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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Inform Companies That
Paving Is to Be Done

city Manager A. n. H~ehenatreit an
nounced az tho meeting % the city
conn missionera that he has appointed
a committee representing public SER
vice corporations of the city 40 that
the companies will have ample warn
inE for making changes In their rya-
tens In advance 81 the PAVING pre-
gram u the city.
Tho committee Consist Of Arthur
Prayer. manager Of the Albuquerque
Gas a Electric company j.. r. Ncy-
noids. manager % the Mountain states
Telephone company, and an emgluyo
81 the city water department
Thu city manager also announced
that the gas company u makinE tests
90 determine " there IA any decrease
IN the gas pressure. Several complaints
that the E1a pressure was Low we're
received BY city authorities.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Commercial Body of
Las Cruces TO Hold
Election of Officers
.rss., so..,,ra-nt.. 70 ~, -,..,s

las cruces JAN 90 The annual
meeting and Hlrst boz ct ufr,ers uf ths
iHs fIH.Ha commercial tsHurluuuu
wN nU UsII Friday evening Thls viii
nr Ono uf the must Important meet
.uu- Co. Do b.id hF this as.urisfiou
since thp war Among tho question Co
hs discussed Ir, frrs ,.b delivery 81
Nls co., proposed rsuuInE factory
concrete rood Co % iisu suliitT u
migration aul street paNIur Coz las
cruces
u o. Uruuk. county agricultural
Hrpuf will Hdtross fhr msruuE uu che
subject lAH |fugps Greatest Nupura
tuuIty MHfur a 0 k-Iry president
cot The TtN Payers lsarus viii add.
rrts thH meeting uu where Docs
Nur rtN Money eco
IIulI surveys have f,cn completed
Of toe streets 600 which ths uvN ,uu.
.rrf. paving iH Goo u' placed and au.
uHuuUUmsuf that fhr work Del tu h' Doc
ruu 30 tho earliest possible moment
expected Hf fhIH meeting The iirh.
lId DHuII wII ALSO probably HHu' ln
fuI I.s.u SION 100 the meeting.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

The Federated clubs ~ Tho city held
e "nefafr the war paft1 recently a.
the city library. About ffiy ladies'
eulused the afternoon.
willis brown spent several days In
santa Pc attending The sessions N
Newspaper men ~ M state clerk ~
Court lny r. conway, edited ne Tues
dHy edition 81 the paper in The alb
enc ~ Ne. brown
The nov Masonic oficors arc as FOL.
lows Warshipfui master. D. % Ecy-
antis 90 iior warden, John " stryK.
or. junior warden Quine Hart, treas.
urct. g. y. blackwell, secretary, Rich.
Hrd i4smsfrs. trustee for three years.
" D. Huffns The following we're
appointed 60 asflCc Senior deacon,
Francis Love. junior deacon. David
Thumuanu. senior stew nd. Iudsnn
smith. Junior steward. Frank Mhis-
tier. marshall Ray Huuer
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

tise bureau e succeeds. The meeting
wts tu have itren held IN November.
but u was decided to wait until the
annual election ~ the Chamber 81
commerce was held. Mrs Max Nurd.
huus 81 the N~eedlewurk guild. re-
ported that us children were clothed
during the cold weather. About 20
OF this lumber were school children
aud 90 were newly born babies Rabbi
Noise Bergman, general secretary of
the bureau, made re- report " the
eases cared for during the year.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
HEAD AND NOSTR|LS
STUFFED FROM COLD
'Pape's Cold Compound ends
a cold or grippe in
a few hours

Your cold viii break and ull grippe
misery end after taking 70 dose ut
"IaptH cold Compound" every 1870
hours until three doses are aiken
o. promptly opens vl%orEcd.up uuH.
iriis and air passages iu the head
stops nasty discharge or NOS, running.
relieves siok headache. dullnpts few
ori1hneFs. sore throat, suvsgIur sore
ucss and stiffness.
Don't stJN stuffed up' QUIT hloWiur
Hud suuffllug' Ease your "thruhhinT
head nothing elise iu the world gives
such prompt rrlicf uH "lupc'H cold
Compound, Witch costs uulS u few
cents at any drug store u acts with
out assistance, tastes nice, u cause.
uu Inconvenience. Accept no suhsti-
tute.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Real Estate Men
Discuss Spring
Building Plans

Real estate men attending the
luncheon 81 the guod Roads bureau
81 the chamber 81 Commorce nt the
v " g \. building last night dis.
GUESSED many phases ~ the comlns
spring building program Tor A,nu-
uuerqus o. other matters ~ Indirect
interest 10 real estate huldirEs in the
city.
u was the cuuCouaus 81 opinion that
a new and strictly mudern office
building u much needed in Alhuquer-
yne 81 tentative plans are said 20
have o made Tor interest.nE capt.
tni in the pndeavnr.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Bankruptcy Petition
Filed in u. S. Court

Mrs Celia BIt Who was recently
married to Nathsn iarth. hos filed u
voluntary petition OF bankruptcy m
the federal court 1T Santa te ON
January % in the federal our b
wnH udiudirated bankrupt The nfst
mevtiuE of creditors fof tho tNnmlnt-
ton Of the bankruptcy claims viii hs
hold in The office uf Goorup g. Taylor 10.
on lunuHrY 30. in Albuquerque
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
St. Johns Club Holds
Election Of Officers

Member. Of b. Johns ,IuH holt
their annual meeting Itsf uIEuf Ht the
rt.II'urH uf UIHhup UnwIru An,f
tHr lIsIrrsa meeting wsr completed
ttfft. Umtufr WUft HrrKrI
HfIUprs were elected Cor 900, UuW
iuF NrIr Dor WrvtIur uIrht Hf th,
,Iuh WIS changed Geo fhs third TUESDAY
uf each month The fHIIHNHUE off.
.Hf. wtrs elected t'rn IUrt trurrr
,i.iL. N|rr president go ruua
r,f.fIr. 40 gu.Ir.. tr.t.ur,r lu1
f.r.H
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Mortuary


Gabriel ~ uefrf. Ig wears nf unr.
formerly uf Pueblo. colo dItd Nus.
tcfdHy morning nt Whltcomh Spring
lic Is survived hN his SISTER. MIS- WI.
Num hrruhnm Tho hody WIS uikou
60 Fred '%roilutt's Undertaking rooms
No funeral arrangements have been
completed
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

NHNfM MN v NlAN
was. and re-
criNed the answer
thHt % was the tall
ct monument in
Dublin.
Hump Fuid
en- Australian,
with o. show % con
tempt. why down
We can got
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

rirtrs that nre longer Than thHf
An went we'll however until they
passed sIV horses drawiuH a iorfy ON
which wHs uu immense piece 81 iron
Tor one 81 the building Boz NnckVlile
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

That's the same story you told me
the last time ] auw you" said tho
CLEVER one No the end ~ the narrative.
"ia lt1 whoa dld you hear IT,
last week
"Oh. mehhe I aid toll IL 20 yer. but
= didn't remember yer ncci ! was In
prison an lHst week.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

HIS rowing sye
ospied n tramp
Hn' Watch me-
Ert d rise out OF
him anid he
Ho listened with
assumed Interest 20
tho story 81 had
luck spun by Tom.
the fIrfU frumu
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

been visiting in the city FOR several
weeks. returned 10 SAN Antonio. TeSa
iHFi night
u a. nurHn. assistant warden Of
the state penlteniiary, h. in the cts
prison Timothy RILEY ana Robert
Ford. two escaped conNiciH. who we're
arrested several DAYS X In Aihu-
uusnIuu by Henm Soma. Santn Ff
.uilwuy policeman. Ford was sont 90
prison on u charge Cd grand larren,
und RILEY wuH convicted OF selling
liquor 10 soldiers.
OuH o. Rogers. vice president ~
the First National bank. returned last
tended o. meeting of the legislative
committee Of tho New Mexico Bank
era' association. called hy Governor
tnrrazulo.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24
Laugh With Us

a Dublin harvey was conducting an
AurtrriInn around the city When the
Australian saw Nelson's pillar he
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

street. ON being asked what Il was
Tor. rat said,
"Oh, YOU see. some people down
here are building a little house Tor
themselves. ana that's the kitchen
poker"
phrenoioeisi- r. y large bump run.
ming across the bach Of your head
shows that q are inclined 60 be
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

curious 20 b .
point Of reckless
ness
client You arc
right I got that by
sticking my head
into an elevator
shaft tu see VI the
car was coming up.
and 10 was coming
down NY curl
Than satisfied.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

Want 10 trade that mule FOR a
gas wagoni Try the WANT AID
way.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-01-24

Pay your dues TO the "z-bit ciuh
foJr-o Taxi Service. Phone co.
auto springs. all makes kcrber Co
TuM phous I.E Nlrhulann Taxi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
THE DREAM

Ouer hnoacn fields nth an old friend
IN dream
/ acalhed, but came sudden to q
strange stream.
It's dark eaters 1cere BURSTING ont
most bright
From q great mountain's heart into
the light.
They ran q short course undey the
san, then back
Into q pit the5 plunged, once more
as blach,
A at THEN. birth; and I stood think
ing there
Ho'o 'ohite, had the day shone on
them, they 'oere,
Hearing and coiling. So BIZ the roar
and hiss
And By the mighty motion Of the
| acos bemused, that I foroot mn
friend
And neither soio nor sought him till
the end,
When amohe from mnteys unto men
Saying: Il shall be here soae dav
pgoi,A"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

eAaggeration, true description. IRONY.
sarcasm. and lastly, contrasts so slipht
that only keen mind perceives them
IN ourselves there is the same prog
ress more or less. AS children we
delight at buifoonery, the rough and
tumble of Punch and judy. the clown
III pahtomlme or circus. From this it
Is only step to the crudities-and
the most appreciated foolng-of Char
lie Chaplin. Mark Twain is milo
stone left behind when we appreciate
.. Henry. Crane and Gilbert. OF the
grades of wit there are survivals-
obscenity in the jokes of the unedu.
Gated; indecency in clubroom stories.
eNaggeIatlon in the cartoon and the
Yankee machine made Joke And this
is notable: the oldest and crudcst
lests arc the most popular. because
'he crowd-mind in this perception is
lniantilc. as demonstrated by the vast
sale of the alleged Comic Cuts M
pers and the colored supplements of
the Yankee press. London Punch
wisely refused Gilbert's MS; his wit
might have ruined its circulation.
But as with music, so with humor.
neither its possession nor the lack of
1T is guide TO mental ability in other
directions. Poe, Emerson, Macaulay.
lola, Maupassant, Napoleon, Gladstone
and BrIght-not a smile comes from
all they wrote or uttered. Few minds
develop equally all round, great OK.
ce'lcnce in one direction often leaving
barrcnness in others; and while the
most brilliant flowers find their nour-
lshment IN cxcremcnt. SO the most
brilliant wit has its origin in obsccn-
lty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Reproduced from 'The Lotus NaqaSi,e."

Rembrandt, the exact image of life,
nc sald' who charms the intelligent,
but stuns and massacres the imbeciles.
HIS bent was to copy exactly what he
saw, and his work had none of the
artificial arrangements and embellish
ments that even innovators like Rous-
seau and Corot felt called upon to in
woke. In this, as in all his PRACTICES
says Mr. Bryson Burroughs, he seems
merely to have abandoned himself to
his preferences with no idea of estab-
fishing a new estheticism until the idea
was suggested by theorizing friends
1t is probable that his realism was part
of an inevitable artistic DEVELOPMENT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Ouer the edge of his mug's round
rim,
And-os if 1t acere Christian-he
Says, "Did zee hear
A faint little tap-top-topping, mig
dedr?"
1t is a simple matter to test the
experiments of other writer's by these
achieved masteries. Mr.. Locke Ellis
has one poem, beautiful lyric, eco,
nor acquaint the rose, nor Beauty's
household, with that grief of thine"
which stands by its own loneliness;
Mr. John Frcemans deep sincerity
glows in an unusual confession, "ln
Those Ola Days" Mr.. w. J. Turner's
CLERKS on Holiday" has queer novel
istic originality which distracts the
mind from the beauty Of its workman
ship until it has been read several
times. But much of the rest of the
verse in the collection is derivativc
and some of it much duller than its
bright origin deserves. Mr. Robin
Flowers extracts from an "Antholoeia
Hibernica" suggest sometimes that he
has forged antiquities, sometimes that
the original must have been very good.
and Mrs. Manning Saunders, sensi-
tive and intelligent disciple, would
never have written
O wandering areary flame,
Parched Is the worM for thee,
Que11ch thy hot light, come drink
OF the deep dark sea;
All quiet, sightless, deaf
These aUaters be,
if her mind had not been drcnched
with motley" and "The Listeners"
lnsomuch as an initiative enthusiasm
in these careful workers fills the place
that in such poets as Miss Postpate
and Miss Bagnold is taken by sclf-ex-
position, the gain is on the right side
but how far the device falls short of
producing style and "a man Is evident
when We turn from the pleasant verse
(none Of the Twelve Poets writes bad
wa al many Of them I'd those poems Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

for it followed as a reaction to the
courtly ideality of the eighteenth CEN
fury, and when interest was returning
to the more or less natural classic art.
"Courbet came of a peasant family
at Ornans, Franche- Comt6, and his only
gift was for painting. In temperament
he remained always needless and i'm
pulslve as schoolboy, though in his
later years he became involved in polit-
lcal enterprises, and died in exile
The artist. revealed through his pict-
ures, is an energetic. exuberant per
son of enormous appetites, filled with
the JOY of life and the love of his work.
His genius lay in his susceptibility to
this power and fecundity of nature,
and his marvellous ability to express
these in his art"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

preston of the chosen subject.
Whistler, Homer and Eakins, then
of the foremost American painters,
were, the writer tells us, Courbet's
followers; and, he adds, it is fitting
that the hundredth anniversary of
the great painters birth Che was
born June 10, 1919 should be
commemorated in this country
Pursuing the account further we
find that
"as student, Courbet felt himself
drawn to the great realists of the past
--Holbein, Correggio, Velasquez, the
little Dutch Masters, and above all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

spite of the first strain of adjusting
the ear to the syncopated prosody,
Skill and character are evident. De-
tailed appreciation of much of the un-
suspected legacy of verse which was
discovered after Edward Thomas's
death in battle last year has already
appeared in these pages.
In support of the assertion that,
coming to his verse, the critic may
drop the effort TO find virtue which
has accompanied his reading of the
new poets in these four volumes. it is
enough to close by quoting the poem
which chance opening of the book
shows on a left-hand page 1t is not
the best poem in the book, but nobody
wrote like that before Thomas, and it
will be difficult to initiate:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08


The Sydney Bulletin" who
calls Mark Twain ga milestone left
behind,' and shows the progress Of
Comus from the crudities of the past
to the subtleties of the present. He
goes on to say:
CAS- dramatic ideas evolved from the
perception of wide, regular contrasts.
like black and white, evil and good
and are graded by higher perception
TO shades of color and character. 50
crude humor, or the perception of
irregular contrasts, was born of OBJ
scenity and buifoonery. An IRREGULAR
contrast is illustrated by fat man
chasing his blown-of hat The irregu-
lar Is the unusual pace of the fat man;
seeing n child chase hat we are less
amused, for running is natural to a
child.
"Critcally examined, every Joke is
based on irregular contrasts, though
with increasing delicacy lin the humor
the contrast is harder to perceive. Our
developing taste is restrained to the
less and less extravagant, what once
greatly delighted us seeming crude.
even noxious. This evolution is notable
in peoples. Many aboriginals, including
our own, find mcrriment in obscenitv.
the yokcl in broad jests; the educated
in Irregular ideas. In literature the
line Of advance is plain. The Jokes of
Rabelnis that convulscd a continent
would now be relegatcd to the sewer.
.kkAtA ebsssaitX, -thsa hgtgQoneSy. ppns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

L "A Eagle in The New
Witness" Somebody
starts a periodical devoted TO the
creative arts" And, he says he is
bound to add, almost every year
some such periodical dies" Thus
1t may be argued that the field never
is really crowded The writer goes
on to say:
The newest TO be devised is The
OWL of which the first number short
~ VIII be issued through Mr. seeker
at, think, ten and sixpence. The
editors are William Nicholson, Robert
Graves and ". j Turner Being
realists, they do not definitely promise
that their paper shall come out at
stated intervals. They merely pro-
pose to issue it quarterly or whenever
they have sufficient material for
number; and, as they have given hem
selves this license. we probably shall
find them issuing numbers with clock
Ike regularity on quarter days.
Among the artists there viii be
pictures plain and colored are W.
Nicholson. James Pryde. and Signorins
Bianco, an Italian girl Of twelve. whose
genius for draughtsmanship viii be
revealed next week by an exhibition
at the Leicester Galleries.
The literary contents Will include
one of the finest examples OF Max
Beerbohm's prose art, and poems ny
Thomas Hardy. John Masefeld. 'oha
Galsworthy, W. ]. Turner. Siegfrlea
Sassoon. Robert Nichols, ". H. Dawes
and others
The paper will be a manageape
shape cForm,' the last of its kind. MSS
heavily handicapped by its immense
acreage) and we'll printed. The ed'-
tors have had the ingenious and ST.
tractive idea of getting an edition 90
luxe of fifty copies signed by tue
whole of the contributors. with MI
Hardy at the top. These will be sou
at two guineas apiece. and shouio
crafty their purchasers as the pur
chasers Of Mexican Eagles have recen"
II been gratihsd." ....u.,...uuata
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

IL WAS Meredith's propensity to
show off" that most nettles his
British critic, who complains:
Meredith. on the other hand. was
led into obscurity by his desire to
impress; he was only intermittentlv
sincere he liked TO Show Off he over
loaded his work with superauous dec
Grafton which was often not even good
decoration. His obscurites were like
the abracadabras of the medicine man
-Jargon primarily intended TO impress
the unlnitiated. I remember man
telling me that he had spent a dav
with Meredith and that the novelist
before lunch had said to him, Would
you like to lave your hands y Well. 4
man might say that facetiouslv: any,
BODY might. But of Meredith it was
characteristic. His cheap jewelry was
sometimes very glittering and it was
mixed up with genuine gems. He had
genius, intellect and IMAGINATION bnt
he did not trust it, He was not so
much afraid to be hmself; he posi-
lively disliked to be himself he wanted
10 be something more brilliant and
mysterious, so he expended enormous
energy in fabrication instead of being
content with creation. He who whom
ne was natural was great USUALLY re-
fused to be. The ordinary word
passed through his mind and, either
before or after il reached paper. he
deleted 1t and substituted the unusual
as rule gaining literally nothing by
the change"
Mr.. Squire follows up his frank
criticism of Meredith with a plea
for natural writing" After ALL
I'VE can at least be true to our
selves and
we must be. when writing, as natu.
ral and as simple as our natures given
tull play, will allow us to be. must
not be misunderstood to saw that We
should write precisely as we speak
1t is not good thing even to speak
exactly a S we speak. The NJ. p who
NHansard and the newspapers put his
orations a little straight) saws .Mr
Speaker, | rise to say, | mean 7 get
up to announce that-er-if this bill.
TINS measure gets through, passes -er
it is impossible to say what will
happen, Sir, the country is well on
the way to the road to ruin is, in
manner speaking naturally; but that
Is not the style one commends. The
ordinary reviewer, if he wrote his
criticisms precisely as he talks, would
come outwitApAsaayeR Nksi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Who Are the New
British Poets?

A writer in "The Westmin-
xkr- Gazette" thus collects, in
an appreciative and critical
article. some of the better
known contemporary British
poets whose work is moulding
what may be ra.her vaguely
called fi1e modern school of
British verse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Realism Of C0urbet|

wv Water" J. c. Squire OBJ
serves that one of his
correspondents has taken
objection to his estimate of George
Meredith, an estimate that "had its
roots in feeling that in his Mere
dith's) life and in his writings he
was SO artificial that one could not
discover the real man."
Mr.. Squire complained of the
; tortuosities and insincerities of Mer-
edith's writing He found that many
of his readers had found in Mere
dith these same Objectionable quail
tiles, though Mr.. Squire concludes
"they never had the courage to say
So"
eff you object to Meredith's Ian
guage, how can you tolerate that
Of Henry james, one CORE
spondent asks. "Why should not a
man write as he likes if he has
something to say"
In answering his correspondent
Mr.. Squire goes on to say:
well, l am prepared to face the first
question directly. / don't worship any
writer for his faults, and don't think
that James, especially the later James.
wrote the sort of English that should
like to see repeated. His sentences
twisted and sprawled, his metaphors
clustered and chung, until it was often
necessary to read his sentences several
times over to make certain of his
meaning. Yet his obscurity and dis
from those of Meredith. James did not.
as a rule, use far-fetched words, or
drag in metaphors for their own sakes,
or elongate sentences in order to pro-
duce the effect of freworl1 display
He was far more likely to use slang
words and to tangle his sentences with
as they say so to speak and at least
in so far as which are ordinary of the
oh ~
fruit of his passion for precision. his
complexlty was the child of his desire
for simplicity He wanted to state
everything accurately; he therefore
introduced sub clause after sub-clause
for the sake of making what he thought
necessary reservations, and metaphor
after metaphor sprang to his pen to
convey just the shade of meaning that
he wanted to express. In his later
years it was his habit to dictate a
typescrlpt, to dictate second from the
hrst, and to dictate third from the
second. In each round or lap new quail
hcatlons and applications were, usu-
ally clumsly, crowded in. until there
was final draft overfull of detail and
very difficult to read But though his
passion for precision might irritate
some readers Oh. G.. Wells compared
ms efforts to those of a hppopotamus
picking up pea) who felt that such
degree of Intellectual power ought not
to be expended upon trihes. even they
had to respect that power and the sim
certify with which he used it: the hip
popotamus is a big creature and this
one was admirably painstaking. The
one thing nobody ever suggested about
James was that he was insncere or
pretentious"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Edward Thomas with which the col
lection begins, and to the volume of
Last Poems" which is published uni
formly with it, thereby sdding one
final book to the muddle of small over