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care has been taken to choose reliable sources of information, 

 but I can scarcely hope to have escaped errors; and of course 

 I cannot hold myself responsible for the value of the many 

 diverse varieties of information and advice that are here collected. 

 Any user of tlie book will do me a kindness if he reports to me 

 any error that he may discover. If the new book should meet 

 with the favor that fell to the old, I shall need these suggestions 

 in the making of new editions ; but I can hardly hope that 

 such continued favor will come to it, for this would mean that 

 the two would span a half century, and in these rapidly enlarg- 

 ing days this is too much to expect of any fascicle of facts. 



I am indebted to many good persons for the information con- 

 tained in the book, as the names in the proper places testify ; but 

 I am specially under obligation to Professor A. R. Mann for 



much help. 



L H. BAILEY. 



Ithaca, N.Y., September 1, 1911. 



