CONTENTS

1.[The Connecticut Wits]
2.[The Singer of the Old Swimmin’ Hole]
3.[Emerson’s Journals]
4.[The Art of Letter Writing]
5.[Thackeray’s Centenary]
6.[Retrospects and Prospects of the English Drama]
7.[Sheridan]
8.[The Poetry of the Cavaliers]
9.[Abraham Cowley]
10.[Milton’s Tercentenary]
11.[Shakespeare’s Contemporaries]

THE OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM

MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND

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THE present volume is the first work published by the

Yale University Press on the Oliver Baty Cunningham

Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established

May 8, 1920, by a gift from Frank S. Cunningham,

Esq., of Chicago, to Yale University, in

memory of his son, Captain Oliver Baty Cunningham,

15th United States Field Artillery, who was born in

Chicago, September 17, 1894, and was graduated from

Yale College in the Class of 1917. As an undergraduate

he was distinguished alike for high scholarship and for

proved capacity in leadership among his fellows, as evidenced

by his selection as Gordon Brown Prize Man

from his class. He received his commission as Second

Lieutenant, United States Field Artillery, at the First

Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and in

December, 1917, was detailed abroad for service, receiving

subsequently the Distinguished Service Medal. He

was killed while on active duty near Thiaucourt, France,

on September 17, 1918, the twenty-fourth

anniversary of his birth.