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"Above all, did those marginal notes Mr. Humphry Ward tells a remark which Gayangos had once idly looked able story in the July "Cornhill" which through contain përhape the key to the should be remembered by those who to-perennial Shakespear mysteries-to day are turning out their librarias Mr. W. H., and the dark lady, and all Take heed what you waats lest you waste the irreplaceable.
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"Unfortunately I took no tamporary note. I give is now as I remember it, and if anyone who knew Don Pascual, or any of the many persona versed in Shakespearean, lore, correct and amplify it, no one will be better plassed than I. Ela said that as quite a young man, somswbere in the thirties of the last century, he was travelling through Spain to England, where, if remember right, he bad relations with Sir Thomas Phillippe, the in.alent book and MSS. collector,
many of whose treasures are now in the great libraries of Europe. Sir Thomas employed him if the search for Spanish MSS. and rare Spanish books. I gathered The cooperative and voluntary effort that at the time to which the story the people of the Unites State, refars Gayangos himself was but little which we have materially misti, acquainted with English or English nerve fait during the past [your that although asked to produce a On his journey north from Maltid what shipment to her European Allies to Burgos, which was of course in the of 500 bushels greater thing was days before railways, he stopped at planned, "And indeed deemed possible, Valladol for the night, and went to that malitional shipmens. Iras
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The significance of these, Bigures is eco- family having "palace" in Valladolid. Ha found bin friend in the old library phasised by understanding certain condi
tie. The United States entered “the of the old house, engaged in a work of destruction. On the floor of the longis year 31018-17 with a hold-over mur- root was a large brawers, in which the ph of 200,00,pre "inshely" of "wheat now librarian was burning up a quantity from the "1916. Shipments to the of what he described a useless and Allies were, nonrdingly "mudo" without miscella con books, with a view to the undue suerifier on the part of the people Agency for :-THE OSAKA MARINE rearrangement of the library. The old of the United States. The fu the theol be pakin or vellum bindings has been year 17-18, doing ar the end of Jane stripped off, while the printed matter they were handicapped by having no was burning steadily, and the room was hektower or surplus of wheat, and lig full of smoke. There was a pile of old whent and corn shortage of the 1987 For Particulars, apply to books whone turn had not yet come crop, which resulted in a between 7 and lying on the Roor.
| 9. per cent. Jess nutritive production die Garangos picked one up. It w11 volume containing the plays of hire agricultural failures, and this in spite of the fact that a greatly herinsed aria William Shakespeare, and published in 1628 In other words, it was a copy of had been planted with tirse grains. the Fint Folio, and, as he declared to me, in excellent preservation. At that time he knew nothing about the Shakespeare bibliography: He was struck, however, by the name of Shakespeare, and also
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With she enthusiastic help dl women's į a large library there. But his friend the librarian attachelne importance to, hoy seats, and similar organisa the book, and it was to go into the top, every nied on and sesler of passio common holocaust with the rest. Gaytic appeal has been expliged, reaching anges noticed particularly, as he turned all fases in the remotest sections. Mr. it over, that its margins were covered over and other officials of the Fool with notes in a seventeenth-century Admitra are made direct appens baud. He continued his journey to by means of ostended'' speaking tours, England, and presently mentioned the white newspapers and magazine, have incident to Sir Thomas Phillipps, and Sir, dereted much space week after wiek in Thomas's future son-in-law, Mr. Halliwell explaining the need for and the right | —afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps,
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