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printed from woodblocks in or about 770 A.D. Each copy was
to be housed in a reliquary in the form of a small wooden pagoda.

Two Manuscript Collections. A4r. Kenneth Lohf has written else¬
where in the pages of this issue of Library Cohwms of our recent
purchase of a collection of some thirty typescripts and holograph
poems by Edgar Lee iMasters. A substantial part of them remain
unpublished.

James Harvey Robinson, in the pre-World War I period, was
one of Columbia's most renowned teachers. As Crane Brinton has
said of him, "He was one, and by no means the least influential, of
a group of teachers who made of Columbia University a center
for the renewal and reformulation ... of the ideas and ideals of
the eighteenth-century Enlightenment." When, therefore, an op¬
portunity came recently to purchase a collection of manuscript
materials relating to his years at the German University of Frei¬
burg, where he took his doctorate, and to his subsequent
European travels before his return to America, that opportunity
was eagerly seized. Included in the collection are diaries and
journals covering the years 1888-1893, and several typed manu¬
scripts.