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The main object of the paper under review is an integral irreducible curve \(C\subset {\mathbb P}^r\) of ``small'' degree \(d\leq 2r-1\) lying on a rational surface scroll \(S \subset {\mathbb P}^r\) (the ground field is assumed algebraically closed). The main classification theorem gives the following trichotomy: either the arithmetic genus \(p_a(C)\) equals zero and \(C\) is not arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay whenever \(d>r\), or \(p_a(C)=d-r\) (maximal possible value) and \(C\) is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay, or \(p_a(C)=2d-3r+1\). In the latter case, which evidently arises only when \(3r-1\leq 2d\leq 4r-2\), \(C\) is arithmetically Buchsbaum with Hartshorne-Rao module (see \textit{P.~Rao} [Invent. Math. 50, 205--217 (1979; Zbl 0406.14033)] for its definition) \(M(C)=K^{2r-d-1}(-1)\). Moreover, in all the above cases \(H^1(C,O_C(j))=0\) for all \(j\geq 1\). Furthermore, for a given \(S\) there are non-singular irreducible curves \(C\) in each of these classes. The author also gives some details on the ``fine'' structure of \(M(C)\) and presents some examples of computation obtained with the help of the SINGULAR package. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1024.00025].