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Proliss gifl: Daphne and Dorothea Protiss, in
memory of Paul P. Proti.ss and Peter Paul Protiss,
donated a substantial collection of papers by and
relating to the French writer Henri Julcs-Bois
(1871-1943). Jules-Bois—a friend of Rodin,
Htiysmans, Edward Arlington Robinson, andjohn
Jay Chapman, among others—fled from France
before World War II and taught at Columbia.
Among his many books on psychology, philo¬
sophy, supernaturalism, and the occult were Le
Satanisme et la Magie (1895), L'Etemel Retour
(1914), La Douleur DAimer (1896), and L'Eve
Nouvelle {1897).

Raskin gift: Mrs. Maijorie Raskin donated lo the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library the papers and
research notes of her late husband, the Neiu York
Times reporter and labor analyst A. H. Raskin. The
large collection includes Mr Raskin's notes, cor¬
respondence, manuscripts of his books, and drafLs
of his articles for the Times and other newspapers.
Among the correspondents are Adolph A. Berle,
Hubert Htimphrey, David Dubinsky, and Adolph
Ochs Sulzberger

Francis Rigney gift: Mr Rigney added to the
Frederick L. Hoffman papers a t)'pescript entided
"Lectures on Race Patholog)' and Anthropomeliy
at Yale University, 1916."

RothUopf gip: Forty-two works of fiction were
added to the collection by Carol A. Rt)ihkopf
(A.M., 1952), a longtime Rare Book and Manu¬
script Library donor Among them were a group
of inscribed Elmore Leonard novels, works by
John Mortimer, and six early editions of Arnold
Bennett.
 

Sehaefler gip: Dr Samuel Schaefler and Mrs.
Schaefler once again extended their generosity to
the Riire Book and Manuscript Library. This year's
donations comprised a John McBey lithographic
etching of a World War I batdeground entiUed
"AVAS" and dated 1917; a very large and rare
watercolor of a "Tass" window poster (No. 1027,
Moscow, 1944); two nineteenth-century pam¬
phlets dealing with early land speculation in
California; and two lithographic posters, ca 1930,
advertising the Saturday Evening Post.

Srhapiro gift: University Professor Emeritus Meyer
Schapiro added to his papers an important group
of letters from his former student Wliitlaker
Chambers.

Srhreiber gift: Fred and Ellen Schreiber generous¬
ly donated three pages from Sebastian Brant's edi¬
tion of Vergil's Opera (Strassburg, Griininger,
1502). The pages were used in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library exhibition In Pursuit of
Meaning: Classic Texts from Columbia's Core
Curriculum to illustrate the use of contemporane¬
ous images in the illustration of classical works in
the early years of European printing.

tar/an gip: Ms. Susanna Taijan added lo our col¬
lection of scores by Jerome Moross, a piece called
"Eccentricities of Da\y Crockett" from a larger
work. Ballet Ballads.

Ukrainian poetn> gip: Yuriy Tarnawsky and other
members of the New York Group of Ukrainian
Poets gave the archives of the organization to the
Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and Eastern
European History and Culture of the Rare Book
and Manuscript Library. Since the mid-1950s, the
New York Group has published and promoted the