CHAPTER X.

THE TEA TELLER AND WHAT FOLLOWED IT.

1764—1765.

1764. « rjTg-jg ^ay is published," said the Public Advertiser of the
-2G136. j^k 0£ Decem]3er 1764, " price one shilling and sixpence,
" The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society, a Poem. By
" Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. Printed for J. Newbery in
" St. Paul's Church Yard." It was the first time that
Goldsmith had announced his name in connection with
anything he had written; and with it he had resolved to
associate his brother Henry's name. To him. he dedicated
the poem. From the midst of the poverty which Henry
could least alleviate, and turning from the celebrated men
with whose favour his own fortunes were bound up, he
addressed the friend and companion of his infancy, to whom,
in all his sufferings and wanderings, his heart, untravelled
and unsullied, had still lovingly gone back. " The friendship
" between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies
" of a Dedication," he said; " but as a part of this poem
" was formerly written to you from Switzerland, the whole
" can now, with propriety, be only inscribed to you. It
" will also throw light upon many parts of it, when the
" reader understands that it is addressed to a man, who,ameless novel recedes