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Title: The Glory of English Prose
Letters to My Grandson

Author: Stephen Coleridge

Release Date: October 18, 2004 [EBook #13785]

Language: English

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The Glory of English Prose

Letters to my Grandson

[Illustration: STEPHEN COLERIDGE
FROM THE PORTRAIT BY BERNARD PARTRIDGE IN THE POSSESSION
OF THE MESS OF THE SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT]

The Glory of English Prose
Letters to My Grandson

By
The Hon. Stephen Coleridge

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors"
_Dr. Johnson_

G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1922

1922
by
Stephen Coleridge
Made in the United States of America

PREFACE

If you have read, gentle reader, the earlier series of _Letters to my
Grandson on the World about Him_, you are to understand that in the
interval between those letters and these, Antony has grown to be a boy
in the sixth form of his public school.

It has not been any longer necessary therefore to study an extreme
simplicity of diction in these letters.

My desire has been to lead him into the most glorious company in the
world, in the hope that, having early made friends with the noblest of
human aristocracy, he will never afterwards admit to his affection and
intimacy anything mean or vulgar.

Many young people who, like Antony, are not at all averse from the
study of English writers, stand aghast at the vastness of the what
seems so gigantic an enterprise.

In these letters I have acted as pilot for a first voyage through what is
to a boy an uncharted sea, after which I hope and believe he will have
learned happily to steer for himself among the islands of the blest.

S.C.

THE FORD,
CHOBHAM.

CONTENTS

1. ON GOOD AND BAD STYLE IN PROSE
2. ON THE GLORY OF THE BIBLE
3. SIR WALTER RALEIGH
4. ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 1532
5. THE JUDICIOUS HOOKER AND SHAKESPEARE
6. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CREWE
7. SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND MILTON
8.