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His hearts in the highlands

MY MOUNTAINS. BY the Rev. r. T.
Cross Boston: The Stratford Com
pany.
TN HIS Is not a book for the pro-
fessional mountaineer. 1t Is not
a book for him who is inter
ested primarily in establishing new
records, in scaling walls never before
conquered by man. and in forcing his
way to heights previously unaftained
1t is not a book for him whose fore
most concern is the thrills and terror
of mountain climbing, or who has
more thought for the technique Of
mountain equipment and method than
for the grandeur of broad unfolding
vistas. For the author is not one who
is devoted to what is spectacular and
sensational in mountain climbing; he
is a lover of the mountains for their
own sake. Of the invigoration of the
high attitudes, of the ruggedness Of
steep cliffs and canyons and of the mag
nificence of far flung wooded ranges.
There is something peculiarly val
liable in a book on such subject by
a man whose speciality is not noun
taineering. For ones hobby rather
than his life-work sometimes provides
the best means for self-expression,
since often it represents the true foun-
tain of ones inclinations and permits
of sincerity and an intensity of treat
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The dog will
underStan

YOUR DOG AND YOUR CAT: HOW
TO CARE FOR THEM. BY Roy IL.
Spaulding, p. v. M. ID. Appleton 4
Co.
~ r. SPAULDING. who is head
Of the Animal Hospital of
- New York city. has given. a
very clear, comprehensive and ap-
plicable series of instructions and
methods of treatment for both dogs
and cats. The striking feature of his
hints to animal owners is the advice
TO train their pets very much as
though they were human. AS he says.
"the mind of the dog is capable of
much development il the owner is
enough to stimulate it. He
can comprehend much from a con-
versation OF simple words such as
would be used with a child"
The boys and girls who have pets
will be interested in this book. as also
will the older folk.
Probably few readers are aware that
is a very common con-
1ition and accounts for more deaths
among dogs than any other form OF
poisoning. But we doubt If prohibition
reduces their death rate appreciably.
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BOOKS ON AMERICAS EAST, WEST, NORTH

worth--is told at length, together with
many details in the once famous
Clarke Cooper scandal. whose rever-
brations shook the State for years af-
ter r. f. Coopers beautiful wife, Ann
Cary, went away with George Clarke
Immediately after her husbands death
in 1913.
There is a melancholy chapter about
the great number of fine old houses
now utterly abandoned; too far from
the railroad and unsuited for any oc-
cupancy which seeks such places. In
a chapter on Red, Black and White
Men," the author remarks:
The books of Judge Cooper and of
the Settlement Shop TEEN with init
mate details of the early life of the
village and county. In one is AN
agreement of employment, which is a
bit of a shock to us In its recognition
of the personal liberty of the employed
in allowing him the last day in each
month in which to get drunk An hon.
est recognition of human frailty and
one of the very common pleasures OF
frontier life in those days"
About 1894 Judge Cooper wrote to
''the Honorable Council of Appoint
ment of the State of New York;:
Gentlemen: The Almost constant
intoxication, extreme Ignorance and
total want of responsibility of Ma
jority of the Judges and Assistant
Justices with whom I have to associ-
ate in the Courts of Justice of the
County of Otsego renders it absolutely
necessary that / should resign the
The New York herald., 1921-09-04

THE LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS
OF A NORTHERN COUNTY. BY
James Fenlmore Cooper. G. p. Put
nam's Sons.
THIS is rare book in a time OF
either frivolous or ponderous
book making; in a period of
commercialism in literature here is
book which will be incomprehensibe
by the readers of new novels; 1t has
the flavor of some of the county his
tories OF England in the first years OF
the last century. 1t is distinctive
among American books even of similar
purpose, for it is compact OF an ex-
traordinary selection of old legends,
family history. old letters and personal
memoranda of great variety, detailed
with a delightfp, naivete. Some of the
most distinguished names of our Co
lonial history are sprinkled through It's
pages; while it is fragmentary in its
essence made UP of the most alluring
odds and ends, yet the imaginative
reader, II at all informed as to the life
Of the well-to-do in rural New York
some two hundred years ago, will find
great illumination streaming from its
whimsical pages.
The northern county" is Otsego,
which lies, starred with charming
lakes, in the centre of the most beauti-
full part of New York State, in the
opinion OF competent judges. The vii
lage of Cooperstown was one of the
principal centres of the intelligence,
charm and cultivation of these early
residents, in brief memoranda this
early life Is reflected in these pages,
which have been written to preserve
local color. and contain much detail
of the life Of Fenimore Cooper, and OF
his father, never before published. The
Coopers We're Quakers. William Cooper
of Cooperstown married Elizabeth
Fenimore. daughter OF Richard Feni-
more of Rancocas, y. j., in 1774 and
moved TO CooperstoNn in 1888, and in
the next year to Burlington, where
James Fenimore Cooper. the writer of
those sea stories-of which Joseph Con-
rad has lately declared that they had
exerted a great Influence upon his life
was born on September Is, 1889. He
married Susan Augusta De Lancey,
and died at Cooperstown In 1851. He
entered Yale at 13 years Of age in the
class of 1906, but was expelled in his
junior year. Then his father sent him
10 sea as a common sailor before the
mast, as preparation for entering the
navy. After year of cruising in
foreign waters he was appointed a
midshipman. but resigned from the
navy about the time of his marriage.
These memoranda are made by the
author of the present volume, and one
Of the most interesting chapters is A
transcript of notes made by Susan
Fenimore Cooper, the novelist's daugh-
ter, as the only approach to an inti-
mate biographical sketch of her father
which was ever made. A paragraph
from the authors "Foreword" ex-
presses his purpose clearly:
THE whole was written with the
hope of preserving for future genera
tions Of my family the life and the
thoughts of people living under condi-
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Authors Works and Ways

Own Book Review" fame about the
authorship of "The Mirrors OF Wash
ington" we casually remarked that the
book is selling big and that the au-
thor Is destined 70 command big sums
of money on royalties. "Ah." says
Dan, that is one way of discovering
the author "How?" we asked in
quisitively. by finding out who has
money"
Edna Ferber has returned to Chi
cago from visit to Estes Park and
Longs Peak, Colorado, where she
tramped through the pine forests in
summer snowstorms and enjoyed the
vigorous sport OF mountain climbing.
Miss Ferber made the ascent of Longs
Peak and enjoyed it.
Gilbert " Chesterton is at work OF
q new book dealing with his impress
slons Of America and Americans gath
cred during his recent visit here.
The printing press is not so black as
It's linked
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office OF first Judge of the County
aforesaid, as. well as to bare a Testi-
mony against such undignified carrec-
tors as also to avoid the modification
of being with them . !"
Mr.. Cooper writes with deep feeling
OF the Lost Atmosphere" of the old
town of his boyhood:
'The people. against the background
of beauty and quiet. were the real
creators of the wonderful old-time at
mosphere of the place: they were
kindly, individual and interesting !.
The people never hurried In the eve-
ming when the mail arrived every
one sauntered to the Post Office Old
and young were there. There were
no steamboats, on the lake. only sail
boats. rowboats and scows. The lake
front was not disfigured by it's present
row of boat houses and workshops
All was serenity and beauty
Perhaps the Cooper girls con-
tributed as much to the atmosphere
of the place as any one household;
they were the Cooper girls in the
early part of the nineteenth century
and the Cooper girls they were af-
fectionately called until the end,
which came for them well on toward
the latter part of that century ;.
They were my four aunts :"
Mr.. Cooper's book speaks for itself;
as an echo of the tender grace of
day that is dead" it will find a secure
place on many bookshelves by no
means broad enough to hold the favor
it's books of the week." w. S. M.
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souvenir of the great North-Olson,
the aged Swede who shared most of
my experimentation, pioneer OF
Alaska, who knows the country from
end to end. He has prospected for
gold on the Yukon, he was at Nome
with the first rush there, he has
trapped along a thousand miles of
coast, and now he lives with me at
Arlington, VT, where he spends good
deal of his time marvelling at the
beauties of the country and criticising
New Englanders. whom he regards as
singularly lacking in energy and en-
terprise Yes, to him most New Eng
landers are decadents; he considers
them lazy people who are not taking
advantage of their opportunities.
"And ancient mariner that he is.
Olson still retains the maritime terms
that have always been part of his
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Rockwell whom he played WITH
spanked, watched over-RoclSwell wh6
painted naive pictures of Alaskan
life. who set traps for magpies that
refused to be trapped and who, when
his father told him that the time had
come when they must return to New
York, said that he didn't want 10 go
to New York or even live in the coun-
try in the East. He had tasted the
joys of Alaska and wanted to stay!
Kent has had a picturesque career.
Fifteen years ago he was fisherman
at Mohegan Island, near Maine. A
few years later he was a fcSSman car
penter in Minnesota and a fNSnber of
the carpenters union. He subse-
quently turned up in Newfoundland.
where he went to paint. And last
year he made his memorable trip TO
Alaska. XAVIER LYNDON.
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Fiction.


THE YEAR or DELIGHT-By Mar
garet widdemer. Harcourt- Brace.
PEGGY WARE-Ry NJ. w. Howard. Los
Angeles. Cal. J. +. Rowny Press.
DREAMING TRUE-By Alma Newton.
John Lane.
RTLLA or INGLESIDE-By L. NJ.
Montgomery Stokes.
FOR ME ALONE-By Andre corthia-
Stokes.
SNOW BLIND-By Katharine Newlin
Burt. Houghton-Mifiin.
THE BELOVED WOMAN-By Kath-
leen Norris. Doubleday. Page.
WHEN POLLY WAS EIGHTEEN-By
Emma G. Dowd. Houghton Miffin.
TO LET-By John Galsworthy. Scrib-
Hers.
HELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE-By
Harold Bell Wright Appleton.
THE THIRTEEN TRAvELLERS-B
Hugh Walpole. Doran.
WITHIN FOUR WALLS - BY Edith
Baulsir. Century.
GODS ANOINTED.-By Mary Katherine
Maule. Century.
THE MASTER OF NANNY Sir Hall
Caine. Lippincott
MRS. FARRELI-By' William Dean
Howels With an introduction by
Mildred Howells. Harpers.
BROKEN TO THE PLOw-By Charles
Caldwell Dobie. Harpers.
DODO WoNDERS-By Il. r. Benson.
Doran.
LARAMIE HOLDS THE RANGE-By
Frank II. Spearman. Scribners.
THE THANKFUL sPICERS-By Agnes
Mary BrownelI. scribners.
History.
AN EMPIRE VIEW OF THE EMPIRE
~
London r. s King 4 Son. Ltd.
Science.
THE PASSING OF THE GREAT RACE
Seventh Edition-By Madison Grant
Scribners.
For Boys md Girls.
LOST SHIPS AND LONELY SEAS
BY Ralph y. Paine. Century.
PEEPS AT MANY LA.NDS--Italy and
Greece. China and Japan Norway and
Sweden. and Australia and New
Zealand. Four volumes Macmillan
THE DONOVAN CHANCE--By Francis
Lynde. Scribners.
THE CHlLDRENS GARLAND OF
vERSE-tiathercd by Grace Rhys.
illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Dutton
DRIFTwooD-By Raymond s. Spears.
Century.
THE DRAGONS SECRETLY Augusta
Huiell Century.
OUR DO GFRTtsNDS-Retold from 81.
Nicholas. Century.
THE HAPPY vENTURE-By Edith
Ballinger Price. Century.
Essays.
TIRED RADICALS AND OTHER
PAPERS--By Walter weyl Huebsch.
ESSAYS ON BOOKS-By A. Clutton
Brock. Dutton.
Drama.
TEN ONE-AcT PLAYS--By Alice Gers
tenberg Brentano's.
FOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS--By Lewis
Beach. BrentanoA
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(Putnam) and made the pictures for
it, too. Just the same he wanted
other peoples books to read. Here is
the list Of those he took Life of
AIbrecht Durer." Goethe's wilhelm
Meister," Nansen's I'm Northern
Mists," Coomaraswamy's Indian Es-
says" "Grieschische Vasen," Water
Babies" Robinson Crusoe." THE
Prose Edda," Anson's Voyages Lit
erary History of Ireland" (Hyde),
Homer's "Iliad and Odyssey" Ander-
sens Fairy Tales" Oxford Book of
Homer's 'Iliad and Odyssey" Ander-
sens Fairy Tales" Oxford Book OF
English Verse. Home Medical Ii
brary," Blake's Poems. Life of Blake
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vocabulary. He frequently amuses
the neighbors by referring to a ledge
of rock as reef; and on a bright,
cloudless day, when, despite his fail
ing eyesight, he can see goodly dis
tance, he is in the habit of joyfully
remarking that he can see clear
across the bay"
And how joyously Kent also talks
of Rockwell, his little son. who was
his only other companion on the trip
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"The Tree Dwellers," THE Cave
Dwellers," THE Sea People," Pacific
Coast Tide Table
Speaking of his eight months in
Alaska, Kent said: II regard the trip
as the greatest event of my life. The
quiet adventures that ] recount In
Wilderness are precious memories
and frequently / am homesick for
Alaska and its rugged beauty. /
brought back with me a glorious
The New York herald., 1921-09-04

THIS is good time to be in
Alaska. And the scenery
= might take the place of books
and pictures for awhile. But II one
settled down in Icebergville or Walrus
Centre for the long unsocial season
a pigskin--or library would
come in handy. Rockwell Kent wrote
a book up there himself. Wilderness"
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Books of the Week


PORTRAITS, POEMS TO MARIAs
AND OTHER POEMS-By Ralph
Gordon. Stratford.
ALONG THE GYPSY TRAIL - BY
Myrtella Southerland. Stratford
BILL BORAM A DRAMATIC TALE
OF THE SEA-By Robert Norwood.
SEA POEMS-By Gale Young Rice.
Century.
IRELAND UNFREED: POEMS AND
VERSES WRITTEN IN THE EARLY
MONTHS OF 1921-By Sir William
Watson. John Lane.
URTAINS-By Hazel Hall. John Lane.
A BALLAD MAKERS PACK-By
Arthur Guiterman. Harpers.
Nature and Outdoors.
A BOOK ABOUT BEES-By Herbert
Mace. Dutton.
MOSTLY ABOUT TRoUT-By Sir
George Aston. Houghton-Mifiin.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF A
PEBBLE-By Hallam Hawksworth.
Scribners.
OLD PLANTATION DAYS-By Archi-
bald Rutledge. Stokes.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL: HOW TO
PLAY IT-By Charles ID. DAILY.
Harpers.
Economics.
PRoPERTY-By Arthur Jerome Eddy.
McClurg.
Philosophy and Religion.
THE RHYTHM OF LIFE: BASED ON
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAO-TSE-
Translated by M. L. Reynolds from the
Dutch of Henri Borel Dutton.
u DI.f n To. n
Freeman. d. ID. Revell.
THE WORD OF GOD-By Monsignor
Francis Borgongini-Duca Translated
by Rev. Francis J. Spellman. Mac
milan
THE PARISH REGISTER OF KINGS
TON, UPPER CANADA: 17s5-1S11-
Edited. with notes and introduction.
by A. n. Young. Kingston. Canada
Whig Press.
Biography and "Reminiscences.
ROYAL ROMANCES AND TRACE
DTES-By Charles Kingston. Bren-
tano's
MY THREE Observation-Disclosures.
Brentanos.
THE REV. JOHN STUART OF KINGS
TON. UPPER CANADA. AND HIS
FAMILYt-A Genealogical Study-By
a. II. Young. Kingston, Canada
Whig Press
u. ID. HOME: HIS LIFE AND MIS-
STON-By Nine. Dunglas Home.
Edited with an Introduction by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle. Dutton.
A GALLANT OR LORRAINE: FRAN
co.'s. SEfGNEUR DE BASSOM-
PIERRE. MARQUIS D'HAROUEL.
MARECHAL DE FRANCE tf570-
i6i6) In two volumes--By Noel WILL
Jams, Dutton.
Miscellaneous.
ONE-THTRD OFF--By Irwin s. Cobb.
Doran
DICTIONARY of SLANG AND coll
LOQULAL ENGLISH-By John $.
Farmer and W. ". Henley. Dutton.
CoLoRlMETRIC ANALYs1S-By f. ID.
Smell d. Van Nostrand.
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The announcement that a new novel
by Sir Hall Caine. THE Master Man.
is now being published by the j. B.
Lippincott Company of Philadelphia
brings TO mind the fact that the q st
of the eleven predecessors appeared
in the early eighties-nearly forty
years ago. At that time several Of
the outstanding novelists of the past
were still alive and publishing. IN
cluding Charles Reade. Wilkie Collins,
r. ID. Blackmore, William Black. Rob-
ert Buchanan, Walter Besant and
George Macdonald, and except for
Thomas Hardy few or none Of the
notable novelists Of the present time
had yet appeared
Conundrum: What's the surest busi-
ness on earth?
Answer: Publishing: because it's
based on binding contracts.
Arthur Guiterman, who has just had
published "A Ballad Makers Pack"
(Harpers). arrived in Paris from Lon
don by airplane recently. He left at
once. with Mrs Gulterman. for FIVE
days automobile tour Of the chateau
district. which is TO terminate in o
months visit to Switzerland. MIR.
Guiterman expects to make Italy his
last stop, leaving Naples on the
Canada, which is scheduled to ar
rive in New York October 4. In
cidentally," he writes. there's no place
like home. which can't be much hotter
than Paris"
In reading "The Psychology VI
Everyday Life" CDutton) we stumbled
upon the following under the chapter
heading play, Relaxation and Mirth":
why do we laugh at the following:
"An Irishman in museum is gazing
with interest AT copy Of the WINGED
Victory. What may yez call THAR
he asks an attendant.
"'That Is statue Of Victory, Sir, :
is the reply.
Victory, IL It. says Pat. surveying
the armless and hcadless figure W h
greater interest than ever: 'bego -ra.
hin. I'd like 10 sec the other fellow :"
I'm the first case" begins DR. Jam 3
Drever. the author. answering his own
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Bo ok Exch a n ge

HrcHEsr CASH PRICES PAID FoR
t1nplete libraries and small lots OF bookA
encyclopaedia Britannica. IL edition. Book
knowledge and sets OF standard authors
Iarticuiarly wanted. Calls made anywhere.
HONS 4 ERoN. INC. "a Barclay st'' ~ Z.
lnons sOe2 cortisndt.
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question. there is Pats ignorance of
art, and we may laugh out of orr
superiority OF knowledge: but surely
Ibis is not the real and fundamental
occasion Of our laughter. What
laughs In us is the primitive. elemental
purnacity. suddenly released and th-
umphlng over an imaginary adver-
sary."
News dispatches from Hartford.
Conn. home Of Mark Twain. state
that his homestead, which is now &C.
cupied by the Kingswood School, viii
not be demolished to make way for
new building. The directors of the
school voted to renew their lease on
the place.
The Spur sees in w. T. Georges
Hail Columbia!' CHarpers) long
needed defence of American business.
In appreciation of Mr.. Georges decla-
ration that american business. shrewd
as 1t is, seems to have a heart" the
editorial reads: This is the reverse of
what we often hear. One Of the fa-
vorite, pictures. not merely of the soap
hoN orator, but OF men VINO ought 10
be above misrepresentation. is cf
American business as a huge monster
which delights in crushing smaller
creatures and is particularly hostile to
one thar appears To- be getting along
sucuessfuly, ~. In addition TO
humanitytueur English observer sees
nobility in American business"
The Macmillan Company inform us
that they are bringing out new book
by owen Wister, consisting of verses
about people prominent i'm American
life which will be called "Indispens-
able INFORMATION for Infants or. An
Early Entrance to Education" The
authors line on the title page should
read thus: BY the Witty. wistful Nrr. |
"Wrargling and quarfellIng arc |
characteristic Of weak mind
From fThe Pocket Chcstcrfio'dr oDor.
roaceb.
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"Wrargling and auarfeIling ara
characteristic of weak mind -
From cThe Pocket Chestcrfio'd" fDor.
rancob.
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speaking with Dan Cary OF our
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THE LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS
OF A NORTHERN COUNTY. BY
James Fenlmore Cooper G. p. Put
nam's Sons.
The New York herald., 1921-09-11
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.

Prevailing optimism and satisfactory
general advices accounted In large part
for average advances OF to IL points
in active Industrial shares trading. In
the Consolidated Stock Exchange. I'M
movement was widest In equipment. oil.
steel and speciality stocks. while rails
were less active, those shares ending at
1 to per cent. above the closing ng-
ures Of September .. Gains Of lax In
Mexican Petroleum to 117A, 11k In
Baldwin Locomotive to S9h. 8 In Cruci-
BILE to 6lk, 6N In American Locomo-
tive to 90, 5M In Car and Foundry to
1914 and s in United States Rubber to
81 were outstanding.
Corn Products advanced to rs, Gen.
eral Asphalt 5iA to 5l5t, Retail Stores
az to 56%. American Woolens 5M to
TN. Scars Roebuck 3N 70 69%. Kelly
Springfield to IAN. General Electric
lex. dividend ~ to i2sM. United
States Steel to 7S&, Republic to
5OM. Bethlehem Steel b. ~ to 54h.
vanadium an to BAN. Pan-Amerlcan
~ to sly, California Petroleum ~
to SsM, Studebaker rose to 1874.
Chandler Motors 6 to 4SM, Tobacco
Products aM to 6sA. Utah Copper ~
to 50%, Anaconda 3 u to 3s%. Atlantic
Gulf 2N to 26N. Reading 3 to 7oE.
Baltimore and Ohio 2 to 30 and Great
Northern preferred 8 to 75N.
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MOLINE PLOW PLAN DRAFTED
Reorganixation Scheme Expected
TO Ne Ready In Ten Days.

REORGANIZATION SChem0 Expected
TO Ne Ready In Ten Days.
The plan for the reorganization Of the
Moline Piow Company has bean drafted
and, with 4 few minor changes, on which
attorneys are working. will be ready to
put Into effect In about ten days, in the
opinion OF New York bankers. Although
definite details OF the entire plan have
not been made public. It IL understood
that tho company's new capitalization
will be substantially as follows:
Ten million dollars OF Z per cent.
cumulative dcbenture stock. $4,000, 900
Of Z per cent. cumulative 1rst preferred
stock, S7.50o. 900 OF per cent. second
preferred stock, and an undetermined
amount OF no par value common stock.
II has not been decided, Il 10 understood.
whether the second preferred will be
cumulative or otherwise a. to dividends.
The debcntures and first preferred
stock will be given to the company's
banking creditors. its noteholders and its
other preferred creditors, who viii get
also some of the common stock. The
second preferred shares win be given ia
holders. Of the Moline's present preferred
stock. what It's present common stock
holders viii receive could not be learned
1t is Aaid that approximately 90 per
cent. OF tie company's banking and COM
mercial cfeditors have asssnved to the
plrn and that many Of its notehoiders
have signified their willingness to accept
It's terms