A BOOKISH LOT.
A collection of books and pamphlets on Mormon history embraces 23,000 titles.
After 40 years of almost continuous labor Thomas S. Townsend has completed the Townsend library of the national, state and individual war records, owned by Columbia university. He closes the ninety-first and last volume with an account of the death of President McKinley. / Prof. J. (.'. Clarke, of Upper Alton, 111., has sent to the Smithsonian institution a unique volume, in which are compiled the alphabets of the world, so tabulated as to show the origin of all of them in the Egyptian hieroglyphics and to exhibit the development of each from its earliest to Its latest forms.
After more than a quarter of a century of erudite labor the venerable rabbi, Rev. Dr. Marcus Jastrow, of Germantown, has completed in manuscript the "Dictionary of the Talmud,” which has been awaited with interest by Biblical students and orientalschol»r«. Begun in 1877, this important work has ocupied 24 years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 18 January 1906, Page 4
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162A BOOKISH LOT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 18 January 1906, Page 4
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