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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...
There is the copy of President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573-74, and used by him during the presidency of Harvard College from 1640 to 1654. His bookplate, in Greek, is pasted at the foot of the title page and is dated 1633, indicating that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Bible was presented to the Library in 1841 by the Misses Dunster, daughters of Rev. Isaiah Dunster, of the class of 1741, a great grandson of Henry Dunster, the first president...
...BOOK EXHIBIT IN THE COLLEGE LIBRARY. "Plantin of Antwerp." Treasure Room, Gore Hall, 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. The exhibition will be continued on Friday and Saturday during the same hours. Open to the public in the afternoon only...
...Poet" by Louis How is one of the poorest things in the number. "Kansas Plantin" is a peculiar story and while being decidedly fanciful, is interesting and pleasing. "An Ethical Compromise" may be termed a story of "College Life" though we hesitate to believe that a Harvard professor could "conscientiously allow" such a matter as the story relates to pass unnoticed. "A True Madonna' by Paul Washburn is the best story of the number...