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Romney March, Corriedale, Polwarth, Southdowns, Ryelands are not the names of Pullman cars. They are the names of Australian sheep which grow one-fourth of the world's wool, about 900,000,000 lbs. The U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Japan, Germany are ordinarily big buyers...
...Widener Library has just come into possession of a remarkable collection of English historical broadsides and proclamations printed between 1626 and 1700. The collection, which includes many from Lord Polwarth's library, has been formed during the past quarter century by a well-known collector and sold on his behalf to Harvard by Messrs. Dobell of Charing Cross Road. The only collections to rival it were those in England of Colonel F. Grant and J. E. Hodgkin, both now dispersed, and that in the possession of Lord Crawford...
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