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...Inglis Lecture series. The Harvard Hymn Book which is a thorough revision of the University Hymn Book of 1894 will be used in Appleton Chapel next year. The book contains in addition to hymns and Scripture selections, brief notes on authors and translators and on composers and sources. "Guttenberg to Platini" is an attempt by Mr. Winship, Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener collection to present in a hundred pages all that the average reader needs to know about the early history of printing. He gives the accepted views, or in some matters of controversy the interpretation which he believes...
...Louis XIV, one to Milton, and one to Samuel Johnson, besides Bunyan's Bible and Lord Byron's poems of Ossian. Others are interesting on account of their editions several belonging to the original editions of the fifteenth century. Among the rarest is a book of Aquinas' printed by Guttenberg There are also several illuminated manuscripts, one of the "Order of the Passover" in Hebrew, and two or three of the "Officium Beatae Virginis et quaedam alia" and the first engraved map of the world, believed to be a copyright of the one made by Columbus in 1498, representing Greenland...