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...Sabatini has forgotten that the manner of presentation can make fiction more true than fact, and fact more false than fiction. He has presented his series of short stories in a manner that will cause them to be forgotten before the printer's ink is dry on the pages. Meanwhile improbable novels with fictitious characters and silly plots will reserve rights of translation including the Scandinavian...
...editions of Horace. This collection is one of the most complete in the country, and one of the specialties of the Library. Dating from the 13th century, and covering a period of several hundred years. the books offer as well a summary of the history of printing. Almost every printer of note tried his hand in putting out an edition of Horace, who was a very popular author during the whole Middle Ages, and thus the whole progress of printing can be followed in these editions...
Christopher Plantain was born in a village near Tours in 1514. He settled in Antwerp in 1549. Tradition affirms that he was first interested in typography as a result of a wounded arm. His workmanship earned for him a reputation as the best printer of his time. In 1562, while Plantain himself was absent, his workmen printed an heretical pamphlet, as a result of which his movable equipment was seized and sold. He succeeded in establishing a new press which was later destroyed by the Spaniards who plundered the town...
...remainder of the edition of the 1919-20 Register has been received recently from the printer, the sale of the Register has been renewed at the Cooperative Society, the Cooperative Branch, Amee's, and the Union, where a limited number of the books is still obtainable. Since more than three-fourths of the edition has been sold, those desiring copies of the Register should procure them at once...
Following the receipt of another shipment from the printer, the sale of the 1919-20 Register has been renewed at the Cooperative, the Cooperative Branch, Amee's, and the Union. Since more than three-fourths of the limited edition has been sold, those desiring copies of the publication should procure them at once...