Word: duodecimo
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under the pseudonym of Senior Algerno. The real name is not known, and inquiry gives no information about either author or publisher. "Childe Harvard" is a narrative in verse, and is a travesty on Byron's "Childe Harold." The poem consists of four cantos and covers about 150 duodecimo pages. It is written in a humorons strain, interspersed with some sentimentality, and contains many bits of bright verse. The story itself is very obscure, and is no more than a foundation on which the writer bases his many digressions. But it is, nevertheless, amusing, and no one can read...
...that the seal should bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease...
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