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Contained in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 68, No. 4, 1974. [Edited by William B. Todd]. Pp. [iv](title and Contents sheet, loosely inserted)+[xvi](advertisements)+361-492(last blank), one text illustration, index to Volume 68; tall demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, upper wrapper decorated in red, a trifle soiled and creased; text block stapled (heavily rusted), several leaves faintly creased; Bibliographical Society of America, New York, 1974. *Stephens' article, on pages 391-403, shows that manuscript 408 in the Ashley Library 'is not what Thomas James Wise says it is in his Catalogue of the Ashley Library. Wise has been taken in by that notorious sophisticator of manuscripts Joseph Cottle.' She concludes 'it is both amusing and oddly fitting that T. J. Wise, a bibliographer not unfamiliar with the art of sophistication, should be so completely taken in'. This issue also contains Lyle H. Kendall, Jr.'s letter to the editor about Murder Stalks the Circle, the first detective story based upon the activities of Thomas J. Wise [p. 408].