THOMAS TICKELL, a friend of Addison and a contributor to the Spectator and Guardian, was born in Cumberland, England, in 1686. He graduated at Oxford in 1708, and nine years later was appointed Undersecretary of State,—a promotion he owed to Addison’s friendship. He wrote verse as well as prose. The ballad of “Colin and Lucy” and an elegy on Addison which appeared in the edition of Addison published in 1721 are mentioned as illustrations of his best work in verse. His prose style closely follows that of Addison, but he has genuine feeling for nature and knows how to express it without servile imitation of any one. He died at Bath, April 23d, 1740.