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...most prized bibliographical treasures in the world is a Gutenberg Bible. The first edition is four times as rare as a first folio of Shakespeare. Last week in Manhattan a perfect copy of this Bible was auctioned off for $106,000 to Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach...
Included in the list for the following month is a new book by George Parker Winship '93, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection, on printing. It is called "From Gutenberg to Plantin", and is a brief and fully illustrated history of this period in the art of printing. Dr. E. W. Taylor '88 has written a volume in which he gives an authoritative account of various efforts to utilize mental therapy. The book is called "Mental Elements in the Treatment of Disease...
MacLaren-his worst troubles are yet to be. (P. 30.) The throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. (P. 28.) Loud-speaking Germans who want their colonies back. (P. 10.) Old Gutenberg's largest and blackest headline. (P. 26.) 1 A bare-legged party leader. (P. 10.) Skilled laborers working day and night to complete a jet black tomb. (P. 11.) An ignorant family. (P. 6.) An avalanche of foreign physicians...
...prove, by the direct evidence of righteous men, that some prominent citizen is an honest, faithful patriot, no printing press is so mean as to condescend to print it. But should I call a train robber to testify to hearsay that robs a dead man of his honor old Gutenberg immediately hands me his largest, blackest headline type...
...books, newspapers or magazines, they would be quite as eager to learn of the world and other people and themselves, however far they had to travel. Not until one begins to imagine the horrible possibility of being marooned on a desert island does one realize the debt owed to Gutenberg and Alden and their successors. Immediately one rushes to the book-case to choose the most lasting friends, and perhaps hastens to lay in a stock of tobacco. For it is a truth that he who can read for pleasure is well fortified against the vicissitudes of life...