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AN APPRECIATION Note: Miss Powell has the keen mind, the exceptional ability, the rare sympathetic understanding and quiet perseverance, that has made her well-fitted for the task of giving to the world this concise account of the Women's Institute Movement in Canada. I publicly thank her for her task so splendidly ac- complished. Laura Rose Stephen