The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects.
The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects.
The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the Macmillan books on kindred subjects.
The Salon and English Letters
By CHAUNCEY BREWSTER TINKER
Professor of English Literature in Yale University
Illustrated, 8vo, 290 pages, $2.25
The interrelation of literature and society in the age of Johnson is presented in this scholarly and interesting book by Professor Tinker. The author writes with a rare enthusiasm that wins the reader’s interest from the beginning. It is with the borderland where literature and society meet that the author deals. “I shall trace as well as I can,” he says in his introduction, “the attempt made in England between 1760 and 1790 to emulate the literary world of Paris by bringing men of letters and men of the world into closer relations and by making the things of the mind an avocation of the drawing-room, and thereafter I shall endeavor to show the results of this movement as they appear in the improved artistry of three or four types of writing.”
“Professor Tinker’s volume is as interesting as it is timely.... A chronicle of a picturesque phase of English letters.”—Boston Transcript.
“I could wish that more of our university scholars—those, that is, who have the learning, critical insight, and happy style that this book shows—would devote themselves to this kind of scholarship.”
—Prof. H. M. Belden,University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
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