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inventory or catalogue of any kind had been made.' Our only consolation perhaps is that these books and works of art will be better appreciated in other countries, and we may derive comfort from the views expressed by Madame Hahn-Hahn.

"It is clear that in such a state of things the plunder and destruction of pictures must have been enormous. In the summary of the proceedings of the*