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Is this true or false ? 



2. " On Saturday last, about noon, Mr. Sumner, 

 the author of the book, and Mr. Fred Perry, the 

 Salvation Army printer, accompanied by a lawyer, 

 went down to Messrs. Imrie and Graham's estab- 

 lishment, and asked for all the manuscript, stereo- 

 type plates, &c., of the book. Mr. Sumner ex- 

 plained that the book had been sold to the Army, 

 and, on a cheque for the amount due being given, 

 the printing material was delivered up." 



Did these paragraphs appear in the " Toronto 

 Telegram" of April 24th, 1889, or did they 

 not ? Are the statements they contain true or 

 false ? 



3. " Public interest in the fate or probable out- 

 come of that mysterious book called ' The New 

 Papacy ; or, Behind the Scenes in the Salvation 

 Army,' continues unabated, though the line of pro- 

 ceedings by the publisher and his solicitor, Mr. 

 Smoke, of Watson, Thorne, Smoke, and Masten, 

 has not been altered since yesterday. The book, 

 no doubt, will be issued in some form. So far as 

 known, only one complete copy remains, and the 

 whereabouts of this is a secret which will be 

 profoundly kept. It is safe to say that if the 

 Commissioner kept on guessing until the next 

 anniversary, he would not strike the secluded 



