Berkeley's chief
writings are: _New Theory of Vision, Treatise Concerning the Principles of
Human Knowledge_, and _Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous_. His name
and memory are especially dear to the American people; for, although his
scheme of the training-college failed, he lived for two years and a half
in Newport, where his house still stands, and where one of his children is
buried. He presented to Yale College his library and his estate in Rhode
Island, and he wrote that beautiful poem with its kindly prophecy:
Westward the course of empire takes its way:
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN FICTION.
The New Age. Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Richardson. Pamela, and
Other Novels. Fielding. Joseph Andrews. Tom Jones. Its Moral. Smollett.
Roderick Random. Peregrine Pickle.
THE NEW AGE.
We have now reached a new topic in the course of English
Literature--contemporaneous, indeed, with the subjects just named, but
marked by new and distinct development.
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