Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — Doctor Johnson in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Doctor Johnson in Paris.

Turn back a century and a half and y<JU will see, strolling along the garden walks at Versailles, Doctor Johnson. He did not consider that Paris seen In a hurry lent Itself so easily to remark as the Hebrides, and his Impressions of Versailles he left unrecorded. If Doctor Johnson did not find much to say on the subject of Paris, Paris had some remarks to make about Johnson. His appearance, “his figure and manner,” quite astonished them. He Insisted on 'wearing “brown clothes, black stockings, and plain shirt,” and on speaking Latin to all and sundry, because, Boswell explains, it was a maxim with him that a man should not let himself down by speaking a tongue brokenly.