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THE
JOHN HARVARD LIBRARY Bernard Bailyn Editor-in-Chief
THE JOHN HARVARD
LIBRARY
T e n N i g h t s in a B a r - R o o m , A n d W h a t I Saw T h e r e By
T I M O T H Y SHAY
ARTHUR
Edited by Donald A. Koch
THE BELKNAP PRESS HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
Cambridge, Massachusetts 19 6 4
OF PRESS
Originally published in 1854
© Copyright 1964 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved
Distributed in Great Britain by Oxford University Press, London
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-25051 Printed in the United States of America
INTRODUCTION ι: The Life and Work of T. S. Arthur In his delightful study entitled Queer Books, Edmund Pearson devotes a full chapter to the peculiar nineteenth-century literary genre known as "temperance novels." With tongue in cheek Pearson comments on the moral nature and "extraordinary innocence" of these novels and then tells of his first encounter—through a play version—with the classic example, Timothy Shay Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, And What I Sa