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Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun, Zoo Gang, Honorable Cat
and Where Is My Country.

Hale gift. Mr. Robert L. Hale, Jr., has presented the papers of his
father, the late Robert Lee Hale, who taught economics at Co¬
lumbia from 1913 on, and who was Professor of Law from 1935
until his retirement in 1954. Comprising manuscripts and type¬
scripts for his writings and the notes for his lectures and courses,
the papers also contain correspondence with academic colleagues
and persons prominent in the legal profession, including Louis
Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Oliver Wen¬
dell Holmes, Harlan Fiske Stone and AVilliam Howard Taft.

Jaffin gift. Adding to his earlier gifts of noteworthy first editions,
A'lr. George Al. Jaffin (A.B., 1924; LL.B., 1926) has recently pre¬
sented a collection of 168 volumes outstanding for their literary
importance and the quality of their illustrations. Included are
works by Horatio Alger, Jr., Alax Beerbohni, Robert Browning,
A-Iark Twain, Lewis Carroll, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Washing¬
ton Irving, Henry W'adsworth Longfellow, John Locke, Eugene
O'Neill, Oscar Wilde and John Wolcot. Among the art works in
the gift is a sumptuously bound four-volume set of The Genuine
Works of William Hogarth; Illustrated with Biographical Anec¬
dotes, a Chronological Catalogue, and Commentary, London,
1808-1817. In addition to the text by John Nichols and George
Steevens, there is a separate volume of 109 plates engraved by
Thomas Cook.

Kunitz gift. Dr. Joshua Kunitz (A.M., 1925; Ph.D., 1928) has
established a collection of his papers, comprising correspondence
files, manuscripts of his writings and clippings of articles and re¬
views. A scholar and author whose work centers on Soviet life
and culture. Dr. Kunitz has written extensively for The Nation,
The New Republic, The New Freeman, New Masses and other
magazines and reviews. Reflecting his associations in the literary
and political circles of the 1920s and 1930s are the 150 letters from