VOL. I.            MAY  19 52            NUMBER 3.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Frontispiece: Bookplate of Society for Propagating

the Gospell in Foreign Parts.........2

Moncrieffe's Stockings...........3

Dr. Cooper Departs

Dwight C. Miner...........4

Their Wine Will Warm: An Appreciation of
the Bancroft Bequest
John Berthel............12

A Columbianthology

Arnold H. Swenson..........17

Our Growing Collections

Roland Baughman...........22

Other Recent Gifts............     25

The Editor Visits Columbiana.........     26

Activities of the Friends..........     30

Financing the Friends...........     31