THE SALON AND ENGLISH LETTERS
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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
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Copyright, 1915,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915.
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