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Brand Whitlock
Laureate of Alliance
Alfred Noyes Seen in New Volume
As Symbol of Anglo - Americanism
By Geoffrey Parsons
THE NEW MORNING. By Alfred Noyes.
Pp. xi-172. $1.35. Fxedertck A. Stokes
Company.
It was Rupert Brooke's fate to be?
come a symbol of British youth, beau
tiful and casually triumphant. The
symbolism overwhclmed his product
snd his poems suffered from an over
enthusiasm of praisc deseryed by his
personnlity, undescrved by his verse.
A somewhat similar fate has overtaken
Mr. Alfred Noyes in this country. He
has become an institution, a most wel
come guest of our ally, England; artic
ulating for us all, in verse and in
lecture, that old faith and newer
friendship which we feel for our
staneh comrade in the war. He has
become Poet Laurete of the New Alli
HP.ce. It is as such that he writes and
as such that his works must largely
be judged.
All his recent verse of this character
is included in this volume and it is
nioving and weil worth the doing. "The
Avenue of tho Allies" celebrat.es our
most beautiful scene of tbe war:
Flags. in ttjemselves, are but raes that are
dyed.
Flags. In ihat wind. are like nations en
eWied.
"Victory" was written after the Brit?
ish services in Trinity Church. "Re
public and Motherland" after entering
New York harbor at daybreak. "Prince
ton" begins with the inscription for
the first joint memorial to American
and British soldiers who fell in the
Revolutionary War. It is all occasional
verse of a high order, displaying Mr.
N'oyes's craftsmanship and soundness
of technique at their best. We are
deeply grateful to Mr. Noyes for his
presorvalion of these occasions in ad
mirable, stirring verse.
It is only when one turn3 to the
other poems and withdraws for the
moment to review his work as a whole
that the old doubts- arise and will not
be downed. There ia nothing lacking.
?There is emotion, there is philosophy,
a sound and consistent attitude toward
life, whether one agrees -with it or
not. There is very great skill in
verse form; there are living words
and phrases?occasionally. There is
that certain roundness, a balance of
elements, which may arguably be urged
as the last test of highest artistic
achievement. Yet we cannot for a mo
ment feel convinced that here ls great
poetry; and we doubt very , much
whether any of the kind and competent
critics who shower adjectives of praise
upon Mr. Noyes, the poet, really in
their hcart of hearts feel otherwlae.
In just one section of this volume
do we feel that Mr. Noyes completely
sucoeeds. That is the "Songs of the
Trawlers'and the Sea Poems, of which
"Namcsakes" seems to us the high
spot:
But where's the brown drlfter that went
out alone?
Roll and go. nnd fare you weil
Was her name Pegrgy Nutten? That name
is my own.
Fare you weil, my sallnr.
They sani; In the dark, "Let her go! Ljt
hor bo!"
And she xalipd to the West, where tha
broad waters flow;
And tho others come back, but . . tha
biller wlnds blow.
Aii, fare you weil, my eaSlor.
Mr. Noyes was born in Staffordshire,
in the heart of his country. But every
Englishman, is an islander and the
story of her flects has stirred Mr.
Noyes deeply. His prose tale of the
German nttacks on unarmed merchant
men, "Open Boats," is one of the clas
sics of the war. The same theme glows
here: '
Out of her darkened fishinsr ports they go,
A fleet of little alilps, whose every name?
Daffodil, Sealark, Roae and Surf and Snow?
Burns !n this blacknesa like an altar
flame.
The chanty form lends aid to these
sea verses and it is true and stirring
poetry that results. The same can be
said of "Compensation," of wholly dif
ferent inspiration, reminiscent of
Emerson both in theme and in certain
homely grandeur of outline. We need
Mr. Noyes, the institution, but we hope
America will not do him the dis
service of restricting his talent to the
memorial prose.
"Twelve Men," by Theodore Dreiser,
which was published three weeks ago
by Boni & Liveright, has already gone
into three editions fef 2,000 copies
each.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore'a first long
novel in English, "The Home and the
World," was published on May 6 by
Macmillan. It deals with thc opposing
claima made upon husband and wife
by their home and interests outside.
Robert W. Chambers*
Moonllght
/JL over the Bosphorus?
intrigae in ? Constantinople; moon
Hght in Paris?a girl and a
man daacing on a dew-drenched
lawn; moonlight in New York?an
artiit's $tudio gay with love #and
laughter; and a sinister one-eyed man
always lurkingjuat'beyond the moon?
light. There is youth, adventure, hap
pines* and an eitraordinary amount
of fun along this moonlit way.
The
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"BBLGITJJI." By Brand Whitlock. Pub
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Brand Whitlock's "Belgium" is un
doubtedly one of the few booki about
the war which has a permanent value.
Probably it is the most important piece
pf historical writing which the conflict
has produced. The author had the ad
vantage, of course, of having been in
a particularly fortunate position from
which to observe the German machine.
/"/ of tne most dramatic ii.cidents
of the war occurred within taxicab dis?
tance of his doorstep. But the book is
much more than the good journalism
of an eyewitiiess. After all, the film
has something to do with the picture,
and "Belgium" is an cngrossing work
not only for what is tells ua about
the kingdom of Alberf, but for what
it tells us about Whitlock.
Books by American Ambassadors have
come to be regarded a3 preliminary
moving picture tcenarios. Thia spirit
is absent in the Whitlock book. Hs
does not make himself a heroic and
romantic flgure like Gcrard, although
it 13 not to be denied that now and
then he allows himself a gesture of
a sort. However, they are for the most
part little gestures involving no more
than a hand and a wrist. We prefer
this manner. Mr. Gerard's book rather
distorted the issues of the war for us.
It seemed to imply that the break had
come as a result of the Kaiser's rude
rernarks to Mr. Gerard. This seemed
a little unfair, because tho retorts
which the author set down Tor himself
were invariably much more telling than
the lines assigned to Mr. Hohenzollern.
Belgium the Hero
No man is the hero of the Whitlock
book. That honor is reserved for
Belgium. The record of the anguish
of the small kingdom is remarkably
complete. Whitlock's writing skill is
shown by the fact that he is able
to see the little things which vivify
history even in the Bhalow of great
events. Nor is tho book altogcther
sombre in spite of the monstrous
things of-which it tells. After their
forts were gone and their armies de
feated the Belgians fought the in
vaders with nothing more than quick
wit, and Whitlock has caught the spirit
of the people who could and did laugh
at their conquerors.
Nearly always they were able to
find aome way around German restric
tions. Thus, upon one occasion in an
endeavor to prevent any demonstra
tion on August 4, the annlversary of
the beginning of the war, the Ger?
mans forbade the citizens of Brussels
to assemble, to make demonstrations
or to wear national insignia of any
sort. Accordingly, all the Belgians in
the city appeared wearing little scraps
of paper as boutonieres.
Many of the things which the Ger?
mans did in Belgium are so fantastic
in brutality as to remain unassimilated
in the mind of a reader. It is difiicult
to react strongly to these great bar
barities. They are too monstrous to
be understood. It seems to us that
the most effective indictment which
Whitlock has drawn against the Ger?
mans lies not so much in his account
of what happened at Dinant. or Lou
vain, or Taminos, but in tne piling
up of incident after incident of petty
persecution. These seem less like
nightmares. They are nearer to human
experience and more readily grasped.
Some German Fincs
There is, for instance, the story of
the Frenchman who owned a steel mill.
The Germans demanded that he operate
it. He replied that he had no fuel,
whereupon they sold him a hundred
tons of coal, for which thty mude him
pay caBh. The next day they requi
Personal Experiences
. of a "Y" Man
THEFIGHT
FOR THE
ARGONNE
By WILLIAM B. WEST
Introduction by Burges Johnson
A vivid picture of the expe?
riences of a Y. M. C, A
man with the fighting forces
that won the stubbornly
contested b a 111 e in the
Argonne Forest.
A record of heroism, aacri
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For the Germans
General voi Bissing concetved the
Idea of drlrlng a wedge between the
Klemlngs and the Walloons nnd draw
ing the former element ln the Belgian
population to the German elde. The
propaganda was earefully dereloped.
and Brand Whitlock records the gtory
that upon one oc?jision the genernl ad
dressed a Flemisli professor ln hls na?
tive tongue,
'You see, professor, I have learned
Flemtsh since I have been here," re
marked the Keneralv
"And I," said the professor?"alnce
yon cume I hnve forgotten it."
sitioncd the coal and confiscatcd it.
Again, there is the account of the Bel?
gian citizen who was iined because,
when his hourfe took fire, his pigeons
rlew out of their blazing colombier.
He was punished, the German authori
ties explained, because it had been i'or
bidden to allow pigeons to fly.
There is a wealth of incident in "Bel?
gium," and this not only makes the
two volumes good reading, but also
serves to convey information much
more accurately than by bleak gen
eralization. An entiro essay on Ger?
man sentimentalism is summed up in
tho story of the German ofiicer who
was present when a conference was
held to mark our certain areas in Ant
werp as immune during the bombard
ment. Among the protected areas the
zoological garden was included, and one
of the German officers was grcatly
pleased and touched at this decision.
"Les pauvres bet.es," he said.
Whitlock does not confine his record
to a study of the German machine.
His book contains some interesting
portraits of individuala. Von Bissing,
Von der Goltz and Von der Lancken ap
pear in vivid sketches. Burgomaster
Max is also weil drawn and there are
some splendid chapters on Edith
Cavell. We wonder if any of the
monuments erected in her memory
have perpetuated her last stirring
words, "Standing, as I do, in view of
God and eternity, I realize that pa
triotism is not onough. I must have
no hatred or bitterness toward any
one."
A Best Thriller
History of 77th Division
Makes a Striking Volume
HI8TORY OF TITE SEVENTT-SEVENTH
DIVIS'ION. Designed and written in the
fleld, France. Published by the Seventy
Eoventh Division Assoclallon, New York.
Prlee, $2.60.
One of the six best thrillers of the
year?it is safe to make the predic
tlon?is this autobiography of New
York City's division. Tho authors had
the tremendous advantage of personal
experience?a few weeks before they
set themselves to the literary task they
were serving with their comrades in
gun-pit and funk-hole?and so have
written a story of vivid interest.
At Chateauvillain, in tho Department
ot Haute Marne, to which the 77th had
moved after the signing of the armi
stice, this history was compiled from
the divisional records, maps and the
tales of the men themselves.
The epic of the advance through the
Ajgonne?related, as it is, by the men
who were there ? would be sufficient
to justify this volume. Yet the deeora
tions cannot pass unnoticed. There nre
striking illustrations in khaki and
black and many official photographs
and maps and an elaborate cover built
around the insignium of the division.
Altogether it is a fitting memorial to
the heroic work of the 77th.
New Manner in
Verse of Evans
IRON7CA. A book of poems by Ponald
Evans. Published by Nlcholaa L. Mrown.
Prlco, $1.
Five years ago Donald Evans could
very woll have been given up for lost.
It is all the more welcome that he
should have come to something. It is,
in fact, almost a miraele that a poet
whose~tata attempt waa nothing if not
to tie his verse in knots and keep all
his meunings aacredly to himself
should write a long verse narrativo
sueh as "At tho Bnr"?tho first in
"Ironica"?in which a simple story is
eimply told, with tenderneas and pas?
sion aplcnty but without the vestige
of an insincerity. There is perhaps
U'bs to be said ns to substance for tho
second long poem, "Before the Cur
tain." It may be a fakish poem; lt
may be the mcticulous obsorvation of
a fakiah actress. But though it is
exquisitely written it faila.
In the ahorter verses there aro many
splendid things. There is, for ono
thing, an almost trugic kindlincss.
Thoro in vision, and there is form.
One or two of them are bo boautifully
artjoes, in effect, that they might have
boen said casually to aome friend on
a front porch somewhore in aummcr.
He would huve been a fortunute friend.
R. H.
"He looked about to be sure that
they were alone, and then he clasped
her in his arms. He held her so tight
Iy that she panted for breath; he
kissed her until her lips were bruised,
and he murmured guttural words of
endearment that sounded like an ani
mal's growl .... more crude
caresses, and before they parted the
man again held her in close embrace?
biting the lobc of her ear until she gave
a little scream."
Elinor Glyn's new novel is called
"Family."
Our first contributor who sent us in
a news beat last week on the manner
in which Don Marquis prepares his
copy identified himself later as A. W.
Utting. of The Tribune proofroom.
His initials got into tho paper with
r-nly one mistake?a "W" being used in
place of the final "U."
Raby, do you know. T wonder
How your mother loves youT
How hpr every thought of you
Is full of humble pride ?
How she gives her very eelf
To care for you?
How her life would be as nought
To lo#e for you ?
?From "My Child," by Jean Berry.
We are informed on excellent au
thority that the answer to questions
one, two, three and four is "No."
We can think of no good reason why
Mrs. Castle should not have married
again, but we did regard it as just the
least bit inconsiderate that she should
have picked the very day upon which
we ran a one-column reviow of her
book, "My Husband," and a two-column
cut of herself and Vcrnon Castle.
The Erotic Motive in Litcrature
With the help of your beautiful as?
sistant. I got $2.50 worth of book. I
thank you very much. And I certainly
hope I can land again; I do want to see
that young lady again. PEM.
Authenticity Guaranteed
The novel was delayed three months
; in publication and during that time the
; galley proofs were lost. When the ad
] vertising department wailcd for a
i synopsis of the yarn it was decided
| that the quickest thing to do was to
| telegraph to the author. The foilowing
telcpcram was sent:
"Please send immediately two-hun
dred word synopsis your novel, ???."
Thc next day the reply canie.
"Cannot remeniber the plot."
Our Weekly News Beat
Much of "Thc Martial Advcntures of
; Henry and Me" and "In tho Heart of a
| Fool," William Alien White's latest
I books, was written on a "blind" type
' writer, purchased by Mr. White about
i 1893, when he went to Kansas City to
j become stockyards reporter on "The
j Kansas City Star." Mr. White never
i has learned to operate a single key
I board or visible typewriter, and his
I office in "The Emphoria Gazette," his
j Fmporia home, and hls summer home
j in Morain Park, Col., aro equipped
: with primitive machines, all in scan?
dalous disrepair, and which no one but
Mr. White would be able to operate.
E. S.
?
It was a fine idea to have Mr. Spargo
j review John Rced's book on Bol
I shevism, and Mr. Reed dissect Comrade
j Spargo's book on ditto. The plan may
be extended. Hero are a few sugges
j tions: "The Collected Writings of
i Frrdinand Foch," to be reviewod by
j Erich von Ludondorff. "A Manual of
| Scientific Gambling," by Erich von
; Ludondorff, to be rcvlewed by Ferdi
| nand Foch. "A German Plan for the
i League of Nations," by Mathias Erz
1 berger, to be reviewed by T. W. Wil
! son. "The League Covenant," by T. W.
I Wilson, to be reviewed by Mathias Erz
berger.?E. S. B.
I _ All these are good suggestions, but
i just now we are at work editing two
! reviews on "The Book of Genesis," one
i by Eve and the other by the Serpent.
! We said last week that nobody could
be romantic about a teet.hing baby,
but Jean Berry, in her book of verse!
"My Child," has suceeeded in growing*
poetical on just such a subject. But,
then, we had not conceived the possi
bility of anybody writing about "A
lovely, weeny, teeny, pearly tooth."
Many excellent writers seem to keep
on a few faithful bromides for the
sake of sentiment. Thus Brand Whit?
lock in his admirable "Belgium"
speaks of some soldiers being caught
"like rats In a trap" and later he
j quotes "There is neither East noi
J West."
William Draper Lewis takes up many
phases of Roosevelt in his recent
biography, but he fails to solve the im?
portant and interesting problem of
whether the Colonel had a senso of
hrimor. On the negative side we cite
an incident described in the book.
Jacob Riis was visiting the President
and told the Colonel nd Mrs. Roose?
velt that his old mother in Denmark
was sick and lonely. The Roosevelts
were deeply touched and the President
dictated the foilowing cablegram:
"Your son is breakfasting with us.
We send you our loving sympathy."
"I am consenting to the publication
of these notes," writes Dr, John Finley
in his introduction to "A Pilgrim in
Palestine." We wonder if the pro
fessor also has thinga in the news?
papers "called to his attention."
In The Tribune of next Saturday we
expect to have an nrticle based on a
number of lettera of Joseph Conrad
written shortly before the publication
of his new novel, "The Arrow of Gold."
We think these lettera will show Con?
rad aa not at all the aloof person
pictured in the minds of some of his
readers. Other featurea which are in
preparatlon are an artjcle on book
bargains for indigent collectors and a
review of William Draper Lewis's "Life
of Theodore Roosevelt" by Senator
Hlram Johnson.
"Enclosed find a poem for 'About A
Column,'" writes Clarence M. LindBay.
"Don't give all tho bookB away in that
case until thia gcts in."
Faith always did move mountains
and we don't aee our way clear to re
fusing a book to Mr, Lindsny even if
wo don't use hls poem.
Once upon n timo we thought "Of
mnking many books there ia no end"
wna a humorous Une.
HEYWOOD BROUN.
a
The GreatestHuman Interest Story in the World Today^
By BRAND WHITLOCK
By far the most important book of the Twentieth Century?the com?
plete story of the heatf of the war, by the United States Minister to Bel
gium, a great diplomat, a distinguished author?the only American
whom the Germans permitted to leave Belgium with the' diaries he had
kept during the invasion.
Day by day Brand Whitlock stood between the invaders and their vic
tims; night by night he recorded every detail of the brutal story. With
his very soul seared by the tragedy, he has given the world a book that
will live forever?a book that all Americans may be proud of as the
work of an American.Two Editions sold out before publication.
With Portraits. Two volumes, Svo.
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"Red of Surley"
Fresh Idea in Novel by a
Young Author
RBD OV 8URI.Br. By Tod Robblns. Pub?
llshed by llarpor & Bioa. 334 pagc.3.
Price 51.50.
Though written in prose, this review
is a hymn of gratitude. Mr. Robbins,
by the unusual twist he has given an
old themc in his new book, ha3 lifted
from our shoulders a great depression
which settled there as a result of
those poor but proud sons who roso to
genius solely because of the depressive
environment in which they were born.
Red?so named for tho usual reason
?is born in Surley of lisherfolk who
cannot understand why any sane per
son should want to be a poet. His en?
vironment is barren of all those sym
pathies and aids to aspiration which a
poet ought to have. In fact, Red
achieves manhood in just such a spot
which has heretofore made genius, and
which, in this case, breaks one.
Apprenticed to u German dentist,
whose delight ia torture of the weak?
whether through the electric grill or
the fiendish suggestion of an unwhole
some mind upon a rlower intelligence?
Red struggles to get away from the
I sluggish contentment of Surley, to find
1 some channel by which to achieve a
i greater usefulness than a pilot to fishirg
| parties. In a crippled friend he meets
the one ray of sympathetic understand
jng which lights his long struggle.
i This friend directs his reading from
dime novels to some of the great novel
| ista, historians, biographers and poets
l of noto and established reputation.
Fventually, however, even this friend
takes his deformed body and kindly
heart to another city to. establish a hos?
pital for cripples, and Red cannot cope
with the rejection slips which come to
him. Finally,?after two years in which
every magazine in the country has been
favored with a sample of verse which
the author and the crippla tell us re
flects no mean ability, Red stacks his
hundred or more slips in a pigeon hole
and settles down to the life of a fisher
man in Surley. The book leaves him
engaged to a girl lacking in imagina
tion or any aspiration other than that
of a good housekeeper and iisherman's
wife.
"Red of Surley" is a thoughtful piece
of work from a young writer. His
youth is apparent in certain labored
passages which tend to overwriting;
in the use of alliteration whenever he
slips into description, and a cumber
some structuro when attempting de
tached philosophical comment. But the
story is a good one, the charactera well
drawn and the theme interesting, even
if 8omewhat unconvincing in its out
come. Tho cripple is an unusually ap
pealing figure, and the German dentist
perhaps' the most successfully and
cleverly rounded character in tha novel.
N. M.
-?? 11
Some Plane Tales
AIR MEN O' WAR. By Boyd Cable.
246 pages. Prlce $1.75. E. P. Dutton
& Co.
Boyd Cable has done for the men of
the British flying service through
print what Henri Farre has accom
plished for the air fighters cf France
with oils and canvas.
There is little plot in the eighteen
sketches that comprise "Air Men o'
War" and less dullness. They are
written with a spirit and a sure, color
ful touch. Through them runs the boom
of the wind against veering wings, the
bellow of racing motors and the rattle
of mpchine guns. Once or twico Mr.
Cablo lifts his books from the usual
epic sweep of hia stories into tho dra
matic. "A Good Day," which is also
a good story, is an example of this,
though it limps to a close through a
page of unnecessary moralizing.
The author lays himself open to the
charge at times of deliberately derail
ing his etories to dispenso morale ,to
the people at home, for his book was
written while the war was still going
full blast. More than once. the usually
straight, true run of his tale is lifted
from tho tracks by the intrusion of
exhortation and advice to those who
aro tending the home fires. One tale,
"Tha Sequel," which translates the
strike of airplane workers in England
into terms of the battlefront, is propa
ganda, quita plainly.
For tha most, the stories are filled
with Bound and movement. There aro
f?W who can describe twenty times in
one book the attack of a fighting 'plane
and yet make each roaring, flame
spurting plunge as vivid aa does Mr.
Cablo. Hu sketches tho true romence
that Kipling loves?tho drama and
oalor of everyday things?for on the
battlefront tho airflghter has become
an everyday thing. Mr. Cablo has sung
airplanes and the man in prose that. at
times is epic poetry and occasional
vcrso that 13 much liko prose.
His liumans are trivial, but his ma
chines, his guns, his roaring engines,
his tracer bullets, thatcomo crnckling:
past, "pencils of rlnme and smoke,"
aro nno and true. Now that the peace
conference haa beon an established
faer. so long, treason may not lio in
wishing that Mr. Cable had just once
allowed the Germans to have the
fewcr 'plariea in hia air battles. A
British flier may be worth several Him
airmen, but for tho aake of contrust
it would be pleasant to read of threa
or four "British mnchines joining to
shoot down a single German craft,
The Valley
of Vision
By Henry van Dyke
The eloqucnt testimony
in fiction form of a great
American who has come
through the war with a
message that may not be Iv^n'rie'
ignored, conlained in a
book of roniances and allegorics
of penclrating insight. $1.50.
ZlacVonald
Rosy
By Louis Dodge
A picturesque mountain novel
with a rare heroine. It will be
long before you forget the picture
of Rosy seated calmly in the door
of her cabin, a shotgun across her
knees, awaiting the arrival of the
search party. $1.60.
Judith of Blue
Lake Ranch
By Jackson Gregory
A dottble-action Western
story with a corking cow?
boy heroine. In its fourth
edition. $1.50.
A Pilgrim
In Palestine
By John Finley
A fascinating record ot
da}rs and nights afoot in
the Holy L/and, full of the
dramatic contrasts of the
vivid present against thc
background of the traditional past.
$2.00.
The Mastery
of the Far East
By Arthur Judson Brown'
An important new work on thc
Far Eastern situation, discussing
in a thorough and interesting
fashion Japan's aims and policy in
China and Korea and ihe many
political, economic, social and re
ligious problem9 involved. $6.00.
Money and
Prices
By J. Laurence Laughlin
A notablc work on the:
timely problem of money
^Sr?> and prices and their regu
^^^ lation. $2.50.
"A Joyous Novel of Youth"
THE HILLS
OF DESIRE
Richard A. Maher's New Novel
Author of "Gold Must Be Tried By Fire," etc
Here is a delightful story, full of whimsical beauty
and the spirit of the great outdoors. To read how
Jimmy and Augusta went wandering through the hills
is to feel again the splendor and freedom of youth in
Springtime.
At all bookstores
$t.S0.
THE MACM1LLAN COMPANY, Publisher*, NEW YORK.
"A drama of gold, of <^
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Road it and dare
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The Freedom of the Seas
By LOUISE FARGO BROWN
The main phase. of an ancient problem are outlined in these
page. in the hope that by tracmg what the phr.se "the frodom of
the sea* ha? meant in the pa.t Hght may be thrown on it. ?ignifi.
eano* to-day and to-morrow No better introduction to a l.rg.\?b.
ject could be des.red. For those merely de.iring to be welU
informed on a topic of general interoet it is .uffieient; should an*
daeiro to follow the subject further, it. bibliographical note. are
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