Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sanford Professor of English Literature at Yale, will give a course on the English painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, for the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard during the second half of the academic year 1929-30. He will be on sabbatical leave from Yale during the whole of that academic year.

The course will be open only to those men who have previously had a course in Fine Arts, or a course in the English Literature of the period covered by the lectures.

Professor Tinker graduated from Yale in 1899 and, after three years of graduate study, he taught English at Bryn Mawr for one year. He became an instructor in English at Yale in 1903 and was elevated to the rank of assistant professor in 1908. Since 1913 he has held the Emily Sanford chair in the department of English Literature. During the War he served as a captain of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Staff.

Professor Tinker is an authority on the Johnson period of English history. He edited the recent edition of the letters of James Boswell which was printed in 1924. Other works by Professor Tinker include, "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," "The Salon and English Letters," and the well known biography, "Young Boswell."