FROM WIDSITH TO THE A SOURCE BOOK BY ALLEN ROGERS BENHAM, A.M., PH.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY MDCCCCXVI THE HENRY WELDON BARNES MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND The present volume is the fourth work published by the Yale University Press on the Henry Weldon Barnes Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established June 16, 1913, by a gift made to Yale University by William Henry Barnes, Esq., of Philadelphia, in memory of his son, a member of the Class of 1882, Yale College, who died December 3, 1882. While a student at Yale, Henry Weldon Barnes was greatly interested in the study of literature and in the literary activities of the college of his day, contributing articles to some of the undergraduate papers and serving on the editorial board of the Yale Record. It had been his hope and expectation that he might in after-life devote himself to literary work. His untimely death prevented the realization of his hopes, but by the establishment of the Henry Weldon Barnes Memorial Publication Fund his name will nevertheless be forever associated with the cause of scholarship and letters which he planned to serve and which he loved so well. |