VOYNICH IN FLORENCE. 
 
 W ILFRED VOYNICH is in Florence, 
 Italy, and aided by a large corps 
 of assistants, is cataloguing the 
 famous Franchesini library. Mr. Voynich 
 understands eighteen languages, and his 
 knowledge as a bibliophile is well known. 
 
 Owing to his arrival in Italy when the 
 owner of the library was selling valuable 
 manuscripts and books by weight to be 
 used as waste paper, he purchased many 
 unique books. The catalogue he is busy 
 on is being looked forward to with great 
 interest, as it is expected that many 
 missing volumes dating back in the Mid- 
 dle Ages will come to light through Mr. 
 Voynich’s work. , 
 
 Mrs. Voynich, his wife, is an English- j 
 woman, who also has knowledge of many 
 languages, and whose novels, including 
 “ The Gadfly,” are well known. 
 
 Mr. Voynich is one of the leaders of the 
 Russ revolutionary movement in Russia. 
 The family estates in Poland were con- 
 fiscated during his father’s life, and Voy- 
 nich himself was imprisoned, for political 
 causes, at fourteen. He spent several years 
 later in the dungeons of St. Peter and St. 
 Paul, which is St. Petersburg’s state pris- 
 on, and it was while there that he began 
 his language studies. 
 
 From this prison he was taken to Si- 
 beria, to escape, and be recaptured. Sev- 
 eral years later he succeeded in making 
 good his escape, and later made his home 
 in England. 
 
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 turin, Grant Mitchell, Thomas J. Kelly 
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 Lois Frances Clark. 
 
 “Agnes,” the play in which Nanc 
 O’Neil will star at the Majestic, Is a^ov 
 story of distinctly modem type, and r« 
 volves about the wife of a young millior 
 aire. The opening act takes place o 
 board a yacht belonging to Geoffre 
 Marshe, an Australian millionaire, wh 
 has married Agnes, the -daughter of Mr 
 Belgradin. The marriage is the resu 
 of a scheming mother, who has persuad* 
 her daughter to accept Marshe on accour 
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 provide a comfortable home, for hersel 
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 on board the yacht as his guests, and 11