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Oxford, June 26.
New York, June 25. A "ride into the country" which "It is not the wealthy collectora who are denuding England of the last night ended the checkered common hooks-it is the American career of Frank Marlow, the well Libraries," said Dr. R. W. Chap-known Broadway character, is to- man, Secretary of the Oxford Uni-day reviving echoes of the shool-. versity Press, when speaking to-ing of Arnold Rothstein on Nov. day at the annual meeting of the 16 last, the mere mention of which Society of Friends of the Bodleian fenuse the police embarrassment.
Library.
He emphasised the danger of delay In the purchase of old Eng lish books, not at present rare. by English librarien,
"Our secondhand booksellers so time the distribution of their catalogues," he continued, "that the American buyer, if he is quick in sending his cable, is not at a very serious diandvantage.
Like Rothstein, with whom he was intimate, Marlow, in addition to being a prominent figure on Broadway, where he was noted us well- a prodigal spender, was known, in boxing and racing cir eles, where his operations were somewhat unsavoury.
Recently the police say he had engaged in a rum running syndi cate, following the padlocking of "At Yale, have been told that a night club of which he was pro- two or three assistants in the prietor, und it is belleved that a library spend their time in check-rum running feud may be respon ing up the English catalogues and sible for his murder. Alling the gaps. American libra rians and professors on vnention drive through our country towna and buy up whole shopfuls of books.
However, in several ways Mar- low's murder resembles that of Rothstein. He had dugaged a hotel room near the scene of Roth stein's death, and was attempting 371 alina. "And the Americana are not unsuccessfully to use atom. The librarians of the He had been awaited there last Dominions are beginning to see night by a girl who identified her- that they cannot be without old self as "Mickey of the rendezvous" editions. Even the Continent of over the telephone, but who had Europe has its emissaries in search disappeared when the police-arriv of standard editions of Importanted Jater. books in our own country)
Clinging Values.
"The babit of serious collecting for professional purposes has grown very much. Many of our professors and lecturers in litera ture and history, and not a few of our undergraduate students in these subjects, are collectors in their modest way. That is all the good, but the results are ap parent. Books which a few years more than plentiful.
ag were
seem to have disappeared.
.
The police, in addition to seek- ing her, are trying to find Mar- low's wife, who, after being in- formed of her husband's murder by telephone disappeared with their two children before the police went to their country home in Loug Island to question her to-day.
Marlow was found dying beside the road in
a suburb an Long Island with three bullet wounds in his head. He died without re- gaining consciousness,
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"Many of our recent Jussen-re dene by the Bodleian, when the due not to poverty but to fodif- response was by no means negference. There are some indica- gible,
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