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BEERS, HENRY AUGUSTIN.[[2]] Connecticut wits and other essays. *$2.25 Yale univ. press 814
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“Mr Henry A. Beers’s ‘Connecticut wits’ consists of eleven brief literary essays on subjects whose diversity is undisguised. He has found nothing in the tradition or the atmosphere of his Yale habitat to discourage the inclusion of an essay on Cowley and an essay on Riley in the same volume.” (Review) “He unearths Joel Barlow and those other neglected spirits of old Connecticut; and then allows his fancy to range over such themes as the poetry of the cavaliers, Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Thackeray and Sheridan.” (Freeman)
“In manner, these essays are scholarly, informative, and suavely graceful.” L. B.
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Reviewed by Brander Matthews
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“Scholarship and humor are admirably blended in these essays.”