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be kind, for they should be aware that it is easier to 

 review or revise a book than to write it ; and I trust 

 that, in the words of my father, those who read the 

 book " will find something interesting if not instructive, 

 or instructive if it be not interesting." If any would 

 suggest that the ground must bring forth thorns and 

 thistles, he may be reminded of the promise under a 

 later dispensation, " Instead of the thorn shall come up 

 the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the 

 myrtle tree." 



HAROLD C. LONG. 



January 1910. 



