BEERS, HENRY AUGUST US

(1847), s. of George W. and Elizabeth Beers, Graduated from Yale in 1869, given ‘The M.A. degree in 1887. Tutor at Yale in by 1871 to 1874, a istant profe or in English literature since that date. Has written, besides his many books, extensively for the magazines. His better Imown books are From Chaucer to Tennyson, 1890; Initial Studies in American Letters, 1891; A History of English Romanticism in the 18th Century, 1899; and the 19th Century in 1901; Points of I ue, 1904; The Two Twilights (verse) 1917; Four Americans, 1919; The Connecticut Wits, 1920; and Poems, 1921. most southerly village in Canaan; mentioned in Old Testament, from times of Abraham; ‘from Dan even unto B.’ meant the whole of Palestine; site marked by ruins and two circular wells.