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18                                 Austin P. Evans

during the year 1941-1942. In addition, either alone or in col¬
laboration with others, she published a Thackeray Dictionary
(1910) and a George Eliot Dictionary (1924), a volume on Spe¬
cial Collections in Libraries in the United States (1912), and from
1911 to i930compiledtheC(?/aTOfa'i3!BiW/(7grflp/3)',not to mention
a few other lesser pubhcations.

Miss Mudge has led a busy life and by her personality and com¬
petence has stamped herself indelibly upon the library which she
served so well and upon the Columbia community. May she long
enjoy a well-earned rest among her beloved Westchester hills,
firm in the knowledge that great librarians, like great teachers,
live in the memories of those whose pride in workmanship and
fidelity to truth they have quickened.
 

Postscript
 

Not, we hasten to amend, just in memories! As a sequel to this
warm and deserved tribute, let us share our most recent and
characteristic bit of Mudgiana. Feeling that our readers would
like to know the source of the quotation used as our title, we
appealed, somewhat hesitantly, to Miss Mudge. After all, it has
been a good many years. She pondered and said,"/ remember the
incident, but not the details. Let me think and maybe it will come
to me" At 8 o'clock the next morning she called Miss Winchell
and said: "I thought and thought, and the word that stuck in my
mind was Maine. So I looked up Maine in the Columbia En¬
cyclopedia, and there I found the name Thomas B. Reed. / think
this may be your lead" Miss Winchell looked up W. A. Robin¬
son's life of Reed, and sure enough there it was!—a reproach
heatedly spoken in the course of the presidential campaign of
iS(>6. So the tradition lives on; and to both Miss Mudge and
Miss Winchell, once again our thanks!
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