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MARRION WILCOX, A.B., LL.B.

Formerly Instructor at Yale, Editor Harper's History of the War in the
Philippines," etc., Author "A Short History of the War with Spain." etc.

GEORGE EDWIN RINES

Editor The Encyclopedia Americana,” “The South in the Building
of the Nation," The Foundation Library," etc.

1917
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