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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1895. 21 Ham Mabie, who is probably TS known and scholarly of Atneric: critics, in a recent in- ter e interesting thoughts riticism. is There the criticism e an account of a ment of its appearancs th ation and guida of se W 3 know what books to read— but it is cter. ' Great by such men as Goethe, for 3 function of literary terpretation. To nctions seem e susceptible ould be its dictum ry interpret It should e, “not only man’s value asa e us see h f which he es one of 1ave done som this one differ- Mr. Mabie, **has many | of | £ more than | not so dis- ; has done as to i | their influences. Ambitious now of rising | in life she induces her father to give her a university care | to Chicago to become a writer. meets the man in whom she recognizes the complement of her own nature, and turning her back upon & younger and wealthier suitor she marries him. In a story of this kind, where there is no nor mystery, where there comes no of fortune either good or 1ll, and the characters, while better than the average, are not above ordinary men and women of the higher kind, the interest of the r depends wholly upon the 8 le and his ability y of sty ! | and after that she goes | There she | | the end is tragedy. | scribed rather than | honor which they cherished and for which v | they died is alien to the minds of Amer- in an uncommon | f style and | rosy realism of | to the general | Otherwise it is the old familiar story of two men and one woman, That combina- tion has wronght comedies and tragedies since ever the human race began, and the theme would long ago have been worn threadbare were it not that each land, each age and almost each set of individuals works out the ever-recurring drama in a different way and presents a new moral with every new aspect. The main lines of Miss Tyler’s story are the same as those of every romance of the kind, and record the wreck brought about by a young woman who being engaged to one man falls in love with another. Around these lines, however, is arranged a ries of delightful pictures of plantation e, with sketches of folk lore, the songs, the dialect, the social gossip, and all the hundred pbases of the daily routine of a little community shut off from the out | side world and forming a society of its own. There is something of humor in the book, and something of pathos. A light comedy plays in the early chapters, but The work from begin- ning to the close reveals an earnest and genuine feeling, but the author is not a master of tragedy, and the agony of the consummation of the ruin of all is de- depicted. There is just enough strength in the story to create ympathy with the victims of the sac- rifice, notwithstanding that the idea of who were not brought up to regard conventional honor as the supreme thing in the universe. In every respect it is a faithful record of r modern 1g it witha called the novel 'g-had a con- just now being de- men as the avowed what i prtal A, toward In the best sen reat nov se of that phrase, howe is a novel withay e the und in human resulting be r | reader are already famous. less incl n of them. avens no mo e must reflect the motions and strugzles tow ction of the people who are We may find Mrs. Hump some, most of us do. but ¥ that no one of her ks has us a nct of a d se of hum not h this, it would never tention of the people of two lands. Life is, after all, a greater thing than art, and the innction of the critic, of eitherone or the other, is one of interpretation rather than of description. What a book means, for what it stands in the record of a peo ple’s growth and the relation of the author to that growth, are after all the funda- mental facts regarding the work. ROSE OF DUTCHER’S COOLLY. picture s In his new story, ‘‘Rose of Dutcher's Coolly,”” Hamlin Garland does not deviate a hair's breadth from that creed of literary realism of which he is rapidly becoming | the foremost Western apostie. His hero- ine is not a commonplace girl by any means, but she leads a commonplace life, d of exciting incidents ana poss noth of romance except that hay- ing an opportunity to marry a rich man she decides to marry one who is not rich. The sole object of the story seems to dev: ing have been to trace the development of an | exceptionally rich feminine nature under the conditions that prevail in the rural districts of Wisconsin. In depicting the graduai unfolding of the girl's character . 9Mr. Garland is guarded in his phrases, but he does not mince his 1deas. His heroine, Josing her mother while she is yet an in. fant, and having no one but ker father to turn to, has to form for herself a concep- tion of the differences of sex and of woman’s place in the economy of nature. These ideas of the growing girl and the incidents by which they are affected one way or anotber constitute a good deal of the story. In fact they are treated with such minuteness of detail in stances that the work might be called a scientific romance of the develop- ment of the instincts of sex in a woman. Although, as we have said, Mr. Garland euarded in his language there are times is narrative threatens to become but he isan American, nota French, t and remains faithful to Wisconsin nlit His heroine is not free when risk Tez conventions ) from temptations of nascent passion in the days of her ignorant and uninformed girl- hood, but she comes out from them clean and pure to develop into one of those noble Ligh-minded women who are the glory of Beyond the record of the development racter there is very little of interest es alone with her father until she is old | cnough to al | school experience of farm children, andin | ociation comes near baving | nd depraved by corrupting influ- | ences that emanate from the coarseness of many of the vicious larger boys and girls with whom she is thrown into contact. memorable first visit to a circus has the cffect of furnishing her with an ideai hero. Enraptured with the physical beauty and race of one of the gymnasts of the her desire soars above the country boys around her and she is no longer subject to e | Jurisprudence A | HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE. He takes rank E r attain the f that of the great romancers s of the world, it is neverthe- nant school in our country 1t and well deserves the study of od in literature; nor, perhaps, ied anywhere to better ad- in this, the latest work of st masters. [Rose of Dutch- Hamlin Garland. Chicago: ne & Kimball.] antage | one of it | FOSTER ON THE CONSTITUTION. ation is announced st volume of a work on the Con- stitution of the United States by Roger New York bar, author of ““A deral Law,” *“T and lecturer on * at the Yale Law School. mplete work will consist of three wvo volumes, and, judging from the ad- | vance sheets, will constitute one of the ! most important contributions to our legal | and po ature that has been made | for many year: | No exhaustive treatise upon the consti- tution of the United States has hitherto 3 ted si o W T nce the commentaries of ich were written more t that time the ions 1n that concealed they were the researches of into the constitu- of England, and of numer- s into the colonial | institutions. Mr. Foster’'s work is de- | signed to place all this new information in | a compact and well-arranged form, accessi- ! ble to the professional and general reader. He aims to present what will be at once a complete constitutional history of the United States and a compilation of ail the ecedents which ajd in the construction | of the Federai constitution. | The author takes up each clause of the tuti tive order, and the with the subject ot It contains the first ex- al and analytical argu- sion, the than sixty nal sourc ent were in many cas ew ; and so remained till t to licht by d Freeman Stubbs tional ous American sch impeachments. | haustive hist | ment again | first constitutional h ry of the Confed- | erate States, the first history of recon- ! struction from a legal as wel! as a his. torical point of view, and the first history | of impeachments in the different States. | The last includes a large number of cu- | rious facts known hitherto only to a few special students, suci as the conviction jand removal of a Governor for following | Lincoln’s example in suspending the writ | of habeas corpus without authority from | the Legislature, and the removal of a judge for obeying a decision of the Supreme | Court of the United States overruling de- | cisions of the State courts that were sup- ported by the wishes of a majority of the | State electorate. | [Foster on the Constitution, volume 1. | Roger Foster, Boston Book Company. | Price in law sheep, $5.] A novel descriptive of life in Virginia, our social organism., | tragic in conclusion, but charming in style and accurate in delineations of Southern character and dialect, is “Boss,” a newly published story by Odette Tyler. It isnot long, nor are the incidents of the narrative either numerous or romantic, but, never- theless, as there is no trace of sketchiness or padding, it shows from beginning to end the attractiveness of a carefully finished literary work. According to a statement in the brief preface the story 1s a record of actual oc- currences in one of the Southern States, { the scene being shifted and the names | changed for obvious reasons. The tragedy, turns upon the blind devotion of the lead- ing characters to a mistakenidea of honor, | | | | before even the first years of her youth are | certain phases of Southern life and is one of the books which cultured Southerners will receive as a fair picture of the men and women who make up the better ele- | ment of their society. Even the dialect will be accepted as accurate and the com- edies and humors be admitted as true to the lighter side of the real plantation ways. Altogether the book will weil re- pay rea and while there is some cause for regret that it was brought to a tragic close, still the heroine being what she w could hardly have confronted her destin otherwise. ‘Throngh no fault of her own, but by the impulses of a supreme love, *‘a faith “unfaithful made her falsely true,” and qut of it she could see no escape save by death, having been bred to the creed 1at “A woman's honor, as well as er- ( * by Odette Tyler. New York and Transatlantic Publishing Company.] YEARS THE LOCUST HATH EATEN. A story of pathos unrelieved by any save the slightest suggestions of humor and with but passing glimpses of the brighter side of human life is “The Years the Lo- cust Hath Eaten,” the Iatest novel of Annie E. Holdsworth. It is the record of the tragedy of an unhappy marriage; the story of the life of a gifted, noble woman mated to a shallow-hearted selfish egotist, struggling in vain against a hope- less poverty under which her worthless and contentedly sinks, and finally king down herself and dyingin despair | bres gone. S This is one of the novels that indirectly | advocate free divorces by showing the in- tolerable wrongs inflicted upon generous | natures by an_irrevocable marriage to an ignoble one. To the heroine there comes one chance of relief from the wretched- ness that surrounds her. A lover offers to take her away with him and give her free- dom andlife and joy. He argues that to keep the Jetter of conventional morality means death, and that there is happiness for her only in breaking away from what the world calls right. She remains true to what she esteems to be her duty and knows only “the years that the locust hath eaten,” and that utter barrenness of joy amid which the soul starves and the eart dies. While the book is heavy with pathos all the way through it is by no means dreary reading, for there are elements of courage and hopefulness in the heroine that lighten the gloom of every chapter. The characters are not numerous and in the main are sufficiently well depicted to in- terest the reader in their fortunes and actions. Itisnota strong story, but it is earnest in sentiment and free from the morbidness that generally vitiates the pathos of minor writers. [*“The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten,” Annie E. Holdsworth. New York: Macmillan & Co. Price $1 25.] DR. PHILLIPS. A disappointing book. The author has made an attempt to depict the ife of the Jew as it is lived in London, and has failed most singularly in his endeavor. Accord- ing to the views expressed by Mr. Danby, as shown in some of his created dialogues, we are led to suppose that the Hebrew in London possesses an unconquerable aver- sion to associating with his gentile neigh- bor, and an unlimited passion for playing solo-whist. Indeed, the whole of the dia- logue of the first chapter is devoted toa discussion of various games of cards. Mr. Danby, the author, goes so far as to say: “The play went on aimost in silence; no licht jest or merry quip, no sacrilegious sound of laughter disturbed the devotion of Judaism to its living god.”” Insuch mwanner does the author emphasize his opinion that the “These be thy gods, O Israel” doctrine obtains in London, in spe- cial reference to cardplaying. Dr. Phillips is & prosperous London physician, who, married as he is to a good- natured but stupid German woman, finds delight in the company of a Mrs. Cameron. This lady was in the early part of the tale a governess. Dr. Phillips convinces her that they were created by an all-wise Providence for each other, and keeps her in the seclusion of a Bedford-square home. The story is fairly well worked out, but is marred in several places by stupendous inaccuracies, no_doubt on account of the fact that Mr. Danby, the author, has caught but slight glimpses of the life of the peculiar people. ~ Ihdeed, a perusal of the book would incline the reader to the velief that, so far from picturing the life of the Maida Vale Hebrew, Mr. Danby had drawn his_characters from the distriet bounded by Petticoat lane and White- chapel road. [Chicago: Laird & Lee. For sale by all booksellers. Price 25 cents.] AN EVENING THOUGHT. Undergraduate verse is rarely worth re- printing; but Edward Martin Hulme has done well in collecting into a dainty little pamphlet a series of minor poems, which, he informs the reader, were written during the first two years of his course at Stan- ford. A fair example of the verse and sentiment is found in the lines which give the title to the pamphlet: AN EVENING THOUGHT. Love. I some evening when the soft, white mist Holds in embracing arms the weary world, And the last sunbeams il the peaks have Kissed, And in sweet slumber all the flowers are furled, You should come to me, clad in Death's dark grace, And gaze upon me with your tender eyes, And with a sad, sweet smile upon your face, Should say, = I bring thee peace the world denies,’” Into the aistant land I do not know, Into the darkness that I hope means light, 1 would, dear heart, with yon most gladly go, And you should be my guardian through the night. [An Eveni% Thought, Edward M. Hulm‘e. San Francisco: H. 8. Crocker & Co. NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. This is a reprint, in two volumes, and with a series of charming illustrations by Clifton Johnson of the notes of that de- lightful old parson-naturalist, Rev. Gilbert White. What Izaak Walton’s “Complete Angler” is to lovers of the gentle pastime, White Selborne must be to the students of out-of-door life. The book has a perennial charm, like nature itself. It is, in fact, one of nature’s own books, written by her from off the pen-point of an ardent lover. This is how most of the best books get written. It is over 100 years since Gilbert White kept his daily record of Seiborne. But because nature herself is the same his book is to-day full of delightful interest. When the first swallow appeared in the new year, where the laburnum blossomed and when and how he found a great stag- beetle, the migration of the buds, the life in the streams and all the varying in- cidents of nature’s serial story, are here set down with loving exactness.” The present edition has an uf)preciative introduction by John Burroughs. [New York: D. Appleton & Co. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco; two vol- umes. Price $4. ITALIAN STORIES. The opening one of these stories by the late Constance Fenimore Woolson is a characteristic bit of that subtle study in which this gifted writter was an adept. Dorothy is a young American girl, abroad with her stepmother and aunt. Dorothy marries an American many-times million- aire. The whole worid, her stepmother included, are delighted at the unexpected prudence of the girlin thus guiding herin- clination in the way of worldly wisdom. In less than a year the husband dies. Her stepmother plans a vear’s travel for her, seeking to keep her out of the way of ineligible parties. But Dorothy is rest- less. ~ She takes a girlish whim to remain at Florence, where her husband died. She grows thin and weak. She fades, and a month later quietly shuts her eyes and slips away to join the husband for love of whom she was dying. All the while the all-wise ones are amazed. The other stories in the book are of nearly equal interest and beauty. [New York: arper & Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Francisco. ~Price $1 25. SUNSHINE AND HAAR. Days of sunshine and days of frost, the “haar’”’ of Scotland, make up this volume of further chronicl of . Barneraig by Gabriel Setoun., Like Barncraig, the pres- ent sketches deal with the life and char- acteristics of the people in an obscure Scotch village. They are full of tender, subtle sympathy, and the quaint wisdom and wit which Iater-day writers have caused us to_associate with Scotch char- acter. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co., San Fran- cisco.” Price $1 25.] NEW EDITION OF POE’S POEMS. The F. A. Stokes Company have issued a new and complete edition of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, tagether with a selec- tion from his stories. The book is hand- somely printed and profusely illustrated, but is rather strangely inadequate in the matter of editorship. Even the briefest of sketches of the poet would have been a welcome addition to the volume in these days when the human document is re- garded with an interest not even second to that felt in the literary one. [New York: F. A. Stokes & Co. “For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price $150.] THE INVISIBLE PLAYMATE. This is an exceedingly quaint and beaun- tiful story told in letters and poems of a father's love for his infant daughter. The author strikes a note that will meet with response in nearly every human heart, and there is, moreover, a dainty beauty of form and an artistic perception evident in the making of the book that appeal to the Yale. The book is from a new publishing- house, that of Way & Williams, Chicago, and is very handsomely got up, printed irom handsome type on fine paper and with rubricated title-page. There is, in fact, rather more artistic than literary value attaching to_the work. [Chicago: Way & Williams. For sale by Doxey, San Francisco. Price $1 25.] LITERARY NOTES. Captain Charles King has written a new story, ‘‘An Army Wife,” which is soon to be published by F. Tennyson Neely. ‘“What the Speaker Does’ is the title of a timely paper which the Hon. Thomas B. Reed has contributed to a coming number of The Youth’s Companion. *My Confidences is the title of the forth- coming memoirs of Frederick Locker- Lampson. The poet’s son-in-law, Au- gustus Birrel, is editing the book. M. Paul Bourget's new novel, “L'Idylle Tragique,” is longer than any of his pre- vious works. The scene is laid in the Riviera, and the story ends unhappily. “Our Benefits From the Nicaragua Canal,”’ are amply discussed by Arthur Silva White, in a clear and logical paper in the North American Review for De- cember, 5 It took 40,000 copies of Rudyard Kip- ling's new “Jungle Book” to satisty the first demand in America and England. Another larze edition is now on the Cen- tury Company’s presses. Professor Edmuna J. James, who leaves Philadelphia for Chicago at the beginning of the new year, has resigned the editor- ship of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Professor Sayce’s book on ‘The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus” is just ready for publication. The travels of Herodotus in Egypt are followed for the first time in the light of recent discoveries. M. Zola is to visit England again next spring. He is credited with the intention of studying the provinecial Englishman in Manchester and other leading cities, and the industrial and social life of the people. Some letters especially interesting to Iawyers are to be published in the January Century. They were written by Webster, Wirt and Calhoun and addressed to a = DOCTOR MACLURE, IAN MACLAREN'S “ DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL.” taste as well as the heart of the reader. The little book is worthy of a large audi- ence. [New York: J.Selwin Tait& Sons. Price 75 cents.] FOSTER ON HEARTS. A description of the game of hearts, with an analysis of what constitutes good play, and a code of laws for the same, is this little book, by R. F. Foster, the great American authority on whist. The book is a compendinm of knowledge on the subject of which it treats, and will be found useful to admirers of the game. [New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company. For sale by Doxey, San Fran- cisco.] THE SHEIK’S WHITE SLAVE. A thrilling story of Oriental adventure by Raymond Raife. The author has man- aged to infuse much of the true oriental spirit into his narrative, and while in the highest degree an improbable yaru it is fufi of intense action and pleasurable ex- citement that can by no means be called unwholesome. [New York: Lovell, Cor- yell & Co. Price $125.] ROUND THE YULE LOG. A story for wee readers of Christmas in Norway by P. Chr. Asbjornsen, translated by H. L. Broekstad. The little book is pfenslngly illustrated, and is a realistic picture of Norse Christmas festivities. Boston: Estes & Lauriat. For sale by oxey, San Francisco. Price 50 cents.] NIM AND CUM. A collection of rather bright nonsense stories for childhood, by Catharine Brooks HOLDING UP THE PAY ESCORT. [Reproducsd from Owsn Wister's book *“ Rsd Mer ard While.”) lucky young law student, and they are packed with advice as to his course of study. Mme. Sarah Grand’s new book will not be published until next spring. Sheisa wise woman in that she has allowed her- self time for reflection in the preparation of a second work. Most novelists are tempted to too much and too hasty writing by a first success. Of Charles Dickens’ immediate descend- ants thereare living to-day his sons Charles and Henry Fielding, and his daughter, Miss Dickens, thenovelist. Charles Henry Dickens has seven children—three girls and four boys, the second of whom is a naval cadet.” The oldest girl made her debut this year. To the second edition of his novel “Men Born Equal,’’ Harry P. Robinson prefixes a note in which he’ denies that bis story was based on the Chicago riots. He says that it was written some months before the strike in question broke out. Nor isthere, he asserts, one single line of portraiturein any character. Andrew Carnegie will present Home- stead with a free library, to cost $400,000, indevendent of the permanent endowment for its maintenance, which Mr. Carnegie will also provide. The building will com- prise a free library, reading-rooms, a music-ball, ggmnasium, clubrooms and a swimming-pool. The building is to be completed within a year. Owen Wister did not begin his working life as a writer of fiction. He was as a Harvard student specially devoted to music, and accomplished a great deal in the study as his graduation record shows. He even undertook a musical career, and made some preparation for it during a visit in Europe, but he soon gave up the idea—{fortunately for the readers of clever Western sketches. The seventh and concluding volume of the Duc d’Aumale’s “Historie des Princes de Conde’ is nearly ready for publication. It does not go beyond the seventeenth century. The work ias occupied its author for more than_ thirty years, and caused him much trouble in its early stages. The first volume was seized by the police, the Empire being extremely jealous of the prestige of the Orleans Princes. “St. Ives,”” the novel left substantiall complete by Robert Louis Stevenson at hi death, is described as purely a romance of adventure. It is the story of a French prisoner captured in the Peninsula wars, who is shut up in Edinburgh Castle, where be falls in love with a Scotch girl, who with her aunt frequently visits the pris- oners. After various episodes a dangerous lan of escape is decided upon, and St. ves becomes a free man. The perils that he undergoes while in hiding about Edin- burgn, his adventures while on the Great North road with strangers and robbers, his final escape across the border into England, his subsequent return to Edin- burgh, and many other incidents are toid as only Stevenson could tell them. The story will appear in MecClure’s Mugnzine./ Tribute to Eugene Field. Field was a hospitable and genial man, very friendlv with his friends, ready to spend himself and his time for them, and ready to make new friends when oppor- tunity offered and the material came to hand. He was as unworldly a person as one often sees, careless of externals, as in- different to profit and loss as his obliga- tions as a man of family would admit, and delightfully simple in his attitude toward society. He was intensely and whimsically American, and_ even while penetrated with nervous dyspepsia he gloried, in theory if not in practice, in the worst abominations of American cookery. He was the sort of patriot who would have lived on pie and doughnuts in London if he could, as an examvle to the British. Yet he seemed to have no Anglophobia and maintained the friendliest relations with some of the English writers and actors, and he gloried almost as much in & Gladstone ax that was %ilven to him as if it had been the original hatchet of George ‘Washington. Few men have been able to realize as vividly as he the Jeffersonian theory that all men were born free and equal. It is impossible to think of him as ever over- awed by any dignitary, or. as giving him- self airs of superiority over any human creature who bad in him the making of a comrade. He seems to have been greatest not as a poet, nor as a prose Writer, nor even as a newspaper man, but as a human being. He was not very rich, not handsome nor imposing, nor particularly thrifty; there were defects in his worldly wisdom, defects in his literary taste, and defects 1n most of his literary work. Yet if there 1s any man in Chicago whose death would be as widel?" and aeeply regretted as his, and who will be so long remembered, one would like to know who that person is, for his name does not suggest itself.—E. S. Martin, in Harper's Weekly. e WAS PAGE FOR NAPOLEON L Painless Death of Saint-Hilaire at the Age of 102 Years. In the Hermitage Palace at St. Peters- burg there hangs a picture, either by Horace Vernet or by David, that represents the Empress Josephine seated with the Comtesse de Gontaut-Biron in the salon of her chateau in Navarre, with a young, travel-stained lad, arrayed in the pictur- esque uniform of an imperial page, in the act of kneeling before her on one knee and presenting to her a letter. That page was no other than M. de Barthelemy Saint- Hilaire, who has just died in Paris at tne age of 102. The missive which he held in his hand was an autograph letter from his master, the great Napoleon, conveying to the divorced Empress the news of the birth of his son, the little King of Rome, tid- ings that he held to justify his action toward her since he regarded it as assuring the future of his dynasty. The page performed the ride from the 1es to Xmpress Josephine’s chatean in the astonishingly brief space of eight hours, thanks to the relays of horses which ha been organized in anticipation of the event, and won much fame at the time in con- nection with this Turpin-like ride. M. de Saint-Hilaire lived to see his own Emperor twice overthrown and the su- preme ruler over France held in turn by three kings, a republic and then by another Napoleon, whom he had known as a youth in the Tuileries and often romped with in the dark corridors of that gloomy palace, Saint-Hilaire refused to hold any inter- course whatsoever with his former play- mate when the latter ascended the throne, horrified beyond expression by the san- guinary means which Napoleon III had used to secure possession thereof, and all the Emperor’s many efforts to induce him to_join his cause remained fruitless. When the third Napoleon had lost his throne at the battle of Sedan, just in the same way that his uncle had lost his at the battles of Leipsic and of Waterloo, Saint- Hilaire responded to the summons of his old friend, M. Thiers, and when the latter became President of the third republic, accepted the difficult office of secretary- general for the executive. kle wasa very gay and cheery old man, who retained am astonishing amount of health and strength until the very last. being in the habit, un- til quite recently, of walking from his pretty villa at Passy to the institute, a con. siderable distance for an able-bodied man, but something absolutely phenomenal for a person over 100 years of age. e died in_the “most painless and at the same time characteristic fashion that it is possible to conceive, for he was seated at the time by his fireside after dinner with some friends, joining heartily in the laugh which one of his witticisms had provoked, when suddenly, without a moment’s warning, he fell to the ground stone dead, thus severing one of the most interesting and picturesque of links with the glorious past. ———— CHRISTMAS cards, calendars, celluloid novelr ties and California souvenirs for the million at sanborn & Vail’s. 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