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Literary ftet&s and Criticism
A Valuable Survey of Modern
Jd nuu.
IiTY TEARS OF NEW JAPAN- <Ka\
kokn G«iuiK-n Shi.) Compiled by Count
ShpjrfnnHi Okuma. la to Prime >unister
«n<l' Minister for F**ci£O Affairs. . hns
lish version eOitta by Marcus B. lluish.
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Okum?. covois a vast- field. In some
threescore chapters by nearly as many
different hands there is presented a com
pact survey of her governmental institu
tions, of her army, navy and judiciary;
of v - finances, her communications, of
l.or industries and foreign trade, of her
language religion, culture and aesthetic
development, together v.ith son consid
rratit?n cf her attitude toward Western
civilizatiwn. This is a stupendous pro
gramme to i>e. covered "n two volumes,
and it-- execution has been made possi-
Kr only by risorous condensation. For
the various writer.* hay« been unwilling
or unable to confine themselves to the
half •■;!>• under examination, but
have dwelt at length on the historical
r»nd traditional aspects at their several
topicf as well. The result is an cncyclo
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Vy experts and specialists under the
(supervision of one who occupied the
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•was no inconspicuous figure in the great
period of transition reviewed.
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world as a great people. All of the con
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ments of their people comprises an ap
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as if they were European instead of
Asiatic. We are ■ people, says the com
piler, -whose glorious history will bear to
be held up to the gaze of Western na
tions. We have learned a great many
things from the West, but there are
some instances of our having outstripped
our tutors. There is probably no place
except Japan. ,he adds, where not only
is freedom of conscience legally guaran
teed but where socially and In actual
practice- any religion whatsoever ma>
be professed with perfect impunity, pro
vided that It be not subversive of public
peace, good order or morality. He takc-3
pride in the fact that unlike other coun
tries Japan has a constitution which
came to its birth In the midst of a gen
eral feeling of good will and rejoicing.
His people would continue by improve
ment to reach toward an ideal civiliza
tion commensurate with their aspirations,
and as they have won a position en
titling them to represent the civilization
of the Bast, now it is their lot to intro
duce into the Orient the civilization of
the West. Ho observes:
This may truly be regarded as .la pa. i •■
heaven-ordained office, and the JapaneM*
should prow in the belief that on them
alone devolves the mission <.< harmonizing
the civilizations of the Kasi and \\est, £=o
is to lead the world as a whole jto a
higher plane. Should our people, fully ap
preciating this their heaven-ordained >w
lico resolve to accomplish the mission. t lie
effect will be far— if not world reaching.
The spirit of international jealousy will
gradually disappear; petty questions of
race will no longer tind room to exist;
the evils of anti-alienism which live on
misguided traditions or sentiments will
vanish; international relations hitherto
heterogeneous and militant will become
harmonious and peaceful, and then even
though enlightenment may not go so far
as to make possible the realisation of
Plato's Meal stage when the statesman
should be a philosopher and the philoso
pher a statesman, it may cease to be a
more dream to \»ok for the day when the
nations of .he world will federate under
one code of International law and form one
organic system, creating a new era of lei
lowship and good will wherein distinctions
of native and alien, near and remote, will
disappear and all will be linked together
by one uniform bond of harmonious •■..
operation and coalition to the glory of real
civilization.
More than once is •;.. fact adverted to
that Japan has never experienced a rev
olution and that her imperial house has
descended in an unbroken line from
about the time of the founding of Rome.
This should be taken as incontestable
proof that they are. not a capricious and
inconstant people, given to all new and
curious things, but, while welcoming the
progress of the West, have preserved
their old Oriental civilization. They have
attached the greatest importance to the
spirit of national pride, and at the same
time have held in highest esteem the
spirit of charity and humanity. As a
people they take to a middle course.
avoiding extremes, and are conservative
while progressive, at once aristocratic
and democratic. And in these respects
they recognize a resemblance between
themselves and the Anglo-Saxons. There
are ethnological grounds for the same
belief In the fact that her island position
has attracted many races which have
been Cased and welded into a homo
geneous whole just as the Saxon. Danish
and Norman elements have been com
bined In the British Isles. Of the three
great periods In Japanese history, the
first, comprising the myths and tradi
tions of immemorial antiquity, may bo
.said to have ceased at the seventh cen
tury, when the Chinese influence in law,
culture and religion became pronounced;
the second continued until the opening
of the empire to western Ideas. At tho
end of the sixteenth century a succes
sion of three masterful leaders Of men
brought order and symmetry out of
chaos. The greatest of these Bhoguns
was leyasu Tokugawa. and his dynasty
lasted two hundred and fifty years, until
the restoration, which followed the ad
vent of Commodore Perry. The military
achievements of these energetic chief
tains and the encouragement given by
them to the arts and sciences may be
followed by the interested reader.
The last of the shoguns is still living,
and in an authentic interview with him
Count Otuma records how motives of
jMtriotism led the descendant of world
famed warriors to resign his kingly func
tions and take his place as a subject in
th< % ranks. It was Sir Harry Parkes, the
British minister, who persuaded his col
leagues to Seal with the emperor Instead
of the shoguu, and bo paved the way for
the peaceful revolution that followed,
Then the two English speaking peoples
combined to bring Japan Into the family
Of nations. The whole subject of extra
territoriality is treated with great thor
oughness. As the nation expanded in its
relations to Western powers those condi
tions made necessary in early days by
difference of judicial methods and police
control became intolerable. At last
Japan was enabled to secure from the
Rosebery administration n lease from a
Balling subordiiiation. Other govern
ments followed suit, and the change was
effected by diplomacy without bloodshed.
China and Slam to-day are hampered In
their local administration by fetters
placed upon them years ago In the treat
ies with European powers.
In addition to the historical chapters
and those specifically mentioned there
are others upon the development of legal
institutions, upon personal legislation,
police and prisons, upon local and mu
nicipal government, upon literature and
Journalism and upon medicine and
hygiene. A fairness of statement, a busi
nesslike directness and an ever present
optimism and belief in Japan arc the
uniform marks of these papa The sta
tistical information Is well arranged and
accessible and is supplemented by a good
index which might have been fuller. But
while in a work of reference stress is
laid on matters of fact, a strain of spec
ulation has been introduced which gives
bj)ccial interest to such papers as those
on "Social Changes In Japan," by Pro
fessor Sokutars Fujioka: "The Influence
<>f the West Upon Japan," by Professor
Xitobe. and the delightful observations
of Baron Tsuzuki on "Social Intercourse
Between Japanese and Occidentals." In
the first a supposititious Rip van Winkle
turns to view fifty years of changes in
Japan and finds no change more radical
than the breaking of the crust sot up by
tho old class system, which compelled .>
man to follow his father' vocation and
pur a damper on all Initiative and Indi
viduality. Social change Is still going
on, says the writer, and while v.v. must
acknowledge that things are confused
and ■") ■•- or less out of harmony, the
fact remains that the change, confusion
and the discord itself are in reality the
strongest evidence of the rapid progress
«>f the Japanese nation. In Professor N.
tobe's Illuminating paper on the Influ
ence of the West on Japan he pa - elo-
QUent tribute to tin spiritual potency of
the KngMsh tongue and the treasures !'■
m I i' h It is th» k<y, hih! finds that "with
out meaning ill 1 lit' least |.> detract from
the '■.:•'■-.•:.. Influence upon
»is. *v« hay* 1 reJi-r^spe,! enough to bl4-licveb 14
licve that the intellectual capital v>t bor
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sources. "
If there is a yellow peril, says Baron
Tsozuki. it can only be .overtoil by lift
ing up the hundreds of millions of Asi
atic- whose numbers cause such dread.
How can the "West do this without un
derstanding their wants and inclina
tions, their weaknesses and capabilities?
simply begin by understanding Japan,
the Occidentals of th< East. For many
a year to come this laborious compilation
must serve as a useful introduction to
the aims and purposes, the achievements
and accomplishments of the Occidentals
of the East.
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The French of the Midi have been
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poetic way by trouv^rcs and f<Mihros on
the one hand and in a critical vein by
Alphonse Daudet on the other. lie, who
Knew his own people so well, chiefly saw
their weaknesses. Incarnating: them in
Nourna Roumostan. and. in lighter man
ner, in that unrivalled- trilogy of satire,
the Tartarin series. Elsewhere in his
writings arc found sidelights on these
children of the South, who are differen
tiated so much, and in so many ways,
from their Italian and Spanish cousins,
their nearest brethren in spirit being,
perhaps, the Hungarian.?. Jean Aicard's
sketches of the Provextcaux in "The Di
verting Adventures of Maturin" make a
distinct addition to the literature on the
subject, which has the attraction for us
of the North of the warm sunlight and
thoughtless gayety that make under
standable certain foibles, and. in a way,
explain them. There is a whole gallery
of kitkats here, drawn with a delightful
skill that takes notice of the value and
significance of environment and back
ground, custom and tradition. Aicard,
a Meridional like Daudet, knows his peo
ple .is well as the latter did. but sees
them from another viewpoint, or at least
shows them to us from a different angle
of vision. Maturin's adventures are di
verting, if not always edifying; the
I "esprit Gaulois" has free play in them.
The admirable literary workmanship of
the original is preserved in an exception
ally good translation.
The publishers claim for "The Journal
of a Recluse" that its author, "like
Rousseau or Amid, seeks to tell the
whole truth about himself, sparing noth
ing, condoning nothing." This sounds
promising, but in the reading the book is
decidedly disappointing, because the per
sonality revealed m it is insignificant,
negative. Of introspection, of the poig
nant self-knowledge of Anriel, there is
not a trace; and any comparison what
ever with Rousseau, even in the matter
of concealing nothing, is inaccurate be
cause this recluse, so far as one can
gee, has nothing to conceal. As a psy
chological document, his journal is of no
value; a secluded life does not neces
sarily mean an introspective, or even a
studious one. What wo have here is a.
Scotch gardener's son. who, educated
above his station by the lord of the
manor, falls in love with that lord's
daughter, is spurned by her when he
tries to warn, her against his dissolute
Kalian rival, and thereupon emigrates to
America in the first half of the last
century. He sees the New "World with
Mrs. Trollope's eyes, suffers acutely from
the sharp ways of business. is cheated
out of a small amount of money by a
friend, and. happening at the moment of
this second disillusion upon the works of
Thoreau, resolves to become a recluse.
With Thoreau's example near by, he yet
crosses the continent oh foot, a rather
improbable undertaking for a shrinking
soul, and settles in California. Here,
after many years, ho is joined by his
niece, with whom he has a platonic,
vacillating love affair, which ends in her
marrying another man. One fails to see
any reason for the writing of this jour
nal, and wonders, In the end. why this
Scotchman, who spent but a few months
of his long life in France, should have
written in French at all. His reflections
on men and life are as unimportant as
his self-revelation.
LAM)OUS LETTERS.
Some Litcraru Criticism and
Ideas- of Education.
That impulsive, passionate, contra
dictory being, Walter Savage Landor,
had in the Rev. Walter Birch a friend
who was as unlike himself as possible.
Landor told Forster that at school Birch
was nicknamed "Sanely" from the
sobriety of his manners. "How dif
ferent from mine!" added the fiery
writer, It was probably their very un
likeness joined to their on*' point of
sympathy, a love for literature, that pre
served their affection all through school
and college days and to the end of the
quiet clergyman's life. The good man
was not too quiet, however, to have a
sens* of humor, as wo may see in a
reminiscence of Robert Landor's. "Birch
< nee asked me," he said, "how my
brother should have met accidentally in
an evening's walk so many ladies, every
one of whom was Incomparably the most
beautiful creature lie had ever seen?
How each of twenty fools could be by
much the greatest fool upon earth? And,
above all, how Mr. Pitt could be the
greatest rascal living if Mr. Canning
surpassed Mr. Pitt and Lord Castle
reagh surpassed Mr. Canning, ami a!!
three were Infinitely exceeded as brutes
and fools by their gracious sovereign
King George ! 1 1 v " In the heretofore
unpublished letters addressed by Walter
Savage Landor to Birch and given to
the public in the current number of "The.
Fortnightly Review" may be seen that
Fame habit of exaggeration sometimes
comically and sometimes exasperatingly
displayed.
Tin most amiable of these epistles was
written a few weeks after his marriage
and in response to Birch's letter of con
gratulation a letter in which that wise
Iriend had said: "An excellent wife is
seldom made perfect i«, our hands, but
in in part the creation <>r the husband
after marriage, th>> result of his char
i-cler and behavior a. Un;; upon her
own." Landor paid in his answer:
"You are right— that i :>.■ character of
women depends very much on u'u reel vein.
\\ c also, I bough of liner tfxturo. at"
moulded hy ••HIT.'! ".., ( , , |...,, „. ax*
•n-lHing to allow. More people are good
itcause they me happy than happy be-
cause they arc KOO d. This is not. how
ever, tho highest kind of goodness, but
it wears perfectly . v.r. 1l and alwayjJ looks
Slock." Landor was then living* upon a
new estate in Wales] and Was building
a house, and his rash temper was break-
Ing out in squabbles with neighbors and
tenants and Poachers. "These rascals, V
he tells Birch. "I.avo as great a hatred
of a Saxon as their runaway forefathers
had. 1 never shall cease to wish that
Julius C«sar had utterly exterminated
the whole raco or Britons; I am con
vinced they are as irreclaimable as gyp
sies or Malaya; they show themselves
en every occasion Iwpitibuti fen,.?" lie
Boon departed for Italy, and it was in
Italy that most of the remaining letters
were written. One of them deals partly
with the proposed education of his first
born, then a baby:
I BmHe at your Idea that four or fivn
years hence l shall be deep In D '.Sns o!
education. My i>lan is to have no rt an at
all. I shall teach my son Latin and ' Gree k'
as r teach him Italian and English by
practice. One year is enough for a lan
guage. if the mind is never puzzled by
grammars^ which few remember for the
llrst nine or t^n years, or consult after
ward. Facciolati. the purest of modem
I>atinists unless you oppose Bern bo or
Ruhnkenius. banishes granunar from eilu
cation. I had tixed my Intention before X
read his oration on this subject, from ob
serving that .hi well educated persona
speak grammatically without grammar,
and that all learned persona write ungram
matically with it. To swim and fence and
love cleanliness are tho thrp<> things to be
taught first. I intend to k^p him always
among women, that he may be desirous of
pleasing, and learn a gracefulness and ease
of manners which ff>w Englishmen (edu
cated in England.) can acquire. T remem
ber tlio crossness and repulsiveness of my
own manners, and am conscious of how
much T Still retain of those truly British
oualitiei'.
There is a good deal of literary criti
(lsm in the-o letters— some or it pure
gold, some curiously wrong-headed in
characteristically Landorian fashion. He
had an extraordinary liking for Southey's
poetry, and for Wordsworth's an admira
tion more easily understandable. After
reading: part of the "Excursion," he
wrote to Birch' that if the whole was
equal to that portion of it he did "not
hesitate to assert that all the produc
tions of the Augustan age put together
fall greatly short of it." He hears that
Wordsworth is about to make him a
present of a* new poem, and he exclaims:
".Such a present from W. is like a king
dom given ' by Alexander to Cyrus."
Byron and his verse he apparently
loathed: "Biron (sic) Is incapable of con
tinued and strenuous exertion. A mind
of his structure -is radically weak. It may
present in its changes' and movements
some bright phases, but it can do no more.
B. has done at* thirty all he can do at
forty, as you will see if, indeed, you
should ever read his poems. All his
filings arc of the same tone, all his
characters of the same cast. . . . Be
tween genuine poetry and that of Biron
there is the same difference as between
roses and attar of roses. He smells of
the spirit and of the flower; you are
overpowered and not satisfied." And in
a later letter ho says: "My opinion is
this, that a man of a heart so rotten, and
a mind so incompact, was never formed
for more than temporary greatness. 'If
he would do this, if he would do that*
should not be said; it is not his nature.
The book he reads oftener than any
other, ho tells Birch, is Cicero's Epistles.
Ii is the most important of all histories
and tli<> most true -I had almost said the
only true. Certainly one reason why the
ancients excel us is this— they say invaria
bly what delights and instructs without
•caring about truth. How elegant is the
language in the whole volume, except in
the letters of M. Antonius. What frank
ness and negligence! Here we lind the
very words of C&to, Caesar and Brutus,
who, together with the creat men to whom
they were addressed, were equal to all the
living creatures united that the world has
ever produced. What a quaternion, in
which Csesar is the least! Pity that he
hardly appears, and that more is said of
him than by him.
In a lett<T written throe years after,
Landor says that he has been reading
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Plato and even to Isocrates. Magnificence
of imagination and a corresponding graml
eur of style excuse him in some sllgnt de
i-re" for taking tho dreams of Plato an
realities, strange n.s it must appear in a
man who had read AristoUles; but what
in the nan of wonder could fix his atten
t'on tor a single moment on so trifling and
'■„,'i.ty a creature as Isocrates? It is an
Indifferent prize essay at Oxford or Cam
bridge that* is not bitter than anything of
his. "
IMPERIAL MAJOLICA.
An Interesting Example of the
Kaiser's Business Aptitude.
From The London Standard.
The Emperor has recently shown him
soit" to be an excellent business man by
the energetic and efficient way in which
he has pushed the sale of tlv^ manufact
ures of the pottery works at Cadfnen,
which belong to him. Those pottery
works. where majolica Is the principal
article produced, have been the Kaiser's
private property for several years; and
his majesty personally supervises their
management. Apart from acting as
managing director of the enterprise, his
majesty also contrives to stimulate the
kalo^of these manufactures among his
friends and wealthy men.
Recently majolica from the imperial
potteries was used to decorate the hall
and staircases of a new house at Dan
zig, and the Emperor, hearing of this.
announced his intention of going to gee
the now building. Tho two Berlin archi
tects who bad designed the decorations
were ordered to be there to receive his
majesty. The Kaiser, on entering the
house and seeing his majolica, said:
"The purveyor comes to visit his pa
tron." After ascertaining by personal
observation that the use to which ma
jolica is put in this house opens an en
tirely new- tick' the Kaiser commanded
the architect, Herr Lesser, to visit him
in Berlin in order to explain matters to
him more fully. it is now announced
that in consequence of the royal visit to
the bouse in Danzig, several build- of
new houses in Berlin have decided to use
imperial majolica for their decorations.
The result is that there is a "boom" in
majolica from the imperial potteries, at.
Cadinen. The Kaiser's wares are in high
favor, and new customers are sending in
orders day by day.
MFsLODJIAMA.
An A musing Chapter in French
Theatrical History.
Paris, February 12.
M. Paul Ginisty, novelist, critic, jour
nalist, former manager of the Odeon, and
now genera] inspector of historical mon
uments, has for the last twenty years
made a special study of the history of
French theatres. To-day l'is compact,
well illustrated book, "J>e Melodranic," is
published by the Librairie Louis-Miehaud.
One finds here an erodJte, stirring and
highly amusing record of melodrama in
Franco. Tho playhouses of the Boule
vard dv Temple during the last century
presented no other dramas but those
wherein the action passed amid daggers.
poison, rapiers, pistols nnd blunder
busses, and this district of fire and blood
shed justly acquired th» title of "the.
Boulevard of Crime." Among tho plays
produced at these theatres were J. J.
Rousseau's "Pygmalion." Pix£recotirt*s
"Petits Auvergnats" and "Le Chien de
Montargia"— which the "i^ere. dv Melo
drame" wrote in collaboration with Du
cange—d'Ennew'a "Bohemiens do Paris"
and "Don Cesar de Kazan." and works of
i!h "romantic ogres" of the period, about
eaeii Of which M. Ginisty has something
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plays of thrill, shiver and shudder, such
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"I/Acharnee," the latest novel of Mme.
Lucie Delarue-Madrus, published by
Fasquelle, is a thoroughly up-to-date
tale of smart Parisian society, with a
vague aroma of the Arabian Nights. It
is the story of a kiss — given by a lady to
a youth of fourteen, who returns it on
the fair bestower's death bed, twenty
years tor.
Tbe .Marquis de la MazaliSre's fifth
volume of his work, "\Lo Japon. Histoire
et Civilisation."' devoted to the trans
formation and development of Japan
during the period from IS7O to 1910, is
issued by the Librairio Plon-Xourrit. The
relations between Japan and Russia and
Japan and the United States sad the
joint attitude of Russia and Japan in
regard to their common interests in
JTanchuria are dealt with impartially.
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Tho coming season is to witness the
publication of fresh matter concerning
personages no less famous than William
Shakespeare and Charles Lamb. Mr.
Bertram TV>bpll will produce this ma
terial, lie will also publish thus year an
edition of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia"
as the work appears in the manuscripts
he has discovered.
Two books about thr romarkable
French artist Nigres are to bo brought
out soon by M. Henry Lapanze, keeper
oi the Petit Palace. One of these, "The
Love Romance of If. Nigres." is to con
tain many unpublished letters from the
pen of the painter. The other volume is
an important study of tho work of
Nigres. M. Lapanze will ai?.> publish
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NEW NOVELS READY NEXT WEEK
Gertrude Atherton's mem novel Tower of Ivory
The points of life's triangle in this novel are: a singer in the TC*Msg£
of musk-loving mad King Lutiwig o( Havana, an he»r*-> in I
(both young American women), and an Englishman wrtb a ttnurctn^
diplomatic service. ' , .
Mrs. Voynich's new novel An Interrupted Friendship
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of that poignantly impressive boot The Gadfly. V- *
Published T||| MCMILLAN COMPANY 64 * 66 J??/ *
this spring a voluminous history of tb*
French Academy at Rom». the work
ii i on which he has been encaged for th*
last fifteen years.
A translation of Mm<\ Judith Gaut!cr"s
reminiscences of fuel is on the press.
It describes the composer's daily Ufa
while in Switzerland and Is to be «a
titled "Wagner at Home."
A motor journey through I forest of
cactus is a curious experience which has
bees described by Mr. C. F. Holder for
| the next, number of "The Century." The
forest, which is near the Yaqui River,
baa natural roads, which are said to be
perfect, and the cacti supply campers
with food and water, in addition to their
travelling stores.
Dr. Furnivall, th^ Shakespearian
scholar, antiquarian and athlete, has Ju^t
celebrated ma eighty-fifth birthday by
taking a row of thirteen mil^s on the
■ Thames. It is stated that he was a
■vegetarian for twenty-five years and that
r he lias not touched alcohol or tobacco
; since his youth.
The home of Oliver Goldsmith's child
hood at Lissoy. the "modest mansion" of
which ho wrote in "The Deserted Vil
lage," is in ruins— ia practically a men
shell. An effort is to be made to at
least re-erect the fallen chimney andtiia
old fireplace around which sat the group
depicted in "The Vicar of WafceSeld."
Miss A. G. Bowd^n-Fmith. a N'^^n
ham College student, ho spent sea»e a
months in this country examining our •
higher educational institutions, is brias:
ing out an account of her observations
under the title of "An English Student's
Wander- Year in America."
Another volume of autobiography '*
now in course of preparation by tba
venerable John Bigelow.
D'Annunzio's new novel. "Tom Ctii
Pi, Forse Ch* No." is the subject of a
brilliant article in the London "Times,"
an article truthfully entitled "A Wasted
Genius." "The story," say? r\ ■ critic,
"is impossible to describe in bald Eng
lish, and we hope it will never be trans-
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