures by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Each member gave his; and he is going to build a room for them at Barn-Elms. Smith's Rambles in The forty-two pictures presented by the members of this club to Tonson the bookseller were removed by him in the beginning of the last century to Barn-Elms, and placed near his house, in a handsome room lately standing on the Antiquarian grounds of Henry Hoare, Esq. It was lined with red London, cloth, and measured forty feet in length, twenty in width, and eighteen in height. At the death of Mr. Tonson, in 1736, they became the property of his great-nephew, who died in 1767. They were then removed to Water Oakley, near Windsor, and afterwards to Mr. Baker's, in Hertingfordbury. vol. i. Barn-Elms was at Barnes on the Thames, between Putney and Mortlake. Copies of the Kit Kat portrait of Addison are in the National Portrait Gallery, South Kensington, and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The club met later at the King's Arms Tavern, which stood on the north side of Pall Mall, near the Haymarket, and on the site of the Opera Colonnade. It went out of existence as a club early in the eighteenth century. Its place of summer resort was the Upper Flask, a tavern on the edge of Hampstead Heath, which has been for many years a private house. It was on the corner of East Heath Road in 1885; its old entrancehall and low-ceilinged rooms still unchanged, although many additions and alterations had been made. And in its gardens, nearly opposite the Pool, stood, until destroyed in the great storm of Christmas, 1876, the famous mulberrytree, showing every sign of its gray old age, under which had sat, through so many Arcadian afternoons, Addison, Pope, Steele, Congreve, and their compeers, when, because of their presence, 'Hampstead, towering in superior sky, MARK AKENSIDE. 1721-1770. AKENSIDE came to London in 1747, when he took up his residence for a year or two in the house of his warm friend and patron, Jeremiah Dyson, on the top of Golder's Hill, near North End, Fulham. In 1749 or 1750, through Dyson's generosity, he was established as a practising physician in Bloomsbury Square. Park's Mr. Dyson parted with his villa at North End, and settled his friend [Akenside] in a sensible house in BloomsHampstead bury Square, assigning him, with unexampled liber(1818), p.331. ality, £300 a year, which enabled him to keep a chariot and make a proper appearance in the world. Although Bucke, in his 'Life of Akenside,' says that the remainder of his life was passed in Bloomsbury Square, he is known to have been living in Craven Street, Strand, in 1759, before houses were numbered; and in 1762 he took a house in Old Burlington Street, Burlington Gardens, where, in 1770, he died. He was buried in an unmarked grave in St. James's Church, Piccadilly. Akenside, in 1759, was appointed physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, then situated in Southwark, on the Borough High Street, between Thomas, Denman, and Joiner Streets. It was removed in 1871. Akenside's favorite resorts were Serle's Coffee House, on the corner of Serle and Portugal Streets (see ADDISON, p. 8); the Grecian, Devereux Court, Strand (see ADDISON, p. 7); and Tom's Coffee House, also in Devereux Court, which no longer exists, but which is |