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it will be easy to make out a prima facie case in support of the charge. The character and scholarship of the men responsible for the work will hardly be of sufficient weight with the general public to quash the indictment. At other times eccentricities like those which we have pointed out might pass as harmless academic oversights. The eminence of their authors would be a guarantee of their good faith. It is too much to expect, however, that in the heat of a national campaign either party will give the benefit of any doubt to purveyors of such inaccuracies.

H. L. BLISS. CHICAGO.