"The present volume is the first work published by the Yale University Press on the Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund"--P. [5].
"Published under the auspices of the Elizabethan Club of Yale University"--Prelim. p.
Contents
The Connecticut wits -- The singer of the Old swimmin' hole -- Emerson's journals -- The art of letter writing -- Thackeray's centenary -- Retrospects and prospects of the English drama -- Sheridan -- The poetry of the cavaliers -- Abraham Cowley -- Milton's tercentenary -- Shakespeare's contemporaries.