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...understand editions and title-pages too well. It always smells of pedantry and not always of learning. What curious books I have, they are indeed but few they shall be at your service. I have some of the Old Collana, and the Macchiavel of 1550. Beware of Biblomania." --Chesterfield...
Others of Chesterfield's letters, which were written to his son, chiefly during the years in which the latter was being educated, are of even greater interest to the average college type of intelligence. Chesterfield had advice to give which was a peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...
...Frost '01, "Letter to Lord Chesterfield," Dr. Johnson...
...Copeland's lecture yesterday consisted entirely of selections from Johnson's Letters and Works, and from Boswell's Life. The selections included Johnson's letters to the Earl of Chesterfield and to his mother on her death bed. Sever 11 was crowded to the doors as heretofore...
...then gave a description of Dr. Johnson's personal appearance and customs; and an account of his early youth, together with a picture of London and the state of affairs in England when Johnson went to the capitol, and sought the patronage of Lord Chesterfield. He ended the lecture by reading passages from Johnson's letters and other works...