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...SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS-Gamaliel Bradford - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). A penetrating, humorous and well-balanced appraisal of the Diarist. Gamaliel Bradford brings to his task that curious mixture of scholarly precision and sprightly irrelevancy of comment which has stamped him as America's most potent contender in the field of illuminating biography. If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber...
...Another diarist gives us a glimpse of class day of 1829, when Holmes was poet; "1829, July 14, Tuesday. - At ten I was in University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the senior class. Oration by Devereaux of Salem; poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small, in distinction from most others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy, and abounded in wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddesses the ladies present, and, in so doing...