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...ANTHOLOGY OF INVECTIVE AND ABUSE-Hugh Kingsmill-Dial ($2.50). Anthologist Kingsmill had a good idea when he thought of this book. Although perhaps the most effective invective, the most useful abuse, will never see print, a good deal has been published since Caxton started his press. Anthologist Kingsmill had a big crop to pick from; some of them were daisies...
...second English printer, several of whose editions are being shown, was Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. He inherited his types from Caxton, and a noteworthy fact is that he adopted his predecessor's complete heading, and added to it special designs both above and below...
This week there is on exhibition in the Widener Room of the Memorial Library a collection of some of the earliest English printings. Perhaps the most interesting piece on exhibit is one leaf from "The Canterbury Tales", published in 1488 by William Caxton, the first English printer. This single page is probably worth $300 as it stands, while a complete volume of this book would easily bring...
...extraordinarily interesting issue, the November Advocate conceals under pseudonyms the authorship of its two most controversial offerings. About the identity of "Richard Caxton", who writes "The Bloody Shirt, World-War Model", and "William Breaksbread" and "Kid Marlow", authors of "The Rally", an uninitiate reviewer had better hazard no guesses. He can assert, however, that these gentlemen handsomely assist the Advocate's announced intention of making itself both more timely and more readable. Both subjects, the American Legion and a department (or is one point of "The Rally" that, after all it isn't a department?) of the University...
...Caxton's article, it appears, was first ordered and then rejected as too frank by the editor of another and more right-minded, publication. It good naturedly, but without palliation, stud- ies the activities of our twentieth century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series...