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Rh Lennard Collection. Others come from Almira, 1705. Naturally Handel enlarged and revised, and carefully grouped all these pieces in his edition of 1720. The interest of the Jugendbuch is chiefly that it shows us the first sketches of the pieces, and how Handel perfected them. Side by side with the oldest pieces there are others more recent, composed, it may be, in Italy or in England. One can trace in these pages the course of the different influences. Seiffert and Fleischer have noted some of them, German influences, French, and Italian. In