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Contents.
A.D. page
1583. Fulke's scorn of the Douay Bible 302
1611. Influence of our Version 303
Romanism adverse to our Literature 304
The Reformation unites England and Scotland 305
The Bible a bond for the Angel cyn 306
1550. Wilson's criticism - Shakespere 307
1590. Spenser - Our Golden Age 308
The form its - Loss of Old Forms 309
1640. Strafford's Thorough - Milton 310
His Lycidas - Bunyan 311
1650. The Change in English Prose 312
1750. Johnson's Corruptions 313
The Study of Sanscrit 314
1810. Scott, Byron, Coleridge 315
1820. Scott's Romances - The Ballad revived 316
1830. Cobbett - Monk's Life of Bentley 317
1870. Speeches of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright 318
1873. Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Morris 319
Table of Dates bearing on English Literature 320, 321

CHAPTER VI.

good and bad english in 1873.

Scholars and the Middle Class 322
The Latter love Foreign phrases 323
How a man writes to The Times 324
Latin is too often a pitfall 325
The Penny-a-liner of our day 326
Blunder of Irish Prelates 327
Correspondents of Journals 328
Editors should put down bad English 329
Americans misspell honour 330
Fine writing in America 331
To interview 332
English abuse of the letter h 333
Bad style of English preachers 334