For each day in the year the compiler has chosen a quotation culled far from the beaten paths of his predecessors and the result is an attractive little volume of interesting and more or less “unfamiliar quotations.”
Metchnikoff, Elie. Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
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