By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO

C. E. A.

SAPIENTIS PATRIS FILIO
SAPIENTIORI

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. THE FRENCH BACKGROUND
CHAPTER I
PAGE
Introduction[3]
CHAPTER II
Origin and Characteristics of the Salon[16]
CHAPTER III
The Eighteenth Century Salon[30]
CHAPTER IV
English Authors in Parisian Salons[42]
PART II. THE ENGLISH SALON
CHAPTER V
The Earlier English Salon[83]
CHAPTER VI
Conversation Parties and Literary Assemblies[102]
CHAPTER VII
The Bluestocking Club[123]
CHAPTER VIII
The London Salon[134]
CHAPTER IX
Bluestockings as Authors[166]
CHAPTER X
Mrs. Montagu as a Patron of the Arts[189]
CHAPTER XI
Results[209]
PART III. THE SOCIAL SPIRIT IN ENGLISH LETTERS
CHAPTER XII
Johnson and the Art of Conversation[217]
CHAPTER XIII
Walpole and the Art of Familiar Correspondence[236]
CHAPTER XIV
Fanny Burney and the Art of the Diarist[254]
CHAPTER XV
Boswell and the Art of Intimate Biography[268]
INDEX[285]