American literary writer, born in Buffalo, NY, on the 2nd of July 1847. He was graduated from Yale in 1869, and six years later became a professor of English there. Mr. Beers has been a frequent contributor to periodical literature, and has done considerable special writing for dictionaries and encyclopædias. His verse writings include Odds and Ends and The Thankless Muse. Among his prose writings are Life of N. P. Willis; Initial Studies in American Letters; and From Chaucer to Tennyson. He edited, in 1878, A Century of American Literature. See also “Bumble-Bee,” etc.
