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Our Growing Collections                         2 5

Lad, London, 1896, in the original boards; hast Poems, London,
1922; The Name and Nature of Poetry, New York, 1933; More
Poems, London, 1936; and two anthologies containing translations
and poems by Housman, Odes from the Greek Dramatists, edited
by Alfred A\'. Pollard, London, 1890, and Wayfarer'sLove, edited
by the Duchess of Sutherland, London, 1904. The latter work has
a charming cover design by Walter Crane. Mrs. Fletcher has made
this splendid gift in memory of her Columbia professor, the late
Lloyd Morris (A.B., 1914).

Frankel gift. Through their generous and thoughtful gift. Profes¬
sor and Mrs. Aaron Frankel have added to the collections a group
of twenty-five rare editions in the fields of English and Conti¬
nental literature, including the following: Aristophanes at Oxford,
Oxford I 18941, an anonymous satire on Oscar AAilde; John Donne,
Letters to Sever all Persons of Honour, London, 1651, with a fron¬
tispiece porrrait of the poet; Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Senentiae in
Locos Communes Digestae, Antwerp, 1576; and Brian Twyne,
Antiquitatis Acadenriae Oxoniensis Apologia, Oxford, 1608, with
the bookplate of Thomas Rokeby.

Frarey Memorial gift. In memory of the late Carlyle Frarcy (M.S.,
1951), who taught at the School of Library Service from 1964
until his death last spring, the Student Association of the School
has presented a copy of Hugh .MacDiarmid's volume of poems
about Scotland, Direadh, 1, II, and 111, published in Frenich, Scot¬
land, in 1974. This edition of two hundred numbered copies signed
by the author was designed by Martino Marderstcig and printed
at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy.

Friedman gift. Mr. Harry J. Friedman (A.B., 1937) has donated
a copy, bound in full calf, of Henry Collins Brown's Book of Old
New-York, privately printed for subscribers in New York in 1913.
Containing rare old prints from notable private collections, the
volume is one of a limited issue, numbered, signed and inscribed
by the author.
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