Chapter III: Preface (3)

=v. 2.= Contains twenty-five essays on the history of particular topics: Pt. 1 is devoted to the sources of legal history; pt. 2 “contains essays by Inderwick, Spence, Holdsworth and Mears on the history of the courts—common law, equity, ecclesiastical and admiralty, their organization and jurisdiction. Part 3, the largest of the four, traces the history of procedure, and the ten essays range from the late Professor Thayer’s ‘Older modes of trial’ and Sir Frederick Pollock’s ‘King’s peace in the middle ages’ to Professor Hepburn’s ‘Historical development of code pleading in America and England.’... In part 4 are six essays on equity.” (Am. Hist. R.)

* * * * *

“We do not mind the overlapping in subject-matter and the conflict of views when the subject-matter is the origin of equity and the conflict of views is between Mr. Justice Holmes and Professor James Barr Ames.” H. D. Hazeltine.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 561. Ap. ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Though primarily intended for lawyers, is at the same time brimful of matter valuable for historians. Only in a very few cases do the editors seem to have fallen below the high standard of excellence which they have adopted.” F.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 822. O. ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“This is one of the series of three volumes which the scholarly lawyer cannot well do without.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 666. N. 14, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Atkinson, Eleanor.= Lincoln’s love story. **50c. Doubleday.

9–3343.

“The average person knows only that Ann Rutledge was Lincoln’s sweetheart whom he lost by death. Of the character of Ann herself, the circumstances of Lincoln’s associations with her, the qualities which set her apart from the rustic maids of New Salem and drew Lincoln’s regard, and of the inner heart of the tragedy which separated them by death—the majority are ignorant. It is this which Mrs. Atkinson tells, correlating all this tradition, supplementing it with direct testimony from surviving friends of Lincoln, and projecting it against the background where it was enacted.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Tradition and the testimony of Lincoln’s friends have been skillfully utilized in this delicate story.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09. ✠

“An exquisite little narrative of the tragic romance that mellowed, softened and deepened Lincoln’s life.”

+ =Arena.= 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 70w.
=Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 40w.

“While this story cannot take its place as literature with ‘He knew Lincoln’ or ‘The perfect tribute,’ it is, nevertheless, delicately and reverently told.” J. B. Rittenhouse.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 470w.

=Atkinson, William Walker.= Mind-power: or, The law of dynamic
mentation. $2. Progress co.

9–3058.

“Mr. Atkinson premises that ‘there exists in nature a dynamic mental principle—a mind-power—pervading all space—immanent in all things—manifesting in an infinite variety of forms, degrees, and phases.’ He identifies this force, or principle—his terminology is rather loose—with ether, or concedes that it may dwell in ether. It is a thing in itself and the way to use it is to say: ‘I am dynamic,’ with all possible emphasis, which ranges this force on your side and makes you irresistible in love, business, and all the affairs of life.”—N. Y. Times.

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“Can have no possible value to a student of scientific psychical research, but it may prove attractive to others. The book seems to be a sort of vade mecum for this class of spiritists, hypnotists, clairvoyants, and mediums, and if the reading of it is confined to them no harm will be done.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 50w.

=Atlay, J. B.=^{[5]} Lord Haliburton. 8s. 6d. Smith, Elder & co.,
London.

Not a biography but “the bare truths of a strenuous, and intelligent, and highly conscientious official life.”

* * * * *

“Mr. Atlay has done his work well.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 128. Ja. 30. 640w.

“To Americans, this short memoir of the successful career of a British colonist, born and bred in Nova Scotia, cannot but be interesting.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 257. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.
=Sat. R.= 107: 371. Mr. 20, ’09. 740w.

“Is assuredly a contribution to the literature of army problems which no student of these can afford to neglect. It is also an inspiring and stimulating record of the life of a great civil servant.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 530w.

=Audel’s= gas engine manual. $2. Audel.

8–8318.

“Begins with the earliest types of gas engines and attempts to have the reader become familiar with the various engines in use up to three or four years ago. There are descriptions of a number of engines, but there is a noticeable absence of engines from about 100 to 500 h.-p. In general, the scheme is to familiarize the reader with the various types of engines, the principles upon which they operate, their construction, operation, care and accessories which are always found in connection with gas engine work.”—Engin. Rec.

* * * * *

“While deficient in the matter of theoretical, or thermodynamic, information, and therefore not complete as a text-book on the subject, this volume presents in a convenient form a large amount of practical information.”

+ − =Engin.= N. 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 320w.

“The author succeeds well in covering the ground in a general manner, and though more intended for the practical man, the book is worth the attention of any one interested in the subject. It is safe to say that the book gives more value for the money than any of its kind now published.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 230w.

=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.=^{[11]} Lost borders. $1.25. Harper.

9–28270.

Stories of a country “where the boundary of soul and sense is as faint as a trail in a sand storm.” It is of the unrestrained life of the far western plains that the author writes, of the obsessions that seize upon men’s souls, of the moral irresponsibility, engendered by the desert, that has no use for the formal side of man’s affairs.

* * * * *

“It is a wholesome book for city-dwellers in its largeness of understanding.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 512. N. 25, ’09. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 50w.

“This woman has the eye to see, the heart to understand, the art of words to convey.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 600w.

=Austin, Stanley Elston.=^{[6]} History of engraving from its
inception to the time of Thomas Bewick. *$1.50. Scribner.

9–4092.

A popular compendium giving in concise form the various methods of engraving. The chapters are: Its fabled or romantic origin; More claims considered; Block books; Early masters—“E. S.” and Albrecht Dürer; Hans Holbein the younger; Progress of wood-engraving in England; Some masters of the French and Italian schools; The birth of mezzotint; Early British mezzotinters; More masters of mezzotint; A great exponent of stipple; The revival of wood-engraving. Index.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 5. S. ’09.

“No ‘History’ can properly deal with the rise and progress of engraving ‘From its inception to the time of Bewick’ in this space.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 623. My. 22. 230w.

“A somewhat bumptious little book. Mr. Austin has knowledge of some of the facts of his subject, although it is questionable if he possesses a clear idea of just what constitutes engraving.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 178. F. 18, ’09. 270w.

“The author’s enthusiasms lead him to seemingly rather overcolored statements.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 450w.

=Auvergne, Edmund B. d’.=^{[8]} Lola Montez. *$4. Lane.

This is the biography of a talented Irish woman whose distasteful early marriage consummated by a scheming parent marked the beginning of a checkered career of the sort known to adventuresses. “Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert eloped at nineteen to escape a mercenary marriage. By twenty-four she had quitted a husband and become the Spanish dancer Lola Montez. In the eighteen years of life left her she passed from end to end of Europe at the public expense, accumulating adorations ‘en route’; fairly naturalized herself in the Paris of the greater Dumas and Émile Girardin; episodically sojourned with the Abbé Liszt; became the Egeria (blamelessly, it appears) of Louis I of Bavaria; lingered in a California camp, and flashed through the mining fields of Australia; became an author, and a devout Methodist at New York; a dull and decorous lecturer in London; made an edifying end, and was buried under her maiden name in Greenwood cemetery.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Reading the story of Lola Montez is like reading a vivid page from the eighteenth century.” A. B. Maurice.

+ =Bookm.= 30: 146. O. ’09. 2650w.

“It is probably his rather forced flippancy, and the tiresome reiteration with which he employs Lola as a flail for Philistia that obscure the better qualities of his book. As it is we find his rather jejune Gautierisms almost insurmountable.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 118. Ag. 5, ’09. 530w.

“It is a kindly, sympathetic, and appreciative view of the famous adventuress that is presented.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 475. Ag. 7, ’09. 660w.

=Avebury, John Lubbock.= Peace and happiness. **$1.50. Macmillan.

9–2259.

At the heart of Lord Avebury’s entire presentation of the subject of happiness lies the conviction that “happiness depends upon ourselves.” His chapter headings are: The body, The mind, Aspiration, Contentment, Adversity, Kindness, Education, On friends and enemies, On riches, The dread of nature, The love of nature, Now, Wisdom, Religion, Theology, Peace of mind, and The peace of nations. The author’s attitude towards pain and evil is revealed in the statement, “Pain is not always, or even generally, an evil. It is often a warning and safeguard.... But we do not so readily acknowledge that the same is true of mental troubles.”

* * * * *

“Not original, but practical and helpful, with numerous pertinent quotations.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 71. Mr. ’09. ✠ + =Dial.= 46: 142. Mr. 1, ’09. 450w.

“It is a temperate, healthy, beautiful book, one that every intelligent man or woman will be the better and the happier for having read. There are two chapters on religion and theology respectively in which one meets with a few statements from which a Catholic would dissent.”

+ − =Ecclesiastical R.= 40: 500. Ap. ’09. 460w.

“Lord Avebury is, in a modest and reasonable but very candid and courageous way, progressive and even radical.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 100. F. 20, ’09. 770w.

“There is a certain human kindness and philosophic depth about everything that Lord Avebury writes, and he has given us some very thought-provoking paragraphs in this volume of brief essays.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 70w.

“This volume has been pieced together out of Lord Avebury’s note-books, for the benefit of the rate-provided libraries, whose frequenters have an insatiable appetite for platitudes, and are not very familiar with the best things that have been said.”

− =Sat. R.= 107: 530. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

“Sometimes, we think, our author is somewhat too dogmatic. Sometimes, again, he is a little trite. But, on the whole, his book is full of truth, good counsel, and pertinent examples, well chosen and well expressed.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 426. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.

=Avery, Elroy McKendree.=^{[5]} History of the United States and its
people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. v. 5.
ea. *$6.25. Burrows.

4–32329.

=v. 5.= Covers the period from the French and Indian war to the time of the declaration of independence.

* * * * *

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 5.)

“From the purely literary point of view, this latest volume is his best; the style has greater evenness and dignity, and less of trivial digression and straining for popular effect than in any of his earlier work.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 513. My. 20, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 5.)

“This interesting period is handled by Mr. Avery in an intelligent, spirited, and entertaining fashion, due attention being paid to all of the important movements and stirring events that enlivened it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 168. Mr. 20, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 5.)

“In some respects, particularly in the matter of typography and illustrations, the best of the series that has thus far appeared. In all this narrative Dr. Avery has made good use of contemporary sources of information, both for text and illustrations.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 120w. (Review of v. 5.)

“We cannot on this occasion criticise the book in detail; but we must say a word about the rich variety of the illustrations with which it is furnished.”

=Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 5.)

=Ayres, Leonard P.=^{[6]} Laggards in our schools: a study of
retardation and elimination in city school systems. $1.50. Charities
pub. com.

9–16218.

The Russell Sage foundation furnished the sum of money necessary for conducting a preliminary survey that might (1) Put together useful material bearing on these topics; (2) Develop a mode of attack on the problem; (3) Analyze a sufficiently large number of cases to demonstrate the utility of the method and answer questions. The results included in this volume show that the most important causes of retardation can be removed; that regularity of attendance and faithfulness are major elements of success; that some cities are accomplishing results by exemplary measures; that relatively few children are so defective as to prevent success in school or in life.

* * * * *

“Presents valuable data.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 6. S. ’09.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 601. N. ’09. 210w.

“The book, although very clearly written, is not a merely popular discussion of the subject as the wording of the title might lead one to suspect, but gives evidence of careful research, of keen analysis of the material presented, and of much insight into statistical procedure.” W. F. Dearborn.

+ =El. School T.= 10: 94. O. ’09. 1100w.

“Such a book, at once readable and scholarly, scientific and popular, critical and constructive, is typical of the best in educational literature.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 200w.

“Every one interested in the welfare of our children ought to possess this book. And with all its statistics and generalizations, it is neither dry nor impersonal. For Mr. Ayres has given life to figures and character to diagrams, out of the great love of his heart for childhood.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 466. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.

=Ayscough, John.=^{[5]} Dromina. †$1.50. Putnam.

9–8577.

“A book of unusual interest. The scene is laid in Ireland, and shifts to Spain and South America. The people are of ancient Irish lineage, with a group of Gypsies from Spain who surround their king, and consort with the descendant of Irish kings. The central figure, though by no means the strongest character, is the Gypsy King Ludovic—disclosed as the last Dauphin, the ill-fated son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The intricacies of the story are infinite, but the author holds the guiding clue firmly, and leads us through many winding ways, to our satisfaction.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“A long, intricate story of considerable interest, fresh in its scenes, good in character delineation and full of shrewd observation and clever conversation.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.

“One may be well content to condone the structural weaknesses of ‘Dromina’ for the sake of its individual beauties—its fresh scenes, original characters, shrewd and delicate observations, and unforced wit. Above all, one must recognize its special distinction—a power of spiritual perception which enables the author to deal convincingly with supernatural experience.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 555. My. 8. 170w.

“Each separate part is well executed; it is only the whole that is unsatisfactory.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 549. Jl. ’09. 370w.

“There are enough desperate doings in the book to stir any grande dame’s fine blood.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.

“It is in essence a fine and high-minded work.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 380w.

“Altogether the book is as delightful as it is surprising. One is the better for associating with its men and women, who, under their playfulness and fantasy, possess such high breeding, such courage, and so pure a power for serving their highest aims.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 288. My. 8, ’09. 520w.

“Each character of the many which crowd the pages is individualized and excites our interest, while the romance holds our attention to the end.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 200w.

“Variety of scene, sympathetic characters, and shrewd psychological insight combine to make ‘Dromina’ a very entertaining tale.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 50w.

“It is magnificent, but it is not enough concentrated in interest to move us much.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 150w.

“Mr. Ayscough’s writing is always interesting, but in the present book he really has given us too many kings without kingdoms among his characters. When all is said and done, there is a charm about ‘Dromina’ missed by many novels which are far more competently put together.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 586. Ap. ’09. 280w.

B

=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[5]} Hand-made gentleman: a tale of the
battles of peace. †$1.50. Harper.

9–10497.

James Henry McCarthy, son of an uneducated wash-woman, discovers early in life that he is not a gentleman, and, with the aid of Lord Chesterfield’s letters, sets to work to attain ideals of good breeding. Having unusual ability for organizing business, he first achieves success in a private commercial industry, and afterwards makes himself necessary to the business of railroad consolidation, then in its incipiency.

* * * * *

“As a novel less successful than ‘Eben Holden.’”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.

“In his last book he has returned to his earlier manner and has written with the same sweet wizardry that made ‘Darrel of the Blessed Isles’ one of the most delightful spells ever cast by an author in fiction.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1343. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.

“It is written in his usual inimitable style.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 250w.

“This story has something approaching the free panoramic effect of ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ His humor is as genuine, though with a leaning toward sentiment, and the flavor of his people and his scenes is as truly of the soil as Mr. Clemens’s or Mr. De Morgan’s. It is delightful to find an American novelist now and then who can picture American types without self-consciousness.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 562. Je. 3, ’09. 420w.

“Is according to brand, but not quite up to sample. More bluntly put, his latest effort still retains the flavor of the workshop and shows its joints a little more freely than workmen approve.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 339. My. 29, ’09. 400w.

“Mr. Bacheller entertainingly describes rural New York in the period immediately after the close of ‘the’ war. There is nothing depressing throughout the book—everything is cheerful and warm hearted.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.

“Its love story no one cares for, its literary form is odd, its plot is negligible, but it is decidedly worth while.”

+ − =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 80w.

“The new story is quite as effective as anything that the author has done.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 80w.

=Bacheller, Irving Addison.=^{[11]} The master. **$1.20. Doubleday.

9–28042.

This is many stories in one; but first of all it shows the influence of one Christlike soul over the dominant spirit of one styled “The Napoleon of Discontent.” The latter is head of a chain of anarchy that encircles the world, he has planned a campaign of blood and warfare, when this friend publishes a book preaching peace and helpfulness and the world supposes that the anarchist leader has written it. At once he is sought by wealth and power, offers of help pour in upon him and he finds himself more powerful as a leader of a peace movement than he had dared hope to be as a bloody avenger. Interwoven with this great theme is a tale of villainy and crime, an account of a school for novelists and also a charming love story.

=Bacon, Benjamin Wisner.=^{[10]} Commentary on the Epistle of St. Paul
to the Galatians. (Bible for home and school.) *50c. Macmillan.

9–25114.

A commentary that, in keeping with the aim of the series, offers Bible students the results of the best modern scholarship as brought to bear on the study of Galatians.

* * * * *

“The comment is sympathetic, intelligent, and stimulating.”

+ =Bib. World.= 34: 360. N. ’09. 50w.

=Bacon, Josephine Dodge (Daskam).= An idyll of All fool’s day. †$1.25.
Dodd.

8–23558.

A book of “busy nonsense” which records the adventures of a young man and a maid during a day’s outing. “Of course, from the time Mrs. Bacon’s youthful Benedick and Beatrice exchange hostilities at first glance, one foresees that on the last page the moon will be throwing a needless glory over youth and love and laughter, but the events of the day that work the change are none the less piquantly unexpected for leading to a foregone conclusion.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Bright, light and as amusing as impossible.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09. ✠

“The action is continuous and amuses by its very impossibility.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 140w.

=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.=^{[11]} In the border country. **$1.
Doubleday.

9–27445.

Here are three visions seen long years apart by a woman who three times, from different causes, hovers between life and death at the border land of consciousness. They show to her, and through her they teach us, that the work of woman is great in that it is a never ending service. The first vision comes to her when she hopes to be a famous artist and says to her: “Let men make pictures: do you make men!” The second, coming at a time when she is overwrought with trying to live her own life as well as her husband’s and her children’s, shows her that she need not make great songs but only teach them to her children. When she is grown old and willing to rest and ponder upon what life may be at a sunset window, the third vision comes to teach her that “We are running streams that muddy, if we settle. We have to live and find life out in living.” The three, too charmingly fanciful to be mere preachment, teach a great lesson to the restless, ambitious woman of today.

=Baddeley, John F.= Russian conquest of the Caucasus. *$5. Longmans.

9–2520.

“Not one man in a hundred knows or cares what happened in the Caucasus during the first sixty years of the last century; it has been left to Mr. Baddeley to tell us a story from which we can gather lessons that would have saved us lives and money immeasurable in our fiascos during our wars on the North-West frontier of India or even in our late contest with the Boers. Every one of the difficulties we have encountered in our wars with semi-civilised races, from Highlanders to Pathans, Zulus, and Boers, was met by Russian generals in the Caucasus.... Mr. Baddeley has saturated himself with a ‘genius loci’ before putting pen to paper.... And we have now for the first time in English a connected narrative from first to last of the startling succession of incidents that forms the history of one of the most magnificent mountain regions of the globe.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“In its impartial estimate of the essential strength and weakness of the Murid movement, its careful balancing of the case for the conquered with the case for the conquerors, lies the chief value of Mr. Baddeley’s sketch; and for this he has placed all students of modern Russia under obligation. As a piece of historical writing the work proves to be of very uneven character. Mr. Baddeley lacks the historian’s touch, and this is nowhere more evident than in the first half of the book. Here the narrative is labored and perfunctory in the extreme. Part 2, on the contrary, offers some very good reading.” C. E. Fryer.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 583. Ap. ’09. 620w.

“Of limited use in the public library but an interesting addition to the literature of frontier warfare and of considerable value for the study of Russian history.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 154. Je. ’09.

“No complete history of the conquest has ever been published, even in Russian, and this work of Mr. Baddeley is therefore a most important and useful contribution. A book that should appeal to a general reading public and not merely to those interested in military affairs.” S: N. Harper.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 197. Jl. ’09. 700w.

“[There are] one or two trifling inaccuracies in the text. He writes well, he has a thorough knowledge of the Russian language, and he is an enthusiast for the Caucasus.” Oliver Wardrop.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 599. Jl. ’09. 1100w.

“His main subject, the wars of the Russians with the tribesmen, has never before been presented to English readers. Of them he gives a clear and impartial, but not a particularly animated narrative.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 53. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 270w.

“Travels and history have rarely been more aptly combined and set before us in an appetising dish. It represents thoroughly good work from beginning to end, and it deserves to find a place in every library. We have praised highly but not more so than is deserved. If the book has a fault it lies not so much with the author as with his subject.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 763. D. 19, ’08. 1100w.

“His is a very fine achievement, and he may well be proud of it. The publication of this book is an event in the English study of Russian history.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 881. N. 28, ’08. 1800w.

=Bagot, Richard.=^{[7]} Anthony Cuthbert: a novel $1.50. Brentano’s.

9–19668.

A story set in Italy which deals with the tragedy that a beautiful girl brings into an innocent man’s life. “When, two months after parting with her lover of a day, Sonia becomes the wife of his uncle, Anthony Cuthbert, unaware of the relationship between the two men, it is apparent that we are faced with a situation as repellent as the peculiarly heartless and sordid intrigue which brought it about. Mr. Bagot solves the difficulty ingeniously enough, but the final picture of Anthony complacently regarding his nephew’s son as his own, even if it can be reconciled with what is known of human nature (which seems doubtful), is one on which few, presumably, will care to dwell.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“A garrulous style, a mass of unessential trivialities which retard the action and try the reader’s patience, and dialogue generally stilted and unnatural go far to discount the fatalistic impressiveness of the main idea.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 150w.

“In spite of a few strong episodes, this book is distinctly below the usual level of Mr. Bagot’s work, and in theme is needlessly and painfully offensive.” F: T. Cooper.

− + =Bookm.= 30: 67. S. ’09. 270w.

“Unfortunately, it is disagreeable without being impressive.”

− =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

“In the present story it is impossible not to feel that he has overstepped the bounds, not simply of conventionality, but of artistic restraint and good taste.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 220w.

“There is no true pleasure to be got out of a story of this kind.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 180w.

“Mr. Bagot sets himself a thoroughly unpleasant task in the plot of his new novel, and he does not succeed in carrying it out without offending against many of the canons of good taste.”

− + =Spec.= 101: 1106. D. 26, ’08. 140w.

=Bagwell, Richard.=^{[6]} Ireland under the Stuarts and during the
interregnum. 2v. *$10.50. Longmans.

9–17184.

These volumes complete the history of Ireland to the restoration. They describe the dealings of the English government with Ireland during the transition from Tudor to Stuart rule which period includes the effacement of the tribal system. The vital questions presented are the Settlement of Ulster, the career of Strafford, the rebellion of 1641, and the war and the confiscation that grew out of it.

* * * * *

“In one direction, and that unconnected with the narrative, the present volumes may be open to criticism. That is in the scarcity of maps. In short, Mr. Bagwell has not merely produced the best history of Ireland during this period, but the only one in its class. And he has laid a heavy debt of gratitude on reader and scholar alike for a contribution of the highest value in a field at once one of the most difficult and important in modern history.” W. C. Abbott.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 812. Jl. ’09. 950w.

“Occasionally there are signs of the easy writing which makes hard reading, and we wish that Mr. Bagwell would in future put the exact date of the occurrences he is describing in the margin, as a check to discursiveness. We should like to congratulate Mr. Bagwell on a fine piece of work. We are sure Mr. Bagwell will carry with him the judgment of most students of Irish history.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 457. Ap. 17. 1450w.

“While each single paragraph is good, his book as a whole is unsatisfactory. Added to this, and perhaps because of it, his horizon is a limited one. ‘Ireland under the Stuarts’ is worthy to be placed alongside ‘Ireland under the Tudors,’ and this is high praise.” R. Dunlop.

+ − =Eng. Hist.= R. 24: 797. O. ’09. 1550w.

“One may regret the absence of certain maps which would be useful to the reader, and the inadequacies of the indexes; one may note certain obscurities or omissions in the text; one may wonder at the lack of reference to the work of continental scholars; yet, when all is said, Mr. Bagwell has enriched the history of Ireland and historical literature generally.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 487. My. 13, ’09. 1050w.

“Our author is diligent and judicious, tells his story clearly, and has produced a work which ought to be (though it will not be) carefully studied by everyone who intends to allude to the events of the seventeenth century in Ireland. He is, perhaps, a little too contemptuous of certain legends which have obtained wide currency.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 443. O. 9, ’09. 1500w.

“The two volumes before us are characterised by the thorough and workmanlike treatment which gained their author his reputation some twenty years ago.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 938. Je. 12, ’09. 1300w.

=Bailey, John Cann.=^{[7]} Claims of French poetry: nine studies in
the greater French poets. $2.50. Kennerley.

W8–89.

Aims to discover and illustrate what may be a reasonable attitude for an English lover of poetry to assume with regard to some of the poets of France. Following an introduction the essays are as follows: English taste and French drama; Marot; Ronsard; La Fontaine; André Chénier; Victor Hugo; Leconte de Lisle; Heredia.

* * * * *

“Mr. Bailey is at his best when he accepts and praises, but it is a little difficult to follow him in his apology for Marot. In the essays on Ronsard, Chénier, Hugo, Leconte de Lisle and Heredia, Mr. Bailey is at his best.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 33. Ja. 11. 1000w.

“In spite of certain conspicuous merits, Mr. Bailey’s volume does not wholly satisfy the expectations which it raises.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 307. S. 30, ’09. 630w.

“If only for the fortunate manner in which the essentially poetic nature of the great fabulist is disclosed and illustrated, Mr. Bailey’s book deserves a hearty welcome.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 418. Jl. 3, ’09. 750w.

“This is an honest, capable, and on the whole entertaining book; its aim is to interest English readers in French poetry, and its quotations are in themselves enough for that purpose. The writing is careful, a little loose, sometimes very happily turned.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 731. D. 14, ’07. 750w.

“A series of interesting and sympathetic studies. Mr. Bailey though he says nothing of Malherbe is as hostile as Mr. Lucas to the whole school of classical poetry of which Malherbe was the forerunner and the prophet. This is all the more to be regretted, since his essays show clearly enough that Mr. Bailey possesses in no small degree that quality of sympathy without which all criticism is a vain and empty thing.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=,^{[7]} ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture:
a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in
the United States and Canada. v. 4. $5. Macmillan.

7–8529.

=v. 4.= “Is in part statistical and historical, in part social and educational. It considers the natural resources of agriculture, questions of labor in its relation to land, and of business organization in relation to agriculture. The further one looks into the four massive volumes of which this work consists, the more fully does one realize that it can be truly described as a popular survey of agriculture and its allied subjects. The illustrations which embellish these books have practical value and are in line and half-tone, the full-page plates being carefully printed on supercalendered paper.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“It gathers together from many sources a large mass of material hitherto unobtainable in book form.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 129. My. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)

“This cyclopedia should be put at the head of the list of books to be bought by every public library having a farming constituency. The smaller the library the more important that it should have it, for it would require many other volumes to take its place.”

+ + =Ind.= 66: 981. My. 6, ’09. 570w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“Altogether Dr. Bailey’s work adequately fills a place that has long remained vacant.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 38: 1069. Je. 19, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“Volume 4 contains more than one can find elsewhere, even though it does not contain all that one would like to find in it.”

+ + − =Nation.= 89: 18. Jl. 1, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“Well would it be if the fourth volume, or at least parts of it, could be placed in the hands of a multitude of thoughtful readers, for it contains the best knowledge attainable of the development in farm and country life along historical, commercial, and economic lines.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 268. Ap. 24, ’09. 750w. (Review of v. 4.)

“A very important contribution to the literature of farming and farm-life.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

“The person who will read intelligently these four books will have absorbed a large part of the best knowledge of American agriculture, and he will find that henceforth he will read agricultural periodicals and technical bulletins and books on agriculture and country life with more discernment.” W. M. Hays.

+ + =Science=, n.s. 30: 444. O. 1, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Nature-study idea: an interpretation of
the new school-movement to put the young into relation and sympathy
with nature. 3d ed. rev. *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–27583.

A third revised edition of Professor Bailey’s authoritative nature study work. He leaves unchanged his fundamental contentions that the movement is not the product of “eminent scientific men” but it belongs to the common schools; that its first object is a science-teaching movement, and its second, a nature-study movement; and that its purpose is to enable every person to live a richer life, whatever his business or profession may be. The changes introduced are such as have grown out of the author’s new view point that came with the change from teaching to administrative work.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 20, ’09. 100w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= State and the farmer. *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–22260.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Every chapter contains valuable suggestions from a man of ripe experience.” C. R. Henderson.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 552. Ja. ’09. 110w.

“Dean Bailey advances striking arguments in support of his thesis.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 450. Mr. ’09. 110w.

“The author’s philosophy of life is woven into every paragraph of this book. This philosophy is virile. It is put in forceful words which will be understood by all. The spirit of life is in the book, hence the book will live.” H: C. Taylor.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 305. D. ’08. 600w.

“This book is marked by lucidity of style, soundness of judgment and breadth of view.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 150w. + =Nature.= 81: 157. Ag. 5, ’09. 400w.

=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.=^{[11]} Training of farmers. **$1. Century.

E9–1594.

A popular, suggestive, authoritative presentation of the farmer’s place in the scheme of American development, his possibilities and his obligations to society. The first general division deals with The means of training farmers; the second, with The school and the college in relation to farm training.

* * * * *

=R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 80w.

=Bain, Francis Wilson.= Incarnation of the snow; tr. from the original
manuscript by F. W. Bain. †$1.25. Putnam.

8–25743.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Few writers have a better vocabulary for translating the moon-capering spirit in Indian mysticism than Mr. Bain commands.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 590. Mr. 18, ’09. 300w.

“Falls in no way below the level of its delightful predecessors. Indeed, we question whether the earlier books can show anything equal to the preface.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 156. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.

=Bain, Robert Nisbet.=^{[11]} Last king of Poland and his
contemporaries. **$3. Putnam.

A sketch of the life of Stanislaus Poniatowski thruout which are vividly pictured the influences that caused the downfall of Poland; among them, class prejudice, religious controversy, useless Diets, and great waste and extravagance.

* * * * *

“We heartily commend Mr. Bain’s book, which is the most sympathetic and authentic on Poland since that published some years ago by George Brandes.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 455. O. 16. 1000w.

“Mr. Nisbet Bain has written for us this mournful chapter in the history of a decadent nation, with a brilliancy and point not common excepting in the writings of French historians. The tale is as exciting as a romance, and reflects much of that realistic description of manners, good and bad, which we find in the works of Balzac.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 360w.

“Bain’s work is a valuable contribution to the modern history of Europe.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 629. O. 23, ’09. 1200w.

“A scholarly and strongly written volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 757. D. ’09. 120w.

=Bainbridge, William Seaman.=^{[7]} Life’s day: guide-posts and
danger-signals in health. **$1.35. Stokes.

9–10809.

A volume based upon a series of lectures delivered at Chautauqua by the author. There are “no pet theories, no fads, no panacea. He states clearly and directly the conclusions attained by enlightened science and sound common sense working harmoniously for the hygienic salvation of ordinary people in this present-day world.” (Cath. World.) “It begins with the baby, in the chapter called ‘Dawn,’ and follows the man thru the working day to ‘Twilight,’ ending in ‘Night,’ with many sensible and scientific suggestions as to wise avoidance of danger and proper physiological ethics.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 154. Je. ’09.

“The characteristic note is one of moderation in all things, whether it be diet, exercise or parental guidance.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 174. Jl. ’09. 120w.

“An amount of useful information and of sane advice that will serve the uses of the general public better than a whole library of medical and surgical literature.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 404. Je. ’09. 200w.

“It is free from any trace of the morbid or the pessimistic.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 90w.

“The advice is generally good and the book ought to help many of the class for which it was written.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 217. S. 2, ’09. 110w.

“A really helpful manual of health.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 640. My. ’09. 80w.

=Baird, Annie L. A.=^{[12]} Daybreak in Korea: a tale of
transformation in the Far East. **60c. Revell.

9–8931.

“A simple story, by a woman, of her Korean sister’s life in its phases of child-wife, widow, and slave. Though the leading character may be fictitious, yet all the facts and incidents narrated have come within the experience of the writer, and give a most vivid impression of the degradation and misery of the heathen peasant woman. Some interesting illustrations add to its attractiveness.”—Nation.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 68. N. ’09. ✠

“The transforming of Christianity and the happiness which it brings into these gloomy lives are so strikingly portrayed as to make the book a demonstration of the value of missions which cannot be gainsaid.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 512. My. 2, ’09. 120w.

=Baird, Jean Katharine.=^{[11]} Sixty-five on time. $1.25. Saalfield.

9–26320.

Just before Jim Crissman, conductor on number sixty-five, is seriously injured in a wreck, he is asked by a young vagabond, found on his train, to deliver a message to a famous surgeon. Crissman’s recovery from the accident is attended with a loss of memory. He has forgotten all of his past, having but a dim recollection of something he was to tell some one. After a number of years, memory is restored by an operation performed by the very surgeon for whom he had a message. Thru the delivery of the belated message a father and son, long estranged, are reunited.

=Baker, Alfred.= Life of Sir Isaac Pitman. *$2. Pitman.

9–8038.

Sketches the career of the man who invented shorthand and who agitated spelling reform. The story of his life is the story of self education, hard work and definite accomplishment. While Pitman did not live to see his cherished scheme of spelling reform realized, his efforts can be traced in the latter-day interests in simplified spelling.

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 88: 825. Mr. ’09. 420w.

“The work should interest all stenographers and teachers of stenography. It will also be of value to spelling reforms.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 303. F. 20, ’09. 110w.

“Mr. Baker’s story is very interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 58. Ja. 30, ’09. 330w.

“A useful biographical work. It may be said that slightly undue emphasis is laid upon minor incidents in the life of this inventor. The general story, however, was well worth telling.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 100w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 480w.

=Baker, Etta Anthony.=^{[11]} Girls of Fairmount. †$1.50. Little.

9–25809.

A story of life among a group of girls at a finishing school. Wholesome ideals are exploited instead of the superficial ones that are cultivated in many schools of the sort.

* * * * *

“Commends itself because of its glow of youth.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1015. D. 4, ’09. 150w.

=Baker, Rev. James F. B.=^{[5]} Nestorius and his teaching: a fresh
examination of the evidence; with special reference to the newly
recovered Apology of Nestorius (The bazaar of Heraclides). Putnam.

Based upon a fresh examination of the evidence bearing on the teaching of Nestorius, this contribution to theological study aims to promote closer relations and intercommunion between the church of England and the “Nestorian” church.

* * * * *

“While this does not in the least diminish the scholarly merits of the book, we can see that it is with unconcealed pleasure that the writer reaches the conclusion that Nestorius was not ‘Nestorian.’” H. L. Taylor.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 298. Ap. ’09. 440w.

“Mr. Bethune-Baker has conducted a detailed examination into the doctrines held by the arch-heretic with acuteness, learning, and impartiality; and it is hardly possible to read his book without sharing his conclusion.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 428. O. 3, ’08. 300w.

“We must be content with strongly recommending Mr. Bethune-Baker’s volume.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 1036. Je. 27, ’08. 520w.

=Baker, Ray Stannard.= Following the color line. **$2. Doubleday.

8–31180.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“A study of the negro problem remarkable for its objectivity and psychological insight.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 119. Jl. ’09. 250w.

“The treatment of the question is sane and impartial.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 283. D. ’08. ✠

“The best book yet written for the general reader, describing the actual present situation of the negro, and the problems growing out of the presence in a white civilization. The book has a good tone. The author is not a pessimist. The illustrations are numerous and excellent.” Carl Kelsey.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 466. Mr. ’09. 550w.

“There is a great wealth of material in Mr. Baker’s book, which needs to be studied by every one who would form a well-based opinion on racial conditions in the South.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 484. Mr. 4, ’09. 430w.

“Mr. Baker’s attitude is that of the experienced newspaper reporter practised in observing closely and in following clues, skilled in choosing relevant and illustrative facts, accustomed to describing things as he sees them, but without marked sense of perspective.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 92. Ja. 28, ’09. 180w.

“Is essentially a piece of journalism. As such it is very successful. Its chief value, perhaps, is found in its record of the attempt on the part of members of both races to develop a spirit and method of co-operation.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 271. My. 29, ’09. 150w.

“Has set down his story in a spirit of fairness, although he has not veiled his sympathy with the negro in the struggle upward. There is not much new in the book, however. Nevertheless, the book is full of intense human interest, and it ought to take high rank among the ‘documents’ on the negro question.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 564. S. ’09. 160w.

“That part of the book that will prove of the greatest interest is the fascinating and continual play of opinion that enters into every chapter. Deserves careful and serious reading.” M. W. Ovington.

+ =Survey.= 22: 348. Je. 5, ’09. 950w.

=Baker, Ray Stannard.= New ideals in healing. **85c. Stokes.

9–4938.

A first exposition of the Emmanuel movement and the medical profession’s allied activity. The first part is devoted to “Healing the sick in the churches,” and the second to “The new mission of the doctor.” “As the Emmanuel movement is only one of many new efforts or experiments of the church to place itself in the full current of the new thought, so the work of Dr. Cabot in extending the influence and service of the hospital is only one of many notable activities of the medical profession.... The clergyman is discovering that a man has a body: and a doctor, that he has a soul.”

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 99. Ap. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 181. Mr. 27, ’09. 220w.

“It uses psychological terms without careful discrimination.”

− =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 220w.

=Baldwin, May.= Holly House and Ridges Row. †$1.50. Lippincott.

In story form are set forth for children interesting bits of information about London past and present.

* * * * *

“A brightly written story.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 253. Ja. ’09. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 60w.

“The girls take walks, and explain all sorts of places, old and new, information as to which Miss Baldwin has collected copiously and gives out again in quite discreet and readable doses.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 9. D. 12, ’08. 70w.

=Baldwin, William Alpheus.= Industrial-social education. $1.50.
Bradley, M.

E8–36.

“The story of a movement which has been a gradual growth. It gives the underlying principles of selection, the kind of activities which, while adapted to Hyannis, are suggestive for the public schools of the state. Finally, the teachers of the different grades tell how they do the work. Interesting and helpful illustrations accompany the text.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“The book is full of enthusiasm and common-sense. All teachers will be helped by considering the way useful activities indoors and out were made fundamental in the school life of Hyannis.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 189. Ja. ’09. 270w.

“Set forth in an interesting way.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 36. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w.

=Ball, Oona H.=^{[7]} Their Oxford year. 6s. Methuen, London.

A pleasant story written by the wife of a Canadian professor who is devoting his Sabbatical year to work in historic Oxford. “They meet the people whom they might be expected to meet,—heads of houses, professors, tutors, undergraduates, and residents, the newcomers through whom, thanks to the academical changes and other causes, the population of half-a-century has been almost doubled. All these are very pleasantly drawn.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Mrs. Ball writes very pleasantly, if somewhat discursively, about Oxford life, which she evidently knows well from the inside.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 180w.

“This book is little more than a repetition of the same writer’s ‘Barbara goes to Oxford,’ and shows evidence of fatigue.”

− =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.

“Its contents are mainly fact, very pleasantly pictured. The Latin might have been more carefully corrected.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 784. My. 15, ’09. 380w.

=Ball, Robert Steele.= Natural sources of power. *$2. Van Nostrand.

9–5180.

The contents cover: Water power and methods of measuring; Application of water power to the propulsion of machinery; The hydraulic turbine; Various types of turbines; Construction of water-power plants; Water-power installations; The regulation of turbines; Wind pressure, velocity and methods of measuring; The application of wind power to industry; Modern windmills—constructional details; and Power of modern windmills.

* * * * *

“Written primarily for the student, but of value also to the professional engineer.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 99. Ap. ’09.

“The book has been made readable and interesting, not only to the engineer, but to every manufacturer who is in a position to economize on his means of power production by taking the natural forces that lie at his hand and harnessing them in his service.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 171. F. ’09. 350w.

“This book, though brief in its treatment of the subject, possesses many features of value to the engineer. While it neither pretends to, nor does present anything new in regard to water and air power, it forms a compilation in condensed and convenient form, making it a valuable work of reference.” F. C. Finkle.

+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 36. O. 14, ’09. 1050w.

“The book can be specially recommended to those readers who, while not being specialists in the particular branch dealt with, desire to obtain a general survey of the subject.” C. C. G.

+ =Nature.= 79: 4. N. 5, ’08. 900w.

=Balmer, Edwin.=^{[6]} Waylaid by wireless; a suspicion, a warning, a
sporting proposition, and a transatlantic pursuit. †$1.50. Small.

9–15088.

The English cathedral towns furnish a background for this story whose plot centers about a series of robberies in which American tourists are victims. The real thief, a wily Englishman, puts the guilt upon an innocent American and thru clever manipulation of wireless instruments and messages has him tracked, arrested and locked up. A vivacious American girl plays a willing part in clearing the hero.

* * * * *

“Breezy story of mediocre merit, improbable, but ingenious in its exposition of the possibilities of wireless telegraphy.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 25. S. ’09.

“This invention alone would have sufficed the author to produce a readable book; for good measure he adds the counter-complication of wireless at sea.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 160w.

“The conversation is always telling and to the point, whether clothed in humor or seriousness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.

=Bancroft, Marie, and Bancroft, Squire.=^{[6]} Bancrofts:
recollections of sixty years. *$5. Dutton.

9–20768.

The memories during sixty years of the Bancrofts who in the height of their success were accorded the leadership of the London stage. “The volume contains much interesting theatrical history, a rich fund of personal reminiscense, a rare budget of anecdote. The illustrations comprise many portraits, caricatures, scenes from plays, pictures of buildings. There are many letters from prominent personages. The Bancrofts have been more or less in touch with the leaders of thought and the men of action of their time and country.” (N. Y. Times.)

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