Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Of the relations between Steele and Addison, and the origin of Steele's "e;Tatler, "e; which was developed afterwards into the "e;Spectator, "e; account has already been given in the introduction to a volume of this Library, * containing essays from the "e;Spectator"e;- "e;Sir Roger de Coverley and the Spectator Club. "e; There had been a centre of life in the "e;Tatler, "e; designed, as Sir Roger and his friends were designed, to carry the human interest of a distinct personality through the whole series of papers. The "e;Tatler's"e; personality was Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer; as to years, just over the grand climacteric, sixty-three, mystical multiple of nine and seven; dispensing counsel from his lodgings at Shire Lane, and seeking occasional rest in the vacuity of thought proper to his club at the "e;Trumpet.