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of the engraving, and the varied
ornament used. Having once (last
season) occasion to talk about early games
- more especially childrens games - I
found (to my satisfaction) that
the Emblems, - especially the Dutch
of the 17th Century - one of the
best sources from which to quote
in illustration.

Some three dozen
vols. and many pamphlets devoted to
Faust - starting with the German
Puppet play and Marlows impressive
blank verse drama, and concluding
with numerous versions of Goethe's
highly finished fifty year poem, and
the modern realistic Faust
and Faustine novels, gives a
fairly representative picture of
an episode in mans development
that - it seems to me - must

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