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. Jeremy Taylor]
[9. Evelyn's Diary]
[10. John Bunyan]
[11. Dr. Johnson]
[12. Edmund Burke]
[13. Gibbon]
[14. Henry Grattan And Macaulay]
[15. Lord Erskine]
[16. Robert Hall]
[17. Lord Plunket]
[18. Robert Southey]
[19. Walter Savage Landor]
[20. Lord Brougham]
[21. Sir William Napier]
[22. Richard Sheil]
[23. Thomas Carlyle]
[24. Henry Nelson Coleridge]
[25. Cardinal Newman]
[26. Lord Macaulay Again]
[27. President Lincoln]
[28. John Ruskin]
[29. James Anthony Froude]
[30. Matthew Arnold]
[31. Sir William Butler]
[32. Lord Morley]
[33. Hilaire Belloc]
[34. King George The Fifth]
[35. Conclusion]
LETTERS TO MY GRANDSON
1
My Dear Antony,
The letters which I wrote "On the world about you" having shown you that throughout all the universe, from the blazing orbs in infinite space to the tiny muscles of an insect's wing, perfect design is everywhere manifest, I hope and trust that you will never believe that so magnificent a process and order can be without a Mind of which it is the visible expression.
The chief object of those letters was to endorse your natural feeling of reverence for the Great First Cause of all things, with the testimony of your reason; and to save you from ever allowing knowledge of how the sap rises in its stalk to lessen your wonder at and admiration of the loveliness of a flower.
I am now going to write to you about the literature of England and show you, if I can, the immense gulf that divides distinguished writing and speech from vulgar writing and speech.