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and scissors, the cutting and joining that usually are so irksome to the editor,
he developed a dexterity that was far from being a thing of hand and eye
alone. The moments that would have been counted idle in another man's daily
schedule were filled with this laborious task of compilation, selection and
rejection, of the preparation of copy and the reading of proof, and after his
assumption of the task of editor in 1916, each succeeding year saw the publica-
tion under his auspices of an uncommonly large volume of the Archives.

The sort of success that Dr. Steiner met with as editor of the series is not
to be explained by a mere physical adaptation to the task. As in most things,
so in this, " knowledge is power." His ability to edit successfully the source
materials of the history of his state rested, as has just been said, upon the
familiarity with the printed and manuscript resources he had acquired in the
course of original investigations made by him over a period of thirty years.
It is fitting that there should be listed in this Memorial Introduction the
titles of the works on the history of Maryland which came from his pen
in a generation of literary production. The following list of titles has been
compiled by Dr, Walter R. Steiner of Hartford, Connecticut.

WRITINGS ON MARYLAND BY BERNARD CHRISTIAN STEINER.

The History of University Education in Maryland.

J. H. U. Studies in Hist, and Pol. Sc., 1891, IX, 7-37.
Secondary Education in Maryland.

Catalogue of Frederick College, 1893, 14-21.
The History of Education in Maryland.

Washington, 1894, 8 vo., 1-331.
The Citizenship and Suffrage of Maryland.

Baltimore, 1895, 8 vo., 1-95.
Cokesbury College the First Methodist Institution of Higher Education.

Baltimore Methodist, 1895, 3-25.

The Electoral College for the Senate of Maryland and the Nineteen Van Buren
Electors.

Am. Hist. Ass., 1895, 129-167.
Public Libraries in Maryland.

The Library Journal, 1895, XX, 346-347.
Rev. Thomas Bray and His American Libraries.

Am. Hist. Rev., 1896, II, 57-75.
The Protestant Revolution in Maryland.

Am. Hist. Ass. Report, 1897, 279-353.

A List of Those Who Governed Maryland before It Was Made a Royal
Province.

Penn. Mag. of Hist, and Biography, 1898, XXII, 98-101.
Life and Administration of Sir Robert Eden.

J. H. U. Studies in Hist, and Pol. Sc., 1898, XVI, 7-8-9.