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THE SALON AND ENGLISH LETTERS


Colophon

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO


Caricature of a small group in conversation
The Conversazione
From Samuel Hoole’s Modern Manners (1782)

THE SALON
AND ENGLISH LETTERS

CHAPTERS ON THE INTERRELATIONS
OF LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
IN THE AGE OF JOHNSON

BY

CHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKER

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN YALE UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1915

All rights reserved


Copyright, 1915,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


TO

C. E. A.

SAPIENTIS PATRIS FILIO
SAPIENTIORI


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. THE FRENCH BACKGROUND
CHAPTER I
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