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Search - Young Boswell - Chapters On James Boswell The Biographer Based Largely On New Material

Young Boswell Chapters On James Boswell The Biographer Based Largely On New Material
Author: Chauncey Brewster Tinker

YOUNG BOSWELL CHAPTERS ON JAMES BOSWELL THE BIOGRAPHER BASED LARGELY ON NEW MATERIAL CHAUNCEY BREWSTEIl TINKER With Many Illustrations THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOSTON To R. B. ADAM My dear Mr. Adam 9 Since it was our common interest in Boswell that brought us acquainted now many years ago, you will I own sure, permit me to dedicate this book t... more »o you. You have furnished me with a large number of the new letters which are quoted in it and with nearly all the illustrations. But I value even more highly your unfailing interest in me and in my studies. In more senses than one thi book i already your own Faithfully yours, Chauncey B, Tinker. PREFACE To write the life of him who was himself the Great Biographer is a task which I have had no thought of attempting in this book. In the course of collecting the letters of Boswell I have come across a good many new incidents In his career, which, it has seemed to me, might perhaps alter, or at least ameliorate, the view generally held of him, and which might properly be made the sub ject of a group of connected essays In each essay there is, I think, a good deal of new information, for the sources of which I refer the reader to my forthcoming edition of BoswelFs correspondence. But though a large part of my material Is new, I have not hesitated to draw also upon older and more familiar matter The quotations from Bos wells letters to Temple are from the original manu script, now in the possession of Mr. James Pierpont Morgan, which has not been studied since 1857. I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Morgan for permitting me to copy it. In using eztracts from It I have retained, as elsewhere, BoswelFs spelling, but not his punctuation. To my Mend Dr. J. T. T. Brown of Glasgow, who has been a lifelong student of Boswell and who lias taken a keen interest in my labours from PREFACE their Inception I offer my warmest thanks. Mr. Clement Shorter has kindly permitted me to reprint in Chapter ix a portion of the essay that I con tributed to the ninth volume of his edition of BoswelFs Johnson, as an introduction to the Jour nal of a Tour to the Hebrides. In one way, perhaps, this book may be unique. James Boswell has fared rather badly at the hands of most people who have written about him. For myself, I frankly admit that I have enjoyed my association with him, and that I have had no desire either to patronise him or to sit in judgment on his occasional lapses from social propriety and moral standards. That Boswell was at times a very fool ish young man any reader may see but he was not I think, so foolish as many of his critics have been. When all is said, he had genius, and of that 1 have tried to make a sympathetic study, preferring to err, if I must err, on the side of appreciation a B. T. YALE UNIVKKSITT February 28, 1922. CONTENTS I. YOUNG BOSWELL . . . - 1 II, IN HOLLAND AND GERMANY . . 27 1IL WITH TUB FKKNCH PHILOSOPHERS . 49 IV. BOH WELL AND WlLKEB ... 64 V. BOSWELL AND HIS ELDERS LOED AUCHINLECK, SIB ALEXANDER DICK, GENERAL PAOLI .... 92 VI IN LOVE ....... 117 VII. WOOING A WIFE 138 VIII. TUB SOCIAL GENIUS OF BOSWELL . 165 IX. JQUBNAIXOEMNG AND JOURNAL-PUB LISHING 192 X, THE MAGNUM OPUS .... 220 XL THE MASTEE OF AUCHINLECK . 239 INDEX - 257 ILLUSTRATIONS JAMKS BOSWKLL .... . Frontispiece Engraving by William Darnell 1808 from a portrait by i H rge Dance 1793 FACHIMILK OF TITLE-PAGE OF AN ODE TO TRAGEDY BOHWKLI H CHKST ........ 8 RUINS OF THW OLD CASTLE, AUCHINLECK ... 8 BOBWKLLH INSCRIPTION IN HIS COPY OF THE GOV ERNMENT OF THE TONGUE JJ ..... 16 SIGNATURE OF BOSWELL, JET. IB ..... 6 THE SAVAGE MAN ........ 60 Caricature of Hou seuu, the Apostle of Nature, with Hume and Voltaire JOHN WILKES ......... 64 ..... ..... 110 Engraving by F. Holl, from a sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence FACSIMILE OF TITLE-PAGE OF BRITISH ESSAYS IN FAVOUK OF THE BKAVJS CORSICANS . 114 iHABEtLA DK Z0YLEN, LATEE MADAME BE CHABEIERE TlIK BlOGKAPHEE IN MEDITATION .... Engraving by W. T...

ISBN-13: 9781406777475
ISBN-10: 1406777471
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 308
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