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These volumes are supplemented by a small but choice shelf-full of about 100 original quarto plays by Addison, Cibber, Congreve, Davenport, Dryden, Ford, Gay, Killigrew, Lee, Massinger, Minshull, Sedley, Sheridan, Steele, and other writers of lesser importance...
Joel Austin Dibble '16 of Milton, has been awarded the first Bowdoin prize for an undergraduate dissertation in English. His essay was entitled "A Reconsideration of Cibber." He will receive a bronze medal and the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars...
...value. Mr. H. C. Force '01, has presented a set of the "Great Commanders" series, including lives of Jackson, Thomas, Hancock, Greene, Johnston, Washington, Sheridan, Scott, Sherman, Taylor, Farragut, Grant and Lee. From Mr. John B. Gerrish '71, of New York, the library has received an edition of Colley Cibber's Works, in 5 volumes, published in 1736, a very handsome edition of George Meredith, in 32 volumes, and a superb edition of Fielding, printed in 11 volumes and bound in tree calf. The Deutscher Verein has given complete sets of the works of Schiller, Lessing and Goethe...
...Union library has just received from Mr. J. B. Gerrish '71 a gift of forty-eight books purchased by him in Europe last winter. The gift includes the works of George Meredith in thirty-two volumes, the works of J. Fielding in eleven volumes, and the works of Colley Cibber in five volumes. The last named volumes were published in London in 1736. Mr. Gerrish has given about four hundred volumes to the Union library in the last year...
...summary, Mr. Copeland said that "The Love Chase," "London Assurance," and "Masks and Faces" are the three best legacies of the drama of yesterday. He mentioned as books which would be well worth reading, Colley's "Cibber's 'Apology'" and Lewes's "Actors and Acting...