HIRCUS, PERTICA ET CAERULEA FLAMMA: OR INTEMPERANCE UNMASKED, TOGETHER WITH A FEW INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES OF ITS MEMBERS. BY CARLISLE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERTI SCHMITZ, F.R.S. PROF. OF SYRIAC IN THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS PERE LA CHAISE.
New Haven: For Sale by E. Richardson, 1853. 24pp. Disbound with light but persistent foxing. Lower blank margin of page [2] has small institutional rubberstamp and withdrawal. Good+.
"The Goat, Perch and Blue Flames" is the English translation of the first five words. "To the students of Yale college, this work is most respectfully inscribed, as a tribute of regard, as being the future glory of our country."
The OCLC entry calls this pamphlet "A satire on the societies at Yale." It denounces with a bitter humor "the horrid monster of secrecy" which characterizes all of them. The author includes some of his poetry in order to make his point.
OCLC 43864138 [1- Yale] [as of August 2015]. Item #32317
Price: $275.00