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When his will was read, it transpired that he had left his valuable book collection to Harvard. This included four folios of Shakespere, first editions of the "Fairie Queene," of Ben Jonson's works, of "Robinson Crusoe," of Gulliver's Travels," "The Vicar of Wakefield," the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and many other works almost as famous. There were first editions and presentation copies of Dickens, Thackeray, Browning, Tennyson, and Stevenson, and numerous other manuscripts from the same period of English literature. In the short term of his life, Harry Elkins Widener had in this collection acquired...
...remaining volumes, though not yet arranged, will include the following works: Jonson's "Volpone"; Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Maid's Tragedy"; Webster's "Duchess of Malfe"; Middleton's "The Changeling"; Dryden's "All for Love"; Shelley's "Cenci"; Browning's "Blot on the Scutcheon"; Tennyson's "Becket"; Goethe's "Faust"; Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus"; Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," specially edited by Professor C. W. Bullock; "Letters" of Cicero and Pliny; Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"; Burn's "Tam O'Shanter"; Walton's "Complete Angler" and "Lives" of Donne and Herbert. "Autobiography of St. Augustine"; "Plutarch's "Lives...
...advantage of his extensive library. Many of these books will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room today and the lover of old and interesting books will find a unique collection which has many valuable literary associations connected with their ownership. There are books which once belonged to Ben Jonson, Wordsworth, George Washington and others, as well as volumes made precious by association with Mr. Norton's own friends, Ruskin, Holmes, Longfellow and Curtis...
...first public performance of Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" was given last night at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. The success of the play does not hang on the plot, which is slender, but on its unusual scenes, its swift action, its stinging satire and the spirited delineation of character. The performance last night was remarkably smooth, the cast of thirty-four persons being of more than average ability. C. B. Wetherell '08 played Overdo, the pompous justice of the peace, with signal success. H. R. Shipherd '08 was successful throughout in his rendering...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present Ben Jonson's "Bartholomew Fair" for its tenth annual Elizabethan revival...