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Chapter IX. THE WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH . . . . 203 Exile in France and Switzerland 203 Brussels, the League, the Government, Dewey 210 Chapter X. THE PALAIS MONDIAL 221 Organisation of the First Quinzaine Internationale . . . . 221 The First Quinzaine Internationale 226 The League of Nations 229 The Second Quinzaine Internationale, the Second League Assembly 238 The Palais Mondial 242 Chapter XI. L'AFFAIRE DU PALAIS MONDIAL . . . . 250 A First Displacement 250 The International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation . . 255 Geddes-, the Sub-Committee on Bibliography . . . . 259 The Rubber Fair 261 Expulsion 267 Chapter XII. GRADUAL DISINTEGRATION 274 The IIB 274 The Mondaneum 279 The Conferences of 1924 and Afterwards 284 The Synthetical Movement 294 The Last Quinzaine Internationale 297 Chapter XIII. CHANGE, NEW DIRECTIONS 304 Pollard and a Strengthened Institute 304 Alingh Prins and Continued Development 320 Crisis 327 The Crisis Resolved 338 Chapter XIV. LAST DECADES 345 The Mundaneum 345 Closure of the Mundaneum 350 A Last Crisis .359 APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF PAUL OTLET . • 364 INDEX 374
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Paul Otlet as a young man (undated) Office International de Bibliographie, la Salle des Repertoires, 1903 The Palais Mondial Invitation issued to the 1,000th lecture sponsored by Mundaneum Paul Otlet at the World Congress of Universal Documentation, Paris, August, 1937 ABBREVIATIONS ALA CD DC IIB LC OIB RBU UDC American Library Association Classification Decimale Dewey Decimal Classification Institut International de Bibliographic U. S. Library of Congress Office International de Bibliographie Repertoire Bibliographique Universal Universal Decimal Classification
Page 1: . HO YD THE UNIVERSE OF INFORMATION
Page 5 and 6: THE UNIVERSE OF INFORMATION THE WOR
Page 7 and 8: PREFACE Paul Otlet was a pioneer bo
Page 9: TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE , 3 LIST
Page 14 and 15: in a diary he kept systematically f
Page 16 and 17: when quite young to forming a natur
Page 18 and 19: than ever to study alone, to resist
Page 20 and 21: thought began to polarise, and that
Page 22 and 23: my room); and Science (plan of stud
Page 24 and 25: merit of all institutions, of all t
Page 26 and 27: scribbling completed when he was wi
Page 28 and 29: his fellow stagiaires and later Bel
Page 30 and 31: iology, and everything that came be
Page 32 and 33: no philosopher, but an earnest man
Page 34 and 35: synthesis of knowledge, to bibliogr
Page 36 and 37: could be partitioned from a purely
Page 38 and 39: epertory by author's names. The Off
Page 40 and 41: 14. Edmond Picard and Ferdinand Lar
Page 42 and 43: of years, was also sold, though Edo
Page 44 and 45: fortune. How could he leave him to
Page 46 and 47: Dewey did not reply immediately, an
Page 48 and 49: embracing all subjects whether exis
Page 50 and 51: The conference pressed with almost
Page 52 and 53: 6. The conference resolves that pub
Page 54 and 55: liographies for law and sociology w
Page 56 and 57: instituted to ensure the steady, re
Page 58 and 59: 9. Georges Lorphevre to John Metcal
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31. Moniteur beige, 17 September 11
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Chapter IV INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
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aphy, to be truly useful, specialis
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more than the titles of the million
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International Congress of Physiolog
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all subjects should be inventoried.
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ment could be done piecemeal by exp
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in the Bolletino delle Pubblicazion
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necessary explanation of the OIB's
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-with it, prepared developments of
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the Conference was making a ruling
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Prize for its exhibition. This was
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who does not know our work with the
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Tipografico G. Civelli, 1899). This
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92. L'Institut International de Bib
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to the systematics of knowledge. Ot
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ture» 24 was pregnant with all sor
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tiers taken from different parts of
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for the second International Confer
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kinds had to be constructed by each
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The publication of this Manual toge
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Otlet's hopes of America and Dewey
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could therefore maintain its spirit
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the decimal numbers. You write 355.
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the present eighth edition (sic) sh
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FOOTNOTES 1. Decimal Classification
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Anzeiger from 1878 to 1895 and cont
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Publication No. 58; Turici: Sumptib
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Chapter THE UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC
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liographic information in notices i
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to a complaint from Herbert Putnam
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nam), carried on their covers their
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government documents, Andrews was t
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•cards relating to a request was
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that the town's library need only b
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to be typed. A member of the Office
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all that was needed at the OIB at a
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Memoires Physiographiques de Pologn
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50. Geddes to La Fontaine, 12 Octob
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Office International de Bibliograph
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under contract from the Belgian gov
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Moniteur beige as a form of simple
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Arctowski's plea and the implicit c
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minations between the publisher, Fo
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President, and President in 1908, a
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ment nor to encourage her to find a
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national service whose object would
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supply the government architect wit
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ned. This sum was to be spent over
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in 1912, and at that time the vario
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work should be analagous to that un
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of the Association for the Museum b
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1908 and got down to work. The docu
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expect them to become more widely e
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The union would involve bibliograph
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5. Catalogue Central des Bibliotheq
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40. Letters for the period, passim,
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77. Georges Lecointe, 1869—1929,
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Chapter VIII THE UNION OF INTERNATI
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had met to negotiate actual peace t
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evelation* to them. They were aston
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Congress. The report presented conc
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involved therefore, however indirec
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its Congresses, the Institute for I
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Two committees were constituted to
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1. Code of rules for administrative
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standard international cataloging c
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and UIA. Always La Fontaine was at
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Although this is a fair summary, it
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It must be a museum of the best typ
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ospect, Sayers thought «quixotic e
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What was being brought to birth was
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33. The full catalogue for the Muse
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66. Congres Mondial des Association
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called the League of Nations (in Fr
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Because of his indefatigable work f
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of making the neutrals understand..
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should be added to the proposed cov
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sations created by diplomatic treat
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Leon Delacroix, they wrote, «our d
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American edition of the classificat
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'•8. A note indicates that among
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43. Nitobe to Otlet and La Fontaine
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on international sections placed un
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hoped to get the League to acknowle
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Otlet wrote to Nitobe and others th
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work of international organisation
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The Palais Mondial The Internationa
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The Palais Mondial The Aeronautic R
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The Assembly appointed a number of
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In de Leon's view there were two po
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of the privileged. And the League o
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printed that year, the Abridged Tab
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of it which had pleased him, but th
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sitions, to which all accretion in
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sort out some of the financial conf
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during this period he also acted as
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Chapter XI L'AFFAIRE DU PALAIS MOND
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sufficient pressure to bear to forc
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finished, «both for the reputation
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"first meeting in August 1922. In i
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the Union sees itself as discarded
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One of them was the future role of
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gested as, a good venue for such an
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The major problem facing the Palais
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not been able to express clearly en
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In early November, however, the Gov
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day, «by gardeners in clogs of del
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ange oi topics covered and decision
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Chapter XII GRADUAL DISINTEGRATION
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The Institute pursues its work acco
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the IIB be drawn up which would set
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for this conference. The first, a T
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The ultimate material expression of
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THE CONFERENCES OF 1924 AND AFTERWA
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keep before the President and the C
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French historian and one time Inspe
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was briefly rescued by support from
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far beyond their resources. He had
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He was disappointed that the Instit
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simply and completely so that they
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with a limited and realistic progra
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Series 2, No. 45; The Hague, Nether
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65. Note signed de Vos to M. le Dir
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C h a p t e r X I I I CHANGE, NEW D
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merit, contrary to the interests of
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national bibliography. He made it c
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the Decimal Classification they mus
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in the year been taken up independe
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the beginning of something new and
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v bad work w wh I know CD t be perm
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tions made. They were sent to Bruss
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making promises that are not kept a
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Moreover, German translation of a n
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had envisaged for encouraging work
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apparent triumph of the Dutch secti
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that the supplements issued to the
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conferences, for example, and he po
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their informal participation, Otlet
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in a single place was splendid in 1
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clearly and exactly.» Alingh Prins
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THE CRISIS RESOLVED For the purpose
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gram oi international institutions,
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44. Comar&tni, p. 329. 45. F. Donke
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89. Paul Otlet, «Sur la situation
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development through things (Nature,
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ternational Committee for Intellect
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sions as many as six, but rarely mo
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lections, but the programs of lectu
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City. A brief examination of Belgiu
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In 1938 he wrote: 1. all my papers,
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not the International Institute [fo
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As he reflected further, he knew th
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••6. «La Jeunesse et Le Palais
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF PAU
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Goldschmidt, Robert and Otlet, Paul
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Jacob, etudiant a la Faculte. Extra
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«Classification
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«Rapport du Secretariat General: s
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INDEX The abbreviations listed at t
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Biscoe, Walter Stanley, 101 Bishop,
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Delisle, Leopold, 60—61, 79n Denn
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Institut International de Bibliogra
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of with Otlet, 332—333; organises
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1900, 76—78; criticises American
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Office International de Bibliograph
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Putnam, Herbert, 116, 118, 119, 123
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Universal Book, 161 Universal Decim
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