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When James Boswell, Esq., wrote _The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D._, he not only achieved his purpose of giving the world "a rich intellectual treasure," but also succeeded in making himself a subject of permanent literary interest.
Among the good things which the year 1922 has brought to us I count the _Boswell redivivus_ from the industrious and skilful hand of Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker of Yale. He calls his excellent book, which is largely enriched with new material in the way of hitherto unpublished letters, _Young Boswell_. This does not mean that he deals only with the early years, amatory episodes, and first literary ventures of Johnson's inimitable biographer, but that he sees in the man a certain persistent youngness which accounts for the exuberance of his faults and follies as well as for the enthusiasm of his hero-worship.