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Show Riley's "Lost" Works. The search for the "lost" works of James Whitcomb Riley, which has been carried on for almost a year in connection with the preparation of the first complete collection of his works in prose and poetry, has brought to light a great mass of material of which little or nothing was previously known. More than two hundred hitherto hith-erto unpublished poems were discovered. discov-ered. One of the most typical of the Hoosier poet's works dating back to the earlier days of his career is an illuminated il-luminated manuscript of a poem entitled en-titled "Man's Devotion." Another interesting in-teresting find was a baby book containing con-taining pictures of the child friends of the poet. He wrote a poem to each of the little portraits. |