Even in his old age, when living in comfort by his pen, Defoe dealt in cloth. He wrote his "Complete English Tradestdan" after all hie novels were written. Charles Lamb was very severe in his criticism of " The Complete English Trades. man." He saw in it a debasing tendency, and instanced those pas-~ sages in, which Defoe bids the young tradesman to consider his shop before everything, to hide his annoyance under any provocation that a customer might offer, and, in a word, to be "a complete hypocrite," meaning a complete actor. But this is harsh treatment. Defoe's chapters on careless attendance to business, extravagance in dress, being above business, marrying too soon, over-trading, petty rivalries, underselling, and so forth, are full of sound and honourable advice, Defoe not only had none of that pride of authorship which sets a gulf between literature and trade, but he knew, as a novelist, how to write the novel of business,
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