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drafts for his various writings on nineteenth century French litera¬
ture, with special emphasis on Francois Chateaubriantl and Anatole
France.

Berg gift. Mr. Aaron W'. Berg (A.B., 1924; LL.B., 1927) has pre¬
sented a group of eleven publications of the Mosher Press of Port¬
land, Maine, and of Arthur L. Humphreys of London. Published
from 1908 to 1912, the volumes in the gift comprise works by
Matthew Arnold, Francis Bacon, Lord Byron, G. K. Chesterton,
Thomas De Quincy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon C.
Swinburne.

Cymrot gift. Mr. Mark E. Cymrot (A.B., 1922; LL.B., 1924), in
memory of his late wife, has presented a collection of thirteen let¬
ters wrirten by Theodore Roosevelt and one letter written by the
President's secretary. Sent from A\'ashington, Montauk Point and
Oyster Bay, at the time Roosevelt was Navy Secretary and Vice
President, and dated 1897-1901, the letters are addressed to Brook¬
lyn police sergeant Frank Rathgeber and discuss Thomas Nast,
the Navy Department, local New York political matters and mu¬
tual acquaintances.

En gel gift. .Mrs. Solton Engel (B.S., 1942) has added to the Solton
and Julia Engel Collection three scarce items of Rudyatd Kipling
ephemera: The Foreloper, a broadside printed on Japan vellum in
igo^; An Elevation, In India Ink, a leaflet prinred in Hoboken in
1899; and an undated broadside poem declining an invitation to
dinner at the Yale Kipling Society, beginning "Attend ye lasses."
Mrs. Engel has also presented a fine example of bet own book¬
binding: a full brown morocco gilt binding on Maggs Btothers,
Five Hundreth Catalogue, 1928, one of the most renowned dealer
catalogues of rare books and manuscripts issued in this century.

Frankel gift. Professor and Mrs. Aaron Frankel have presented
fifty-eight volumes of litetary works, among which are: collected
editions of Robert Browning, S. T. Coleridge, Daniel Defoe, John