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662 :In the Track of the Sun (yellow cloth, titlepage missingmissing, [sic] recurrent title intestation).
 * Physical Strength and How to Obtain It by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).
 * Short but yet Plain Elements of Geometry written in French by F. Ignat. Pardies and rendered into EnglihEnglish [sic] by John Harris D. D. London, printed for R. Knaplock at the Bihop’s Head MDCCXI, with dedicatory epitle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, equire, Member of Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requeting the peron who should find it, if the book should be lot or go atray, to retore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate, Ennicorthy, county Wicklow, the finet place in the world.

What reflections occupied his mind during the process of reversion of the inverted volumes?

The necessity of order, a place for everything and everything in its place: the deficient appreciation of literature possessed by females: the incongruity of an apple incuneated in a tumbler and of an umbrella inclined in a closestool: the insecurity of hiding any secret document behind, beneath or between the pages of a book.

Which volume was the largest in bulk?

Hozier’s History of the Russo-Turkish War.

What among other data did the second volume of the work in question contain?

The name of a decisive battle (forgotten), frequently remembered by a decisive officer, major Brian Cooper Tweedy (remembered).

Why, firstly and secondly, did he not consult the work in question?

Firstly, in order to exercise mnemotechnic: secondly, because after an interval of amnesia, when seated at the central table, about to consult the work