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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.
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