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...Something in the murky atmosphere that offensive saved civilization...
...The Alltbarl'.5 Mediterranean Religion, by Joel Blau...
...It now comes to us in English dress at a moment when an shop with you or for you...
...All manuscripts should be intellect and their scholarship against meaner minds and lesser accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope...
...Just go to eager musical public will be searching to refresh its memory, her desk-telephone-or drop a note or correct its impressions, or learn new facts about the great from your vacation place...
...of that elusive city's personality- -the strange, fairylike quality Accredited Boarding and Day School for Girls Conducted by the Sitters of Notre Dame of a land where it is always afternoon, still haunting some of the little oases of green leafage and mellow, red brick to be ACADEMIC COURSE-Prepares for College or Normal Entrance found by the loiterer off the beaten track...
...I'm editerranean stock," bemoaned by Mr...
...DraTHE COMMONWEAL for September First matic Works...
...The British churchman is concerned zeal for things spiritual has never been imputed to him, and over the failure of the Puritan strain to hold its own (and it is as humorist, and not as churchman, that encyclopaedias everyone else's...
...Old diseases are passing, but new ones may Like the egregious Bishop of Durham, he hates, mistrusts and, well he on their way...
...JOHN H. FINLEY DR...
...dled views of the man Beethoven have too frequently hidden Fifth Avenue NEW YORK 34th Street from us his finer, more manly and attractive traits of character and, as well, the reflex of these qualities in his manysided musical creations...
...When the 1. The competition is open to all contestants irrewomen are young and charming, they are unchaste ; when they spective of religion or nationality...
...An article next themselves in touch with the composer, his personality, moods, week by Mr...
...He determined to master his fate...
...Wilder attaches to his carefully, and sometimes beautifully, elaborated pictures, it is hard to Wl UJULCI Aun& wnLalujulkwgdWo~ laffi,ndOmiiiWYtm yy - 392 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 imagine...
...So far, the general theme is not a new SUMMIT, N. J. one-one recalls Hichens and R. H. Benson-but by bringing Resident and Day Pupils Campus of 12 Acres on One of Summit's Highest Poixts the main stress to bear on the obligations for the Catholic conscience in the matters of "mixed" marriages and divorce, Rosemont College at Rosemont, Pa., St...
...Doomed boys of sixteen pass from debauchery 3. The nature of the essay desired is of an interpretative rather than of a philological or research charto incest and suicide...
...Men-laymen at least- DR...
...I came," he adds for DR...
...THE preliminary survey of the manuscripts received W HEN Mr...
...3-50- down before offensive power...
...DINo BIGONGIARI our edification, "from a colony guided by exactly the opposite DR C. A. DINSMORE principles...
...Mainly the worldly deans, more than one of whom deserve the art of fortification...
...But this is a New College Buildings in a splendid setting one-sided estimate which does less than justice to his delight house New York's famous old Catholic College in life and the joys thereof...
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...Bekker's book will be invaluable...
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...Chamber Music...
...Inge do not find in marked relish for such tenebrous stuff as devils, witches, gibbets, America so bounteous a promise of wrath to come...
...New that once again in the world's history defensive has broken York: G. P. Putnam's Sons...
...BEFORE A cold mind is no bad thing to have, on condition that it he a judicial mind as well...
...Vocal ART-Special Advantages...
...Through this dim riot of folly and iniquity move the godlike figures of two Americans, learned, wise, and estimable...
...Outdoor sports...
...knowledge-a thing infinitely more contemptible than pitting physical strength against weakness...
...He takes Mr...
...JOEL E. SPINGARN them again...
...What choral call to "All Mankind," "All Ye Millions," "Friends principles have governed our diplomatic rela- and Brothers...
...Needless to say, the Catholic Church arouses to see this light of modernism almost paraphrasing the words his spleen...
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...It is thus an excellent work of reference...
...Thanks to the ever-increasing number of high-class orches390 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 tras and choral societies in our cities, there is no doubt that Ladycliff Academy the Beethoven centennial will be widely celebrated in the United States, and thanks to the publicity of the radio, will Highland Falls, N. Y. have audiences beyond the wildest dreams of former festivals...
...On page 157, Mr...
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...On page 186 we get the news, corpulent monarch's itch for a perennial honeymoon...
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...an amusing Chapter Nereid (238th St...
...Louis Van Beethoven had twenty-five years left after total COURSES : Liberal Arts, Science, Pedagogy, Com- deafness shut him off from the world of sound, and they merce, Architecture, Civil and Industrial Engineer- were the years of his greatest creative productiveness...
...Italy has a religion, and that religion permeates all its life, and is the An accredited standard college for girls...
...But an undue of pessimistic foresight...
...For catalog address: The Registrar, ago, that the then dominant sex interest would shortly wane ST...
...Outdoor sports...
...In the Fieldston-Riverdale Section "He is often mistakenly regarded as a tragic figure," writes this biographer of vision and understanding...
...and that The Commonweal wishes to emphasize that the final if the Church of Rome is like the church Mr...
...He had a strong and vital will, and he knew that, whatever earthly joys might be denied him, Conducted by The Christian Brothers the joy of creation was his for life...
...olle~e - cation...
...over the Nordic-say "the Orange Death," and peculiarly Economically he is a frank Malthusian, with an obsessing deadly to the Celt-may yet redress the balance and free vision of a world where population has outrun sources of sup- America from the breed that puts out its fires, patrols its ply...
...Truly it is a gallant and inspiring figure that Mr...
...Courses leading to Bachelor and Master background without which even its secular art and secular toarys Degrees...
...And, in spite of the handicap of many meditions with these countries...
...The victory of the defensive over the epithet, "gloomy...
...Exten- made to the reviewer by a publisher's reader a couple of years sive campus...
...T. LAWRASON RIGGS anything like them before, and who could search the length REV...
...Both young men are admired, loved, and trusted- DR...
...On March FINAL NOTICE 23 he settled his earthy affairs, making his will, then turned to heaven-on March 24 receiving with trust and devotion the Last Sacraments of the Catholic Church...
...Chartered Regents School for Girls Today, of the thousands of sonatas and many hundreds of Military Training in Small Boy's Dept...
...To the jaded reader of our striving sophisticates, it is vastly refreshing: it restores a faith in humanity sorely tried by the japing clevernesses of the Bulgaro-Armenian Jew and his understudies...
...How many of coils round Wren's soaring dome may account for us have reflected on the frightful danger to the future of the second qualification, and the near neighborhood of banks humanity contained in the discovery, during the great war, and exchanges may be held responsible for the first...
...Bekker College classes begin September 23, 1926 draws in the frankness and sincerity of its blacks and whites and greys--rising above every handicap to express itself in BROTHER THOMAS, President ever-increasing grandeur to the end, strong, gay, defiant...
...If I guum r stress the merit of sanity, it is because the study of Beethoven's genius and character-his mind, impulses, ideals, moods, the 1 form and substance of his works---cannot be a matter of scholarship and judgment alone, nor of imagination and sympathy alone...
...HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR only Catholics, and only women...
...Grand Central Terminal, New York Just what significance Mr...
...W%ilder's mind to be equally inaccessible...
...Competition The Cabala, by Thornton Niven Wilder...
...the United States and its political neighbors alike in character...
...New York: Albert and Charles Boni...
...M. I. STRITCH, S.J...
...For recesses of Mr...
...388 THE COMMONWEAL August 25, 1926 deaths by disease shrank to a quite negligible figure...
...The jury of award is composed of the following One of them tells the tale, and explains how "all Italy, all scholars: Europe" are made clear to him by the facile yielding to natural impulses which he observes in Rome...
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...Vocal Works...
...On page 165, Professor Santayana, Indeed, the strangest thing about the Dean's arguments pro one of the disastrous stock, becomes "a Spanish North-American or con is that they never fail to suggest excellent arguments [whatever that may be] who loves our country and its people con and pro...
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...It is a vivid and well-balanced portrait Van Cortlandt Park and 242nd Street of a man of genius, not as too many others have portrayed him-half godhead, half wailing, gloomy victim of deafness NEW YORK CITY and persecution-but a very interesting human being full of paradoxes that are perfectly comprehensible...
...The most sinister fact that has emerged from those . . . four years...
...hood was one of the surprises Europe received in 1917...
...The "gloomy Dean" is never dull-that much may be admitted, and never negligible...
...Seaside or ountainsT HIS hook makes a timely appearance on the eve of the centenary of Beethoven's death, March 26, 1827...
...Bekker, who is director of the opera at Cassel, brings the orderly mind of a trained musical Telephone Wisconsin 7000 critic and experienced writer to bear upon data that have led other writers, of less poise and equipment, into quagmires of sentimentality and exaggeration...
...CHARLES HALL GRANDGENT as well they might be-by the Italians who have never seen REw...
...too,-can save tinction...
...His literary judgments are very good indeed, and the rich crop of weeds that flourish on the borderlands of popular science and popular religion have never suffered under a more vigorous spud than he can wield...
...The Symphonies...
...Physical training...
...Bozman...
...Cultural and professional edu- passions would not be truly intelligible...
...What brought this purgatory of humanity [Dr...
...JAMES J. WALSH are as conspicuously absent as in a New England village...
...What is most lacking in his thought and in its expression is the quality of generosity...
...And the English text, whether translation or adaptation, is a matter for rejoicing in its clarity and literary dis- McCreery s Travel Bureau...
...and an ardent book-lover...
...Tuberculosis kills them off...
...ng out what American Protestants are likely to think about the matter...
...but it never ofirePalne penetrated into Browning's consciousness, and it may find the training New buildings on extensive campus...
...There is, indeed, one old Rosicrusian, Sareptor Basilis ; but All essays must be addressed to: he is a trifle madder than anybody else, and his mystic power DANTE COMMITTEE, THE COMMONWEAL is of avail only over the female mind...
...The recent publication of pertinent state documents admirably planned and indexed to enable the readers to put have rendered plausible answers possible...
...Inge seldom falls below the high reputation which Stoddard, "a brilliant American writer," is quoted as seeing he has earned for sprightly style ("without amiability," how- in immigration by "the Iberian or Mediterranean race" an ever, as French critics would add) and stimulative matter...
...Graded Courses in Both Music and Art Departments Lead to reputation for excellence this periodical has earned among Teachers' Certificates and Diplomas serious American readers...
...Lothrop Dean, Dr...
...Racial spite, all the more distasteful because August 25, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 38 dead men are its object, breaks out in such a sentence as, "Special praise was occasionally given to a nominally Irish regiment, of which 75 percent were Englishmen...
...Many well-known scholars have submitted kind of a president represented in that comedy, English capital studies on the various phases of Dante literature and would never have financed the Suez Canal...
...Has history com- ocre interpretations, there is an ever-increasing public in this mitted us to any wise policy of action...
...and give way to a religious interest in popular novels...
...On page 120, "at last American opinion obliged the attempt is made to claim the founder of Saint Paul's School President to come to the help of the Allies...
...catalog address: The Registrar, ST...
...Julien in mid-August, 1917, like kindling 4 upon a furnace, are the mute answer to the Dean's unmannerly taunt...
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...6. The winning essay will be, published in THE COM'hION WEAL...
...At the time one could only murmur, "Quod di bene vertant...
...Over three hundred pages are devoted to The Musician, only sixty to The Man, but the man is the Manhattan College keynote to the whole...
...truly astounding in face of the American wheat farmer's search Like many pessimists, Dean Inge owns to a hobby for for foreign markets, that "the United States can feed itself, statistics...
...and placid priests 4. It shall not contain more than 5,000 words...
...New An ideal school for girls, 80 miles from York: D. Appleton and Company...
...you leave HENRY LONGAN STUART...
...Music, Art, Journalism, Science, Home Economics, Sociology, Teacher To the Latin this seems a very simple truth...
...On page 131, as an advance guard of the Reformation...
...degenerate girl-children ripen into abom- acter...
...translated and adapted from for the German by W. ill...
...Its "vapid spiritual hilarity," the "gaiety which of witch-hunting Cotton Mather, who thought the earlier prevails in a monastery or nunnery," not to say the grim face Irish immigration (the Dean probably has not the remotest it turns upon contraceptives, distract him as he sits in his idea there even was an earlier one) "a formidable attempt of diaconal study, busy, perhaps, on a masterpiece of gloom, Fate Satan and his sons to unsettle the colonists...
...Perhaps now that so much of the it is to be feared, misrepresents the cause of labor, though this hard and thankless task once committed to the Irish immigrant does not hinder scathing criticism of the new rich categories is over, some new epidemic, sent by the Providence that watches who are aping the consecrated and traditional vices of the old...
...Shame to the artist who does not consider 1926 it his duty to achieve at least as much...
...rambunctious versification of Barham did not conceal a very Naturally, the gloomy prophecies of Dr...
...Thornton Niven Wilder's novel, The the merit of whose work leaves the decision and award Cabala, are driven to conclude that if the Italians of Italy entirely open at the present time...
...To me it seems that eminent poet and pluralist, the kindest thing that can be that this terrible discovery may herald a return to the dark said is that he atoned for a hectic youth by a remorse which he ages, unless the nations agree to make an end of war...
...The very heat his assertions arouse in the numerous classes and causes he attacks, proves that his publishers, in calling him provocative, do not overstep the truth...
...are also under the supervision of the Sisters of the Holy A certain freshness and directness of style suggests that this Child Jesus...
...Wilder de- date for the acceptance of the Dante manuscripts in this scribes, there is no spiritual power in Catholic Christendom contest will be the first day of September, 1926...
...Today-alas...
...There is an enlightening sentence of Santayana's that Boarders and Day Pupils might help to clarify his understanding: "Italy has always Apply to MOTHER SUPERIOR preserved a civilized heart...
...We today...
...reprint the conditions of the competition, as laid down Madness runs like a thin, red danger-line through the by the committee in charge: "Black" society described in this singular romance, and wickedness lurks darkly in the background of their lives...
...William Franklin Sands, whose acquaintance ideals, or familiarize themselves with the particular composiwith American diplomatic history is based upon lengthy personal experience and years of close study, will review at tions they may wish to hear or study...
...It is These are momentous questions now being asked everywhere...
...which are descriptive of the works in detail and in chronological order, and also of the moods, the circumstances, and conditions of mind in which they were written...
...composer...
...Ursula of the Blessed Virgin that, whatever else he may discern, he does not see life, and On the Hudson whatever else he may know, he does not know the Church of ACADEMY FOR GIRLS KINGSTON, N. Y. Rome...
...First published in the original German text in Berlin in 1912, it was ask Miss Marion Hale or Personal widely read and went through many editions in Germany, but Service to assist in the all-important had little time to make itself known here, even to our limited but tiring vacation shopping...
...It is amusing called the distributing agent in England of the mirth-provoking --or disheartening-whichever way you like to look at it, Nordic theory...
...If H. Ben-Sharar, who refers to the "sad satire Select Boarding and Day School for Boys of the honor" accorded to Saint Joan in France, will read a little more history, he will not be so nonchalant in declarHIGH SCHOOL, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY ing that the Church burned her at the stake...
...The surmise is help is asked "to remove from the minds of Americans the even hazarded that only a natural death saved him from special antipathy to England which is almost a tradition on sharing the fate of More, Fisher, and others who opposed the the other side of the Atlantic...
...unmitigated disaster...
...It is precisely to this world of listeners, eager to learn and understand, that Mr...
...His immense vitality overcame all obstacles...
...Frideswide's at Oxford and finishing schools in Paris, Rome and Freibourg, the writer has greatly extended the breadth of her appeal...
...It must be a careful, selective balance between these two groups of qualities, and it is in obtaining this admirable balance, this judicial sanity, that Mr...
...MUSIC-Conservatory Methods in Piano, Violin and GEORGE D. MEADOWS...
...He was a lover of nature, Freshman class limited to 200...
...Stoddard, flowing The opinions of Dean William Ralph Inge, who has suc- in, but "a still more deadly blow to the Puritan tradition has ceeded to the dignities and literary popularity of these pre- been dealt by allowing many millions of Irish to settle in this decessors, have been widely diffused and a pretty accurate com- country...
...Nor was music Beethoven's only consolation in the silence ing...
...He writes of himself: "Without making the least claim to scholarship, I have endeavored since childhood to steep myself in the spirit of the best and the 1 For Freshmen, September 13-14, 1926 Registration For Upper Classmen, September 16-17, wisest of every age...
...It is the indulged to the extent of being painted in his shroud...
...The Dean a little less pronounced than that of Dr...
...Bekker's book is exceptional in many other ways...
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...The contention which he observed at the Catholic-Greek-Armenian churches Opens in September, 1926 in Bethlehem on Easter morning is, on the other hand, only a Write for Prospectus jealous rivalry of honor which is quite unlike the violent contention he mentions, that marked the life of Our Lord...
...For, of all musicians, he is the one in whom the human appeal is the greatest, the first composer who turned away from the restricted circles of aristoM .E X I C O cratic salons, and of court and church patrons, to seek a wider, more general public, culminating in the great symphonic, What is the attitude of the United States towards Mexico and Latin America...
...The bones of the heroic Sixteenth British Division, flung into the torment of Ypres and St...
...MARY'S ACADEMY, Box W., Notre Dame, Ind...
...The author has succeeded in writing a poignant and moving A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS story, which touches deep chords of emotion without lapsing OAK KNOLL School of the Holy Child into sentimentality, around the subject of renunciation for AN ELEMENTARY and COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL religious motives...
...Lothrop Stoddard seriously, and might be streets, and largely mans its fighting services...
...The most BOOKS terrible portent disclosed by the war, Dean Inge considers, is Lay Thoughts of a Dean, by William Ralph Inge...
...Beethoven, by Paul Bekker...
...But even and murderers swinging in chains on lonely heaths...
...These immigrants are more dangerous to the soliposite portrait arises in the mind whenever the "gloomy Dean" darity of the American type than the -Negroes, because the is mentioned...
...Three Studios Open to The Menorah Journal for June-July, 1926, sustains the Visitors at All Times...
...44 Blackburn Road, Phone Summit 1804 j is the work of a comparatively "new" novelist...
...Two days later, The Leahy Dante Prize he breathed his last amid a violent storm of thunder and lightning, "ascending to heaven, like the prophet of old, in a chariot of fire...
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...Three essays are devoted to considering the loss, but not much more...
...creations, that is sane...
...The Cabala describes only a small section of Roman society, DR...
...Of Donne, that no town can any longer be defended...
...When, in 1827, he was told that the end was drawing near, he August 25, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 39 faced the approach of death in the self-same words with which he had faced that death-in-life-the loss of hearing-"Come when thou wilt, I will meet thee with courage...
...Are country more or less consciously responsive to this appeal...
...In the same history, and there are new names among the contestants, spirit, readers of Mr...
...The illustrative material supplied by \lane-Katz and photographs of the vigorous sculptures of Chana Orloff are worthy of special note, and the contents, including a paper Toward an Analysis of the Problem of the flOtiUt Jew, a somewhat confusing statement by VValdo Frank...
...Regular curriculums, Vocational courses THIS book, which has already attracted favorable notice 1cademy in Music, Dramatic Art, Fine Arts, Home in England, is one marking the fulfilment of a prophecy otre Dame Economics, Commercial Subjects...
...are like the Italians in that narrative, there cannot really exist the strong, sober, and virile race we think we know...
...George Arliss courageously carried his play, in contest for The Leahy Dante Prize of One Disraeli (which had had so great a success in the United Thousand Dollars is highly encouraging to the States) to the more sophisticated audiences of London, Punch hopes of the donor and the committee that will award the dryly observed that if the Bank of England had ever had the prize...
...condone immorality because it is "the bent of human nature...
...But when it is a host upon which and prejudices, inherited and acquired, batten, of class, of creed and of race, the usual result is an acid and acrid distillation of thought into words, particularly ungrateful when we discover C4FTER it coming from a divine, the titular patron of whose see took an honest pride in making himself "all things to all men" for the honor and glory of God...
...There subsists in the best minds • a trained imagination, and a cogent ideal of virtue...
...Inge is speaking of the devastation that folS AINT PAUL'S Cathedral has to its credit a long line of lowed the fall of the Roman empire] to an end...
...and How to Beat It...
...No one interested in the recent situa- nical for the layman, nor too popular for the critic...
...a valuBronx, New York City able study on The Crypto-Jews of Portugal, by Samuel Conducted by MARIST BROTHERS Schwarz, are followed by excellent editorial notes and book reviews...
...most influential in developing Beethoven's talents and charOUR RELATION WITH LATIN AMERICA acter, and a chapter on Personality, as we see it influencing By WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS his career and his works...
...He looks so designedly askant upon every subject St...
...Religiously, lie may be placed toward the ex- Negroes cannot tolerate the hard winters of the North and treme Right of the Broad Church, with a tinge of Erastianism Middle-West...
...Naturally, in a book so beset by prejudices, there are inconIn his latest collection of fugitive essays, Lay Thoughts of a sistencies and loose statements...
...Not only are lesser breeds, especially the classify the co-founder of the Edinburgh Review...
...of the world in which he lived...
...Sydney the well-being and confidence which stricken Europe occasionSmith was, perhaps, the most authentic of English wits, and ally finds a contrast too blatant to be borne with equanimity, his memory will always be particularly grateful to Catholics does not save the Great Republic from an occasional whiff for his untiring advocacy of emancipation...
...The Musician contains chapters on in The Poetic Idea...
...Learned prelates who "despise every type of a churchman to 5. A typewritten copy of it must be sent to the Dante be found in Italy," amuse themselves by destroying, or by en- Prize Committee, care of THE COMMONWEAL, Grand Central Terminal, New York City, on or bedeavoring to destroy, the faith of their friends...
...THOMAS M. SCHWERTNER, O.P...
...length "The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States To this end, the book is divided into two parts, The Man, Concerning the Independence of the Latin American Na- and The Musician, and is written in language not too techtions," an important compilation of state documents by William R. Manning...
...ination before they leave the school-room...
...The physique of America's young manin slain and unborn, that the great war entailed for Europe...
...Bekker displays rare spiritual insight, lending a deep human interest and fascination both to the personality of Beethoven, and to the music through which he sends his appeal to us...
...symphonies written within the last 200 years to the present hour, none are so much played, none so beloved and appreciated as those of Beethoven...
...ACADEMY OF OUR LADY Those who know their London will recognize the success with which the book has seized and enshrined a certain aspect 95th and Threop Streets, LONGWOOD, CHICAGO, ILL...
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...The tion in Mexico can afford to miss this discriminating dis- part entitled The Man consists of a biography, giving the events cussion...
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...She will German-reading public, before the outbreak of the great war...
...Horseback riding...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company...
...Physicai training...
...Common of Angels, by Dorothy a Beckett Terrell...
...are virtuous and devote, they spend their time "conciliating soured papal chamberlains," or pressing the Vatican for a 2. The essay shall be written in English, and its literary merit shall be considered an important element divorce which it is too timorous to grant without first find- of its value...
...A very interesting sketch of Dean Colet opens with a delicate and discriminating affection which warms the the collection, and it must in justice be conceded that no heart...
...Dean Comparing the recent with past conflicts, a fact, which has Inge (one would like to know on what authority) does not struck all students, is noted, namely, that while the proportion think that it has "ever fully recovered from the Civil War of of killed to wounded, due to artillery fire, was staggering, 1861-1865...
...and Murdock Aves...
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