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3 8                                Roland Baughman

Bancroft gift. Professor Margaret Bancroft (a.m., 1913) presented
a fine copy of Charles-Constant 1 .e Tcllicr's Instruction sur I'histoire
ancienne, Paris, 1816.

Bentley gift. Professor Eric Bentley presented four rare scripts of
recent French plays, to w it: Henry Becque's La Parisienne (1957);
Bertolt Brecht's Galileo (1952); Andre Obey's Noah (1957); and
Alarcel Pagnol's Marius (1955).

Berol gift. In May, 1956, we recorded the generous gift by Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred C. Berol of an unparalleled collection of the published
illustrative work of the noted book artist, Arthur Rackham. Now
we are able to report a further benefaction of the same donors.
The present gift consists of fifty-three original sketches and water-
color paintings by Rackham, some of which have never been pub¬
lished. Included are such notable items as: an unfinished needlepoint
show ing Punch on hotscback, made by Rackham when he was a
boy; a large watcrcolor, apparently unpublished, showing a child
fishing in a stream as four elfin-like children look on, w ith gnarled
trees and fields and rolling hills in the background; and a virtually
complete set of the original pen-and-ink and wash drawings for
A. F. Brown's The Lonesomest Doll, 1928. Not less noteworthy
are rhe numerous watercolor drawings for plates that were pub¬
lished in black-and-white, as well as a half dozen originals of
Rackham's earliest published sketches.

Mr. and Mrs. Berol are thus establishing at Columbia a unique
collection—one that will serve as a research keystone for anyone
who shall undertake to study the development of Arthur Rackham
as a book artist.

Cartwright gift. .Avery Library was the recipient of a group of
seven contemporary publications dealing with notable examples of
medieval architecture and sculpture in France. This gift comes to us
as a result of the generous action of Mr. W. Aubrey Cartwright.
The series is notable for the excellent quality and artistic merit
of the large scale photographs.
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