Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jul 1930, p. 34

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Iri- A -- - A J Lod'.--Firit Floor Just Inside th. Watt avisStreDooa cliujs neitner, perfection nor firO~ity name of the pioneer Sjephen Cri-,ne, for bis select ion and its prefaces and who likewise died in l9O0ý and most comments. Hi5 worlc, in any. event,. decidedly the name of 1Emily Dickin- will be incojnplete. His integrity will son. Though she died in 1886, the im- force bu to state that his immense mortal tippler was discovered by and' labors, concentrated between. two indubitaby belongstothe present board§, have madei a mere sketch or century, ýand migbt well have oàpened- outline of the poetic currents, and the second baif of this *volume.

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